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Anker PowerConf C200: a case study in webcam security theatre(bearbin.net)
4 points by bearbin 4mo ago|0 comments
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Anker PowerConf C200: a case study in webcam security theatre(bearbin.net)
3 points by bearbin 4mo ago|1 comments
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Decoding a V16 Beacon(destevez.net)
3 points by bearbin 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bearbin 2y ago
The New Covent Garden Market itself is currently in the middle of a multi-decade redevelopment, they've slightly reduced the footprint and sold off some land for development, and the remains (still a massive area) is being _very_ slowl
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by bearbin 2y ago
Instead of wood _or_ plastic, you have wood _and_ plastic in one board! (Or rather, paper mixed with some sort of formaldehyde resin)
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by bearbin 2y ago
The TV license is certainly bit ridiculous, but being legally blind doesn't necessarily mean you can't see at all, just you fall below the legal threshold where it's judged that poor sight will interfere with your day-to-day
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by bearbin 2y ago
The whole concept is unfixable. Once the fibre comes out, it's not going to go back in. It's that deadly combination of fragile and cheap. Just unpack a new drone and off you go. Don't spend a week (and 10 casualties going in
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by bearbin 2y ago
The drone moves, the base station doesn't. The spool goes on the thing that moves, so it just has to unspool to move further. If the spool was on the fixed position, the drone would have to drag thousands of meters of fibre behind it,
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by bearbin 2y ago
There are! https://www.omenie.com/pipistrelle.html
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by bearbin 2y ago
For datacentres that require air conditioning as opposed to natural ventilation (most of them) a very popular approach is to use evaporative cooling towers [1] in combination with W2W chiller units [2]. The chillers cool the internal water
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by bearbin 2y ago
There's a physical product that implements the same idea [1]. I'm not sure how it actually works (presumably there's a patent somewhere, is there an alternative solution?) but it's quite a magic feeling to hear the fire
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Why every microwave sucks these days(moth.monster)
175 points by bearbin 3y ago|408 comments
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by bearbin 3y ago
An interesting construction detail of the cheap modern microwave is that it only operates on one half of the mains electric waveform: microwaves use a single high-voltage diode which acts both as half-wave rectifier and voltage doubler. Thu
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by bearbin 3y ago
I think GP means "enclosed".
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by bearbin 3y ago
dent, crush, lid or seal failure (which can't be cheaply/practically made of steel)
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by bearbin 3y ago
Somewhat of a meta question for @luu - how did you come across this post today before you resubmitted to HN? I ask as I ended up searching for this article earlier today and thought about resubmitting (but ended up not doing so). It just se
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by bearbin 3y ago
For context, when power grid engineers talk about relays, they're not talking about physical switching of the electricity itself, but instead the control and monitoring system for the grid. Traditionally this was done using specialised
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by bearbin 4y ago
At least for mains electricity, there is a good argument for using the derived W and the doubly-derived Wh (J / s derives W, W * s, derives Wh). It makes sense because electricity is not (for practical purposes, historically) stored by
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by bearbin 4y ago
AN-8 is kerosene, similar to JP-8, but with a lower freezing point specification. https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/bitstream/11681/243...
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by bearbin 4y ago
You can't. Starlink satellites are in LEO, not geostationary orbit.
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by bearbin 4y ago
This is definitely an interesting take on tunnelling, but I struggle a little bit to see how this would be either faster or cheaper than conventional methods. First off you have to buy a load of strong and mechanically complicated robots (e
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by bearbin 4y ago
Well, that issue explains a lot. The data source went missing, so the website just made up some data and used that instead! That whole website is a nonsense, what's the point in visualising imaginary data and pretending it's real.
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by bearbin 4y ago
The visualisation on that site is good, but it's sadly plauged with data errors. The UK data doesn't seem to correspond to any other source I can find. I think it might be delayed by 24 hours, but even that doesn't seem quite
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by bearbin 4y ago
Sadly, in my experience, the apple variety alone doesn't actually have that much bearing on quality (although a red delicious will always be lacking in the second of it's nominative attributes!). What I've found is a much bet
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Living in a Building Site: The Over-Development of London's Housing Estates(bearbin.net)
1 points by bearbin 4y ago|0 comments
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by bearbin 4y ago
Why care? Stars don't mean anything, save for the few people who organise the software they use by starring it. Certainly it's not a community owned by the maintainers. I don't own a connection with the people that upvoted th
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Open Infrastructure Map(openinframap.org)
298 points by bearbin 5y ago|45 comments
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What are you doing when you fill in an hCaptcha(bearbin.net)
3 points by bearbin 5y ago|0 comments
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by bearbin 5y ago
Other commenters have talked about labelling. Maybe labelling of real life data is something they're trying to do; but from my experience with hCaptcha the challenges are _NOT_ real life data. They're AI-generated images which bea
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by bearbin 5y ago
As the author, yes. Some parts of the city are innately commercial spaces, and commerce requires advertising. But let it stop at colourful shop signs (even neon is fine, in a shopping centre!), signwritten vans for trades and deliveries, or

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