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by labcomputer 8mo ago
Is that actually true for SSDs? I was under the impression that manufacturers have a speed-capacity tradeoff "knob" they can adjust. Specifically, that each buried gate can store one bit (SLC), two bits (MLC), three bits (TLC) or
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
> Meanwhile it should have less inflationary pressure on domestically produced stuff like housing. This is pure fantasy. A weak dollar makes it more affordable for foreign capital to buy US assets, yes, including housing. The president h
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
Actually, it does. You can decimate the higher sample rate to increase dynamic range and S/N ratio. Also, for direct down conversion, you can get better mirror frequency rejection by oversampling and filtering in software.
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
Err… WWVB has no audio range. The carrier frequency is only 60 kHz. It’s effectively a CW signal since the amplitude is only modulated once per second.
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
> This is oft repeated, but as a federal job, the bar is at least slightly higher than those typical AlliedUniversal/Andy Frain/Etc mall cop guards you see all over the place. Cool. So the TSA sucks up all the people slightly o
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
No they’re playing the long game. It’s for if they need to deport (and/or jail) you later. Lying on a customs form is a valid reason to revoke a visa, and it’s an open and shut case.
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
> I wish them luck, but while saying folks will drop the dominant apps seems all the rage at the moment people have been saying this for decades with almost no real progress at scale. This feels different. Up to now there hasn't a r
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
I've been using Safari on MacOS for at least 15 years and never run into this problem, either. I've never even heard of it before.
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
Speaking of hacker spirit... Comma has a lot of restrictions on what software you can load / what changes you can make to the software.
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
> Are there any mainstream websites which only allow a single TOTP token to be enrolled? I have definitely run into this a more often than not. It seems like only the largest and/or most security-focused tech companies allow multipl
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
I tend to agree that this doesn't really add a second factor. After all, both the mTOTP secret and the password are something you know, and something you could tell someone else. However, I do think there is added value here, at lea
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
> Despite all this farmers will continue to vote republican this year, and in future years. I presume they have reasons, but I confess they are hard to understand. All farmers are rich. You have to understand that "farmer" doe
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
> The others I agree with, but there's no evidence that HFCS or GM crops are bad. That's a clever slight-of-hand. Sure, GM crops are not intrinsically bad... it's just that they enable the farmer to spray pesticides and
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
Since California required drivers to equip chains when driving in the mountains, unless they have AWD or 4x4. So, probably at least 70 years ago.
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
No, not a mystery, in fact. Each keypress is appended to an 80 line prompt (key name along with timestamp of keypress and current text shown on the screen) and fed to a frontier LLM. Some of the office staff banged on the keypad for a few h
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
Inrush is surge capacity. Starting a big motor like an air conditioner can require 2x or 3x the continuous running amps, but only for a few seconds.
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
They didn’t fake the demo, but the legislature quickly rewrote the law because it was intended to give Toyota ZEV credits for hydrogen cars. Tesla did briefly operate a swap station at the site of the Harris Ranch Supercharger until Califor
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
> Any idea why swapping didn't pan out for Tesla? ~~Two~~ Three things: 1. California changed the rules shortly after Tesla demonstrated their swap station, which practically eliminated the tax credit for battery swap (at the behest
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
It is disappointing that it is so easy to bamboozle HNers with a straw man argument. The original poster was clearly not making an analogy between professional soccer and only fans creators. To be explicit, the comparisons were: Cinematic a
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
> The UC system is sorta weird though. Maybe the top 2 , UCLA and Berkeley compete nationally. After that you're paying UC tuition for an average school. Does UCSB no longer have an excellent physics department and is UCSD no longer
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
So they’ll take dual-enrollment classes at the local community college instead.
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
You… might want to read more about what happened during the French Revolution, after they killed all the royalty.
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
OK, and? It doesn’t say anything about paid (or otherwise) promotions.
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
That seems like a lot of words to basically just admit that Europe’s regulations are anti-competitive. I especially enjoyed reading the logical fallacy of drone companies that are so small/non-existent that DJI cannot be banned quickly
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
> I guess one issue is that you pay $200/month whether you use it or not. I can easily churn through $100 in an 8 hour work day with API billing. $200/month seems like an incredibly good deal, even if they apply some throttlin
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
So, like, why don’t people just use the better-than-Claude OpenCode CLI with these other just-as-good-as-Claude models?
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
The limiting factor for most turbine engines isn’t really operating hours, but “cycles”, which is to say starts and stops. From a maintenance perspective it’s not terribly important whether you start the engine at the gate or the runway. A
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
> (Since there's a bunch of discussion about how to reduce taxiing consumption, I'll point out that one tonne of aviation fuel is about $700, so there's not much money to be saved by creating battery-powered tugs or whatno
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
Yea, but only for speeds up to Mach 1.3… theoretically. Not Mach 2.0 flights. And they only demonstrated the effect up to Mach 1.1. Saving only one hour on a transcontinental (US) flight doesn’t seem all that impressive.
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by labcomputer 8mo ago
But if you actually, you know, read that NASA study, it mentions that the maximum practical speed (from theory) for “boomless” flights is less than Mach 1.3, and they only demonstrated “boomless” flights at Mach 1.1. That would result in

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