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by pedrocr 5y ago
By regulation (at least in Europe) that's a physical button, so is unchanged. But the point applies for fog lights for example. They used to be on the quick controls menu, which was already bad compared to physical buttons, and are now
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I was trying to synthesize the discussion I've seen here. Your link is interesting but still in line with the discussion I've seen so far. People can point out examples of excessive red-tape in some countries. But no one agrees ho
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by pedrocr 5y ago
The comparison is with solar and wind, and there seem to be enough solutions between interconnects, overcapacity, batteries, demand modulations and others for nuclear to not be valuable even to solve intermittency. Here's a simulation
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by pedrocr 5y ago
> Nuclear is the quickest path to green, and it's staring us right in our faces. This is held as self-evident in all these discussions on HN and yet all the simulations I've seen have nuclear as way too expensive compared to th
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by pedrocr 5y ago
There's a reasonable argument that we're actually in a golden age of forums. Subreddits have allowed many more niche communities than before and even traditional style forums have prospered in plenty of cases. There is definitely
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by pedrocr 5y ago
There are definitely pathological cases around. Here's an 8 year old bug, still valid, that's a common extreme slowdown when copying to/from a USB drive: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lin
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I covered those inverters. You can get power directly from the car to run appliances but to connect it to the grid they just bypass that entirely and have you install an offboard inverter in the house. Ford points out that, as part of the
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I only follow this out of curiosity and because I do have an EV and solar and am wondering when/if a battery will make sense. I have yet to see any solution to power the house from the car unfortunately. These announcements by Ford and
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by pedrocr 5y ago
> Ford's new F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck and Volkswagen's ID.4 are examples arriving with this feature This isn't actually the case. What both manufacturers have announced is extra hardware to install at home t
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by pedrocr 5y ago
So should we expect a blake3 switch sometime in the future? It seems to be a refinement of blake2 to make it more amenable to optimization while keeping most (all?) its qualities. Being well suited for optimization across architectures woul
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Speed was probably not the criteria otherwise blake3 seems like an even better choice: https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3
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by pedrocr 5y ago
By defining Retina as 220PPI most options are excluded as 4K at 27" or 32" is common but more isn't. A look at what Apple calls Retina though shows that angular density is a much better definition. The initial presentation by
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by pedrocr 5y ago
You can get 32GB on thin laptops now. In Lenovo's range X1, T14s, and X13 all have 32GB as the maximum.
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Great video on those bees and how they've adapted to varroa: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T7CB8E7jKBc They had a ~90% bottleneck when varroa arrived and after adapting are now at full strength again.
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by pedrocr 5y ago
There is a lot of research on this. Varroa treatments have eliminated the selection pressure but there are wild bees that have adapted. More propolis is one adaptation but there are also other genetic traits that help control it (e.g., broo
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by pedrocr 5y ago
If your comparison is iOS devices then sure, being allowed to boot your own kernel is a sign of progress. It's a very low bar even when compared to Intel Macs though, not to mention competing laptops. But this is definitely going much
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Allowing booting other OSs is different than actually supporting those efforts with documentation for example. The problem with Intel Macs is not being able to boot another kernel it's all the device support that's now gone.
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by pedrocr 5y ago
They don't need to endorse Asahi to endorse the use of alternative OS on ARM Macs, which wouldn't have any of those downsides. The first Intel Macs were great machines to run Linux on. Later machines had too many compatibility iss
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by pedrocr 5y ago
That totally depends on what angular resolution you require and what distance you are comfortable with. Using that list Apple's Retina concept starts at 57 and 4K 27" is ~60. And even that is assuming you place a 27" screen t
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by pedrocr 5y ago
We can discuss how much angular resolution is enough but we clearly don't need 300dpi for a billboard. To get the same font quality when looking at a phone, laptop or external screen a different dpi will be needed. Here's Apple&#x
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Yes. I do believe an external 4k 27" on a laptop is used differently than a single screen on an iMac. I also believe people use iMacs in ways that are different than what you use, which was the whole point of my answer. People use scre
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I use a 4K 27" screen at a distance where it uses the same scaling as a 1440p 14" laptop. Looks great to me, but if your vision is better or you're using it closer then it may not be enough. Other people use 4K TVs or 65&quot
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by pedrocr 5y ago
No to what? I know what 1080p/1600p/1800p is. Here's a direct quote from the Macbook Air tech specs: Retina display: 13.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology; 2560-by-1600 native resolution If 1600p on 13&
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Don't take it from me, you can read Steve Jobs himself on the introduction of the Retina term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_display#Rationale
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by pedrocr 5y ago
The current 13.3" screens are 1600p, the original Retina displays were also 1800p on 15". Only the last generation is a little higher and still not 4K like in PCs. Apple itself has always branded "Retina" based on angula
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by pedrocr 5y ago
4K 27" is also 2x1080p. 1080p panels come in all sizes, including 27". And Apple uses 1600p on their laptops, when most laptops these days are 1080p. I guess Apple laptops are also not HiDPI as 1600p is not 2x1080p. Angular resolu
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Angular resolution is much more important than the actual surface DPI. Depending on you viewing distances and the quality of your vision 4K on a 14" laptop is needed or 1080p on a 27" screen is more than enough. Your requirements
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by pedrocr 5y ago
We need better definitions then. Apple uses 1440p/1600p on laptop screens. At normal viewing distances using that on a 14" laptop and 4K on a 27 inch external screen works perfectly with the same scaling. I know because that'
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Here are 118 different 4K monitors starting at 240€: https://www.worten.pt/informatica-e-acessorios/monitores/mon... I've bought 3 LG ones during the pandemic and they're great. What other options do you
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by pedrocr 5y ago
The uptime is probably much better in cities than in rural areas. In Portugal, having run home servers both in a city and rural locations the difference is immense. I get more uptime out of a city server with no UPS than a rural server with

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