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by kalleboo 2mo ago
When we bought our house we had a heat pump water heater installed. The nominal tank water temperature is 80°C, and it mixes it to the desired temperature on output. It can also circulate water in a heat exchanger to keep your bath water fr
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
> I put in the exact same amount of effort to install a Linux distro on my laptop that I would have to install Windows On Windows you have to add the step "figure out the secret incantation this week to not need to set up a Micros
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
The display on that page is literally broken for me, the boxes are all misaligned. It seems like it can't handle Japanese text correctly. Properly working localization in dozens of languages is one of those things that adds "bloat
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
I thought you were limited to 3GB without PAE, since you needed at least 1 GB dedicated to memory-mapped I/O? I was never a PC guy though so I could be mistaken.
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
And what's funny was at the time, REALBasic apps were seen as "bloated"
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
> LLMs just don't play with ideas and conversation like we do, they don't riff on it and go with the flow without care, picking up on subtexts and contexts and manipulating them the way people constantly do without effort unti
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
My home router is a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny with a Core i3-8100T with a dual 10Gbit SFP in it (1x DAC, 1x 10GBase-T) and it idles at 14W, routing 10gbit full bore 24W. I got it for $80 I also have some Fujitsu office machine I picked up for
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
> And besides it has branding value I wonder if it's so some brand manager can put "78% of XX managers have heard of our brand" on a slide after running a survey near the billboard
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
Those issues could be diminished if ISPs actually handled abuse requests and shut down people's connections until they removed their malware.
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
My experience is real-life friends are more fleeting because you met them through geographic circumstances like school or work that change. Whereas your online friends are there no matter where life takes you.
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
What kind of crashes? Could you have bad RAM and the crashes start once the bad chip get put into use?
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Australia has been subsidizing home batteries
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Although I guess now Australia has ludicrous levels of solar per capita - they're famously launching 3 hours/day of free electricity to try to soak it all up.
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
> I'm not aware of any common programs breaking into the terabyte category (even in most research) Wouldn't that be the commercial LLMs? ChatGPT, Claude etc are estimated to be in the 2-10 TB range, and a large portion of the
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Yeah I've never had a $20 coffee maker or toaster die, they're too simple to have anything go wrong. It's always been when I splurged on a slightly fancy one it has broken, since they add a bunch of crap that can now go wrong
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Thunderbolt cables also have mini coax cables inside of them rather than twisted pair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBWnb0ZIlEA
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
The CalDigit TS3 dock has two different USB 3 controllers inside of it, each driving half the ports. One from Fresco Logic and one from ASMedia. I can't recall which one right now but one of them is unstable crap and the other one is b
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
YMMV - I have three RTL8156 2.5G dongles - one in my Synology NAS, and two in different spots where I usually sit down in a chair and plug in my M1 Pro or iPhone to charge (on USB-C charger hubs) and have never had any issues where they dro
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
When I first came here 15 years ago it was always more about "Bay Area Startup News" than Hacker News, it has definitely always had a heavy capitalist slant. I'd go as far as to say it has more anti-capitalist sentiment now t
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
They did for us. After having it there for a the better part of a decade. The luck of the draw with unreasonable reviewers.
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
By App Store rules (5.6.1), you're not allowed to ask for reviews through any method other than the Apple modal dialog. This means you can't make it non-obtrusive or customize to add a "never ask me" option.
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
> the summary screen showing the stats and points from your session just had, down at the bottom, “Do you love this game? Consider leaving us a review in the App Store!”? Apple App Review rejected our app for having an unobtrusive mess
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
It looks like the building used LP Gas from a tank, and the was an automatic shutoff valve at the tank end and in each individual shop in the food court, but that still leaves all the pressurized gas in the large piping from the tank to the
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
I've used my iPhones for underwater photography with just a normal clearcase and never had any issues
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
> As they become more common and age Induction cooktops have been common in Europe for 20 years now and I've never heard any complaints about them breaking down
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
I've always wondered why automatic earthquake shutoff valves weren't a requirement. Apparently they're required in some areas of the US by surprisingly recent code (2013 in Los Angeles is what I'm seeing?) but I've
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
If only a 7.1 earthquake came along to cull the herd every now and then?
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Many emergency shelters have not had their building safety confirmed so parking lots are opened to allow people to sleep in their cars, as they are warned to avoid "economy-class syndrome" from sleeping in a tight space. https:&
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
GPS reference data shows the ground has been displaced as much as 84 centimeters https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015189191000
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
This article has confirmation that there was a report of a gas leak, and if you scroll down there is a dashcam video of the explosion https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015188721000

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