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by gruturo 2y ago
The longer the half life, the lower the power output, no free lunches. But by putting the same suitable radioactive lump in a stirling engine you can extract 4 times as much electricity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St
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by gruturo 2y ago
Yes, but mostly no, also no, and, frankly, why would we. Yes: we could lift off a much heavier spacecraft, give it plenty of fuel, and many of its parts would be lighter than their 1970s equivalent, giving us lots of room for modern sensors
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by gruturo 2y ago
Technology Connections is generally awesome, but this particular video was even more fascinating than its usual. Instead of a bimetallic switch like discussed earlier in this same HN thread, there's a lump of metal in contact with the
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by gruturo 2y ago
Actually.... most likely no, unless you fudge the system clock. Root CAs will expire, chains of trust will break and your app most likely won't run unless you very carefully design it to not have any such dependency, not even indirectl
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by gruturo 2y ago
> So when is ARM going after Apple for their custom architecture? As soon as they violate the terms of their architectural license, which seemingly hasn't happened yet.
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by gruturo 2y ago
....ahem, obviously I meant Passport... not Password...
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by gruturo 2y ago
Going from memory: In Italy you're meant to always carry a valid, officially accepted form of ID (and as far as I know, only ID card and Password fully qualify, but driving or nautical licenses, gun permits, and some forms of railway e
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by gruturo 2y ago
Careful that's only true if you set HISTCONTROL to "ignorespace" or "ignoreboth".
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by gruturo 2y ago
There was a suspicion that a chestnut got hacked. Enough for HN.
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by gruturo 2y ago
True but if you go to Telekom you're basically _asking_ to pay a lot. A 30 second search cuts that price already by 66%: https://www.alditalk.de/kombi-pakete https://www.nettokom.de/tarif/nettokom-
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by gruturo 2y ago
This assumes your paranoid network admins don't disable CDP/LLDP one day because of nebulous "security reasons" and sabotage your scripts, but this is the wrong time and place to rant about that :) Cool hack!
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by gruturo 2y ago
IIRC the Laserjet 4 had a much better warm-up time (and lower power consumption) by switching to a thin ceramic heating element rather than heating half the printer. But yeah anything after that is downhill.
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by gruturo 2y ago
I think we just found a use for all those Juicero's destined for the landfill.
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by gruturo 2y ago
So for some reason you're visiting 20 doctors and they all tell you "I will resell all your personal information to as many buyers as I can find, including sketchy ones, and to insurance companies which may raise your premiums dep
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by gruturo 2y ago
Do you also blame your doctor for correctly diagnosing your illness?
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by gruturo 2y ago
> I was thrown a curveball question in the partner’s domain of expertise which I managed to sort-of-answer, only to be told “Oh, I didn’t expect you to be able to answer.” Wtf? This is perfectly normal. I also ask candidates things I don
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by gruturo 2y ago
Yeah, we will fondly reminisce about the planet-destroying ponzi scheme which made it so convenient to pay for illegal goods, scams and ransoms to cryptolockers. What a nice unnecessary ecological catastrophe we managed to concoct out of no
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by gruturo 2y ago
For a lot of people, this is your employer's choice and not yours unfortunately. I jokingly remark that most of my contacts with microsoft products are non consensual.
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by gruturo 2y ago
Seconding the gaming part (not that it's the last bastion - maybe, maybe not). I bought a Steam Deck about a year ago and was amazed at how well it works while running unmodified Windows games in Linux. The experience was so good tha
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by gruturo 2y ago
If they are so concerned with low latency, how come they are wasting an entire roundtrip (the "OPEN + OPEN/ACK") before sending any data? I mean in TCP it's not allowed (Even though, super-theoretically, it's not co
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by gruturo 2y ago
Chromium and Firefox are both there, yes. Sometimes one or 2 versions behind if you go for the packaged version, but I've compiled them both before quite painlessly. Even in the packages you may occasionally run into something not work
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by gruturo 2y ago
People are not afraid of a whale dying in the middle of the ocean. Concerned, yes (maybe), but that's it. People are very much afraid of radiation thanks to a lot of misinformation, crappy movies, and yes, also to the fact that radia
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by gruturo 2y ago
Can't argue it's niche but it's far from uncommon. The BSD licensing allows usage in places allergic to the GPL so you see it (or don't) often used behind the scenes in lots of products. ...and I'm writing this comm
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by gruturo 2y ago
Yay, change for change's sake, removing something which works because it looks scary. Seriously.... remove the shortcut if you think it confuses end users, but leave the the ability to do e.g. Win-R + appwiz.cpl and everyone would be
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by gruturo 2y ago
> Unlike residential power, which typically uses single-phase electricity, Most people (myself included) who charge at home with any regularity will buy a wall-box, those are often 3-phase (mine is). Might be different in US of course, b
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by gruturo 2y ago
Maybe you already completed your project, maybe you already knew about Charlieplexing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlieplexing ), maybe it doesn't apply to your case as your controller didn't support tris
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by gruturo 2y ago
Oversimplifying, but you can explain that as "Because water is... the "ash" you get after burning hydrogen and oxygen."
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by gruturo 2y ago
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
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by gruturo 2y ago
That's also idiotic because we don't put a leading zero in front of 1, 2 or 3 digit years, and neither will future historians put one in front of 4-digit ones - it's just gratuitously annoying. Charlemagne was crowned in 800
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by gruturo 2y ago
> Am i being overly paranoid ? This is a good quality when drilling holes in the walls. Fortunately, technology to the rescue! Plenty of metal/stud/voltage detectors on your favorite hardware or online store.

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