Syonyk

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by Syonyk 1y ago
When you're trying to hit something moving 20kt, with something moving 30-35kt, from a few thousand yards, it doesn't take much error in estimating speed, heading, or distance, to make them miss. It's honestly more remarkabl
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by Syonyk 2y ago
So, no, you've not worked with batteries, battery management systems, or anything of the sort. Determining battery health is hard.
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I'm guessing you've not dealt with power electronics and batteries terribly much. Depending on what limit has been hit, it's quite likely there is no way to log the cause of the error. Low voltage protection circuitry on m
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I've suggested to a range of people that if their only complaint is runtime, and the phone is a few years old, getting someone to replace the battery is far cheaper than a new phone. It's a novel concept, and I'm quite unsur
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that a lot of people are very happy with water resistance in exchange for having to do a bit more work to replace a battery (that they don't actually replace). The number of people using their phones in the hot
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Imagine the tradeoffs, though. A "user-serviceable battery," by requirements, is going to be a hard shell plastic sort of thing - which means a decent fraction of the "total battery space" is a protective layer, not acti
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by Syonyk 2y ago
It was more to prevent unexpected shutdowns. Which, I'll add, were a problem with Android devices at the time, and the Nexus 5, in particular, had three battery OEMs, one of which would only last a year before being unable to run th
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by Syonyk 2y ago
> My genuine hope is that secretly we actually are really good with drones and just strategically have decided not to broadcast it... What would you call the Reapers and such? The US has a massive fleet of large, armed drones, remotel
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by Syonyk 2y ago
The book from a year or two ago, "Means of Control," by Tau, goes into some pretty good detail on the data collection and sales from just the adtech firms - where the entire ecosystem seems to be, "You can't use our data
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by Syonyk 2y ago
They're an absolute pain in the rear to deal with, because they're self igniting, and it propagates between cells. Your typical lithium 18650 - vape cell, old laptop cell, whatever you know it as (18mm diameter, 65mm length, cylin
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by Syonyk 2y ago
> I treat it now more like advice from a friend. Great information that isn't necessarily right and often wrong without having any idea it is wrong. "Drunken uncle at a bar, known for spinning tales, and a master BSer who hus
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I don't believe it was capable of it, which is why it was so massive. The SR-71, which required inflight refueling repeatedly, only held 80k pounds of fuel (about 12k gallons). I don't have any good sense of fuel burn vs speed e
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Per Wikipedia, the XB70 carried: 300,000 pounds (140,000 kg) / 46,745 US gal (38,923 imp gal; 176,950 L), on a maximum takeoff weight of 542,000 lb - so about 55% of takeoff weight was fuel. A 747-8I carries up to 63,034 gallons, or ab
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by Syonyk 2y ago
> ...especially when someone is particularly passionate about them. The engineer-type brain is very much prone to "... in order to prove we can, " as opposed to "Because we should. Or because this is useful. Or becaus
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by Syonyk 2y ago
That era of aviation was nuts. I wish I was around for it. Men with slide rules working out the limits of material science, aerodynamics, and everything else, all at once. Because it wasn't enough to just push one limit, you had t
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Two bits per transistor: high-density ROM in Intel's 8087 FPU (2018)(righto.com)
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I tried the whole "ads and reach" thing for a while, discovered I actually don't care about it for "beer money" levels of revenue, and went back to just blogging about that which I care about, for the intrinsic bene
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by Syonyk 2y ago
> Consolidating most of the web into giant content silos is one of the worst things to happen to it I'm not sure that "giant content silos," alone, is the harm. But as soon as you start adding "algorithmic feeds,&
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by Syonyk 2y ago
> (see also: what causes lift in an airfoil) That's easy! It pushes air down, and the reaction force is what we call lift! ... now, why it pushes air down... there be many computational fluid dynamics PhDs... though "angle
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by Syonyk 2y ago
It'll usually be listed in the BIOS upgrade guide. I've only ever seen the "weird recovery methods" on more performance-oriented mainboards - your RGB-heavy "gamer" boards tend to have some sort of recovery me
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Yes, in some cases. The common case for this would be writing the flash chip ("Updating the BIOS"). Some boards are more cautious about this than others, and a lot of "enthusiast" (overclocker) boards have dual BIOS
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Neko! It's been software for many decades - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software) I'm glad it's enjoyed. I very much like having him chasing around, even if it's a bit distracting at times.
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by Syonyk 2y ago
You have the ability to push files from one AppVM to another - they appear in ~/QubesIncoming/[source-vm-name]/ and you can do what you want with them from there. I do this regularly and it works perfectly fine. It's n
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by Syonyk 2y ago
QubesOS is very much not "Linux on the hardware." It is silos of isolation, interacting freely at the window level. I wrote on it some while back: https://www.sevarg.net/2023/07/29/qubes-os-silos-of
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by Syonyk 2y ago
My understanding, though I've not played with it, is that Looking Glass is a way to have hardware GPU accelerated guests "render in a window on the host." Normally, GPU passthrough for gaming has involved "You pass an e
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by Syonyk 2y ago
2023, but has been updated and iterated on over time, so should be reasonably current. It is... still an awful lot of work, though. I'm glad it can be done, though I've certainly not been motivated enough to try. I just keep a
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by Syonyk 2y ago
There's a reason the phrase, "Designed by committee", is not a praise. It applies to AI, too. I don't want a mash-up of generic human thought, as filtered through a machine. I want to hear what people think, as indiv
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I certainly don't intend it as a sales pitch. I intend it as something true. Sorry, I'm in a bit of a weird state tonight, chewing through a lot of Psalms, after having gone through Job, and the collection of prophets in the p
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I switched career paths in an attempt to get away from that. It turns out, it follows me. I have a decade worth of finely honed pessimism maximizer I cannot get to stop running against everything.
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by Syonyk 2y ago
How so? They're neither questioning God's justice, nor asserting that the loss of children must be due to sin/unrighteousness/etc.

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