theodric

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by theodric 8mo ago
750iL, but I do appreciate the E31
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by theodric 8mo ago
I love a straight-6 so much that I drive a car that uses two of them joined at the crankshaft! Each I6 has its own ECU and is entirely unaware of the other. Crude, but very smooth nonetheless.
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by theodric 8mo ago
Longer stroke provides a greater lever arm on the crankshaft, allowing the same combustion force to generate more torque during the power stroke. What's your counter-argument?
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by theodric 8mo ago
1. Nobody cares enough to do all this except some nerds on HN. 2. Spurious radio transmissions from your spark gap set will be tracked down in an afternoon by government foxhunters, and then you'll be in jail for breaking the law. I do
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by theodric 8mo ago
I have no idea what this has to do with the EU implementing age verification because politicians want it, and the powerlessness of EU citizens to arrest or impede the government's machinations. Feels Gish Gallopy. What I can say that&#
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by theodric 8mo ago
The power imbalance is not in favor of the individual citizen. Fairly simple to enact a law saying "unlicenced importation of electronic devices is an offence", only license major retailers, and have Customs seize anything that do
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by theodric 8mo ago
I will continue advocating for the devil, then! These are the top bogeymen we need to thwart in order to protect... -children and women, harmed through unregulated and unobserved communications enabling human trafficking and the spread of C
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by theodric 8mo ago
May I infer from your response that your quarrel is not with a central authority having the final word in what code you're allowed to execute on your own device, but rather that it should be the government and not a corporation signing
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by theodric 8mo ago
Consider the car analogy: if you want to drive on public roads, you need to drive an attested, unmodified vehicle that complies with the relevant regulations. If you want to play around and modify the car, that's fine, but then you don
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by theodric 8mo ago
Plenty of democracies in Europe and elsewhere regularly and repeatedly fail to actually represent the desires and interests of the citizenry, but they keep getting reelected anyway. Why should this time be any different?
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by theodric 8mo ago
> how would I use this on Linux Governments and businesses have already decided that it's fine to mandate that you own an unmodified smartphone made by one of the major manufacturers, so it's not much of a stretch to assume tha
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by theodric 8mo ago
I'm happy to see the IEEE talking about this, and to see the topic getting attention in the technical press. The problem is, I think (for the most part) that technical people already Get It. Who we need to convince are average, non-tec
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by theodric 8mo ago
I appreciate what you're trying to say, but here's a counter-example: .22lr ammunition is also extremely inexpensive per unit, but I can't buy that at all in Ireland without extensive, recurring background checks and a demo
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by theodric 8mo ago
An impressively softwarey alternative to simply pulling out the wifi module and replacing it with an AliExpress Apple wifi module adapter board and a compact M.2 WiFi module with a supported chipset :)
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by theodric 8mo ago
You overestimate the amount of a crap I give about cleaning up accounts I don't use! It also helps prevent someone from credibly impersonating me, which is something that has happened to a few people I know.
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by theodric 8mo ago
> Visionect started charging a $7/mo per-device fee to run their backend software on premises with Docker, after years of it being free to use. I'd have had these up on Marketplace the same day if I couldn't figure out a w
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by theodric 8mo ago
I'm happy they've been able to build a $1,660,000,000,000 company on the back of me logging in once every two months, scrolling 3 posts, getting disgusted with slop, and closing the tab. Gives me hope that my harebrained ventures
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by theodric 8mo ago
HN is a Serious Place. We're here to make money. Please leave your jokes at home.
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by theodric 8mo ago
Here, return to sane behavior: https://blazingtools.com/right_zoom_mac.html
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by theodric 8mo ago
Wow. What an infuriating case, again and again. Only 2 years in prison for the perps because the court decided that "excited delirium" killed the guy and not being beaten and tased 4 times.
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by theodric 8mo ago
I also played a lot of GTA I and remember wishing it could be an FPV game like Carmageddon was. I eventually got my wish!
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by theodric 8mo ago
I have a 600MHz RM7k O2, and my 700MHz R16k Fuel blows it out of the water. The O2 isn't that quiet or that quick even with upgrades! What SSD are you running? I'm still on 10k SCSI drives selected for the quietness of their bea
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by theodric 9mo ago
> ancient skills https://youtu.be/ZtYU87QNjPw?&t=10 It baffles me that my career trajectory somehow managed to insulate me from ever having to deal with the cloud, while such esoteric skills as swapping a hot swap
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by theodric 9mo ago
Stock goes against the shoulder. Brace goes against the elbowpit. If you let the brace touch your shoulder, your braced pistol suddenly becomes an unregistered SBR, and you become a felon. Oopsie! US gun laws are bizarre.
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by theodric 9mo ago
My first printer was a delta in 2015. I spent more time calibrating it than I did printing, and it was never very good. I then got an Anet A8 in 2017, but it was too flimsy. Cheap, tho! Around 2021 I spent quite a lot upgrading and dialing
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by theodric 9mo ago
Speaking as someone with an academic background in Germanic historical linguistics: this is thoroughly incorrect.
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by theodric 9mo ago
It's a tidy build, and I guess it's a fun kid's toy. Wood is a baffling choice of material for a (lawn) tractor chassis by someone who clearly owns a welder. Don't start lecturing me about Morgans and ash-- that's a
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by theodric 9mo ago
I would reckon the simplicity of the objects and the single material helped. If you specify 304 and you get 304, they can really only cheap out on tooling, and that'll cause them pain rather than you. HN loves downvoting. It's Ner
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by theodric 9mo ago
I have observed the same across a bunch of linguistically Germanic countries (DE, AT, CH, NL, DK, NO, haven't been to SE, didn't observe it in IS), and I thought of it as "cultural autism." Apparently "higher contex
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by theodric 9mo ago
Don't forget to opt out of SpaceX's product Starlink using your data to train AI: https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-wants-your-data-for-ai-m...

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