ternus

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by ternus 5mo ago
Came here to mention this. I've had a lot of fun putting up stealth repeaters in trees to build out the Meshcore network. One or two nodes in critical places can light up dozens of square miles for the mesh. Find your local Discord and
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by ternus 6mo ago
> 2 kW socket > kilometers It's much more tenable in the 220V world, for sure. But even if you only charge during road trips, the quality of the chargers during those road trips matters!
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by ternus 6mo ago
I'm not making any representation of how common this is - just saying that unless all those conditions apply to you, you will eventually have cause to care about the quality, availability, and reliability of public DC charging infrastr
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by ternus 6mo ago
The vast majority of what you're running from RV DC are things like lights, fans, phone chargers, and other cigarette-plug-adapter type devices. My RV has a 12V DC fridge. For anything more - particularly air conditioning - you need AC
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by ternus 6mo ago
I laughed so loudly it startled the cat
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by ternus 6mo ago
> This method achieved an energy conversion efficiency of about 130%, exceeding the traditional 100% limit I am extraordinarily confident that it did not. > In practical terms, this means about 1.3 molybdenum-based metal complexes wer
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by ternus 6mo ago
The infrastructure in question is DC fast chargers. Yes, you can charge at home if you have a house, with a parking space reachable with an EVSE, and your commute is short enough that you can fully recharge by the next commute, and nobody n
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by ternus 6mo ago
The lesser-known instance of this is RV power. When you're running off small batteries and solar, you want to make the best use of the watt-hours you have, and that means avoiding the DC-to-AC-to-DC loop wherever possible. So you run 1
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by ternus 6mo ago
You might be surprised. Various games have come with both. One iteration (the 3DS remake of Gold/Silver) even came with a pedometer that allowed you to level up by walking around: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki
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by ternus 6mo ago
Philips Hue, and Zigbee direct-binding in general, can achieve this if you're willing to use their wall switches. Still works if the hub is offline. Depends on your definition of "regular switches," I suppose -- but anyone wi
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by ternus 6mo ago
I have almost everything in my house HA-automated, but anything touching the water supply is all on dumb physical valves and electrical timers. If my light switches don't work, that's annoying. If a robot vacuum doesn't run,
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by ternus 6mo ago
Further to what's listed elsewhere: A RAM chip takes several months to make, starting from an empty silicon wafer. Each chip takes 8-10 weeks to go through the process of lithography, deposition, etching, cleaning, etc. It then must be
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by ternus 6mo ago
They have something like 2 stars on Goodreads. Imagine that as a fairly accurate product review score - if they were Amazon products, they'd be somewhere between "obviously counterfeit" and "burned my house down."
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by ternus 6mo ago
There's a sequel to Andromeda Strain? ... Yeah, better off forgetting this information.
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by ternus 6mo ago
A mere month after Pretenders to the Throne of God. You have to admire his output.
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by ternus 6mo ago
DO NOT READ THE SEQUELS One of the few cases where they actively ruin the first book, to the extent you take them as true sequels. Clarke basically licensed his name and plot to Gentry Lee, who proceeded to ruin the sense of wonder by expla
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by ternus 6mo ago
"Wonder" might be the wrong way to describe it, but Blindsight by Peter Watts gave me the same feeling of "this is incredibly alien and I have no idea what will happen next". Other books with a similar plot structure and
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by ternus 7mo ago
Are you going to return it for an M5?
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by ternus 7mo ago
Almost nowhere do you see the sun directly overhead at noon, even during Standard Time. The differences can be quite stark: https://24timezones.com/cms-static/images/uploads/solartimev... BC (and PST) is actu
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by ternus 8mo ago
For one non-core part of their chip. > The GPU die will remain with TSMC
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by ternus 8mo ago
Dimming. And even without that, the "continuous DC" is usually provided by switch-mode power supplies that themselves have a PWM ripple. How much depends on the quality of the supply.
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by ternus 9mo ago
Are you sure? I took 6.814 Database Systems back when Stonebraker taught it, and it's still being taught as 6.5830. The first problem set was a nontrivial crash course in SQL, using SQLite. Current/modern version: http:/&#x2
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by ternus 9mo ago
You may want to look into an AVR (audio/video receiver), also known as a home theater receiver. Aside from powering speakers, that's their core function: connect a variety of inputs (HDMI, AirPlay, radio, composite, etc. etc.) to
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by ternus 9mo ago
It's interesting to see that MIT is still like this. Canonically, there were no classes that taught programming per se: if you needed that, there were (often volunteer-taught) courses over IAP, the January Independent Activities Period
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by ternus 9mo ago
And if you get bored of that, you can flip the RAM for more than you spent on the whole system!
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by ternus 9mo ago
Headline should be *Pharaoh
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by ternus 9mo ago
I'm afraid to replace the battery in mine, since it's glued together. It's only a matter of time before it's unusable. The latest Kindle software is already glacially slow on it (waiting multiple seconds for taps to regi
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by ternus 9mo ago
On iOS, and probably on Android though I haven't checked, you can choose to only be notified of messages from certain contacts (in iOS it's in Focus Modes). This may help.
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by ternus 9mo ago
I'm grateful we got Piranesi, which is one of my favorite books of the last few years. The audiobook is splendid.
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by ternus 9mo ago
Regarding horses vs. engines, what changed the game was not engine efficiency, but the widespread availability of fuel (gas stations) and the broad diffusion of reliable, cheap cars. Analogies can be made to technologies like cell phones, M

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