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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I get much higher battery life out of my X1 Carbon 2017 (with the 1080p screen) and its 57Wh battery, to the point where I configured it not to charge above 90% to improve battery longevity (tlp can set charging limits on Linux). But withou
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I don’t have the device at hand but I’m pretty sure it’s a Validity Sensor 138a:0097. There’s an effort to reverse engineer the Windows drivers for this class of fingerprint sensors at https://github.com/nmikhailov/Vali
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Yeah, I bought mine without Windows. It’s a special SKU for edu users. Great discount vs regular price and no Windows included :)
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Yup, but apply the same thought to sailing boats and the GP’s point stands. Could be great for search & rescue (EPIRB is incredibly slow, this could maybe be used to build an alternative system?), but could also compromise the feeling o
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Latency and bandwidth are two separate things, and the distance to an LTE tower has approximately nothing to do with latency to the server you’re connecting to, which btw is likely much further away than 100 miles. Now factor in that light
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Maybe not so much for homeowners given the regulatory issues you describe, but combining this with solar panels and a backup battery could be a cool way to provide cell service to sparsely populated areas using satellite backhaul. I wonder
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Some old models (X201 or X201s iirc, so around 2011) could be configured without a trackpad. A 12-inch notebook with a 7-row keyboard and trackpoint is fantastic!
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
You get the hang of it pretty quickly by just using it for a few days. I don’t even have a mouse on my desk at work (Desktop + ThinkPad external keyboard), my hands never have to leave the keyboard’s home row :)
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
X1 Carbon uses LPDDR3 (as does the MacBook Pro), but the CPUs don’t support more than 16GB of it, so this is kinda Intel’s fault. LPDDR3 uses very little power in standby so both idle power usage and suspend time are improved. For non-LP RA
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I run last year’s X1 Carbon and it worked flawlessly with Debian out of the box. Battery life is excellent (3.5W isle with medium brightness) and the only thing that doesn’t work with Linux is the fingerprint scanner. It’s a great device th
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I have last year’s X1 Carbon and have had no issues with WiFi (using Debian unstable). Certainly no connection drops. Maybe it’s a bad combination of AP and WiFi module?
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
You ignore that those advantages require the density of housing provided by the kind of building described by paganel. You can't have low-density housing surrounded by lots of cafés and supermarkets, the economics just don't work
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Why are you comparing to a derelict housing block in Russia and cramped living in Kowloon? There is plenty of high-density housing in western cities as well, and it looks nothing like the pictures. How's this, for example: https:&#x2
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I got fed up with Twitter's lack of enthusiasm in blocking these accounts so I whipped up a quick proof of concept a while ago. The amount of trivial-to-detect cryptocurrency scams in replies to popular accounts was so high that I put
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
There’s a great recent-ish survey paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.05140.pdf which will give you pointers to papers in all directions :)
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I disagree. It should at least cover what aspects should be considered when designing an algorithm for use in the real world. You dismiss the entire field of experimental algorithmics as if it were nothing more than a bunch of algorithmicis
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that many—if not most—algorithms classes don’t sufficiently talk about the limitations of the models used and how to handle this. I’m a big fan of Algorithm Engineering, which is best imagined as a cycle of design, an
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
In some German cities you can email the police a photo along with a description when and where the infraction took place and they will issue a ticket. In other cities you might have to mail it the old-fashioned way.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
This is very cool! One of my colleagues recently solved the same problem for his own wedding by modelling it as a hypergraph partitioning problem and solving it with KaHyPar ( http://kahypar.org/ / http://git
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Let me add Glowing Bear, a project I contribute to that builds on top of WeeChat: https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
The page doesn't go into any detail, but it looks like this would require the air to come from a tank? Otherwise surely they would have mentioned it, not requiring on-board propellant is the feature of this thruster.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Quoting Matt Tait (former GCHQ) here: " Also worth remembering that "agent" here means "recruited source" and not "employee"" ( https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/969
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Yeah uBlock non-origin is abandoned (there have been 4 commits in the last 2.5 years). It's also no longer available in the Safari Extension Gallery. There is a fork of uBlock origin for Safari: https://github.com/el1t&
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Or you could use a Yubikey to store the secrets, and https://github.com/Yubico/yubioath-desktop on your desktop. That way you would still have a portable second factor, and it would be very very hard to extract the sec
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
It’s not like these shops only sell Pi Zeros, the shipping costs are the same for other Raspberry Pis and accessories. But you’re right, limiting saws to one per order raises the effective price to $10.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
You might be able to get by with even less if your goal is to provide a consistent up/down and not have to velcro everything down. I don't have any sourcing for it and obviously it's from a Sci-Fi book, even if it's one
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
The risk of Kessler Syndrome is being exaggerated a lot on HN. These new, very large satellite constellations aren't in stable orbits, they only last for a few years before decaying naturally. So even if every satellite there were to b
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Nobody claimed it was $5 including shipping . It's still £3.82 ($5.32) without VAT (deducting it since US prices never include sales tax, either) and shipping at Pimoroni UK right now.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
You don't need to re-register Signal when you pop in a different SIM card. I've successfully used it abroad with a foreign SIM card without issue. Of course people won't be able to add you by any phone number other than the o
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
While not exactly the simplest tool around, org mode is still a lot simpler than LaTeX and brings excellent export features to both LaTeX/pdf and html. It’s probably a hard sell for anyone who doesn’t use Emacs already, but for someone

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