tomxor

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by tomxor 5y ago
> How about we not make the default that companies can do whatever they want and users have to take steps like a hardware-muted mic You're implying government policy for how companies operate in this area... Which is worth pursuing,
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by tomxor 5y ago
You're right, I kinda knew it needed cooling, but I guess your point is even though the effect being exploited doesn't require a temperature gradient, in practice the heat dissipation requirements are the same if the TVP is to sur
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by tomxor 5y ago
The advantage does appear to be higher efficiency compared to themocouples, and the TVP should in theory require less cooling relative to the input due to the higher efficiency - However the disadvantage is that TVPs generally require a f
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by tomxor 5y ago
Yup, Voyager 1 and 2 are still running off RTGs right now since 1977. However the thermoelectric converter used in those RTGs exploit a different effect, and appear to have quite different properties as a result... What I can tell from a qu
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by tomxor 5y ago
> can generate electricity from a heat source of between 1,900 to 2,400 degrees Celsius [...] plan to incorporate the TPV cell into a grid-scale thermal battery. The system would absorb excess energy from renewable sources such as the su
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by tomxor 5y ago
broot completely changed the way I navigate directories on the CLI over the past year. I was an 'ls' purist before, I've tried various CLI file managers in the past and they all felt like they added too much friction, with th
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by tomxor 5y ago
I've noticed the IPs on their relatively newer servers using "xTom" as a provider are being incorrectly identified as Russian by some IP based geolocation services... it's a bit hit or miss. I'm guessing xTom acquir
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by tomxor 5y ago
Good point, although as long as they are not in contact with any surfaces it seems pretty safe... Until they figure out how to propel themselves, which would be gross.
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by tomxor 5y ago
Pretty sure this was a low effort excuse to play with cats in zero-g... and who could refuse :D
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by tomxor 5y ago
Thanks! The option was already enabled but not working, the w3m-img package fixed it... I was only expecting place holders and very surprised to see real images rendered, not sure how it's doing this since i'm using urxvt, which d
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by tomxor 5y ago
hah, I love it.
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by tomxor 5y ago
Just trying this out for the first time.. Posted from vim inside w3m. Just took an 'apt install w3m' and 'w3m news.ycombinator.com'. Many of the default key bindings are vim like, took me a while to realise i had to use
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by tomxor 5y ago
Strange, I'm trying out standalone w3m right now and also don't get nesting. Maybe the emacs version is different. I'm guessing HN must indent with CSS (which w3m pointed out it does not attempt to support) even though the co
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by tomxor 5y ago
If you want to use that metric then the Onyx would be: 4x 250MHz R4400s + 12x 40MHz Intel i860s = 1480 MHz when maxed out. But clock speed is a very poor metric for comparing older CPUs. The size of these CPUs were much smaller, the number
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by tomxor 5y ago
Mostly a variety of web based science education simulations. Usually boiling down to some kind of miniature specialist physics engine or procedural animation. Beyond that, it's more of a personal philosophy than a requirement (I could
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There is also a cumulative value in your knowledge and understanding when hacking on things for such specific personal niggles - which over time makes future efforts more likely to reap some combination of higher rewards, faster execution a
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by tomxor 5y ago
Your example really clicked with me, having written a substantial quantity of JS in a "memory managed" way to avoid GC, and avoiding memcpy by passing buffers in place of pointers. My initial instinct is that putting such consider
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by tomxor 5y ago
I use the visual-multi plugin [0] all day in vim/neovim. I don't like using tons of plugins but multi cursor with with selective invocation like the ctrl-d of sublime etc was the main thing I missed when moving to vim. (I use visu
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by tomxor 5y ago
The thing that really left a bad taste with EE was the amount of my time they wasted, I can't ever do business with them again knowing they value peoples time that little.
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by tomxor 5y ago
> Are you sure you’re on 5G? Or maybe you’re quite far from a tower with a weak signal? I'm not using 5G, I was commenting on LTE in general competing with fixed line, but i'm using a Gigabit Cat20 modem with 2 MIMO antennas so
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I don't see how 5G will make Three faster if the bottleneck is backhaul, but maybe my assumption was wrong - I had excellent reception and maxed out the carrier aggregation on Three so it seems weird that it would be the LTE part that&
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by tomxor 5y ago
I tried them first for quite a while, but they have a high contention ratio, that's why it's so cheap... although it may depend on where you are. I could pull 100Mbit in the middle of the night but it would go down to 3Mbit in the
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by tomxor 5y ago
> [...] in hopes of luring customers away from the cable cos and telcos or other wired providers. For some, like me it's not a mere lure but a liberation - out of sheer bad luck, the fixed line internet speed at the last 3 places I&
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by tomxor 5y ago
Not only is there a massive difference in the power of a microwave oven compared to wifi, but the mechanism through which it heats food is dielectric heating [0] which does not occur in radio signals because they are not rotating fields. Th
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by tomxor 5y ago
> What you’re supposed to do is verify the key fingerprint out-of-band by asking an administrator or consulting a database or something. But no one does that. Actually they do where I work, pretty much every time, and I didn't ask t
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> but I also like to know that the others in the game are not cheating. and that is impossible without an inaccessible black box, the Xbox Ignoring the fact that reverse engineering is just a matter or time and pressure, eventually peopl
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Your comparison suggests a quantitative difference, because seatbelts are effective through only one mechanism; whereas I've highlighted two qualitatively different mechanisms through which masks reduce probability of becoming infected
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There was a paper posted on HN ages ago now, studying the mechanism by which masks were effective against covid... they argued it was essentially due to maintaining a higher temperature and humidity in the nose and throat. It's well kn
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Yes! it did cross my mind, I was just more familiar with canvas API so I cracked on with it... but I suppose encoding a simple format like bitmap would be trivial, almost like being able to access the canvas pixel buffer but with a lower ov
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by tomxor 5y ago
Which is why we need more competitors in this space. When you are an underdog, making something "better" even for no direct monetisation path, is an obvious win because it all creates more noise and attracts people to your platfor

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