ectoloph

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by ectoloph 8d ago
The REX issue is an interesting one. The BMW i3 used what was basically a scooter engine. The Ampera/Volt used what was essentially an Opel Corsa engine (from memory). Toyota's approach of using a small battery and modified atkins
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by ectoloph 8d ago
I've found that I can often stuck in tarpits on Safari for iOS with Wipr and iCloud Private Relay. The worst trigger is searching Google from the address bar. Loading the homepage first makes the problem notably less common. Or getting
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by ectoloph 9d ago
Kids benefit from being kids and rolling around in the grass. In which cities are people favouring local parks over toilets? Parasites can actually help with allergies. I am loosely aware of various attempts at treating allergies using para
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by ectoloph 9d ago
The idle cost of inverters can be quite high. EcoFlow power stations draw somewhere around 30w with the inverter switched on with no load. The idle power of a Mac Mini at the wall is a few watts total.
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by ectoloph 16d ago
It's worth mentioning that the difference between playable and verified is sometimes just control mapping, or the wrong icons being shown, or default graphics settings need to be adjusted. Games often run well when they aren't fla
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by ectoloph 21d ago
This is sad news, he was a very good actor. One of my favourite roles I've seen him in was as Trymon in the TV version of Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic .
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by ectoloph 1mo ago
In the article, Milton Friedman sums it up well I think by describing the attention is 'corrupting'. It cannot be good for you for everyone to assume that you are somehow omniscient all of a sudden. At either extreme, it isn'
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by ectoloph 2mo ago
Friends don't make friends read slop. If I have something Claude wrote then I will offer the LLM output. But I generally prefer to at least give the option. I have seen conversations where it has boiled down to an exchange of A's
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by ectoloph 2mo ago
AI is a force multiplier. It multiplies both good and bad decisions. Both mine and it's 'own'. I can get some things done 10x faster and it might even catch mistakes or help me solve something difficult. But if I am being laz
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by ectoloph 2mo ago
Sorry folks, my fault. I finally went from Pro to Max after hitting another 5 hour session limit today.
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by ectoloph 2mo ago
I really enjoyed playing with dithering to get good results from the eink spectra displays with 6 or 7 colours. They end up making good photo frames, especially for older digital photos.
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by ectoloph 2mo ago
These bursts of downtime are one of the reasons I end up with multiple smaller subscriptions between providers. I'd just end up being really annoyed about the downtime if it lands in the middle of a working day.
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by ectoloph 2mo ago
Is death in old age a 'problem' to solve? Suffering, absolutely. But I think there is more nuance to death.
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by ectoloph 2mo ago
Didder[0] is a good tool for dithering. I use it to pre-process images for the 6-color e-ink displays. You can go down a rabbit hole of dithering algorithms too, like Floyd Steinberg[1] [0] https://github.com/makew0rld/
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by ectoloph 2mo ago
Passkeys are a mitigation against users being bad at password hygiene and phishing being a real issue to users. You can't phish a passkey, and you don't rely on the user providing you 'hunter2' on every site. As for vend
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by ectoloph 2mo ago
I think that an overview of how the machinery works and how it interfaces would be interesting. As a side note, I do enjoy the bizarre bowling animations that the screens come up with.
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by ectoloph 2mo ago
Net Zero isn't what sets the price of UK electricity generation. Marginal pricing means that gas sets the price. At time of writing, gas is only generating 6.9% of the UK's electricity. https://grid.iamkate.com/
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by ectoloph 3mo ago
Unfortunately, any viral infection can leave lasting damage too. One of the outcomes of COVID was more awareness of post-viral syndromes.
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by ectoloph 3mo ago
I like the little Mini PCs. I have a GMKtec nucbox with an Intel N100 and an M5 Plus. The biggest issues with them are around firmware and power consumption, especially idle. It's hard to get them as low as some of the bigger vendor de
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by ectoloph 3mo ago
As I understand it, it's a mix of factors. Charging Lithium, and converting to motive force in motors are both pretty efficient. (Both >90%). An ICE vehicle has an upper limit on efficiency that is lower than what a modern fossil fu
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by ectoloph 3mo ago
I really like the concept, but I think the restrictions are a double-edged sword. The form factor and Sailfish are a lot more appealing than 'apps blocked at a system level'. Can it run the usual apps like banking apps which can b
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by ectoloph 3mo ago
I've just bought it based on the description. Minor complaint is that it steals Cmd-Shift-P (Firefox Private Browsing shortcut) by default. Easy to change in the UI though, so no big deal.
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by ectoloph 3mo ago
I have a mild distrust of some of the cheap IP KVMs. I don't think vendors are malicious, but I don't expect they get it right every time either. Admittedly, I haven't looked at any open-sourced firmwares either which could h
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by ectoloph 4mo ago
I'm not sure that the author's perspective that the I/O limits were a direct commercial decision is one I'd agree with. > Apple could have shipped two 10Gbps ports at no meaningful cost increase and chose not to. AFAI
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by ectoloph 4mo ago
I think it's to do with the LLM prompt, which mentions 19th century, 1887 etc. https://github.com/BaderBC/halupedia/blob/master/src/worker/...
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by ectoloph 4mo ago
I asked about The IP over Avian Carrier Plague and got a whole history of the Data Dove Delirium too. https://halupedia.com/the-internet-over-avian-carrier-plague https://halupedia.com/data-dove-delirium