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by p1mrx 3y ago
120V-5% is still greater than 110V. Power supplies are rated for 100V because that's the voltage in Japan. Though the tolerance would probably be useful for running a really long US extension cord.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
I would like to see a US electric range with Schuko outlets and 16A GFCI breakers on the side, but that probably violates too many electrical codes. Schuko makes the most sense because it's unpolarized, so appliances don't expect
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by p1mrx 3y ago
Looks like memfd_create is from Linux 3.17 (2014), which was after I wrote the function. I sort of miss the days when simple stuff was hard.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
Reminds me of that time I wrote a StringToExecutableFile() function for running [e.g. a Rust binary] from C++, but that depended on several layers of build system horror to embed the executable file as a string, and it wasn't cross-pla
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by p1mrx 3y ago
It's a lot easier to build a basement than a river.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
I generally think it's fair for utilities to pay wholesale prices for dumping excess solar energy onto the grid, but the situation in this article is more subtle. If you have a building with solar and 10 apartments, at a given moment t
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by p1mrx 3y ago
Maps of roller coasters by US state Total: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/ixctmz/map_of_the_... Per capita: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/ixgjit&#x2F
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by p1mrx 3y ago
> Anyone who is in the affected area during such an event would only survive if they had air conditioning and uninterrupted power. Could you survive in a basement?
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by p1mrx 3y ago
> completely disconnect an IP address from a person or physical location The main purpose of an IP address is to deliver packets to some location in the world via the shortest path. You could imagine adding a Tor-like indirection layer
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by p1mrx 3y ago
Oh, the robotity!
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by p1mrx 3y ago
Yeah, it's difficult to care about community when you can generate the perception of happiness at home with minimal effort.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
My observation of UU is that it's not really about disbelief and skepticism like an atheist meetup. It's more the liberal/progressive ideology wrapped in a church interface. They talk a lot about peace and love, and fightin
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by p1mrx 3y ago
Consider checking out your local UU (Unitarian Universalist) church if one exists. They're one of the few positioned to poach from the huge flock of "nones" without any change in belief. UU is basically the church of be exc
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by p1mrx 3y ago
Thanks, I just used luci-app-attendedsysupgrade to upgrade from 23.05.0-rc2 to -rc3 with minimal pain. The only problem is that it lost my scripts in /root.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
OpenWrt is generally the best option for keeping old hardware fresh, but it would be really nice to have a Debian-like automatic update mechanism. I often delay updating my router because it takes ~20 minutes of work to reinstall packages,
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by p1mrx 3y ago
I think this phenomenon should be known as "software-defined garbage". We're sending electronics to the landfill entirely for reasons written in code that could be changed.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
Pentium 4 was the epitome of heat. The Athlon XP was generally faster and cheaper during that era.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
MS-DOS 6.22 C:\>grep '^[qwertyuiop]*$' /usr/share/dict/words | awk '{print length, $0}' | sort -rn | head Bad command or file name Bad command or file name SORT: Too many paramete
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by p1mrx 3y ago
> If all marbles in a bag are black, and you take one marble out, are all marbles in the bag white? The logical answer is "maybe."
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by p1mrx 3y ago
Holding molten fuel in a small container and extracting heat via convection is quite interesting. The idea seems obvious, but Oak Ridge never tried because they were designing an aircraft reactor that couldn't rely on gravity.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
Moltex thinks their SSR-W can burn existing waste for cheaper. It will be interesting to see if they succeed.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
The biggest problem I found is that Chrome Manifest V3 requires background.service_worker (they removed background.scripts), while Firefox Manifest V3 requires background.scripts (they never implemented background.service_worker) You can ge
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by p1mrx 3y ago
You can tell it's the Y chromosome because of the way it is.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
It seems you're describing exactly why the price increase is warranted.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
youtubetranscript.com + ChatGPT summary: Street parking, a universal hassle, is especially problematic in Chicago due to the infamous Chicago parking meter deal. This deal permitted a private company to take control and revenue from all 36,
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by p1mrx 3y ago
Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
I don't disagree. Perhaps it is totally bogus.
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by p1mrx 3y ago
People will definitely notice the loop point if they're trying to sleep. My Android app (Chroma Doze, est. 2010) uses this algorithm to splice noise segments together: When adding two streams together, the perceived amplitude sta
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by p1mrx 3y ago
I think the key to blocking sound (especially low frequencies) is to make the wall really heavy. MLV (mass loaded vinyl) is designed for this purpose. If you yell into a roll of MLV, it echoes like a concrete pipe, so you still need the ro
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by p1mrx 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_point_tracking MPPT is a common feature on solar charge controllers. The news here is that they're using neural networks to make it work slightly better.

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