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by ianburrell 4mo ago
Raspberry Pi uses USB-C and USB-C is more generous with power. Almost everything except computers provides 15W. With USB-C, devices request want they and there is no reason has to work with minimum possible. The problem with the Pi5 is that
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by ianburrell 4mo ago
Android has different types of notifications for apps and can have them filtered separately. Unfortunately, some app makers like Uber are bad about labeling. Google would need to enforce labeling so transactional and advertising notificatio
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by ianburrell 4mo ago
Why hide emergency contact info? Put it in Emergency group on everyone's phone. The goal should be to send a single message with nature of emergency, what you need from them, and what they do like call police I could see a private refe
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by ianburrell 4mo ago
Don't write long messages in an emergency. If it can't fit in one message, it probably doesn't matter. Instead of trying to predict everything, allow communication. Let them figure it out, don't command them. Also, you m
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by ianburrell 4mo ago
We are going to end up with immortal mice.
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by ianburrell 4mo ago
You are missing that there is weapons grade plutonium with only Pu239 and reactor grade with some Pu240. The Pu240 spoils the fission reaction. Reactor grade might be usuable for bombs, but then all spent fuel is a problem. Mix some weapons
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
It isn't time travel, she has exceptional memory of her past.
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
There are new dot matrix printers but they are expensive cause designed for heavy use. I did find dot matrix receipt printer that could work with this.
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
Why do you think it could spy on you? Wi-Wi looks like has transmitters on 900MHz broadcasting the accurate time. It is like GPS but inside building.
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
How do you limit the tracking? The site always gets the private data, it can't work without it. Sites farm out ads but they could be done by the site with no way to tell difference between an ad and a puppy pic.
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
Companies are described by revenue. UniSuper made $110 million recently. It deceptive to use the assets managed as the size since it makes it look like a much larger company. NVIDIA has revenue of $130 billion. $125 billion revenue would ma
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
US should have sane transfers soon. The Federal Reserve developed FedNow which is instant bank transfers. It is more secure than ACH since it only does pushes and requests. It takes time for banks to implement it. There is also conflict wit
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
This isn't a new thing, ideas and actions have always been judged by who says them. If anything, the difference is that in the past, his behavior would have gotten him thrown out both from his companies and out of polite society.
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
The Rostock bridge was proposed and this tunnel selected instead. My understanding is that the water farther east is shallower which makes bridge cheaper. But not enough to be chosen.
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
The Transbay Tube carrying BART across the bay is immersed tube. The sections were welded together by divers. The sections were filled with water and then pumped out. Fehmarnbelt tunnel sections are concrete. I couldn't find how they a
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
You can get plastic NFC cards. I bet there are companies that will print and program them. It must be possible to have flexible paper-like cards because my city has one-time tickets with NFC. Game would be nicer with card stock and not rigi
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
They make high endurance microSD cards that can handle a lot more writes before failing. OTOH, I corrupted a card by turning off the Pi in middle of writing.
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
Joule is a derived unit, it is kg*m^2/s^2. There are lots of derived units, like hertz and newton, because they useful than writing out the whole thing. Electronics would be really annoying if had to write out volt, ohm, and watts (amp
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
You can't split a quark, partial quarks doesn't exist. In fact, singular quarks can't exist, if you try to pull quark out of nucleus, it produces another quark to pair with. Quarks can be destroyed in particle accelerators co
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
Around here, it isn't possible to do native lawn. The grasses are too tall and the low groundcovers can't be walked on. I'm trying to plant wildflower meadow but it will be a couple of feet high. My idea is that there are two
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by ianburrell 5mo ago
Cars don't follow traffic laws. Cars roll through stop signs and run red lights. Cars speed and weave through traffic. They go the wrong way down one-way streets. Since cars are much bigger, this is much more dangerous.
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by ianburrell 6mo ago
What happens when your new version is broken? Kubernetes would rollback to old version. You have to rerun the deployment script and hope you have the old version available. Kubernetes will even deploy new version to some copies, test it, an
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by ianburrell 6mo ago
Citrus isn't one species but hybrids of citrons, mandarins, pomelos in Citrus genus. It isn't like cabbage that produces multiple cultivars. Citrus genus is supposed to be diverse cause they do hybridization in wild.
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by ianburrell 6mo ago
I also think going back farther is a stretch. The first assembly languages were imperative, but what made Algol, Fortran, and Cobol interesting were functions and other features that allowed complex programming. Algol has the most descendan
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by ianburrell 6mo ago
I have come to think that having both SLAAC and DHCPv6 were a big flaw in IPv6. SLAAC is awesome but having two config mechanisms is confusing. It doesn't help that Android refuses to support DHCPv6. I think SLAAC came from world where
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by ianburrell 6mo ago
"The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6." How would Google know what users have the potential for IPv6 if they are not using it?
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by ianburrell 6mo ago
NAT64 doesn't make sense for consumers. There are too many apps that hardcoded IPv4 in their code. People are going to complain that their old Xbox games don't work. For most people, dual stack works fine. For mobile, the solution
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by ianburrell 6mo ago
Blasting through hard rock is easy. Finland has perfect rock and makes lots of tunnels with blasting. Soft rock needs support so TBM tunnels and shores up.
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by ianburrell 6mo ago
It is the British that changed things. They also used to call it soccer and then changed in the 1980s. Canada and Australia still use soccer, probably cause they have native footballs.
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by ianburrell 6mo ago
NASA is a large government organization. Microsoft Outlook is understandable. I assumed they were reading their normal email. Laptop uses negligible power. The solar panels generate eight houses worth of power (they don't give number).

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