progman32

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by progman32 3y ago
This is my use case and setup also. If there's someone in my yard I want to know. If I'm not home it additionally kicks off other automations that make my place look less tempting for an attack. Edit: it's also very useful to
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by progman32 3y ago
To add, reaction control is used in conjunction with reaction wheels. When the wheels saturate, the rockets are used to desaturate them.
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by progman32 3y ago
Answer to what?
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by progman32 3y ago
Is this parody, or an actual private conversation you had with the poster?
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by progman32 3y ago
dkms has worked fine for me in Gentoo, Debian, and Ubuntu. I think the backlash has more to do with the comment's tone.
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by progman32 3y ago
Some of them actively call in on known spammer numbers, like the numbers found on a fraudulent Norton invoice. Often the scammers wait for you to call.
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by progman32 3y ago
I don't think it's weird at all. Art and culture generally are exercises in communication. Sometimes fine craftsmanship or technical prowess and spectacle is an important part of the message. Sometimes it simply is not. People get
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by progman32 3y ago
Stick it on s3, tell cloudfront to serve from the bucket, and let that sucker run almost unattended till aws shuts down.
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by progman32 3y ago
I credit him with giving me the push to just be what I am, that it's ok to have a garage full of strange machines just to enjoy and learn. That was huge for my young self, who hadn't seen anyone else in tech in their life. And don
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by progman32 3y ago
Fair. It's a bit of a screech for sure. If it weren't so useful for my specific usage patterns, I'd probably try to quiet it.
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by progman32 3y ago
I remember being transfixed by Aussie50's clever hack of wiring his 12V CPU AUX power connector to an old school mechanical ammeter. Probably not a great idea today due to the intense power transients modern machines draw, but the idea
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by progman32 3y ago
Num lock.
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by progman32 3y ago
Three other options (admittedly less effective, but the upside is no killing). 1. Give them what they want. I have a bottle of cheap corn syrup I use as a truce offering. If I start getting scouts or the beginnings of an incursion I just du
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by progman32 3y ago
I'm actually thankful for the coil whine on my GPU because I can tell if it's still running my compute tasks. I've even started being able to pick up on parameter misconfigurations based on the sound patterns.
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by progman32 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "conventional", certainly a plain resistive heater drawing 500W emits the same amount of energy as a computer drawing 500W. If you stretch the definition of efficiency, an infrared heater produce
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by progman32 3y ago
When my car is home, it's plugged in always. That way I can pre warm or cool the cabin before I leave, and the car dumps a few more percent into the battery (usually it internally charges to about 80% to save the battery, but if it kno
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by progman32 3y ago
Every time I use the app I have to force quit it at least once to get it to stop doing whatever backend query it's doing. Doesn't help that their chargers are barely compatible with my car (2014 i3) so the charging fails to start
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by progman32 3y ago
Fun. Because it's fun. Because we, as humans, generally like to tell stories, especially about shared culture. Making a tribute of an artifact is another way to appreciate it. It's another take, an amateur singer sharing a moment
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by progman32 3y ago
Perhaps we need a /a for AI content, as well?
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by progman32 3y ago
Kind of. There is a mitigation in the spec https://github.com/WICG/close-watcher#abuse-analysis Briefly, the user may need to press back a couple times in order to escape, but the maximum number of presses needed is bo
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by progman32 3y ago
To play devil's advocate: The idea being that if we prevent people from doing specific math on specific numbers, the more proficient number-discoverers will have greater incentive to discover more of those pleasing numbers, and we all
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by progman32 3y ago
To be fair, Banjo-Kazooie on the GBA is effectively a completely different game. It bears only a passing resemblance to the N64 games, and is 2-D. The 360 port came ten years later, and the significant effort needed to do so was justified b
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by progman32 3y ago
Curious to hear your reasoning why.
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by progman32 3y ago
And for that, sponsorblock.
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by progman32 3y ago
There's also tube archivist, which is a whole archival front end and back end. Bit more complicated to set up but once you do, you also get a nice web UI of your videos that is similar to YouTube. It even shows comments.
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by progman32 3y ago
...and then lock the admin UI behind a password so you can't do it yourself :)
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by progman32 3y ago
Forerunner (Halo) structures and half life 2's Citadel probably harbor the strongest place feelings I've experienced. You almost don't need to tell an explicit story in those places, the walls do enough
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by progman32 3y ago
One thing to keep in mind re: roaming - devices tend to "stick" with their current AP even though there's a perfectly good same-SSID AP with much better strength available. There are protocols that can orchestrate between APs
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by progman32 3y ago
Back when I rode, I made a little arrangement of LEDs around the speedometer in 3 concentric rings of ~32 lights. The blue LED closest to pointing North would light, the green LED would always point towards my home, and the red LED would po
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by progman32 3y ago
Or "when the only occupant opens the front door and drops off the network, turn off all lights, arm the alarm, turn off the stereo, and yell at me if the cooktop is drawing power".

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