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by xenadu02 9mo ago
FYI: none of the "penetrating oils" actually work. They don't wick into threads on stuck fasteners. Heat is the only thing that really works. Causes expansion of the metal followed by shrinking which mechanically disrupts the
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by xenadu02 9mo ago
I assume the problem, such as it is, relates to the fact that a real human typing in 20-50ms would generate a few characters at most but a program could generate gobs of data. So automatically you know what packets to watch. Then you know i
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by xenadu02 9mo ago
No because the predators would not survive doing so from their distant original lands. New Zealand is far enough away for this not to be a problem - otherwise it would have happened in the historical past. At least until continental drift b
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by xenadu02 10mo ago
I'm just going to say: I bet it will eventually come out that RAM prices are yet another instance of illegal cartel collusion. For which all the RAM manufacturers have been convicted. More than once! If past incidents are any indicat
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by xenadu02 11mo ago
If you happen to know... what was the reasoning behind the oddball stack architecture? It feels like Intel must have had this already designed for some other purpose so they tossed it in. I can't imagine why anyone would think this arc
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by xenadu02 1y ago
This is best practice for anyone who uses three phase power. A machine shop should connect 1/3 of their lights to each phase so it is immediately obvious if a phase gets dropped. Lots of equipment will suffer on two of three phases but
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Most existing JSON parsers don't support streaming but that's not inherent in the format. It is definitely possible to stream writes easily but it's just as possible to stream parsing.
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by xenadu02 1y ago
> There's a history with the West where they have been manipulated and taken advantage of in a way that the US never has. That's definitely possible but I think the cause is much simpler: initially they wanted to bootstrap thei
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by xenadu02 1y ago
That's very true. Crunchyroll is just sad because it used to be good and feel like someone involved cared . Funimation lowered the bar so much I thought it couldn't go lower. Who knew HiDive would prove me wrong.
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by xenadu02 1y ago
> you are being generous. Tesla's software "mistakes" have killed several people. Citation needed. In the early days of autopilot/FSD most of the fatalities were people doing stupid things like watching a movie or sle
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by xenadu02 1y ago
I think the issue is more complex than that but certainly vested interests / national interest is definitely one aspect of things. The west and the US specifically has operated on an open market policy partly as a result of two world w
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by xenadu02 1y ago
They did the same thing to their developers a few years back from what I recall. That's why the app has bugs that haven't been fixed in years . For example the sorting options on your watch list are just garbage. They aren't
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Modern end-of-life satellite designs are made to cause "rapid disassembly" very high up in the atmosphere to trigger high friction on as many individual components as possible - down to fasteners. This promotes completely re-entry
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by xenadu02 1y ago
If you've never used the BMC on a server... it is all 100% garbage. Software mostly written by embedded folks who haven't got a clue. It is absolutely garbage software on the whole (and no matter what vendor you get the board from
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by xenadu02 1y ago
They're just being cheap. If you're going to let customers plug panels directly into your box you should have overvoltage protection. It's that simple.
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Fun fact: as a regular citizen you can apply for such a permit online. I did this when we were moving houses to ensure the entire block in front of our house would be clear of cars (or we could tow if required) to make it possible to get a
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by xenadu02 1y ago
FWIW the sweeper comes by my street on the posted schedule. Most days one or two parking cops come ahead of the sweeper writing tickets. I have never seen them come behind the sweeper though I have seen the sweeper wait for them. I believe
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Even if there was some technical immigration violation here its not like any of the people involved were some sort of flight risk or criminal masterminds. They could have simply notified the company and the people about a potential problem
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by xenadu02 1y ago
It is worth reading the history of the proposal. The final form is superior to the others so someone was doing a lot of editing! Take the final and second form where the use of multiple letters was eliminated, instead using "v" to
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by xenadu02 1y ago
It's the best kind of revolution: one that doesn't need permission from gatekeepers. At least not anymore. Don't underestimate the value of decentralization in some scenarios.
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by xenadu02 1y ago
So FSKit is public API and supports userspace filesystems but on macOS most built-in filesystems are kernel modules. On iOS everything except APFS is userspace. Modern Darwin is mostly a monolithic kernel, though more and more things are mo
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by xenadu02 1y ago
I deleted TikTok and my Twitter account. Also stopped watching TV. I'm happier and more productive.
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by xenadu02 1y ago
> Take away the mitochondria [...] can cells live on their own? Neither can live without the other. Too much genetic exchange has taken place in some distant ancestor where critical genes were deleted from mitochondria and moved to the h
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by xenadu02 1y ago
> It's smaller, so it should cost less That is... not how the physical world works. The laws of physics hate the large and the small. Or perhaps less glibly parameters do not scale equally. Making a phone is more difficult and expen
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by xenadu02 1y ago
The number of people who aren't vocal tech people who actually want a smaller phone is a very small part of the market. In HN-like circles they're a notable minority but among the general population they are a smaller percentage.
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Gaming of the procurement system. The websites are all written by big consulting outfits. Not to mention the disaster that is big corporate IT projects combined with government rules. Obama had the Digital Service (that Trump shut down) whi
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Since I can't edit: I mean "Class B" airspace, which is mostly used in the USA. The ICAO definitions specify what the airspace classifications mean generally but each country often has its own slight variations of the rules.
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by xenadu02 1y ago
I don't think we fully understand all the aspects of intelligence. What the potential feature set is. How to categorize or break it down into parts. We have some data and some categories but we are so far away from a full description t
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by xenadu02 1y ago
There are plenty of areas Kodak could make a difference if they cared to. Fuji's instant Polaroid-like camera is a novelty and we still use it. Getting an immediate physical print is entertaining for people of all ages these days. The
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Every AI-related invention is hyped as "intelligence" but turns out to be "Necessary but Not Sufficient" for true intelligence. Neural networks are necessary but not sufficient. LLMs are necessary but not sufficient. I h

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