wolrah

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by wolrah 4y ago
> Yes, exactly, that is terrible latency if you want to use it as an input device. Eh, yes and no. It's a lot worse than it could be, that's for sure, but there are a lot of major name game controllers that were sold for years
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by wolrah 4y ago
> There is a huge difference between a 90s Ford style lever position sensor and the BMW stuff. If the computer doesn't do the right gear for what you want you just move it until it does. The BMW will spit error messages at you. You
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by wolrah 4y ago
> That might be true of pickup trucks, but commercial trucks are virtually all manual. I don't have much experience with the big trucks, but my understanding is that most fleets are leaning towards automatic these days because it&#x
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by wolrah 4y ago
> I think the first part of this blog series had the gear selector sending it's state every 30ms - so you are looking at some averaged ~15ms of latency just from this thing. For reference purposes at the standard gaming benchmark of
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Makes me want to go out and hug my truck, whose gear selector consists of metal sticks and pins. If it's a manual transmission or an ancient automatic, sure, but manual transmission trucks basically haven't existed for a deca
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by wolrah 4y ago
> just because there are loads of networks that does not mean there is loads of traffic. Networks simply existing causes traffic, the beacon frames that advertise SSIDs are always transmitted at the lowest speed supported by the network,
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by wolrah 4y ago
> What is the use case? I live in an apartment. Not even a super dense tower or anything, just a townhome style complex where everyone has their own garage and front door. From where I sit right now my phone can see nine networks on 2.
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by wolrah 4y ago
> And, just because it is "dead" commercially does not mean there are not drivers in your OS watching for any traffic claiming to be ethernet, and eager to respond to it. It's not dead in that it never caught on, it's
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by wolrah 4y ago
The question there would be, it has that advantage but at what cost? I'm not incredibly familiar with sixels, but my basic understanding is that they're in a format that was convenient for use with dot matrix printers and were lat
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Do you take the same approach to cars? Or do you reserve such aggressive tactics only for vulnerable road users? Look in the manual for your car (or pick a random one on the internet and download it). If the headlight stalk has a mome
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Sneaker waves are a big issue if you're doing things like fishing from a Breakwater like tide pooling and don't know how to swim. > I think consideration of the environment you're putting yourself into is vastly more
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by wolrah 4y ago
To me that was always the best part of homebrewing. The empty bottles were expensive enough that it was usually worthwhile to just find a brewery I liked that used nice thick bottles that can handle a few reuses and empty them myself.
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by wolrah 4y ago
I think the point is this is a server for nVidia Gamestream, which is designed to be a local streaming solution between your PC and a nVidia Shield device connected to your TV. Your ISP has nothing to do with the intended use of this softw
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Early Android had it - wouldn't be surprised if it still exists now but has been hidden from the UI. It's buried in the settings for the Phone app (the dialer) and AFAIK is often removed from OEM ROMs because of course it is.
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by wolrah 4y ago
My thoughts as well, when I think "forum" I think hierarchical subforums full of threads listed in last-posted order. I do not like the modern tagged jumble of threads style like Discourse and this, and I hate the fact that so ma
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Dropper posts I consider to be a gimmick. I can't possibly see how you make this case. I just got a new bike and the dropper was definitely the part I was the least sure I'd care for, but the benefit was immediately obvious
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Is there an adapter which allows you to connect an analog phone to a digital phone line? A VoIP analog telephone adapter (ATA) would be the most common form of this these days. Most will have two analog lines, though other configurati
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by wolrah 4y ago
Basically everything Viking makes has an old school telecom aesthetic.
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Looking at it, I think I'm gonna use one of the numerous pi 3 b+'s I have sitting around as an AP and keep the OpenBSD box as a router. If you have the hardware around then yeah, that should at least give you a basic level of
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by wolrah 4y ago
I'm not saying it can't work, in fact up to 802.11n apparently works perfectly fine with the right hardware, but it's 2022 and 802.11ac is now "the past" with 802.11ax/WiFi6 as the current standard. As far as
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by wolrah 4y ago
It would also be worth noting that a typical EV doesn't have to run at anything close to 100% load for extended periods of time. What sort of power an electric drivetrain can handle for a burst of acceleration lasting a few seconds ver
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by wolrah 4y ago
> I've got an optiplex box running OpenBSD thats gonna get a PCI wireless card thrown in it when I get around to it. Have you actually looked in to this path? 802.11ac support is basically brand new in OpenBSD and the drivers that
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by wolrah 4y ago
> And that was transmitting at or near the speed of light. Somehow, I doubt bouncing on a roundtrip to a satellite is worth it. That's the thing, the speed of light in fiber is actually significantly slower than the speed of light t
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by wolrah 4y ago
> No one expects the police to pull over every driver that is going 36 in a 35 Why not? If it's ever OK to pull someone over for 1 MPH over the limit without any other violations, then why isn't it always? Where do you draw t
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by wolrah 4y ago
> The gasoline engine only serves as a generator, it is not mechanically connected to the wheels. The Volt can operate in a series hybrid mode, but there is also a mechanical connection that is engaged at certain speeds where it's m
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by wolrah 5y ago
> Because being able to differentiate uniquely different offerings by different designations is only of value to marketers? What are you talking about? The whole point we're discussing here is that thanks to marketers we have the o
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by wolrah 5y ago
Most internet systems can also assume there will be at least one dot following the @ symbol and at least two characters after that. Something intended for us on internal domains of course can't many assumptions.
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by wolrah 5y ago
> no dog in the fight here but I felt impelled to point out that ensuring auto updates are on solves almost all security holes except for the security hole it opens up. In almost any computing context, but especially in the context of a
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by wolrah 5y ago
> I think the USB naming is the result of not using marketers. No, it's specifically to give marketers what they want, which is the ability to advertise support for the latest version of the spec without actually having to improve t
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by wolrah 5y ago
> It may not be very hard to maintain, but you still have to maintain it. When the maintenance is "ensure auto updates are on, and don't do anything that would not get updated automatically" it's not like it requires

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