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by p1mrx 8mo ago
What if they use heat pumps to raise the temperature? Heat rejection is proportional to T^4.
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by p1mrx 8mo ago
When I was 10 or so, I "cracked" Slam! Air Hockey for Windows 3.1 by opening the exe in EDIT.COM and replacing some random binary garbage with spaces. After a few attempts, I managed to bypass the shareware dialog but also introdu
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by p1mrx 9mo ago
Have you seen excessive bufferbloat on a DOCSIS 3.1 modem?
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by p1mrx 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocker-bogie AI-assisted project idea: recreate that animation as code, and then include the differential gear. Edit: Someone already made a 3D animation: https://m.youtube.com&
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by p1mrx 9mo ago
Human bodies are a trivial fraction of the fresh water on Earth. That makes about as much sense as stealing batteries to run the power grid.
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by p1mrx 9mo ago
Reminds me of Uncle Worm, among the better TI-83+ games. It's 2D, but the snake is curvy: https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/96/9683.html
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by p1mrx 9mo ago
If this is true, it's possible that the technology is from Nordic Nano. That would at least explain how a motor/software company could pull a battery out of thin air: https://www.donutlab.com/nordic-nano-investmen
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by p1mrx 10mo ago
Windows 11 isn't too bad after running Win11Debloat, but I get quite annoyed when an update shows "You're 100% there" for more than a second. 100% means done, why aren't you done yet? When I was working on a deploy
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by p1mrx 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_(game_engine)
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by p1mrx 11mo ago
I recently got a used QNAP TS-131P for cheap, that holds one 3.5" drive for offsite backup at a friend's house. It's compact and runs off a common 12V 3A power supply. There is no third-party firmware available, but at least
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by p1mrx 11mo ago
> busybox wget -U $x -O 1.htm $y There's no way that could work. $x expands to multiple arguments.
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by p1mrx 11mo ago
That's a potato-quality gif, not a video.
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by p1mrx 11mo ago
The name makes sense because Aluminium has an -ium suffix like Chromium. There's also no reason for the project name to agree with the US pronunciation of the element.
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by p1mrx 11mo ago
Why rewrite the same 1MB chunk, instead of making new random chunks? Redundant data at least opens the possibility that the drive could deduplicate.
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by p1mrx 11mo ago
So in order to use a Level 1/2 NACS charger, you have to plug into the J1772 port via an adapter, instead of the NACS port. Wow, lazy engineering at its finest: https://insideevs.com/news/762582/nissan-leaf-j
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by p1mrx 1y ago
I suggested this a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45084296 Android may ultimately win the arms race, but if they want to be evil, we should make their task as tedious as possible.
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by p1mrx 1y ago
http://http.rip/ is useful for testing this sort of thing. I used to test with http://neverssl.com/ until they added HTTPS for some reason.
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by p1mrx 1y ago
minute after minute, hour after hour
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by p1mrx 1y ago
The input was just CD audio, "One More Time" by Daft Punk. test.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz
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by p1mrx 1y ago
I think training is mandatory. These are the commands I used: https://gist.github.com/pmarks-net/64c17aff45e7741f07eeb5dd0...
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by p1mrx 1y ago
I tried compressing some CD quality PCM audio: wav=54MB, zstd=51MB, zl=42MB, flac=39MB. So OpenZL is significantly better than zstd, but worse than flac.
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by p1mrx 1y ago
I first heard about these islands when they built a roundabout under the ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVD0hG-_5gQ&t=47s
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by p1mrx 1y ago
SSHoH
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by p1mrx 1y ago
It looks a bit better with Tux's face: https://pmarks.net/posted_links/tux-weeble.png
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by p1mrx 1y ago
Instead of click-to-copy, you could do click-to-highlight, so that "right-click > Copy" highlights the text on right-click if it's not initially selected. There is some subtlety in the logic, because it shouldn't inte
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by p1mrx 1y ago
Why Anna, and not a thousand other people in the area? She must've done something to enter the group in the first place.
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by p1mrx 1y ago
Nice map, but on mobile it doesn't let you zoom out enough to see both coasts.
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by p1mrx 1y ago
Evaporative cooling effectively "uses up" the water. It's possible to run chillers instead, but that consumes more electricity, and some power plants also use evaporative cooling.
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by p1mrx 1y ago
"A Slight Miscalculation" by Ben Bova https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83720/so-that-eart...
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by p1mrx 1y ago
If you have a circuit rated for 15 amps, and plug in 12 amps of solar, then the breaker won't trip until the circuit load exceeds 27 amps, which seems bad.

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