pifm_guy

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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Fine-tuning is pretty cheap compared to the original training run - perhaps just 1% of the cost. Totally within reach of a consortium of.... "entertainment specialists".
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
It's only worth investing once you've really secured it against the other side retaking it. I don't think the Donbass was ever secure against being retaken. Hence no investment. It's still strategically valuable, becau
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I assume the wire is very very thin to keep it light. That means it probably breaks down in the environment after a few years - with the time mostly depending on what type of enamel it's coated in.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I wonder if these electric ferries have diesel backup systems? A little 100 horsepower backup engine wouldn't use much space/weight/cost, but would still be enough to get the ship slowly home in case of other failures. Th
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
With a bit of practice, you can nail this too. The trick is to have a few seconds you can add or remove with some comment/fact which you can leave out for timing. You'll often do it in regular conversation with people - if you&#
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Is there any decision in a replacement for fuel tax? Fuel tax is 'worth' a lot more than car tax (VED) for the typical motorist in the UK. And taxing electricity for use in cars is much harder logistically.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Still worked for ~75% of sites I visited. Especially smaller sites and those annoying forums that required a login to download attachments.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I found HN front-page to still be less than about 1 user action per second. Ie. Pageload. That means if your site loads fast, you typically won't ever be serving more than a single user at once, so unless you're serving it on a b
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
They love to debit any linked bank accounts to pay any fees or clawback any money so they can freeze it. And PayPal requires you link an account for verification now. So it isn't really practical to use it as you describe - you're
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
The work life balance really isn't the best. It's pretty lonely, and any friends you do make always are short lived.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
> I imagine there are some Ukranian soldiers who feel the same way. I imagine there are russian soldiers who even more think the same way... Putting the GPS location to be a few miles over in enemy territory would be a good way to m
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
The control IC is running at 250Mhz. Does that mean the fault timings are limited to 4 nanosecond granularity? Is that enough to make a reliable attack? Is anything done to sync with the startup and locking of the host clock PLL, since th
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Kidnapping early bitcoiners is happening more and more. I'm fully out of that now, but if I weren't, I would be keeping it a secret from everyone.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
If you work on anything even distantly military related, it's a risk you take as part of the job. If your country loses any war/power struggle, the new incoming government will punish you for being involved in the military of t
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Almost any image of a building in the world is geolocatable with a bit of effort.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Very long article with no real conclusion.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Is it possible to run a crypto exchange 'honestly'? Ie. Actually holding all the assets you claim to hold? I suspect the answer might be no... If you were to set up an honest exchange today, you would be outcompeted by dishones
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
The built in peripheral works up to about 100 MHz. Beyond that you use the third/fifth/seventh harmonic. Because the pi is notionally outputting a square wave, there are plenty of high powered harmonics to use, and from a signal-
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
In the case of PiFM, the clock generator is being operated out of spec by a wide margin - it is rated for operation up to 25 MHz, but the code operates it at 100Mhz. That makes it do some weired things - and I suspect one of those is that w
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I would like to see an analysis of this... For example, how does wearing a mask every day impact lifetime infection risk? On one hand, masks are pretty effective at blocking pathogens. But on the other, as the rest of the population ge
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
There are a bunch of other reasons to care about air quality... Like it being a proxy for your risk of a lot of other aborne pathogens (some of which, unlike COVID, you might actually permanently avoid, rather than COVID which is so infec
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Probably just the pilot didn't flick the switch for it while he was having his coffee break while the passengers were boarding. I'd bet if you can get a few popular newspapers to write articles about this with scary headlines (&#x
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
CO2 scrubbers exist. They're commonly used by deep water divers and as part of anaesthesia equipment in hospitals. If you're happy to do DIY stuff, I'm sure you could buy some and hook it up in your house. Some things to be
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Monitoring equipment alone isn't really sufficient, unless it is hooked up to a fan or ventilation equipment to maintain a suitable level, and an alarm to alert if that level can't be maintained. If the law requires just monitorin
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Author here. This code no longer works on new Pi's (it does a lot of low level very hardware stuff from userspace without a proper kernel driver). The code was written in a 24 hour Hackathon, so is very far from maintainable. However