samtho

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by samtho 3y ago
Aren’t most light sources (unintuitively) measured by the light output of an equivalent incandescent light source? I certainly don’t expect a light labeled as a “40 watt” using anything close to that.
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by samtho 3y ago
This logic breaks down for hardware vendors don’t allow access to an underlying Linux system the IoT device is running on. The malware looks for easy targets to get root on - not so much turning on and off lights.
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by samtho 3y ago
Nope that remains unstudied. Trust me, I’ve looked. A lot of my assertions are based on how I’ve seen other people behave - which I fully acknowledge is subject to stuff like confirmation bias. For context, I volunteer at a community center
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by samtho 3y ago
Adblock is and always has been a band-aid, and pulling a “see no evil” doesn’t mean the ads no longer exist, as such it is reasonable to expect that any random user will be subjected to it unless otherwise stated. My problem with the ad sou
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by samtho 3y ago
Given how infamously hostile Fandom wikis are to users, most people who have visited any Fandom hosted wiki in the past will understand this. The top position, which I do want to point out does change, doesn’t always mean people will immedi
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by samtho 3y ago
> There's no overarching devious plan to enslave us all, here. It's just classic honest-to-goodness incompetence and disinterest. At least the overarching-plan theory has a boogie man to attack. This is preferable to the altern
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by samtho 3y ago
New features, typically.
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by samtho 3y ago
It is my understanding that GDPR and CCPA both specify that consent is only needed for non-essential cookies (or some nebulous term they use) and you can make the argument that storing user preferences are essential. The laws in question do
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by samtho 3y ago
Instead of legislating pop over messages to happen (looking at cookie messages), we just need to legislate these trash interruptions away. I didn’t begin using the device I purchased to be interrupted by something that had literally no bear
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by samtho 3y ago
Attentions spans are getting very… wait what was I doing?
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by samtho 3y ago
Both PEX-A and PEX-B require a separate tools (segment of the tool, or swappable tool head) to perform the pipe to fitting connection. In most cases, it’s easier to just upsize the pipe and have your final termination point be the size you
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by samtho 3y ago
An engineer is not a YouTube video which is essentially a (maybe) narrated highlight reel of a process. I don’t find it disingenuous to condense this down for general consumption because there just is not a ton of value from showing every m
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by samtho 3y ago
When I was working in construction (electrical) we would “predrill” our grounding rods about 75% the length using this method. These are normally 1/2-inch diameter, 8ft long rods that must be driven via rotary hammer but the bedrock be
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by samtho 3y ago
Weird Al’s “mission statement” was released in 2014 and was itself a parody of the KPMG anthem (which was done in earnest) that was leaked less than a year prior to Enron failing. There would likely have not been any collective cultural sen
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by samtho 3y ago
I’ve seen them in a form factor that resembles a short, shallow window air conditioner that you just close your window on top of and optionally lock into place with screws.
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by samtho 3y ago
If I bought a nail gun, a saw, a pile of wood, and proceeded to build a house, did DeWalt actually build that structure? Any reasonable person would say no. You seem to have the same thought process that people had about computer animation.
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by samtho 3y ago
I think there is space in the IoT market for a micro-watt platform that harvests energy from the environment. Always on connectivity is silly if it sits idle most of the time (think monitoring systems that take a temperature and moisture re
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by samtho 3y ago
> From my point of view, ChatGPT is simply an anti-spam algorithm which is finally restoring "web search" back to being useful. For now, I imagine that advertisers are currently trying to find some way to adapt their platforms
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by samtho 3y ago
This is not new, if you have a car with any fossil fuel motor, you likely already have a similar device: your alternator. By applying a voltage between 2 and 13 to the exciter coil, you can adjust how much is drawn from the primary winding.
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by samtho 3y ago
Semiconductor manufacturing requires a lot of capital expense just to open the doors, it also requires a staff of all levels to keep the machinery working and multiple suppliers for raw materials that require multi-thousand dollar minimum o
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by samtho 3y ago
This technique has been used since Wordpress days and earlier. At it’s core, it’s a “meta” table with a string identifier and some value. It’s a pattern I still use today in my own web apps.
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by samtho 3y ago
There is a reason why I said Ex friend. Turns out, people who pull crap like this are not the best to close to. I just didn’t realize the extent of what he did until just before (and being the primary cause for) me cutting off contact with
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by samtho 3y ago
I am probably in the minority here, but I think GMOs are an amazing advancement. We’ve been “genetically modifying” crops for years with selective breeding, we have now just been able to speed up the process. Genetic engineering has enabled
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by samtho 3y ago
I have made this mistake more the once as I actually like working with people and helping them level up. Something I do now is make sure that if I am being hired as a developer of some sort, the metrics of success outlined clearly in my off
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by samtho 3y ago
The problem is that it costs almost nothing ($150-180 over 10 years) to keep it registered vs the anticipated payday from selling it (over $9000!). A former friend has been doing a ”trick” for a few years with godaddy domain auctions. He fi
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by samtho 3y ago
When Lime, bird and (I think) spin came to my city, they were used heavily for a summer or two, but just as soon as it started, people realized they can buy a scooter for $400, weighs half as much, goes faster, and is effectively free (minu
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by samtho 3y ago
Most journalism tip-toes around this line by declining to assert direct cause. They use terms like “after” instead of “because” as it specifically does not imply a link, only the order in which two events (possibly related) occurred. Others
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by samtho 3y ago
If you have coax, you already have a sufficiently shielded connection so you wont need a twisted pair. You can just modulate an RF signal down the line - I think there is even a standard for it that is not DOCSIS for sending small data pack
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by samtho 3y ago
The results seem kind of obvious. The OR operator has the lowest precedence in SQL, requires a full statement after as well as continually widens the “view” that the query will ultimately see as a result of the union between all matching re
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by samtho 3y ago
I was able to select waterway and canals and, in California, I was able to see prominent ones like the California aqueduct that runs from Tracy to LA and smaller ones like the south Folsom canal that runs from Lake Natoma to the former nucl

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