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by mrob 3y ago
Torque screwdriver. You can get digital motor-driven ones, and ones that work like torque wrenches, with a clutch that releases once you exceed the torque setting. Torque screwdrivers have a limited range of supported torques, and computer
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by mrob 3y ago
Noctua heatsinks include maximum torque specifications in the instruction manuals, in Nm. I expected this to be standard, but I checked the manuals of popular high-end models from other manufacturers (Cooler Master, DeepCool, Be Quiet, Akas
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by mrob 3y ago
It's possible that copper sulfate is more dangerous than the alternatives, but there's no evidence that it's carcinogenic. Your linked article claims copper sulfate "has not been associated with cancer".
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by mrob 3y ago
I used to play a lot of pinball. I would regularly go to a location with a large collection of machines on free play and a flat entry fee. I started watching tutorial videos and improving my skills, but the better I got the less fun I found
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by mrob 3y ago
I wonder if somebody vaguely remembered the effects of helium fill, which actually does reduce sound transmission, and vaguely remembered that argon-filled windows are a commercial product, and conflated the two because they're both no
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by mrob 3y ago
But wouldn't density make things worse? Helium can be used for noise attenuation like this because it's light, so you get worse acoustic impedance matching between the panels and the gas. Argon is denser than air.
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by mrob 3y ago
It's far less of a problem if it's malware, because malware has to be installed. If it's a real backdoor it's already present on every Linux machine.
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by mrob 3y ago
The point is to acknowledge a limitation of my testing.
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by mrob 3y ago
It occurred to me that cycling primarily involves heart, lungs, and legs. You train all of them simultaneously, so they'll naturally have balanced performance. If you selectively impair one of the three, it will become a bottleneck. Ho
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by mrob 3y ago
This is only talking about low oxygen demand scenarios. "Each participant performed a six-minute walk test" I've personally tested (out of curiosity) bicycling performance while wearing a half-face respirator that's bare
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by mrob 3y ago
In my experience, a half-face respirator is more comfortable than a FFP2 (European standard similar to N95) or surgical mask. They have soft silicone seals, and bigger filters and exhalation valves that minimize breathing resistance. If you
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by mrob 3y ago
It's possible for the person with the single clock to get lucky and have a more accurate time than the average, but the original quote says "knows the time". Using the traditional definition of knowledge as "justified tr
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by mrob 3y ago
I'm assuming the error of every clock has the same probability distribution. I think this is a reasonable assumption, because the phrase only mentions the number of clocks. In this case, the more clocks you average the lower your expec
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by mrob 3y ago
It's a popular phrase, but it doesn't make sense if you think about it. The person with two clocks can average the time of both of them and get a result they can be more confident in than the person with only one.
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by mrob 3y ago
Interesting that they went with an open-cockpit design. I'd have thought closed cockpit would be faster because of better aerodynamics, even at these relatively low speeds. Any idea why this was chosen?
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by mrob 3y ago
It should be handled by civil law. The leagues sell tickets to fair competition. If the players fix the match, then the league is selling a defective product, and common sense suggests they should refund the ticket sales. And the players we
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by mrob 3y ago
My favorite endgames are in Arimaa[0], an abstract strategy game that can be played on a chess board. The goal is to advance a pawn-equivalent piece to the back rank. This becomes easier for both players as the game progresses and pieces ar
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by mrob 3y ago
Critics underrate movies too. Freddy Got Fingered, the movie I personally found funniest, is currently at 11% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's full of creative and quotable scenes, and never resorts to tired cliches (despite its genre there is
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by mrob 3y ago
In the 90s at least, chip music for the SID was mostly called "SID tunes". People didn't care about authenticity of real chips vs. chip-style tracker music until fast Internet and large disks became common. People stopped car
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by mrob 3y ago
You could get a MIDI controller (keyboard with MIDI output but not sound generation capabilities) and connect it to a suitable MIDI synthesizer. There are many MIDI synths available with real or emulated chip sounds.
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by mrob 3y ago
"Permissive" usually refers to Free Software or Open Source licenses without copyleft requirements. OpenRAIL is a proprietary license because it imposes usage restrictions, contrary to both the Free Software and Open Source defini
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by mrob 3y ago
The user consented to it by agreeing to the EULA: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/UseTerms/Retail/Windows/11/U... "6. Updates. The software periodically checks for system and app updates, and d
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by mrob 3y ago
If ordinary users don't want to learn they have the option of paying somebody to do it for them.
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by mrob 3y ago
"okish" by 1993 standards, but not a solid 35fps with full detail and full viewport size. Of course, that didn't stop people from enjoying it.
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by mrob 3y ago
Doom uses fixed point math so it doesn't matter if you have an FPU. But the fastest 486SX was only 33MHz, which isn't really fast enough for Doom, and they were typically used in cheaper systems with slower graphics cards/bus
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by mrob 3y ago
Mobygames has a scan of the packaging: https://www.mobygames.com/game/1068/doom/cover/group-1549/co... "System Requirements: PC compatible 386 or greater" But unofficially, you needed a fa
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by mrob 3y ago
The downside is that you either don't get to enjoy sweet things, or you have to switch to an alternative sweetener that might be worse, such as sugar.
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by mrob 3y ago
There's definitely something strange going on here. I'm getting about 3x as much CPU load on the WASM version as compared to native. Still low enough for a solid 144fps on my machine, but there shouldn't be this much overhead
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by mrob 3y ago
Relevant Bob the Angry Flower comic: http://www.angryflower.com/221.html Instead of trying to focus on nothing at all, the standard trick to get around this problem is to focus on something extremely boring, such as your ow
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by mrob 3y ago
Because it's far more effective at cleaning than cold water.

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