samtho

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by samtho 3y ago
> Driving kills about 1 in 103 people in their lifetime. More people have been killed by cars than I have. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_illusion
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by samtho 3y ago
I’m not sure which SD card was chosen in the past, but I do recommend upgrading to an industrial one (and not just high endurance), and they are typically purchased through electronics components retailers/suppliers. One brand I use is
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by samtho 3y ago
As a woodworker, I get what your saying but calling the approach of using older methods as “more honorable” kind of rubs me the wrong way. It’s not like the original builders had a choice of what to use, I would bet they would choose the mo
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by samtho 3y ago
I was going to have them build a rudimentary octave (12 note keyboard segment) but that has been something I’ve been trying to sketch out as well.
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by samtho 3y ago
I don’t think the lowering of the average age is necessary one of the problems, but the fact that some of the new users are posing this problem is a symptom of a bigger one. They tend to comprise of many of the armchair-experts because a go
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by samtho 3y ago
For years now, I’ve been using a query builder that supports migrations and basic, non-instanced “model” functions that represent the cases of fetching and modifying data as required by my application. This allows me to have as much to data
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by samtho 3y ago
I’ve been toying with the idea of building a “learn analog electronics” course by having the student build a musical synthesizer one stage at a time, starting with dual tone generators that can be made to deliver frequencies and a selectabl
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by samtho 3y ago
Yeah, the kinetic energy associated with a running engine (flywheel to entire vehicle mass) makes it rather difficult to stall from a single cycle problem, especially given that it consistently recalculates and checks everything multiple ti
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by samtho 3y ago
Nope, just automotive grade components and potting goop. A Bosch ECU from a VW New Beetle that I recently repaired has a single Infineon MCU, AMD flash, and Bosch power management ICs. All Audi and VWs recently have drive by wire system tha
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by samtho 3y ago
Electricity is not to be feared but rather respected. It is a powerful force that lives in our wall, pockets, cars, the air, the ground, and even something that drives our biological function. That being said, this is not going to be someon
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by samtho 3y ago
For this level of hobby project, there is no need to buy that new. I would either wind my own transformer or (more likely) go to the computer surplus store, get a battery-less UPS and pull the transformer from that.
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by samtho 3y ago
You can actually go up to 120VDC (with no ripple) before you’re out of ELV - which I always find surprising. You’re probably thinking of the A/C limit which is 50V RMS.
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by samtho 3y ago
I use 48v for all my high power DC applications and I usually spin PCBs. Part of the reason I use 48vdc is that there are bunch of ICs and reference designs for PoE applications that run at this voltage level. 12v is a miserable voltage to
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by samtho 3y ago
It really is. Arguably the most famous example among HN readers was BrandonM’s comment[0] on Dropbox’s launch thread. Was he correct that you can built it trivially using 2007 software? Sure, if you had the correct mix of specialized knowle
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by samtho 3y ago
I’ve been doing ground school and getting into flying lessons, but what has been really interesting and surprising was the strong community that lurks just behind the wall you have to climb to enter. It can be a cost prohibitive hobby but a
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by samtho 3y ago
The article is not calling generative work as a whole “turds” but rather it’s being used as a punchy term to describe the tell-tale smells of AI generated content. I didn’t get the impression that the author wanted to throw it all out, on t
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by samtho 3y ago
The value of CPR by is rarely derived from successful resuscitation. In most cases, the person performing CPR is someone who was trained briefly on chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth which to be performed until a EMT arrives or an AED be
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by samtho 3y ago
Aiding and abetting (or accessory, more generally) has legal criteria that must be met fully: 1. The accused party must be aware of the perpetrator’s intent to commit a crime 2. The accused then took action to help or encourage the perpetra
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by samtho 3y ago
The very machine I had in mind was actually my sandy bridge setup, specifically my i5 unlocked (K-skew) which I had a GTX-660ti (with a reported 110 watt TDP, but at idle it’s quite a bit less). Throw in the two spinning rust HDDs and, at i
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by samtho 3y ago
Gmail goes to some pretty extreme lengths to keep you logged in. Yes, you will need a password but that’s not super different from the case of the traditional way to handle this: a password manager.
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by samtho 3y ago
I just threw in the 100 watt as a baseline because my 10+ year old rig runs that while idle and we seemed to be talking about using our older computers as the media player or home server.
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by samtho 3y ago
Part of this is likely related to power consumption, particularly how power-inefficient older hardware is. A raspberry pi 3b+ will draw max of 2.5A at 5v, so 12.5Wh would make it 8.64KWh per month, and I pay about $0.13 per KWh, so about $1
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by samtho 3y ago
99% of the time, I’m routing CMOS logic, i2c, SPI, maybe a CAN network here or there. I have maybe 10 projects where I worked with anything so critical that it required the most precise diff pair length matching. I think SRAM was the only t
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by samtho 3y ago
These ”mega donor” scandals happen near monthly as they are revealed via DTC autosomal DNA tests. It’s a combination of the unchecked power banks have to recruit and collect ad-nauseam sperm that sells very well. Donors may also go to other
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by samtho 3y ago
Ever since computers got cheaper and smaller, we’ve found different ways to employ them where it would not have made sense before. I suppose there are two main areas where the RaspberryPi is used: Embedded device and computer replacement. F
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by samtho 3y ago
What you went through must have been really awful, I’m sorry that happened to you. That being said, this sounds like a rare occurrence. I’m sure since then you’ve created some contingency plan especially if there is a potential for a repeat
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by samtho 3y ago
Besides the usual tricks of emailing a magic link or using your 2FA as a super login code, I can see either some sort of hardware token (cost prohibitive for most people) or more likely something like SQRL[0][1]. [0]: https://www
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by samtho 3y ago
> What planet are we on. A planet where many people (but perhaps not enough) can access to very safe and effective birth control in a way where both people in the partnership have some control over their ability to conceive a child.
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by samtho 3y ago
I would argue that sex is different because, looking at the animal kingdom, the result is rarely a benefit to the individual. It’s resource intensive and in some cases (with insects specifically) the ushering in of a new generation results
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by samtho 3y ago
The only real “new” issue that would come out of this is the hypothetical problem of stealing DNA from someone else to create a gamete. Granted, this technology is still very much in its infancy and, while the promise implied here is that y

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