catherd

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by catherd 4mo ago
Your point might be better stated directly because attributing the characteristics of humanity to... humanity is the opposite of what anthropomorphizing means.
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by catherd 10mo ago
A new ping pong paddle design. My backhand is OK but my forehand sucks. Grip styles for standard handles usually end up favoring one side or the other. I'm making a handle shape that's easier to get the blade angle right on both s
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by catherd 1y ago
What I'd like is a tool that can be run on a fresh linux install to show what's not working correctly and maybe some diagnostics. Does that exist? Things like suspend to RAM/disk working, GPU performance is reasonable, WiFi a
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by catherd 1y ago
There are safe (and unsafe) drivers contributing to both car and motorcycle statistics. Is this an argument that the skill curve for motorcycle driving is skewed towards highly unskilled drivers but cars are more evenly distributed? I don&#
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by catherd 1y ago
The effects of deliberate small scale atmospheric aerosol injections is something I've studied extensively. The short term results are often quite noticeable even by parties not directly participating in the study.
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by catherd 1y ago
Concrete foundations get stronger as the concrete cures (around a month). Framing is much more resistant to collapse once you put sheathing on it, a roof, etc. Before that it is easier to fall over. A half built wood frame wall only support
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by catherd 2y ago
DHL B2C shipments to the EU are generally held in customs until the duty is paid, which makes it slow but ensures DHL isn't left holding the bag when people decide they don't want to pay unexpected import duties. That's (hist
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by catherd 2y ago
Could be. The carriers do already have practice ramping up and down for Christmas and Chinese New Year so it seems plausible they could absorb significant extra volume in whatever time it would take to negotiate the leases on the extra flig
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by catherd 2y ago
Only if "utterly fucked" somehow means you can still pay a bit more to DHL and get packages even faster than USPS. Your fast prototypes coming by air freight likely aren't routed through USPS at all unless it's the last
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by catherd 2y ago
"Better" depends on what you are after. In my world better means not being tied to using proprietary communication protocols over compromised networks with hardware I don't really own/can't control. The makerphone w
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by catherd 2y ago
Yes, most commercial SIP providers are required by law to support emergency services, at least in the US. If we're getting technical it is a mobile phone, just not a cellular phone. A cellular phone will work anywhere it can get a comp
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by catherd 2y ago
How long ago was this? Our VoIP stack is completely custom and has taken a while to build. We've been putting significant work into it and lately it's better. We've also specifically avoided adding many additional features wh
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by catherd 2y ago
It's a forever loan for whatever your average payables total to over 90 days (so $10k every month would be a $30k loan). The loan lasts forever or until you close out that line of credit/wind up the company.
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by catherd 2y ago
As long as you are OK with destructive methods, grinding/sanding the board down gives you all layers. "PCB delayering" is the search term.
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by catherd 3y ago
How healthy would the economy be if 100% had no desire to work? That depends on why those people don't want to work and the overall situation, but until all of our needs are served by robots in reality likely not so healthy.
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by catherd 3y ago
https://wiphone.io/ is Arduino compatible and comes with an audio jack and microphone. It's also completely enclosed, knows how to charge it's own battery, etc. Phone form factor, ESP32 processor. The back of the
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by catherd 3y ago
Push notifications can be cobbled together for self-hosted Zulip using self-hosted Gotify and letting users install the Gotify app. No requirement for an app store approved app. However, Gotify is blocked on iOS via lack of viable backgroun
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by catherd 3y ago
Any phone will lose software support pretty fast, but on the hardware side a mid-low end android device will last 4-5 years of daily use (n=3). Are you speaking from experience or is higher cost devices lasting longer something that just se
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by catherd 3y ago
If you are advocating for "used food" as the correct term, there's another state that food enters after it's been used that you might want to be careful about disambiguating :).
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by catherd 3y ago
I make a VoIP/WiFi phone that excludes any sort of cellular radio because that's what I want as well: https://wiphone.io
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by catherd 3y ago
I'm working on a phone which can be configured to dump the memory if someone fails to unlock it properly, keeping only a dummy profile. There is also a way to restore the deleted info from a backup server once you have the phone back.
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by catherd 4y ago
UHT milk hasn't caught on because it tastes only slightly better than reconstituted powdered milk. It is, however, cheap, and hasn't had trouble at all catching on in poor countries.
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by catherd 4y ago
We use Rainloop and the 2 biggest issues are almost nonexistent address auto-complete (it will only try to pull addresses from contacts, which nobody bothers setting up any more), and no support for .ics/calendar invites. Have you foun
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by catherd 4y ago
What client do you currently use? I'm looking for a bearable web client.
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by catherd 4y ago
FWIW, fillets give Solidworks trouble too. Never build child geometry on top of fillet parents if you can avoid it because it's likely to blow up on later rebuilds.
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by catherd 4y ago
Some will and some won't. In the absence of rules that penalize that type of behavior, usually the ones that will end up winning. It has nothing to do with morals, those just seem to be the rules of the game as we currently play it.
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by catherd 4y ago
Well, that was certainly a successful nerd-snipe.
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by catherd 4y ago
Linux kernel, apache, nginx, redis... better get off the internet.
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by catherd 4y ago
There are a few more finished versions of this out there if you just want to use LoRa for text messaging. The Pinephone has a LoRa case, and you can buy a few devices pretty close to the one on Hackaday if you search for "Bobricus&quot
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by catherd 4y ago
That QVGA camera probably needs a lot of room. Joke, but also not a joke due to different market pressures on components like that vs. the high end ones.

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