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by ssl-3 5mo ago
> Hmmm, it's been a long long time since I actually had a failed drive (and also I don't use zfs), but from what I remember of my last failing drive 20 years ago, the drive was able to detect that sectors had been corrupted, an
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
No worries, comrade. I've gone ahead and moved this week's meeting, which happens to be tonight, to your place. We'll be there soon.
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
You guys haven't been going to the meetings?
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Or: Maybe it's OK that there's Raspberry Pis living in drawers, disused. Maybe this keeps volume up, which fills the coffers that are needed to fund sustained development. Perhaps they'd cost even more if the ones sitting i
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
> To cut a disk you need to pack the grooves as close as possible. Strictly speaking, the grooves only need to be cut as close as necessary in order for music to fit, while remaining far-enough apart that they don't interact too mu
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Oh, these days I still suck at code. And with the bot, I can hammer out a project for ESP32 or a Pi Pico in no time. (I didn't even put together the dev environment for that. I had the bot do it.) And because I still suck at code:
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
The advantage is familiarity, I think. Like: I suck at code. But I've known how to walk around in *nix systems and use things like bash to chain together commands like awk, grep, and sed for ~30 years. Maybe I'd even toss in so
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
On one hand: A thing that requires an app for setup does not necessarily require a login to some new party's outside service; it often gets shaped that way, but it does not need to be that way. On the other hand: A thing that require
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Sorta. It's both different and harder to track than that. Kodak is in bad shape. They were exquisitely focused on cradle-to-grave film products: Ideally, a person used Kodak cameras that were loaded with Kodak film that was processe
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
> You made the claim that companies require apps because it has lower friction for ordinary users. I did not. > That claim is in error. My motivation to further discuss a hallucination is insignificant.
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
It depends on whether you or not you like the cut of their jib.
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
> Your claim people prefer apps to QR codes I claimed what?
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Yep. For a router. I didn't say that I thought it was right, or fair, or just. I didn't say I liked it, or that I agree with it. In fact, I think it's a pretty ugly state of affairs when a person in an area of poor connec
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
You're obviously one of those computer people.
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Regular consumers increasingly use apps to do stuff instead of web browsers. They seem to prefer it this way. And at least for connected devices at home, a dedicated app can have lower friction for initial setup for the "I'm not
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
There is no singular Motorola. The company has been spinning off different parts of itself for quite a long time. In 2011/2012, it was divided into different parts. The biggest were Motorola Solutions (mostly focused 2-way radios and
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
I cannot stress highly enough the importance of maintaining reliable backups.
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
This is all true. What is also true: If the induction blower/draft inducer/fan-thing/widget is not creating enough pressure differential to trigger the switch that exists just to monitor this condition, then the gas valve wi
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Has there ever been a modern time when this wasn't the case? I mean: I can only go back so far, but I remember the 1980s well-enough. At that time, most of the new information that came into my brain from outside was sourced from pub
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Agreed. It's important to remain pure. I usually just use the Book of Mormon and that typically helps me get it done well-enough. But when that doesn't work, I allow myself some different material. The New Haven Code of 1656 is
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
I learned to troubleshoot furnaces late one cold night in 2004 using Google, while a worried wife and a couple of sleeping kids loomed over me like a dark cloud. I learned what thermocouples are, what they do, how they work, and how to tes
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Assuming my constants (35g/kg of salt in seawater, 650k tons of salt dumped by the state of ohio every year, 81 gallons per day of individual domestic water usage) are correct and my napkin math isn't completely buggered, and if w
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
That's pretty great. (Though that's also the kind of hands-on troubleshooting step/fix that a person could just google for and find pretty easily back before the internet got all fucked up.)
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
That certainly explains it; this particular acronym is even called out distinctly in the style guide. But "Nasa" still looks weirder to me than "NASA" does. Like writing "The Scsi bus went Awol" instead of &quo
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
My experience in the US is that when the power drops, the cell networks immediately become mostly useless. I've theorize that they become overburdened by the pocket supercomputers that automatically start using it instead of local wifi
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Thanks for the description. I never ran across one of those and had no idea what the context was. I'll put this in the bucket with all the other weird human-facing hardware that didn't work out in the market, like the Spotify Car
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
I worked with a guy once that liked to do stuff like untie peoples' shoes -- while they were standing on a ladder, working with their head inside of a ceiling. One time, he even managed to re-tie the laces of my boot to a rung on that
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Yes, but I mean: WS2812 and its other addressable friends aren't the whole story in LED lighting, and neither is RGB. Maybe my project involves developing automatically-adjustable color temperature indirect lighting for a semi-permane
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
There's lots of ways to drive LEDs. WS2812 with any ESP32 board is one way, and that's a perfectly fine way; individual addressable LEDs sure are neat as hell. Amazing stuff can be done with them. And as you already know, a Chin
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Here's a teardown of a recent BYD rear drive unit, performed by Paul Turnbull -- lead engineer at Munro and Associates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LfDuyqmsts In very broad strokes: It's just a BLDC motor,

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