Thimothy

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by Thimothy 1y ago
Heavy diesel engines were dominated by the rest of the world in the 50s. Military aviation has no need for efficiency nor actual maintenance cost targets and thus, you have way more manufacturers of military than comertial engines. My point
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by Thimothy 1y ago
China "cheated" with EVs. They never managed to make a combustion engine that could hold a candle against western ones in terms of efficiency and reliability. Electric motors are waaay simpler. I doubt that the same will happen in
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by Thimothy 1y ago
In places where fish is eaten raw (or lightly pickled) you NEED to freeze it before preparing it. Anisakis is no joke. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisakis
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by Thimothy 1y ago
In Kagi you can search with a specific country selected or the default "international". I find it a superior alternative to Googles "wherever you are", but I do a lot of multilingual searches. For example, when I'm
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by Thimothy 1y ago
My point is that FPGAs have become very cheap, competing with microcontrollers. I would agree that high end audio manufacturers are about as rational as they costumers. If FPGAs are not a growing market, how come we have gone from 2 compani
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by Thimothy 1y ago
Depends entirely how you define "growth". If you take AI, LLM as your baseline of growth, then yeah, sure. But what else is growing? FPGAs are getting cheaper with each gen, expanding into low cost, high volume markets that were u
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by Thimothy 2y ago
Lack of temperature control is a minus, as that means that there will be some blends that won't taste good, these days most fancy machines have a pid (and if yours doesn't you should install it, or you are missing out). Kind of re
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by Thimothy 3y ago
When Intel acquired Altera, they scrapped the old catalog of Altera FPGAs. A few corps I was working with, who had heavy lock in to Altera due to those FPGAs, got royally screwed (had to suddenly redesign, and re-certify a bunch of boards t
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by Thimothy 3y ago
That's not true for everybody: people have very different mouth chemistry/ecosystem that depends on diet, genetics and god knows what. Some people can live with brushing teeth once in a blue moon, others will get their teeth eaten
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by Thimothy 6y ago
For the unaware, Central Europe is a narrow band that comprises Czechs, Slovaks and Polish. Who can get very offended if you even dare to suggest that they belong to Eastern Europe.
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by Thimothy 6y ago
And don't forget about the new Starlink flat antennas! The biggest surprise from the tearing videos for many EE I know was that the custom chips doing the DSP magic are made by ST, and not Analog Devices or TI. Undersampling in KU band
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A Unique Dual-Processor Authenticator with Wired and Wireless Connectivity(kickstarter.com)
3 points by Thimothy 6y ago|0 comments
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Wireless Login with the New Mooltipass Mini BLE Secure Hardware Password Keeper(hackaday.com)
3 points by Thimothy 6y ago|0 comments
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by Thimothy 6y ago
I'm not a climate change denier in any way but, did any of the predictions (the ones with dates and numbers) of Al Gore in "An inconvenient truth" become reality? There has been a non trivial amount of hyperbole going on in t
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by Thimothy 6y ago
I keep hearing from friends in Germany that the death numbers reported are completely bollocks. They say the people who die with pre-existing conditions aggravated with the coronavirus are not counted, nor the people who are not tested afte
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by Thimothy 7y ago
In case someone gets confused searching for it, normally the federal politecnic university at Lausanne is called by its French name, EPFL. ETH Zürich has better score in international ratings, but the EPFL doesn't lag behind much. It&#
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by Thimothy 7y ago
Er... Was 2001 the last time you gamed on a computer? All those issues are solved in modern day pc gaming. Even GOG with its drm free games automatically updates and syncs your games, and even supports beta channels. Also, I don't reca
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On the Future of MetaFilter(matt.haughey.com)
2 points by Thimothy 7y ago|0 comments
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by Thimothy 7y ago
He. You are in for a disappointment if you think about moving to Madrid for the nice weather. Extremely dry, very hot summers, quite cold winters, Its more continental than Mediterranean. On the flip side, I keep hearing about some software
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by Thimothy 7y ago
The genres, though... And saying that the German grammar is simpler is quite a stretch. English barely conjugates verbs! Would trade putting genres into english if I could also get the German consistency in spelling any day, though.
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by Thimothy 7y ago
The part I like best about your utopia is the irony that it leaves all native english countries out by design. "Thanks for giving us this tongue that has allowed us to transcend as humans, now GTFO"
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by Thimothy 7y ago
Man, I would vote for life whoever proposed to fix english spelling. The fact I can't use in conversation many words I have learned reading because I have no idea how are spelled is my biggest grudge with the language.
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by Thimothy 7y ago
"can be spoken poorly and still be understood" That is only something that is easy for native speakers, though. The points a non-native speaker anchors in the speaking flow are completely different to the ones a native speaker doe
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by Thimothy 8y ago
Those are compulsory... At least in Europe. Are there many cars in the US that don't have warning lights when braking? Jesus.
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by Thimothy 8y ago
Ok,this blew my mind in thousands pieces. I'm going to try it right away.
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by Thimothy 8y ago
He. That's one of the things I love most about seriouseats. They separate in different pages the recipe, as terse as it can be, and the "how it works", that includes all the other fluff, and I read if I'm in the mood.
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by Thimothy 8y ago
That is awfully wrong, it boots a custom linux-based OS, not Android. You are probably talking about other device (probably the yotaphone). http://remarkablewiki.com/tech/specs I use the remarkable for taking notes on
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by Thimothy 8y ago
Well, we know that electricity is subsidized in many ways, see coal, petroleum or solar power for examples. Furthermore, electricity prices do no include environmental externalities. So when you burn so much electricity for things that many
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by Thimothy 8y ago
Because they were the ones dating the older guys. Oh, the irony.
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by Thimothy 8y ago
Like, for example, HF.

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