playa1

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by playa1 7mo ago
I have children and I’ve never heard any arguments for DLS that make any sense. Most of the time people conflate longer summer days with DLS. The situation with dark mornings is winter not standard time. My children are already waking to sc
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by playa1 8mo ago
Sleep is the bottleneck.
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by playa1 1y ago
Reminds me of this overpass in Lynnwood Washington. https://maps.app.goo.gl/CKrJFsAjcTd6wbYn6?g_st=ipc
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by playa1 1y ago
I call my personal methodology PDD, Pain Driven Development. Fix the thing that is causing the most pain. Or is likely to cause pain in the near future.
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by playa1 2y ago
I also was bit disappointed when it wasn't smart wheels. Then I got impressed to see it handle the drops and stairs.
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by playa1 2y ago
I’m a fan of authentic retro hardware. That sounds like an awesome cabinet, I would love to spend hours and pockets full of quarters playing on it. This post caused me to go down a rabbit hole about CRT simulation. Looks like it is a thing.
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by playa1 2y ago
My younger kids hadn’t seen the Matrix and I thought the 25th anniversary release in the theater would be perfect. Leading up to it I tried to create the mystery for them that I remembered 25 years ago. All of the mystery was destroyed with
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by playa1 2y ago
I would be fine with the Pro models getting larger screens if they would shrink the standard phone. I'm still trying to survive with my 12 mini for as long as possible until the battery dies. I tried a standard iPhone 15 for two weeks
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by playa1 2y ago
Excellent article. Very well presented with just the right level of detail and drama. I had no intention of learning about ADB or crazy Apple USB power-on hacks but here I am having had a great time while doing just that. 10/10 would r
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by playa1 2y ago
I agree with you but handing the power to the Executive Branch doesn't solve the problem. The people need to demand more from their elected officials but the two parties have done an outstanding job getting us to fight with each other
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by playa1 2y ago
I want to respond with a Beowulf cluster joke. Then I remembered this isn’t slashdot and it isn’t 2001. Now I’m reminded of how old I’ve gotten.
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by playa1 2y ago
This is crazy and amazing, thanks for sharing. I now want Matt Parker to do a video about it. He loves both spreadsheets and hexagons.
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by playa1 2y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Skip the extra testing and yolo that thing to the moon.
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by playa1 2y ago
A few months ago I paired for the tree data to figure out the best place on our property to place some planter beds. I’m very happy with the results. It confirmed my guess that a specific section gets more light over the year even though th
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by playa1 2y ago
I had been doing a similar 1kw trickle charging setup for 3 years. While it was sufficient for daily driving we would go on longer drives regularly, mostly on weekends so 2-4 times a month. It was annoying mental overhead to have to plan ou
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by playa1 2y ago
Projects like this are a great way to appreciate how much can fit into an IC. Reminds me of the Megaprocessor project. https://www.megaprocessor.com/index.html
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by playa1 3y ago
I haven’t used Glassdoor for years. I just checked and my account didn’t have any personal information listed. My name and other fields in my profile were “*” I didn’t see a way to delete my data but I don’t think they had much in the first
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by playa1 3y ago
> ''After that, a police officer jumped into my car and did something which seemed to keep the car still." How can they leave it at “did something”. That is a very important part of the story. There is a lot here that does
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by playa1 3y ago
I love my iPhone 12 mini I'm glad I was able to get a full rebuild under warranty 6 months ago. The main board died but as a side effect the battery life is back to a like-new state. I don't really want to get a "full size&qu
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by playa1 3y ago
I have a Tesla Model Y and I like to do UX testing the first time they ride in my car. People often have a harder time figuring out how to use the external door handles than getting out. People more often find the manual door release before
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by playa1 3y ago
This matches my experience with our two EVs. One thing to add is that range increases a lot when driving below 45 mph. For city driving we get a lot more range for the same cost. Switching from a minivan to a Nissan Leaf for around-town dri
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by playa1 3y ago
What has happened to HN the past few months? So much AI, Superconductors and open source air quality monitoring.
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by playa1 3y ago
Power over Ethernet would be a nice option. Wouldn’t data over usb-c require a computer to drive it?
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by playa1 3y ago
Wow, I totally forgot about solar fricken roadways. That video was 2014. Looks like they ended up getting over $6m in funding. I can’t tell how alive they are but they received some FCC approval for the wireless connectivity in Jan 2022. “S
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by playa1 3y ago
When CEOs make statements like this I assume they know they are lying for sake of the company. What makes this more interesting is that he clearly believed it was safe. So he wasn’t necessarily unethical. It is more that he was a bad engine
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by playa1 3y ago
The article says prices went up 50% during the pandemic and now have fallen 18%. This sounds more like a mild correction not a crash. I feel bad for people that overpaid at the peak though.
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by playa1 5y ago
100% this. Permanent DLS seems strange but it is so much better than the insanity of changing the clocks twice a year.
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by playa1 5y ago
This is also the first thing I thought of when reading the title.
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by playa1 6y ago
Very useful site, the geometry comparison amazing!
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by playa1 7y ago
Anyone else sit and watch the old console-based defrag/speed disk run? I was ~13 years old, not much programming experience yet but I was fascinated by the process and kept trying to figure out how it worked.

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