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by zbrozek 4y ago
I once bricked a motherboard with a bad flash, probably around 2012. I ended up desoldering the SPI flash and reprogramming it from another computer. Worked. In hindsight, it was quicker to do that than to go through the "front door&qu
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Artisanal production - nope nope nope nope nope Give me a lights-out factory without a single human being churning out a gazillion units per day with 100% test coverage please. Anything else will have all kinds of quality control and reliab
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I lived in a townhouse complex in Sunnyvale which had either 1 or 2 spots per ~1500 sqft unit, and it was totally fine. Most homes were occupied by couples, most whose kids had long since moved out and a few who had small children. I lived
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Getting a condo map is hard, so I didn't bother trying. That forces these into being rentals.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Not really, tbh. There's a mix of unit types and the depth of the shortage is so extreme that I'm not worried at all about finding takers for pretty much anything.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Nope!
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Oh hey, I didn't expect my submission would make the front page of HN.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I just followed what Google Maps showed me to do given where I was trying to go; I'm not an SF local so I don't really know any better than to take what looks like the direct route. I was on a skateboard, going at fast-walk pace,
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I traveled about a mile down Mission street today for the first time since 2010. It's deteriorated a lot. Way more human waste, way more people clearly in a bad mental state, more tents, etc. Private guards outside lots of doors too. I
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Odds of being tracked down that way are near-nil given that your oscillator could for anything . Also you can build a crummy AM receiver without one: https://www.buildcircuit.com/how-to-make-a-batteryless-cryst...
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by zbrozek 4y ago
If you don't own stock in a company, you don't vote in its governance decisions. If you don't own a car, you don't determine when to wash it. If you don't own a property, you totally still get to determine what to d
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Don't buy new (and best do it during the early pandemic crash) and don't pay for electricity. Running costs are primarily insurance, registration, and tires. Have a long commute so you strongly amortize those first two.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I drive a cheap EV which I charge for free. A marginal mile costs me about 18 cents. On top of that I'm usually traveling to SF to visit friends with my wife. Hard to justify taking the train.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I've found that with Google I have to use verbatim mode to get it to do anything vaguely sensible. Synonymization is the worst thing to ever happen to search, and it keeps getting more and more aggressive.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I would absolutely take Caltrain more often than ~never if it were cost competitive with driving. But it isn't, so I actually take it low single digit times per year under special circumstances.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I had an account from 2005 with a bunch of email with my high-school friends. I then made another account using my real name, which became my primary. A year or two ago I wanted to reach out to one of those old friends, and knowing that I h
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by zbrozek 4y ago
They might also simply be exerting too much oversight. The other way to reduce these pressures is to reduce workloads by simply caring less. I'm doing a remodel and I got three pages of comments that were 90% about minor annotation iss
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by zbrozek 4y ago
So the stack is CPU, heat spreader, array of these products? It'd be nice if the datasheet showed performance curves across temperature and pressure as well.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
The datasheet[0] shows the device moving 8.5 watts at 85 Celsius. That doesn't sound like it's going to make laptop throttling a thing of the past. Maybe I'm not understanding something. [0] https://uploads-ssl.web
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by zbrozek 4y ago
21 year old Saturn LW200 with cloth seats here. Seats are still great. I also own cars with leather and vinyl seats. I prefer the cloth.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I personally use vaultwarden myself as well, and am also quite pleased with it.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I'd really like to use my car (Bolt) as a battery for the house, but this isn't actually achievable in the US right now. We're not going to be doing this in 2030 if the equipment doesn't support it.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Wow, that's mindblowing. I haven't considered using pots for anything in almost 15 years. Sliding contacts? No thank you. Just today I diagnosed my truck's failed climate control to be due to a failed potentiometer in the tem
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Wait, pots are still used in game controllers? I would've thought they'd all have given way to 3D Hall sensors by now.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I've had a handful of subscription services that I've canceled when they raise their prices. I stopped subscribing to Strava and Netflix quite a long while ago. I dropped Prime last year. Currently I subscribe to water, gas, elect
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I'm generally most interested in performance at peak, and consumption at idle, since my usage typically bounces between those two extremes and spends little time in-between.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Brushed motors in particular are largely indistinguishable from an arc fault. Lots of home motors (in vacuum cleaners, fans, blenders, food processors, garbage disposals, blah blah blah) use them.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Electrical code has completely unreasonable and unrealistic demand factors associated with appliances. Basically "1" for just about everything, as well as 3 watts per square foot of floor area. If you sum all of these things up, I
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Yeah, but that isn't how my body works. The tiniest bit of light wakes me up, including headlights of cars outside sneaking past a crevice in the blackout curtains. I'm building my house for me, not for anyone else.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Is that high? It sounds pretty similar to California.

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