sliken

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by sliken 1mo ago
Sounds great, best I found so far is the RAK19007 (30x60mm), then add a GPS (RAK12500). It will be kind of long (60mm + case) but not too wide (30mm + 3d printed case). Or the Mesh Node T114 Development Board V2 (23mm wide).
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by sliken 1mo ago
Looks nice for some uses, but pretty big for a dog collar, almost 3" on a side. I've some long/thin dev boards that I could pair with an 18650 that should be closer to 1".
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by sliken 1mo ago
Nice, I have a few mestastic widgets, but do want something small enough for a dog collar. That way my wife and I can carry a radio and keep one in the car so we have a good chance getting in range. Sad that most of ham radio, which has si
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by sliken 1mo ago
Heh, I used to use bluetooth GPS tracker with my nokia 770. It worked well since I could place the gps where it got the best signal. I could start a track, have it record it, and then check in with the n770 only when I needed to see a map
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by sliken 1mo ago
How close does another diver have to be for a message to send/received?
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by sliken 1mo ago
Maybe, but for today, er 6 days ago: Public hearing set for nearly 650 diesel generators tied to Amazon data center.
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by sliken 1mo ago
Sure. But is your DC funded by AI insanity that will pay top $ to provision ASAP, which requires 100s (up to 800) turbines?
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by sliken 1mo ago
Quick google on stuff from the last week: 2 days ago, Inside the Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in ... 21 buildings and roughly 600 diesel generators" 6 days ago "Public hearing set for nearly 650 diesel generators
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by sliken 1mo ago
What do you call it when they install 100s of generators outside the building to provide power, create an amazing amount of noise, and a fair bit of pollution, while they claim they are temporary and turn them off 1 day out of 365? Not to m
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by sliken 2mo ago
Sounds like an issue with hardware. I watch ECC errors for 2500 servers and see a few some days, and zero others. Said servers at an elevation of 6,000 feet or so. A few per day for a single machine is crazy high. You likely have a dimm
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by sliken 2mo ago
Sort of, often there's workstation chips, like the xeon E3, which is a warmed over desktop chip ... with ECC. Price difference when I bought was $20 CHEAPER for the CPU (at the cost of 100 MHz or so). I did pay $50 more for a mother
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by sliken 4mo ago
C, for better or worse, is like a high level assembly language. You can do anything, which pretty much means you are going to have many security and correctness issues. Double free, use after free, off by one errors, buffer overflows, etc
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by sliken 5mo ago
AM5 is the AMD standard, it's accurate, seems rather pedantic to differentiate between 2 sub channels per dimm and saying 4 32 bit channels for a total of 128 bit. However the motherboard vendors get annoyingly hide that from you by cl
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by sliken 5mo ago
In computer manufacture speak dual channel = 2 x 64 bit = 128 bits wide. So with 2 dimms or 4 you still get 128 bit wide memory. With DDR4 that means 2 channels x 64 bit each. With DDR5 that means 4 channels x 32 bit each. Keep in mind th
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by sliken 5mo ago
I think there's a standard wiring for the dimm and some parts are shared. Each normal ddr5 dimm has 2 sub channels that are 32 bits each, and the new specification for the HUDIMM which will only enable 1 sub channel and only have half
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by sliken 5mo ago
Sadly motherboards, tech journalist, and many other places confuse the difference between a dimm and channel. The trick is the DDR4 generation they were the same, 64 bits wide. However a standard DDR5 dimm is not 1x64 bit, it's actua
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by sliken 5mo ago
> Quad-channel RAM is common on consumer desktops Yes, but tablets, laptops, and normal (non-HEDT) desktops have 4 channels, 4x32 bit = 128 bit wide. Modern memory with DDR5 allows two 32 bit channels on a 64 bit dimm. The previous gen
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by sliken 5mo ago
As you dig deeper I think you'll find a method behind the madness. Sure modules just play with env variables. But it's easy to inspect (module show), easy to document "use modules load ...", allows admins to change the
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by sliken 5mo ago
All. Keep in mind strix != strix halo. You can get tablets, laptops, and desktops. I think windows is more limited and might require static allocation of video memory, not because it's a separate pool, just because windows isn't
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by sliken 5mo ago
> You won't like it, but the answer is Apple. Or strix halo. Seems rather over simplified. The different levels of quants, for Qwen3.6 it's 10GB to 38.5GB. Qwen supports a context length of 262,144 natively, but can be extended
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by sliken 6mo ago
Try this one: https://archive.is/UGzzc
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by sliken 6mo ago
Any chance of turning this into a server/client with an API so people could use the language of their choice?
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by sliken 7mo ago
Along similar lines, the double-slit experiment, seems simple. Two slits let light though and you get bands where they constructively or destructively interfere, just like waves. However I still find it crazy that when you slow down the la
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by sliken 8mo ago
Sure, if you are smart enough. Maybe mount a small transmitter on a tree then use a directional antenna at a very low power and use the tree as a repeater. Or use NVIS, which at least makes triangulation harder.
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by sliken 8mo ago
Not that I have to tell this crowd. Tuxpaint is free, get it from tuxpaint.org, do not buy it, do not download it as part of a "desktop". I was talking to the author, apparently it's sadly often used to trick people into bu
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by sliken 8mo ago
I set up my kid, I think she was 3 or so, she started out with stamps of butterflies and the like. After awhile she looked at her hand, then mouse, then me, stared at me and said "ouch". I got a "travel" mouse that was
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by sliken 8mo ago
Keep in mind the desktop env knows when you are left clicking a link or middle clicking. So on linux, usually it's left click to go to a link or middle click to open link in a new tab. Middle click to open new tabs is compatible with
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by sliken 8mo ago
In theory I'd agree as well. In reality such features are often dropped, no settings in gnome-settings, and non default features are not tested in new builds. So you end up googling how to get that feature back and the answer is manual
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by sliken 8mo ago
Similarly gnome-terminal used to have "new terminal" as the first option in the menu of a terminal. Then it got moved down to 6th item, then in the newer versions removed completely. Very frustrating.
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by sliken 8mo ago
Sure. But it's a depreciation and there's numerous similar settings that are only available by tweaking settings manually or using gnome-tweaks. Right now nearly every linux app supports select with the left button and paste wit

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