stephen_g

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by stephen_g 7mo ago
Title is inaccurate, it's really designed to be about the size of a USB-C receptacle , the plug is the other side (in this case the part of the cable that plugs in to this board)
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
We are vulnerable in Australia though because we have to move food large distances from farms to cities and are unusually road-dependent for those kind of distances (most countries use much more freight rail). Large diesel price rises are g
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
Isn’t that cross-linked polyethylene (PEX), not PP?
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
If you're not selling them then there isn't really any certification requirements until you start to get into the mains voltages. This all seems to be 12/24V DC stuff on the battery side and 60V DC on the solar side which com
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
The cheap stuff usually have the certification labels printed on them, but a cursory look inside usually shows breaches if you know what to look for (like we have had stuff from China where the ground wire wasn't connected to anything,
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
In the same way, I have absolutely zero idea of what 90, 70 or 50 degrees Fahrenheit feels like - literally no intuition, those numbers seem foreign and disconnected from my experience, having always known and used Celsius. Celsius temperat
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
Nah it’s massive overkill - much bigger and bulkier than it needs to be for mostly historical reasons. I’d take it over the US’s plug and socket but that's not saying much - there are plenty of better ones than either!
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
Yeah I'm not saying they are unheard of - for example I've done a lot of stuff in AV and almost every single extension cord you use in that world will be a piggy-back right angle (always moulded though because they have to be test
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
I feel like that's definitely a choice for Facebook at least - there's no technical reason the app couldn't remember at least the post you were looking at. I think they literally don't care if you were halfway through re
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
I think it's overrated, plenty of equipment has some kind of protection internally anyway. My country has never had a fuse in the plug and we generally have a very safe electrical system (much stricter earthing rules than the US for ex
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
The Australian examples are very odd - the pictures of our general purpose outlets are normal (figures 1 and 3 when you click on Australia), but most of the rest is unusual and either fairly or very rare. For example the plug shown on the m
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
Yes the normal term I’ve always heard and used for what they’re talking about is “BOM cost”, i.e. the combined cost of every item on the BOM to make a single unit.
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
Yeah, main issue with Swift is that the c++ interop (which was absolutely bleeding-edge) still isn't to the point of being able to pull in parts of the Ladybird codebase. If I recall correctly, part of this was around classes they had
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
No they don’t - SerenityOS did, but when Ladybird split out they started using all sorts of third party libraries for image decoding, network, etc. Now a core part of the browser rendering engine is not something they’re going to outsource
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
Yes I noticed that too, and clicking on Austria takes you to Australia instead! (AU instead of AT which is Austria's country code) Then when you actually are in Australia, if you click back to 2001 or earlier it changes to 'Ashmor
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
Well yes, they are actual real risks - a badly thought out law can literally make it illegal for a device to allow an adult to, say, unlock a device's bootloader to install open source software (EDIT: this example was in my comment b
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
It’s horrible to work with - dangerous, embrittlement issues etc., and very energy intensive to compress into very heavy cryogenic storage containers…
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
There was some beef the site owner had with Cloudflare where if your were using Cloudflare DNS it wouldn’t serve anything to you? Is that still happening? Not sure why it would only be on archive.is and not the others but ‘is’ loads for me.
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
I expect that to go about as well as Facebook changing their name to Meta and putting all their eggs in the Metaverse/VR basket... But at least Meta's legacy businesses (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) were still valuable enough to
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
I'm not American (I'm Australian), but until Tesla divests from Elon Musk, chances are the next car I buy will be Chinese...
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
Yes, hard to see how LLM agents won't destroy all online spaces unless they all go behind closed doors with some kind of physical verification of human-ness (like needing a real-world meetup with another member or something before bein
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
Argentina has debt in foreign denominated bonds though - the US (and UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, NZ, etc.) don't, only issuing bonds in their own currency, which makes a massive difference. Not to say that Trump isn't wreaking
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by stephen_g 8mo ago
> A large portion, maybe even the majority, of travelers simply won't feel safe without it. Nonsense. Most of that is just because it’s been normalised - because it exists and the people manning it make such a song and dance about i
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by stephen_g 9mo ago
For context, at the moment they hope to have them operating some time in the 2030s. That’s a best case, just like the cost estimates (which operating practically and safely may be more than what people are forecasting) Not operating today l
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by stephen_g 9mo ago
The idea isn’t great, tunnels for cars or pods have really low throughput (low occupancy + safety margin headways, even at a high speed). And it hinged on them magically revolutionising an already highly mature field, which surprise, surpri
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by stephen_g 9mo ago
That’s a cop-out though. Company boards are legally required to act in the best interests of shareholders, and plenty of shareholders would agree that running a business in a sustainable way that can deliver profits over the long term is mo
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by stephen_g 9mo ago
A lot more people I've talked to about it say the theatre makes them feel uncomfortable and intimidated rather than making them feel safe. Airport security staff being so gruff and expecting people to know what to do (which casual trav
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by stephen_g 9mo ago
The thing about shoes is just dumb anyway - I don't know if there was some period of time where it was required elsewhere around the world but I never experienced it. Literally the only times I've ever had to take off my shoes wer
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by stephen_g 9mo ago
Yes, for example taxiways and aprons designed to take the weight of large aircraft like A380s can be ~470mm (almost half a metre) thick, and that's only half of the structure with the subgrade and sub-base together being about as thick
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by stephen_g 9mo ago
Pretty common to have to re-clear security at large airports if you've come from another country, I've had to do it every time when transiting through Dubai for instance.

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