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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Spark plugs triggered by an ignition coil and a distributor (AKA what cars were doing 100 years ago) is an arrangement that logically should produce so much interference, I struggle to think how modern electronics can top it.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I don't think the compute time varies that much with the length of the password being hashed for these cost-oriented hash functions.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
It's bad news for anyone who wants to buy a solar panel, because they'll be joining the thundering herd of people generating energy when the energy price is negative and there's too much generation in the grid already, and th
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
And that's what POST requests are for.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Although you could say the same about an "English accent" as well. Which particular part of England do you want this accent to be from? For example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb63PdPweDc is a fine example of
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Just a PSA - I (and probably others) find the "Sign in with Google" pop-over extremely annoying. It annoys me both because it's over the top of stuff I might want to read, and also because it's Google threatening to tell
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
The controller did something so incredibly bizarre and outrageous that I finally saw what they were doing, and I could never un-see it. Others had spoken truth to me a few times over the years, but recognised that they couldn't change
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I think you're probably right. I came to the opinion a while ago that one of the very best things you can do to help someone who is a victim of a controlling relationship is to tell them things that are indisputably true in such a way
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
People who are the victims in a controlling relationship will usually say things that the controller wants them to say, even when the controller is not there. Ask me how I know.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Oh darn, I forgot about filters. What an absolute waste of battery energy.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
"Tap to cancel" - I have had that a few times. It is very explicitly illegal in my country, with harsh penalties if caught. So yeah, Google, perhaps stop asking us to break the law?
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I find that for long distances, you're probably right, but for shorter distances, it definitely tries to route me down little tracks with grass growing down the middle and foliage scraping the sides of the car to cut the corner off a b
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Kind of, but I think they were planning to modify more than just the eyes.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I remember maybe 10 years ago seeing a news article about Microsoft having developed a system that uses a camera at both the top and the bottom of a screen, which can then build a 3D model of your face and reconstruct a video in real time o
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
It's quicksort, but neglecting a load of the work that quicksort would normally have to do. Instead of recursing twice, leading to O(nlogn) behaviour, it's only recursing once.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
And this explains why the (Linux) HPC that I'm using is having so many troubles today, and keeps complaining that I don't exist.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
The whole paying for charging thing needs to die a painful and fiery death. I have a universal (money) charging card in my wallet - it was issued by my bank. There should be nothing else required to pay for charging a car up. Same with park
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
The article states that the CPU has a limit of 4 instructions per cycle, but the sum2 method issues 5 instructions per cycle. Presumably one of them (maybe the increment) is trivial enough to be executed as a fifth instruction.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
> And to give another hint why this is so hard for me to understand: To the best of my knowledge, if I call my phone company with whatever scenario that I can imagine that involves my SIM, all they will do is send me a new SIM to my phys
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
This page is utterly confusing. Is it about a CV? I don't see what is being resumed.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
And why exactly are you looking at your phone and touching it while driving?
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
A few times I have been in the middle of driving, and Google has suddenly said "We have found an alternative route that is two minutes faster - if would like to keep the original route, then tap the cancel button." Which is solici
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I have definitely had Google be rather confused about its directions, telling me to take the first exit on a roundabout when it meant the second exit, on more than one roundabout that has been there unchanged for decades. Then there'll
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
There's loads there. Don't forget Carew Castle.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Yes, the difference is that if the computer running mosh client crashes (or runs out of battery without you realising), then you lose the ability to re-connect with the mosh server, which is where screen or tmux win.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
As one of the comments says, mosh is great for this sort of thing. I use mosh from my laptop, and it is simply bullet-proof. I can hibernate my laptop, warm it up a few days later, and it's all still connected absolutely fine. Running
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Yeah, there are studies that show that eating less is much more effective than exercising more for losing weight. There are other studies that show quite often the most effective way to eat less is to fast every now and again. And that&#x27
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
The usual standard in the UK is for a sentence to get a reduction of around 1/3 for a guilty plea. The situation I hear of in the US where people are threatened with a 537 year sentence if they plead not guilty or a 3 month sentence if
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
And there I was, hoping for a Flanders and Swann reference.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I have had my phone for 4.5 years. I charge it every night to 80% - I have Accubattery installed, so it pings to tell me to unplug it, and it also does a fairly decent job of measuring the capacity. I charge on a fast charger (10W) instead

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