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by jakedata 1y ago
I don't plan to bike commute in the winter, it is too dark AM and PM. Have you tested your LiFePO4 batteries in low temperatures?
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by jakedata 1y ago
Sure if you can't DIY. It's a 20 year old Fuji chromoly-frame mountain bike with Shimano components. My biggest expense was new batteries, followed by heavy duty e-bike brake pads. What did you pay to build yours?
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by jakedata 1y ago
Oh, clearly. But for that money I'd buy a really nice BMW i3 REX. Obviously not an option for everyone.
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by jakedata 1y ago
I am using 3x 12v 185wh batteries in series. Realistically I can count on around 500wh. They are only 3 lbs each and fit neatly within the frame of the mtb. I don't like having them up on the rear rack, they tend to make the tail of th
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by jakedata 1y ago
I just added strips of fake fur to the straps my boring old helmet to diffuse the wind noise the same way a "dead cat" cover on a microphone does. They look a bit like muttonchops which is a bonus as far as I am concerned. I use w
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by jakedata 1y ago
$4500 is ten or more of my homebrew 750 watt electric mountain bike originally built in 2004. I just repowered with LiFePO4 after 10 years in storage and the new batteries really pull. It has a front hub motor with a throttle control limite
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by jakedata 1y ago
It reminds me of a cylindrical Hallbach array that has been split in two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbach_array
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by jakedata 1y ago
There are two distinct use cases spelled out in this article. Electronic and photonic technology incorporating graphene to improve performance and efficiency and "we added graphene to stuff". Graphene cement, graphene carbon fibre
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by jakedata 1y ago
My takeaway from this story is that as an (aspiring) billionaire I can buy an awesome Swedish submarine for less than the cost of a crazy megayacht. Unfortunately, skull shaped volcano islands are harder to come by.
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by jakedata 1y ago
This transformation in and of itself does not perform any compression. In fact it adds an additional string marker to the data. Performing compression on these strings is addressed here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15451-f18&#x2
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by jakedata 1y ago
I thought the Department of WAR was switching over to a hacked version of Telegram Messenger for all its secure communications. If you see someone you don't know in the chat, don't worry it's probably just a journalist. Proba
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by jakedata 1y ago
"ends support for smartphone enabled"... If anyone thought for one second that any device which requires external "cloud" support would continue work beyond what is convenient/profitable for the provider then I have
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by jakedata 1y ago
Make the platform removable and it becomes a hat aquarium.
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by jakedata 1y ago
I was a mismatched match for my first job and it led to a career in IT. My qualifications were that I was young, cheap and didn't know any better.
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by jakedata 1y ago
My company sells them all. Dell, Lenovo, Supermicro, HP (if you insist). I can have anything I want and pretty much for free. Internally we are 90% Dell, our remote employees all have laptops with ProSupport and on-site service because the
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by jakedata 1y ago
I am one of the people that perceive flicker even at high frequencies. Slight variations in color temperature also drive me bonkers. It has made me incredibly picky about the type of LEDs I light my home with. I have invested in costly dimm
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by jakedata 1y ago
https://tomlehrersongs.com/ I, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the Tom Lehrer Trust 2007, hereby grant the following permissions: All copyrights to lyrics or music written or composed by me have been permanently
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by jakedata 1y ago
I have a waterproof Garmin Nuvi GPS that will directly accept OpenStreetMap data on micro-SD card. It is in bicycle mode and running on a DC-DC converter from my e-bike pack. I am quite satisfied with it despite being 20 years old. The exte
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by jakedata 1y ago
Meanwhile in the WSJ opinion section there is a hit-piece warning of power shortages because of wind and solar subsidies. We should be subsidizing gas turbines, if only the market would listen! "The Real Risk to the Electric Grid"
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by jakedata 1y ago
"delivering a whopping 550 kW of power from a package weighing a mere 13.1 kg (28.9 lbs.). That power density ratio equals 42 kW/kg or 19 kW/lb." Something that compact and energy dense will require a powerful cooling sy
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by jakedata 1y ago
Unlike the woodburning tool...
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by jakedata 1y ago
Looks a lot like my glass grinder. Nice idea but only cuts cardboard and $249 is crazy expensive.
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by jakedata 1y ago
Not a superspy. Oblig: https://xkcd.com/705
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Border search safe TOTP authenticator app?
10 points by jakedata 1y ago|15 comments
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by jakedata 1y ago
I have had high hopes for passive daytime radiative cooling since I read about it 10 years ago. Converting waste heat to an infrared wavelength that flies off into space day or night is apparently not that easy or cost effective right now.
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by jakedata 1y ago
It turns out there has been some discussion on emulating or passing through ADB hardware keys but nothing conclusive seems to have come of it.
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by jakedata 1y ago
Several, yes ;-)
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by jakedata 1y ago
Good advice of course. It is not valuable, and it is not my product - I merely worked on it. The real value was guiding me _away_ from a career as a programmer (and the friends we made along the way).
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by jakedata 1y ago
Much of my early post-college work is stored across a stack of Mac formatted Bernoulli disks. The software requires an ADB dongle to run, so physical hardware is required. I wonder if any of those ADB to USB adapters could be mapped into th
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by jakedata 1y ago
I still have the Dr. Demento t-shirt that I received for having my request played on the air. I got the shirt but missed that show so I never heard it broadcast. I actually had people congratulating me at school the next day. Ah, fame! 35 y

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