MezzoDelCammin

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by MezzoDelCammin 27d ago
is there a way to pin comments like this up top? I've just spent 5min doing the same by hand, before scrolling all the way down to see this one
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by MezzoDelCammin 27d ago
Is there a tradition for this blog post to appear every 2 years? 2024, 253 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40103590 2022, 271 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32035054 2020, 29
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by MezzoDelCammin 1mo ago
Comenius! I'll be damned—this is the first time I've seen anyone actually reading his Orbis Pictus. There's a country whose educational system basically revolves around Comenius (the Czech Republic). And even there I don&#x27
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by MezzoDelCammin 1mo ago
Kinda curious why You didn't go for the Fenix 7 / 7Pro line? AFAIK the "big" addition on the 8 was phonecalls/microphone on the watch and some increased water resistance for diving. All that for maybe 200-300USD pri
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by MezzoDelCammin 1mo ago
back in my day we used to upcycle old 18650s from old laptop batteries to use for Nokia phones. Since back in the day phone batteries were basically just insert-in and held by a clip-on backplate, it was just a question of fabricating some
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by MezzoDelCammin 2mo ago
not a spark plug. They call it "armature in a circle", but that's somewhat generic. Bosch used to do the first magnetos / dynamos in the early 1900s motorbikes / cars. The principle is similar to this day - one rota
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by MezzoDelCammin 2mo ago
any tips on how to reliably get that "thicker gauge" one? I've been craving it since maybe 20y ago when I got a roll from my old stint in a restaurant. I've tried buying some rolls by "heavy duty" labels and th
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by MezzoDelCammin 3mo ago
at this point I'd wonder if the cat's name is "Princess Donut"
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by MezzoDelCammin 3mo ago
I'm not sure about the "question nobody asked". Bluetooth is perhaps a gimmick, but in all seriousness an electrically actuated derailleur is a blessing for anyone doing audax / long distance. I have my wrists damaged en
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by MezzoDelCammin 5mo ago
I think the answer to this is:"yes"
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by MezzoDelCammin 5mo ago
OK, fairly specific question - how did You get to that pants silouhete? It seems from the pics You went for something like a straight leg plus some extra room and fairly fitted waist / butt. Is that a response to a trend (oversized wor
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by MezzoDelCammin 7mo ago
Oh, I'm not claiming sewing machine is the "only" option :-) There's plenty of hacking that can be done on the subject of sewing and I admit that laser cutter is a cool one. I'm still pretty partial to that sewing m
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by MezzoDelCammin 7mo ago
TLDR : "nice to have, but not a necessity" For some basic jerseys (think T-shirts) a basic zigzag is fine to begin with. That 100EUR sewing machine will have some fancier stretch stitch options that are slow, but "good enough
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by MezzoDelCammin 7mo ago
For everyone struggling with clothes sizing and having a hacker mindset, I can't recommend enough buying a sewing machine (~100EUR on a used market, ~150 new gets you a reasonable starter one you won't outgrow any time soon) and g
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by MezzoDelCammin 9mo ago
Fiction (shortlist): -Some Desperate Glory (Emily Tesh) -A Memory called Empire (Arkady Martin) both of these are a fairly interesting take on scifi worldbuilding. Could be called "highbrow", but IMO pretty easy reads still. -Pira
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by MezzoDelCammin 9mo ago
I admit it's a nice experiment, but I guess the title should be "detecting iPhone Lidar". Both the 60Hz frequency and 940nm wavelength are fairly specific. There's a whole world of different wavelengths (1550nm is fairly
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by MezzoDelCammin 10mo ago
Have You checked the validity of registration/insurance? I'm kinda curious about doing it the other way and trying some BDRs) maybe in a few years)
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by MezzoDelCammin 11mo ago
mind developping on the "it's DERP or nothing"? Have you been trying to expose a direct wireguard port of your own, or the Tailscale?
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by MezzoDelCammin 11mo ago
personally : proxmox /VM is great if You'd like to separate physical HW. In my case - virtualized TrueNAS means I can give it a whole SATA controller and keep this as an isolated storage machine. Whatever uses that storage usually
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by MezzoDelCammin 1y ago
AirVPNs main proposition isn't "we have a nice app / UX". It's "we give you the most configs / options". AFAIK they're currently one of very few that allow you to configure both port forwards and
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by MezzoDelCammin 1y ago
my $.02 : I tried them, but found their "we support Wireguard" a bit misleading. They only did so via their app. No way to get a stable configuration for a router (other than run a python script to get one from the app, without an
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by MezzoDelCammin 1y ago
true. My original was just a quick jote on a phone sipping a coffee on Sunday. I admit I simply didn't want to go into the whole "square FOV for the sensor vs. one detector / diode and that combined with the time of flight lo
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by MezzoDelCammin 1y ago
Also there's the simple physics view of the same problem. The advantage of scanning is that you can focus all the laser pulse energy into one narrow beam. Non scanning means covering the whole field of view at once with that same laser
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by MezzoDelCammin 1y ago
Shouldn't it be more of a "why" to install TrueNAS on a RPi? The only reason I can see is "I have one that I don't use". Because otherwise... Idle power isn't all that much better than a low power Intel N1
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by MezzoDelCammin 1y ago
Not even that. I think I had mine for under 150 (on some sale). Also, there are a few cheaper alternatives, but some tests have shown them to be less reliable (either false positives, or worse - false "all clear"). There's on
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by MezzoDelCammin 1y ago
thanks for this one. I've just printed my first two stacks of Multiboard for the office after only reading the license summary. The way they play with "Designed Works" and "commercial use" is really pretty weird. I
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by MezzoDelCammin 2y ago
As for the nanoKVM power design, I agree it's a pain. Not sure what's the state of things on the forums now, but in my experience, the issue comes from the device trying to draw power via the USB HID port instead of the dedicated
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by MezzoDelCammin 2y ago
oh, thanks for the reminder. Is that also a recommendation for the Strange & Norrel? I've been meaning to get to more of her stuff ever since I listened to Piranesi last Christmas when driving home through Europe.
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by MezzoDelCammin 2y ago
they are "Pratchett" footnotes though. My introduction to Discworld happened when I bought a few second hand paperbacks on Portobello for under a pound in order to have something to read in the bus back from London. Later (well an
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by MezzoDelCammin 2y ago
SQUEAK!

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