Hextinium

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by Hextinium 5mo ago
"Mild" hybrid electric vehicle which is just using a oversized starter to break and then drive any accessories instead of the motor.
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by Hextinium 6mo ago
This reminds me of the Technology Connections fridge rant video. Similar arguments all around, the dumping effect of cold out of a vertical fridge is pretty crazy to watch with a thermal camera. https://youtube.com/watch?v=C
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by Hextinium 8mo ago
Seems like a generally good idea, the satellites already need to use star trackers, they need an almanac of what should be there so deviations need to be tracked. I can entirely see the military perspective though, this is almost a direct c
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Big Nuclear's Big Mistake – Linear No-Threshold(youtube.com)
4 points by Hextinium 11mo ago|1 comments
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by Hextinium 2y ago
That could very well be what the quantum uncertainty principal is, floating point non deterministic errors. It also could just be drawing comparisons among different problem domains.
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by Hextinium 2y ago
The Parker solar probe gets much closer than the solar orbiter, 0.046 AU vs 0.28 AU respectively. The successive Venus flybys are to drop it increasingly further into the sun's orbit to take solar atmospheric data on quick flybys while
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by Hextinium 2y ago
But think about the corollary where places like McMasterCarr have exact products in known quantities, types and breakdowns because they used to be a catalogue. I will go to McMaster 9/10 times because it's just easy to find exactl
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by Hextinium 2y ago
That's just PVD or CVD, which does massively decrease defects but being a gaseous process slows down growth considerably.
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by Hextinium 2y ago
The conclusion is that the US just has more psychos. But the restraint of wrecking their vehicle to accost me holds them in line. On public transit they can accost me and nothing stops them.
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by Hextinium 2y ago
Solar panels are themselves tiled by roundish wafers cut to make squares out of circles. To make them triangles throws away a different tiling advantage.
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by Hextinium 3y ago
Default to speed and then the first time a device has crashed "your battery has worn to a level that we will have to start slowing down your device or it will keep crashing, will you accept these crashes or slow your device?" That
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by Hextinium 3y ago
Not to mention that most retirement accounts have yearly maximums, if you where making 401k for 10 years at 100k you will have significantly lower effective taxes than a person who made nothing and then sees high earnings trying to put into
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by Hextinium 3y ago
This is on some android phones, double tapping power will open the camera. I use it all the time to take pictures of information that I don't want to write down, package numbers, measurements, error logs, all just tap tap, point, volum
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by Hextinium 3y ago
HDPE is very stiff, MDPE is kinda stiff and LDPE is flimsy. Same monomer just cross linked differently with a different production process. Plastic is chemistry magic.
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by Hextinium 3y ago
A network of "wardriving" drones that use semi-trucks and box trucks as charging hubs while in transit is the next innovation of short distance delivery.
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by Hextinium 3y ago
After looking up mining slurry densities limestone is 2.7x the density of water. Calcium carbonate (limestone) is also used for filler in some medications. I'm pretty sure its just limestone slurry.
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by Hextinium 3y ago
They are the dominant players for sure. I think the biggest reason is that they do everything mostly the same, there is no reason to talk about how deep trench was done independently if Intel did it 10 years before. Or that x technology all
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by Hextinium 3y ago
There is a comradery in that it sucks, you know it sucks and that we are just getting through it. No one is out to "get" you. You are also part of the suck club. The second you get another job they are reminded of all the people w
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by Hextinium 3y ago
I have used a FLIR TG267 at work to find if parts are failing and while it's only 120x160 it works pretty well because it can overlay thermal coloration over a standard camera which really lets you use those pixels for temperature not
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by Hextinium 3y ago
I have been thinking about this quite intently lately, most things are inherently so complex that you by doing almost anything hit unknown unknowns, things that you don't know you don't know. But you don't need to know. You d
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by Hextinium 3y ago
I was at first super confused by this comment, because cross play has been a thing for at least a year or two without YouTube premium. You just have to enable YouTube history and it will populate across devices. I know a lot of people disab
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by Hextinium 3y ago
This is where buying "professional grade" does often save you. I have seen tons of Dell Latitudes and Lenovo Thinkpads that look like a black brick but are still going 5+ years later. They actually invested in thermals and it show
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by Hextinium 3y ago
Anecdotally I see this transition to higher production yield per person happening in real time, we are closing down some old factories and trying to re-train people to work in the new one being built in its place and it's very hard. A
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by Hextinium 3y ago
A kilo of aluminum contains about 55 kw/h of embodied energy, I like to think of aluminum smelting as pretty much the direct conversion of electricity to metal. That means that each MW/hr of production only makes 18 kg/hr, so
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by Hextinium 3y ago
Link to the pin out of the bottom connector: https://www.unihiker.com/wiki/board-overview Looks like a neat board, I could see making expansion modules that plug into the bottom and running like a IR blaster or other s
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by Hextinium 3y ago
A serious improvement on these budget phones is turning animations completely off, it removed most of the stuttering and GPU usage doesn't spike just pulling up the keyboard.
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by Hextinium 3y ago
Easiest is probably using your house as a thermal battery and just temporarily dumping energy into cooling or heating down to a set temp and then when allowing your house to normalize when prices go up. Alternatively, charge your own batter
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by Hextinium 3y ago
Altoids tins are pretty strong, small enough to be handy and cheap. This makes them the ideal container for a lot of small electronics projects, but a pi doesn't quite fit. I see it as a perfect small electronics container which you ca
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by Hextinium 4y ago
I personally think that keeping knives sharp is a sub-skill of cooking but a very unintuitive one at first, until you use someone else's sharp knife and all of a sudden things just click.
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by Hextinium 4y ago
For most shocks a little foam goes a long way, having the electronics be bolted to a cushioned box or having the electronics laying in foam (with appropriate cooling) helps a lot. Source: I cushion my robots this way, haven't gotten to

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