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by satiric 4y ago
Well, percent state of charge (how full the battery pack is) is not so hard to calculate, you just have a look up table for battery voltage vs %SOC. Although you may need to calibrate for the voltage drop caused by the internal resistance o
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by satiric 4y ago
Classic Rick Beato - shitting all over modern music for no reason. I understand that he doesn't like it - fine. I don't listen to much rap, but I can still understand it and appreciate it for what it is. Rick is smart about the mu
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by satiric 4y ago
USB-C also has the lint problem, at least for me.
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by satiric 4y ago
Well, the USS Hornet is stationed right there in Alameda, and it's not being used for anything else... :)
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by satiric 4y ago
I used NetBSD for my senior project (I graduated from college last year). We were trying to port the XFS file system to it. We didn't come close to a usable product but I gained a good amount of appreciation for operating system work a
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by satiric 4y ago
These days, pickups seem to be more often seen as utilitarian symbols than utilitarian vehicles. The idea that you could haul a lot of stuff matters more than having a job or hobby where you need to haul a lot of stuff. I see the cybertruck
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by satiric 4y ago
The disfigured nature of the registry is a real shame, I actually like the idea of centralizing all configuration in Windows. I wonder if there was a better solution in Cairo. To be honest (and I'm aware that I might be tarred and feat
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by satiric 4y ago
Seems like a lot of people are converting classic cars to electric nowadays, and as the article says, using the entire Tesla rear end is common. One annoyance with this (other than issues with mounting points and the distance between the re
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by satiric 4y ago
I might be misreading this but is this article advocating for moving the character in the Unicode codespace? If there's room in Unicode, then sure. If there's not, it seems to me that rearranging Unicode for societal changes like
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by satiric 4y ago
The algorithm might not take it into account but it's useful for viewers to see how downvoted a video is. If I see that it's 50% downvoted then I know the contents to be controversial.
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by satiric 4y ago
This is well written, but unfortunately only feels like half an article. I would love to see the author explore a few potential solutions to the problem they talk about (Gopher or Gemini, perhaps?). They also say that this article is the fi
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by satiric 4y ago
To be fair I understand where the college board is coming from. Any effort to be able to add custom software is also a way to add software not approved by the college board, which is obviously an easy way to cheat on tests. And a light that
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by satiric 4y ago
That gibberish about primary sources is one of the fundamental ways in which Wikipedia stays at least partially accurate. Wikipedia is not a blog, it's just meant to be a gathering of information from other sources. So adding facts whi
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by satiric 4y ago
What's the use case for this? Just to look neat, or is there some kind of practical reason why this would be better than stamped aluminum?
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by satiric 4y ago
To your first point, yes this is a downside of Windows. And if I was in IT I'm sure there are many things about Windows that make it a pain for deeply debugging these problems. But the dark days of Vista are long over - my PC rarely cr
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by satiric 4y ago
With Windows, even if I don't know the exact steps to do something, I can figure it out because some smart people have done a lot of UI design work to make that so. Off the top of my head, I can't tell you the exact steps on how t
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by satiric 4y ago
Linux's fundamental, unsolvable problem is that it's not an operating system. Instead, it's a kernel, with a bunch of other systems stapled to it. This creates headaches both for new members ("Which distro should I use?&
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by satiric 4y ago
Yeah, seems like all the new WSL stuff is Windows 11 only; I guess Microsoft views it as an incentive to switch.
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by satiric 4y ago
One common way to provide input overvoltage protection is through a pair of schottky diodes. This article is a good resource https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/protecting-inputs-in-dig...
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by satiric 4y ago
As usual, there's a middle ground. As we rely more and more on electrical devices, and fewer and fewer of them use disposable batteries, we load the grid beyond what it was originally designed to do. There are a lot of people who simpl
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by satiric 4y ago
When slack had threads and discord didn't it was vastly superior, because without threads everything is a jumbled mess. I still find slack's threads implementation to be better.
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by satiric 4y ago
Fire 115,000 hard working Americans just because they've unionized? This is surely the most idiotic opinion I've ever seen on Hacker News (although I've only been here a year or two). I know HN can trend conservative but come
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by satiric 4y ago
I'd say so - same as HTML or CSS. It may not be Turing complete but it's a language used for programming computers.
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by satiric 4y ago
My point is that ultimately it was more important for them to make a calculator that students could actually use - which is a perfectly reasonable goal. And it's a shame that that's fundamentally incompatible with FOSS.
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by satiric 4y ago
I think the creators do legitimately want to build a truly open source calculator. The problem is getting the calculator registered for exams - the examiners naturally want to make sure that the calculator isn't being used for cheating
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by satiric 4y ago
At the risk of being hung, drawn, and quartered on hackernews, I actually agree. This seems like such a fringe idea among the "hacker" culture but I find Windows to be significantly more tolerable than the not-so-organized chaos t
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by satiric 4y ago
We'll I do and I'm gen z, although I've inherited that from my mom. If not for her I don't think I would care about bookstores at all. Not a lot of the people I know read books these days, it's been replaced by TV,
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by satiric 4y ago
20 years later and we still haven't found a way to solve the most important problem - why there are so many options for everything. IMO this is the biggest thing holding Linux back. As Rob Pike says, Microsoft succeeds because there&#x
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by satiric 5y ago
I tried this game out but had to return it - they keyboard and mouse controls are just too weird for me, and I don't have VR. It's a shame because I know this is the kind of game I could spend days in, and if I ever get VR it&#x27
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by satiric 5y ago
This isn't a bad solution, and something like this is sorely needed. I completely agree with the idea that the limitations of technology from 40 years ago shouldn't be holding us back nowadays. It's no coincidence that all th

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