photon_rancher

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by photon_rancher 1y ago
Most autos have an override to shift manually and engine brake more, hardly ever see people use them except if they tow frequently though. A lot of CVTs have virtual gears for that even, although others like the prius only have B mode.
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
There’s a few luxury cars that use the same or larger engines for the hybrid. Lexus did it with the LS, hybrid 600h had a larger engine (5L) than the gas 460 (4.6L). Those are super rare though.
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
There’s always the risk of economic collapse lol
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
Yeah and it prevents issues if the subject line changes in an unexpected way that confuses the email client, or issues where an email chain goes on for a long period of time but retention policies delete old emails. Etc…
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
The PCB is easy to screw up, so are the cables. And scopes that go that high are expensive but customers expect USB3 even on low volume low cost products so there’s definitely advantages. There can even just be manufacturing defects the FR4
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
Yeah, this is a well known technique for boosting resolution. For example: You add a dithering signal which can be processed out. If the signal has the right properties (for example, random but evenly distributed noise bounded to one LSB),
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
Did some similar testing with an on-off rocker switch for a project last year. Traces were highly predictable if you pressed it just gently past the detent. But if you did it too slowly (restricting the detent force) or used too much follow
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
I don’t see a world where this is possibly cheaper than just putting a AC-DC supply at the point of load. Looks like a big safety hazard too. IDK, but I wouldn’t even want to debug circuits for this thing.
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
This is true for basically any AD windows login. If you log in with an account on a machine on your domain, then take that machine offline and change the password elsewhere- you can login with the old password. If you instead restore networ
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
No, unplugging works because cables are antennas. Power cables being disconnected dramatically reduces the ability for the lightning to couple into the device The device itself usually has shielding, capacitors, transient suppressors, etc…
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
You could have some moving element with limit switches and an encoder, that’s pretty common. There’s probably others… Normally the limit switch would be reliable but it will degrade over time, could be damaged in use, be assembled wrong etc
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
Interest, military, and social security are the only things big enough to cut to fix the deficit much less pay down the debt. The entire rest of the government could be free and we would still be screwed if we don’t make cuts where it count
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
I mean commodity hardware usually did ok in games consoles prior to then too. NES was a modified commodity chip
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
What’s the average IPC of these chips for a reasonable workload? Early processors were typically 1 or lower. Modern stuff is all superscalar piplined and out of order and can do way more than you’d expect. Not to mention SIMD operations and
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by photon_rancher 1y ago
Logitech makes them. Ergo k680 is sitting on my desk right now and has both cmd and option in the correct spots. Wireless tho so you’ll have to get over that one. Not a lot of options with usbc wired - unless you look at the custom or bouti
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
Yes that sort of stuff happens all the time in the business side of things. There’s a reason it’s a trope. Not to every company per se but it’s been commonplace well probably for as long as business itself has been. Just an example - nothin
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
Looks like inversion
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
Over 100nF of unbalanced Y-caps is needed at 60Hz/120V to see 5mA gnd current. That would be a big Y capacitor (2.2n or lower is common) and they’re usually used in a balanced configuration which would reduce it further. If a Y capacit
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
That exit strategy sounds suspiciously similar to a technique I’ve heard for lucid dreaming. Wonder if they’re related?
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
Your estimate is late by almost 20 years - the first of that generation graduated high school ten years ago. But the problem is that over those ten years google docs mostly feels like it’s been enshittified. Today’s office suites all suck I
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
There’s oscillators out there that slowdown as they brownout. That would cause those symptoms. A lot of logic families have slower edges and longer delays too, not that there would be much asynchronous logic in a router. Could also be affec
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
Chipquik works fine. There’s probably better stuff but it is consistently good and doesn’t seem to go bad (i can’t tell much performance stuff between a roll that’s old enough to have the label rubbed off and a brand new one).
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
1) board preheat. In a pinch, heat gun or old hairdryer. But ideally get a cheap ceramic one off amazon or something. Typically set it to 75C for delicate components. For sturdy boards i start there and if that still sucks you can usually g
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
They probably just provide extra power over the port. It costs extra to design an extra supply for a specific port so it’s probably shared, and likewise also costs extra to current limit each port. So more than likely a cost saving measure
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
Seconded. There’s almost certainly NXP IP used in nearly all NFC implementations which makes them subject to their terms. Those terms are in turn set by the partners that asked for these technologies to be developed in the first place. And
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
I was on the suspended section about a year before collapse - everyone could tell it was about to fail. Visible stress in rusty beams, old cables, and failing concrete. I think it just came down to underfunding at the end of the day - there
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
Likewise the minimum amount of rain you could catch would only be on your front from moving at an infinite speed. You’d leave behind a tunnel of missing raindrops in the shape of your profile along your path. As you move slower or faster yo
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
Lol not competitive cost or efficiency wise is what people said about the iPhone compared to blackberry, and here we are - people bought them anyway. Not trying to argue with you just a funny parallel. I don't really have a horse in th
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
Realtime scopes exist at this bandwidth but are crazy expensive, and then they have frequency-stitching artifacts all over the fourier plane. (Because they use mixing techniques) Sampling systems are about $20k - 50k without probes in this
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by photon_rancher 2y ago
Cars pretty much all do this now.

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