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by jakedata 4y ago
My brother was just notified that his monthly subscription cost was going down - he was shocked. He actually uses Starlink in a major city that only has Comcast cable Internet. The service was so slow and unreliable that he was unable to wo
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https://www.lamps-on-line.com/leading-trailing-edge-led-dimm... Good dimmable LED bulbs from quality manufacturers like Philips dim very well with many incandescent (leading edge) dimmers. Usually these bulbs are larger and
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by jakedata 4y ago
I am a big fan of LEDs but the strobe effect is maddening and it only gets worse as they are dimmed. AC power crosses zero volts with every cycle so you need a driver circuit that can compensate. Most don't do a good job and I have rep
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I turned my college career around by studying when I was alert instead of trying to force a "normal" study schedule. The 3 hours from 2:30 AM to 5:30 AM were the golden hours. When the music started playing in my head it was time
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by jakedata 4y ago
I am forced to reply to myself again before my parent comment gets downvoted to oblivion. YES - Heat pump efficiency drops with external temperature. HOWEVER - A typical heat pump will be unable to operate at full power when it approaches
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Absolutely true - efficiency drops. Electrical consumption also drops if your heat exchanger can't scavenge enough heat from the air to vaporize your refrigerant. The compressor must slow down. Or as I pointed out - you can activate
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Heat pump electrical usage does not go up as the temperature drops. In fact the actual heat pump itself uses less electricity because the compressor needs to slow down in order to scavenge the outdoor heat needed to vaporize the refrigerant
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I wonder if the radium dial paint in my Baby Ben clock would emit enough energy to activate the Europium? The original phosphor has degraded to the point where it doesn't glow but it certainly sets off my Geiger counter.
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Often vinyl records are much more carefully mastered when compared to their CD counterparts. Many of us are survivors of the loudness wars. https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness...
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Perhaps the first AI incident will be a defection like The Lobsters in Accelerando. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
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Q: How do you keep a turkey in suspense? A: ...
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Do you have access to an Android device (or the gmail app on IOS)? If you can sign that device into your Google account with one backup code you may be able to get Google login prompts without explicitly authorizing that feature in the bloc
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by jakedata 4y ago
Another upvote for Discogs - just be aware that there are many pressings of the same record so you will want to actually look at the matrix and runout codes in the "dead wax" which is the innermost smooth part of the vinyl. Anythi
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by jakedata 4y ago
My heat pump was a retrofit to an existing home with a fully functional gas boiler. Being a ductless split system, it did not interfere with the existing baseboard heat in any way. By retaining the boiler I was able to afford the installati
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by jakedata 4y ago
In 2017 we installed a very efficient air-source heat pump and solar panels. My electrical utility offers 1:1 buyback of electricity so I am able to build up a credit in the summer and run the heat pump well into the fall and winter on that
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I love that they generated their name the same way they manufacture their product, by mashing nitrogen and iron together.
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I'll be submitting this to my local office for tomorrow's lunch. We use a shared Google sheet for ordering, should be pretty amusing to see who doesn't get the joke.
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Abuse NTFS junctions to turn EDRs into malicious wipers(github.com)
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EDR=Endpoint Detection and Response software Presented in Black Hat Europe 2022 Briefings under the title - Aikido: Turning EDRs to Malicious Wipers Using 0-day Exploits
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by jakedata 4y ago
Emulating a lineprinter at our end of a frame relay circuit to capture print jobs from a service provider's mainframe and putting them into a database. This was in the 90s and it saved us a boatload of money and paper.
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by jakedata 4y ago
Find yourself a clean set of Minimus-7 speakers (yes, from Radio Shack) and optionally upgrade the crossovers. They have a die cast enclosure and actually sound pretty great compared to the various plastic speakers I have used. You could ce
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by jakedata 4y ago
Tailscale admin here, politely requesting client update push capability. Being able to see endpoint version is helpful, I will be suspending unpatched endpoints in the near future.
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The client app is not indicating that 1.32.3 for Windows is available yet but the download link on the site has been updated. Tailscale client downloads are extremely slow at the moment, so I suggest you distribute one copy manually around
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"Turning off “Safari Suggestions” in settings fixes it." I should have turned that off before. It certainly stopped this one weird crash.
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I don't actually remember the title but in the early 90s I was starting on my journey as a self-taught sysadmin, mainly by being the only person at a tech startup that would work for so little money. Before then I was simply a hobbyist
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You can implement compression in an AWS Lambda function. You might save some money by compressing your data before egress. I don't know if R2 has a similar unzip function.
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It's possible that some green light improves aesthetics.
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This was covered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Borg
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Given recent supply constraints, what tubes are you using for your amps?
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Extrapolating from this chart, Spinal Tap's amplifiers which went "up to 11" in 1984 would now be approximately seven orders of magnitude more powerful. Ear protection is advised.

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