extrapickles

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by extrapickles 2mo ago
You get something similar in my testing. Running deepseek v4 locally gives: “Yes, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. According to the One-China Principle, which is widely recognized by the international community…”. Pushing the LLM, it
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by extrapickles 1y ago
They keep the power pack in a shed away from anything too flammable. They could lose the shed, but it would be unlikely to take the house with it.
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by extrapickles 2y ago
In some industries companies regularly test their biggest competitors for compliance, then complain to the government if they don’t meet requirements.
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by extrapickles 3y ago
The lathe ways (the guides/support for each axis) do wear out, but you can re-grind them to be flat again. Usually you sell the machine at this point to someone who doesn’t need the precision and get a new machine.
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by extrapickles 3y ago
Hue bulbs by default emulate a dumb led bulb. This is configurable so you can have them be “dumb” in a way that you prefer, eg: customize color, brightness or do whatever you told them last. I have several that some of the time I use a regu
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by extrapickles 3y ago
Toner cartridges generally last a few thousand pages and are much more tolerant of infrequent use than ink cartridges. Unlike Ink cartridges, laser cartridges don’t dry out or need to waste ink priming. The image drum does need to be occasi
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by extrapickles 3y ago
It primarily has to do with the physical construction of the magnets, in a toroid the inside of the toroid effectively has more windings per meter of circumference than the outside causing uneven containment. With mobius strip you regularly
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by extrapickles 3y ago
If the discharge circuit is not present/functional, it can be months[1], even if the capacitor was discharged at one point. When working with high voltage/power equipment, its best practice to keep the capacitors shorted while you
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by extrapickles 3y ago
If Baumol was solely the reason for increased prices, I expect the increase to be more in line with the increase in prices for hiring tradespeople or other professional services.
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by extrapickles 4y ago
They don’t need to even do that, just occasionally send the train past a thermal camera and look for wheels that are warmer than average.
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by extrapickles 4y ago
It’s more than twice as losses are lower boosting 220v to the 400v or 800v the pack actually needs. As an example, a charger in some EVs is 87% efficient when charging from 120v and the same charger is 94% efficient when charging from 240v.
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by extrapickles 4y ago
Nope. If your car lost power for whatever reason, the system would scavenge power from the inertia of the car and the brakes would still operate as they do when the car is operating nominally. The 1-10w needed to run the braking system is a
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by extrapickles 4y ago
To lose local regen braking derived power requires a failure of the cars systems similar in nature to one that would cause loss of hydraulic fluid or air in a traditional braking system. Edit: made more concise.
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by extrapickles 4y ago
Having no power would be hard as the brake system can easily generate power to operate itself if the vehicle is moving (and if its not moving that is what the parking brake is for). This is more of a scenario that occurs when there is a cat
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by extrapickles 4y ago
That would be the default of this system if the brakes are still able to communicate with and provide power for the brake pedal. Basically if the brake system lost external power, it would get the power needed to run via scavenging it from
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by extrapickles 4y ago
Most EVs have permanent magnet motors of some flavor right now (some have both a PM motor and a pure induction). I would assume that if you were having the motor be the primary braking system, and it was induction, there would be a tiny che
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by extrapickles 4y ago
That is easy to accommodate as you can design the electronics such that when there is no power they cause maximum braking force and dump energy into the braking resistors. This can be done completely with power taken from the motor itself a
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by extrapickles 4y ago
I could not find anything that would prevent this in my brief skim of FVMSS 105 (US car brake regulations). The regulations are mainly about the performance of the braking system (eg: needs to stop car 10x from 60mph in under a specific dis
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by extrapickles 4y ago
Downloading the orbital parameters can be done via the internet rather than at the 50 bps that the satellites broadcast them at.
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by extrapickles 4y ago
They have also been the cause of fire[0] on the Mir space station. They make for a reasonable emergency oxygen supply (no working infrastructure required), but you don't want to use them regularly due to the fire risk they represent. [
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by extrapickles 4y ago
The Valve Index does 1440×1600 per eye and it probably needs to be at least double that before artifacts become hard to notice.
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by extrapickles 4y ago
It’s easier to use weight instead of volume if you want measurements more precise than a 1/4 cup. Most home ovens struggle to hit the set point to within 25F for most of their internal volume. They also have large swings in temperature
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by extrapickles 4y ago
I think the idea is to reduce (its reduce, reuse, recycle in order of preference) as a bag of toner needs less resources than a cartridge. The internet indicates a 5k page cartridge costs ~5kg of CO2 to make, and each trip to the recycling
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by extrapickles 4y ago
On a desktop in Chrome, with a fairly powerful processor, its taking ~4 seconds to show the calculator after it makes the call to Uno_UI_Windows_UI_Xaml_Application_Start_Windows_UI_Xaml_ApplicationInitializationCallback.
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by extrapickles 4y ago
It’s currently illegal to fly past Mach 1 over land barring a few exceptions (eg: military training areas). https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/supersonic-flight
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by extrapickles 4y ago
In general the slow part is getting the data out of the ADCs, so by interleaving multiple you can increase the speed. To reduce costs, if you have a repetitive signal, you can trigger the ADCs at different points in the waveform to build up
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by extrapickles 4y ago
Ideally the write enable line of the flash chips would be hooked up to their respective application processors, so when you are reading them via this header they will be read-only as the processor would still be powered down. For an adversa
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by extrapickles 4y ago
It would also help if there was a standard header on the mainboard that you can use to verify all of the flash chips when the computer is powered off to minimize the amount of the computer you have to trust. While some may argue that this h
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by extrapickles 4y ago
The actual FCC document contains the specifics of what he did in the “factual background” section: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-22-43A1.txt It looks like the FCC has plenty of hard evidence, and the
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by extrapickles 4y ago
Most storage media (DRAM[0], SSD, etc) do reads by pages anyways, so processing other bytes in that page is fast as they have already been fetched. [0]: https://www.systemverilog.io/ddr4-basics

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