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by nhecker 2y ago
I've not run the whole keyboard through the dishwasher, but I certainly have taken off all the keycaps and washed them in boiling, soapy water. I did that to another keyboard thinking I could clean up the key funk and instead the keyca
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by nhecker 2y ago
Former Lexmarker here; I bought a Unicomp keyboard to compliment my beastly Model M that I've used on every single computer I've owned. The Unicomp is good but I keep coming back to the IBM M. It's fun to have something physi
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by nhecker 2y ago
A Mitsubishi I-MiEV at 2268 LB (3329 LB GVWR - 661 LB vehicle capacity weight) isn't a ton lighter than a Ford Mustang, but it's on the lighter side for an EV. Source: my I-MiEV owner's manual
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by nhecker 2y ago
Oh, I've given Wired my money over the years. I have no qualms rewarding good journalism. But your point is well taken -- I'll temper my previous comment: one should not feel bad about paying for this piece!
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by nhecker 2y ago
I had gotten a negative impression of him back when reading 'Mother Earth Mother Board'[1]; it's interesting to read a different accounting of his life. [1]: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass&#x2
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by nhecker 3y ago
"The irradiation facility is the Mercury Plastics NeoBeam facility which is used for cross linking plastics" -- http://www.rtftechnologies.org/physics/neobeam-m12d10y2016.h...
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by nhecker 4y ago
Yes.
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by nhecker 4y ago
It was definitely not a CCS charger; my car will only play with CHAdeMO & J-1772. Aren't the only differences of CCS over J-1772 the addition of DC power pins at pack voltage, and the lack of populated AC line voltage pins? Or is t
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by nhecker 4y ago
I was thinking similar thoughts the other day. I believe both J1772 & CHAdeMO essentially invite the external equipment onto your vehicle's CAN bus, based on my (fallible) memory that my car's VIN, SoC, etc., have shown up on
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by nhecker 4y ago
I can't speak to what's currently available in the US market, but my 2014 Mitsubisht iMiev is blissfully basic. Unfortunately it was so much so that it didn't sell well here and got taken off the market. No central display s
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by nhecker 4y ago
I suppose my comment is more supportive than constructive, but I really like this concept; everything from the site design to the art itself is A+. I wasn't at all familiar with p5.js but the explanation you make is pretty accessible a
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by nhecker 4y ago
In my (also limited) experience I was able to get by with just a high-impedance piezo earpiece I could listen to in order to debug audio-frequency circuits. Ears are surprisingly sensitive detectors and can provide quite a bit of data into
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by nhecker 4y ago
Ah, this is such a good textbook! I still have my hardcover 2nd ed. left over from my college days and reference it when I'm trying to figure something out for my hobbies. Thanks for the link to the 3rd ed., I didn't know that exi
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by nhecker 4y ago
Wow! That's a crazy thought. Eye tracking tightly coupled (i.e., in a ~realtime feedback loop) with PG/ML/AI seems ... powerful, or scary, or both. Something along the lines of a computer controlled lucid dream, sprinkle in a
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by nhecker 4y ago
But they /almost/ do! I use an '86 IBM M as my daily driver, but I've bought two keyboards from https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/UKBD which still makes this style of keyboard. They&#x27
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by nhecker 5y ago
I use subitems pretty heavily in my todo_notes.md file as well; to work around the concern over conflict of state, I pay attention to only the checked status of the `large task`. If that parent is not checked off, I know there are still pen
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by nhecker 5y ago
This is very cool, thanks for sharing! I'm a huge proponent of tool-less things, and a consistent todo list format readable in any text editor has been extremely helpful for me. I use my own markdown-inspired todo+notes format, but loo
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by nhecker 5y ago
For those that want an (additional) source of entropy, the FSF offers[1] a USB HWRNG[2] that uses ADC quantization noise. It seems to be simple and clever enough to get the job done. True to FSF form the source is available if you want to a