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by mikepavone 1mo ago
I fell in love with the Aptera back during the Automotive X Prize era. Back then batteries were expensive enough that a vehicle that got decent range by being ultra-efficient was rather attractive. I also loved the unconventional look. Much
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by mikepavone 1mo ago
> For me the bigger problem is that it's classified as a motorcycle, which may mean wearing a helmet, and needing to have a class M license. The only state that requires a motorcycle endorsement for the Polaris Slingshot (an "a
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by mikepavone 1mo ago
Sounds like they've worked on some ActivityPub related software based on their other blog posts and codeberg. The details remind me more of the Bluesky PDS though. It's nodejs-based and the only officially supported way to run it
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by mikepavone 2mo ago
Chevy Volt was still a parallel hybrid. The gasoline engine was used for driving the wheels for highway cruise because it was more efficient. I think the range extender version of the BMW i3 was a pure serial hybrid though
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by mikepavone 2mo ago
Article reads like it was AI-generated too
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by mikepavone 2mo ago
Yeah, the Saturn is probably the more practical target. The SH-2s are clocked a little faster, the memory bus is 32-bit wide and there's an off-the-shelf 4MB RAM expansion cartridge. There's also a readily available, first-party P
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by mikepavone 2mo ago
For what it's worth, the Sub 68K (mostly*) does not share memory with the main 68K. This makes SMP impossible, but on the bright side there's no contention. Sadly, there's also no way for the faster Sub 68K to directly access
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by mikepavone 2mo ago
Neat to see this on HN after discussing this a bit with you on the Emudev discord (I'm Mask of Destiny there). I'm curious if you tested this on hardware. I think I mentioned this previously, but my understanding is that the SH-2s
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by mikepavone 2mo ago
So the problem with the Model 1 that the mixing cable is trying to solve is that the expansion port on that model has audio input pins, but no audio output pins. Now strictly speaking, this is sufficient if you just want to use the MD1&#x27
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by mikepavone 3mo ago
It should. There are some small differences between the Nomad and a normal Gen/MD, but nothing that should impact something like this
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by mikepavone 3mo ago
I'm working on adding Sega 32X support to BlastEm [0], the Genesis/Mega Drive (as well as some related Sega systems these days) emulator. I've gotten most games working on this point, though still have some bugs to track down
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by mikepavone 4mo ago
Yeah, with some effort it's possible (or at least it was) to extract the ROM from the Steam release and play it on the real hardware. They went to a fair bit of trouble to prevent that though. ROM isn't even stored in the clear in
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by mikepavone 7mo ago
I'm not sure it's even a particularly relevant comparison to an hour of use of various other electronic devices. I'm sure the median user is running a lot fewer queries than a Claude Code power-user, but I would guess it&#x27
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by mikepavone 7mo ago
As someone with a self-hosted Mercurial instance dealing with this, I will say that the big names (OpenAI included, but not exclusively them) generally at least use proper user-agents and respect robots.txt, but they are still needlessly ag
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by mikepavone 9mo ago
Nothing stopping you from encoding h264 at a low frame rate like 5 or 10 fps. In webRTC, you can actually specify how you want to handle low bitrate situations with degredationPreference. If set to maintain-resolution, it will prefer sacrif
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by mikepavone 9mo ago
> They shared the polling code in the article. It doesn't request another jpeg until the previous one finishes downloading. You're right, I don't know how I managed to skip over that. > UDP is not necessary to write a l
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by mikepavone 9mo ago
You probably won't get acceptable latency this way since you have no control over buffer sizes on all the boxes between you and the receiver. Buffer bloat is a real problem. That said, yeah if you're getting 30-45 seconds behind a
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by mikepavone 9mo ago
> When the network is bad, you get... fewer JPEGs. That’s it. The ones that arrive are perfect. This would make sense... if they were using UDP, but they are using TCP. All the JPEGs they send will get there eventually (unless the connec
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by mikepavone 10mo ago
Wow, I only paid $265 for 96GB of DDR5 back in April. Same brand (G.SKILL) as the kit in the article too.
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by mikepavone 10mo ago
FWIW, they still seem to have not actually pulled the trigger on the account requirement and they've removed the "Starting soon" portion of the nag bar text in the Hue app (though it's still on the web page you get to wh
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by mikepavone 1y ago
> This is not how nuclear works. Nuclear sets a low price that corresponds to its cost, then lets more expensive marginal energy sources set the final price. This may be an accurate description for fully-depreciated nuclear plants, but i
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by mikepavone 1y ago
You totally can do it with some combination of overbuilding, storage and increased interconnection. It just starts to get expensive the higher the portion of your generation you want to supply with renewables. There's a good Constructi
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by mikepavone 1y ago
I have a 2017 Bolt as my only car and the slow L3 charging is definitely a downside, but I haven't found it to be a huge issue in practice. On a trip long enough to worry about fast-charging you're going to need to stop to eat per
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by mikepavone 1y ago
IIRC, the EUV had an option for normal adaptive cruise control, but I don't think any ever had a Super Cruise style option
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by mikepavone 1y ago
If you compare it to the commuter rail systems in those places, BART feels impressive (though less so with the service cuts). I was a regular rider on the Metro North New Haven line and had experience with SEPTA and NJT commuter rail and I
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by mikepavone 1y ago
As another commenter pointed out, you can do pre-emptive multitasking just fine without an MMU. And as it turns out AmigaOS had just that. All you need for pre-emptive multitasking is a suitable interrupt source to use for task switching. W
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by mikepavone 1y ago
Most places growing corn don't have the right climate for sugar cane.
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by mikepavone 1y ago
Went to Drexel for CS, but dropped out in my Sophmore year back in 2004. Did PHP webdev in my home state of CT until 2011. Moved to the SF Bay Area and transitioned to doing Erlang and C++ for some F2P games for a while. I'm currently
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by mikepavone 1y ago
So looking back to the Falcon 9, there were only 4 failures to complete orbital objectives across 503 launches and one of those was only a partial failure (main payload delivered successfully, but the secondary payload was not due to a sing
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by mikepavone 1y ago
Yeah, Android had good support for multi-tasking from the start, though at least some early devices did not really have enough RAM for it to work well

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