kosma

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by kosma 9mo ago
Surprisingly effective solution: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate] "ProductVersion"="Windows 10" "TargetReleaseVersion"=dwo
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by kosma 1y ago
There is research correlating autism and mothers taking certain medications (painkillers, antidepressants). Since autism is hereditary, there is a significant chance that these mothers are autistic too. Autistic people have a vastly high ri
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by kosma 1y ago
> Developing black-and-white film with coffee is a better option for younger analog photographers. As a bonus, it should smell better. I've made Caffenol in the past. It stinks.
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by kosma 2y ago
The company was a bit too much in bed with the government to begin with...
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by kosma 2y ago
That voltage spike only applies to flyback converter. Your typical buck/boost converter doesn't do that - the current waveform is a sawtooth, and voltage ripple is designed to be in the mV range.
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by kosma 2y ago
Seconded. NLP is well worth the money - not just in results, quality, and time saved, but also in finding joy in shooting and scanning color.
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by kosma 2y ago
They use the code without respecting the license terms. Just because the code is out in the open doesn't mean you can use it however you wish.
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by kosma 2y ago
Hold onto it, these things are incredibly rare.
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by kosma 2y ago
The nature of surges is not simple like that - a lightning strike can easily blow MOVs and inrush limiting resistors in multiple devices. I come from a rural area and coming to someone's house with a bag of fresh MOVs and resistors is
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by kosma 2y ago
It's not very different from daisy chaining normal extension cords - safe if you know what you're doing (not exceeding the current rating on any of them). Most surge protectors are fused, making them safer to daisy-chain than norm
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by kosma 3y ago
Note that bstats only tracks Bukkit-compatible servers. It doesn't track Vanilla/Fabric/Forge/etc. installations, so take these numbers with a grain of salt.
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by kosma 3y ago
There are several primary ways to run a Java Edition server: 1. Pure vanilla server.jar. Has horrible performance, little flexibility, but in the end, it Just Works. This is the server that Realms (Mojang's paid hosting service) uses.
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by kosma 3y ago
I've had Windows updates brick the motherboard by installing a faulty BIOS update. Multiple times.
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by kosma 3y ago
You won't have it, as it doesn't align with the manufacturers' incentive to sell you a new one every two years.
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by kosma 3y ago
Digikey also ships DDP, they do the customs for you.
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by kosma 4y ago
...and good flux carries you the rest of the way.
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by kosma 4y ago
Let's not forget about unusual char sizes. The popular DSP platform TMS320 has sizeof(char) == sizeof(int), and both are 1. How? Because both are 16-bit, and by definition sizeof(char) == 1.
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by kosma 4y ago
An organization grows to a size where decisions are made by committee, bikeshedding is rampart, and one idiot in marketing can dismiss and derail the naming suggestions of an entire engineering team.
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by kosma 4y ago
Moo!
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by kosma 4y ago
Welcome to the real world. We don't have cookies, they were cut as a part of a cost saving package signed by the corporate.
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by kosma 4y ago
Funny how Germany is obsessed with privacy, yet the cookie consent prompt requires extra clicks to decline the consent.
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by kosma 4y ago
You just described my joy of doing hardware better than I would have been able to describe it myself. Thank you.
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by kosma 4y ago
It's such a disappointment that they chose to continue the weird custom layout of MX Keys - merged function row with two extra buttons and missing PrintSc/Pause/ScrollLk. I also had to import my MX Keys from the US because th
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by kosma 5y ago
Did he lose because of the added weight destroying the performance? ;)
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by kosma 5y ago
A side question, does anyone know of a good source of some high-quality, old-looking drawing templates (say, DIN A4 frame+information in the bottom right), or a way to make a new template look "old"? I'm absolutely loving the
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by kosma 5y ago
As a former alcoholic: 1. You need new friends. Sadly. 2. Having fun without alcohol is very very different. There's not much of that mad frantic whirl of everything, things are much more clear... it feels a lot like social media withd
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by kosma 5y ago
Self-timer?
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by kosma 5y ago
I find it the most bizarre that I had my Minecraft server patched before the news even hit HN.
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by kosma 5y ago
I've done this very thing to amuse our assembly guys. For extra style points, make sure to use Verdana (Fusion 360 allows that) and add bunch of picture instructions stolen from a legit IKEA assembly manual ("when in doubt, call I
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by kosma 5y ago
That's a different standard. What the parent comment is asking about is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DX_encoding#DX_film_edge_barco...

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