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by pflanze 3y ago
The better magnesium forms (like citrate) tend to be very voluminous. They might not want to make multivitamin pills large because people tend not to like that. That's my personal hypothesis. (People who have decided that they want mag
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by pflanze 3y ago
The 50% or so difference is when both batteries are new. From what I've read Li-ion degrade faster than LiFePO4, so the difference becomes smaller over time (and might even reverse, but I don't have actual data).
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by pflanze 3y ago
Previous discussions: 240 points|10 years ago|83 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7091495 112 points|6 years ago|65 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13855185 66 points|4 years ago|
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by pflanze 3y ago
(27.67% - 22.74%) / ~3 years = 1.6% per year, a little larger of a rate than 0.3%/quarter, though, also it appears to have accelerated.
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by pflanze 3y ago
And when we run out of clues what AI can't do yet, it's AGI? (You imply that a "can't do yet" will remain forever, which is the open question. If you ask me, AGI is only possible if the tech has ~unlimited agency, w
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by pflanze 3y ago
seu still has a good point. That there are mechanisms (like companies making more money via cheaper production/handling when scaling, or catering to careless customers) that lead us to use artificial products doesn't always (or ev
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by pflanze 3y ago
I'm talking about the picture with the caption "the latest iteration of my solar setup". Maybe you tripped over the text "So I decided to build a new setup inspired by Will Prowse solar demo setups, which is pictured bel
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by pflanze 3y ago
I see a safety hazard with the exposed battery terminals (as shown in the picture "A 12 Volt 230 Ah lead-acid battery"). AFAIK, lead-acid batteries are less powerful than Li-ion/LFP but would probably still start a fire or gi
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by pflanze 3y ago
Why do you think the Pi is powered via the inverter? I can't see mention of this, and the picture of their setup shows the Pi being powered by a step-down from 12 V.
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by pflanze 3y ago
> A 20 MPG car is not twice as efficient as a 10 MPG car. Why not? The page you linked doesn't talk about "twice as efficient", it talks about an absolute number of gallons saved per distance travelled. Also, assuming ther
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by pflanze 3y ago
The author talks about adding structure, and I've been puzzled about what they are talking about until realizing that they apparently mean that a reference to something is "more" than the something hence it "adds structu
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by pflanze 3y ago
This site eats about 50% CPU on Firefox (on an older laptop) for every page that is open at the same time, and it continues to eat 50% after closing all pages. It doesn't use JavaScript and no visible CSS animations, so what is it? App
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by pflanze 3y ago
Pandoc also supports[1] pretty featureful ways to declare tables, may be worth looking into. [1] https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables
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by pflanze 3y ago
I guess "won't be big and professional like gnu" can only be said once innocently. :) (To be fair, the tech landscape may be sufficiently different that the same won't happen again, too.)
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by pflanze 4y ago
> DRM controller Did you mean DMA controller? Or do you have more information?
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by pflanze 4y ago
I had MacOS 9, so that, performance, may have been part of it. Seems MOL emulated an MMU. Although, IIRC I ended up disabling virtual memory / swapping inside MacOS, and just give the emulated Mac more RAM, because doing the swapping p
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by pflanze 4y ago
There's also Mac-on-Linux (MOL), which I've been using from ~1999 to run the original OS under Linux on my Mac hardware until I dropped Mac OS completely a few years later. It does require a PPC host. I remember back then MOL was
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by pflanze 4y ago
> allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level Aren't modern phones supposedly securely separate the baseband from the OS (Android)? Does this mean that voice and data can be intercepted, but at least other
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by pflanze 4y ago
Yes. Also, it is my understanding that calcium in water (which is a normal part due to the water taking up minerals in the ground) is making it slightly basic. I don't know enough about chemistry in this area, but I think the calcium i
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by pflanze 4y ago
Also, as I just realized, the RP2040 Doom author is also the Pico SDK (lead?) developer at Raspberry Pi Ltd.[1], which probably contributed as much to the success as the two cores and their PIO controllers. [1] https://www.raspbe
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by pflanze 4y ago
The RP2040 has 264 KiB of RAM. RP2040 Doom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30672527 PS. although, the RP2040 has 2 cores and programmable IO controllers, which IIRC were pretty needed to deal with the low memory (and
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by pflanze 4y ago
Here are recent suggestions for Windows and Linux by a blind person: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35008647
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by pflanze 4y ago
Sidestep which issue? The one of human representation, or the problems with floating point? If they just want to side step problems with floating point rounding targetting the physical world, they need to go with integers. Choosing BCD to
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by pflanze 4y ago
Avoiding floating point doesn't imply BCD. Any representation for integers would do fine, including binary. There are two reasons for BCD, (1) to avoid the cost of division for conversion to human readable representation as implied in
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by pflanze 4y ago
Discussion and link to the full text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33822149
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by pflanze 4y ago
OK, I'll try Orca, thanks! For getting confirmation (like when I've got a first version of my app), do you have a suggestion for a forum where to ask?
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by pflanze 4y ago
I'm currently debating with myself whether I should create GUI programs (with the main code written in Rust) using Qt or Tauri. Tauri is a Rust based GUI framework based on a webview, similar to Electron, although it can use the OS&#x2
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by pflanze 4y ago
(2020) as stated in their BibTeX entry (which looks funny to me for a blog post)
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by pflanze 4y ago
There was some discussion two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34845954
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by pflanze 4y ago
There are also other techniques (found after the computer's heyday), up to 8 bits 44.1 KHz: https://www.livet.se/mahoney/c64-files/Musik_RunStop_Technic... PS. it might not really be 8 bits, but only 93 or 10

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