tomooot

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by tomooot 2y ago
Not £12300 any more, £6000 last year and currently £3000.
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by tomooot 2y ago
Ahh good to know, thanks. PBT/PBAT is actually one of the "alloying" additives used to create PLA "Plus/Tough/Meta", as it increases hydrophilicity, deflection temperature, flow and ductility. Hopefully it
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by tomooot 2y ago
There's also potentially big advances to be made in single use but easily recondition-able aluminium-air batteries due to an expanding market. An anecdote I've heard is a lot of R&D is focused on these at the moment as they ha
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by tomooot 2y ago
It's hydrolyzed urethane, but I wouldn't recommend including any acetone to remove it, as you'll start to melt the laptop's ABS shell. 99% IPA, a scrubbing sponge and a bit of elbow grease should do just fine.
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by tomooot 2y ago
If it's hard (possibly transparent) plastic and smells like stale puke, that'll be acetate based plastic and there's nothing that can be done. If it's a tacky "grip texture" which has turned into a combo of con
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by tomooot 2y ago
Not really feasible though: even now where players don't even need to buy the game, the server owner has to pay hundreds of $ a month for advertising/promoted ranking on serverlists just to get a decent population. The VIP system
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by tomooot 2y ago
I'm not sure about the pirate copies, but weirdly, my Steam install had it set to 0, and it's quite a fresh install too! It seems like yes most of the "slowhack" methods have been patched out, but knowing the demographic
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by tomooot 2y ago
Even modern high end graphics cards use abstractions of the base data to create vast amounts of the final output's fine detail. For example tessellation and other techniques used for complex geometry like compound curves, which allow m
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by tomooot 2y ago
They actually cover these concerns, acknowledge it was a problem with examples of siblings or students behind a shared IP, and then developed a parallel cookie based tracking system, using the "server welcome message" which is ser
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by tomooot 2y ago
On a counter-strike 1.6 server I help with moderating, we have the occasional cheater roll by, surprisingly often "ragehacking" with no attempt at subtlety (e.g. making noscope sniper headshots in mid air). Since the server owner
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by tomooot 2y ago
It took me a couple of years to notice the "beautify" filter on my samsung S7 as I only ever activated the screen side camera by accident. When I did eventually use it a bit, I subconsciously knew something was off but assumed it
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by tomooot 2y ago
>the anti-helo drone isn't running a whole sound analysis, just a narrow range Why? Sure you might be limited to that if you're using an Arduino but with an FPGA or even a cheap "edge AI" NPU you could do a very thoro
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by tomooot 2y ago
Performance wise, most matte filaments are more brittle and have worse layer adhesion due to the matting pigment, but do a good job at hiding lines as the reduction in specular highlights reduce the visibility of them. Another good trick is
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by tomooot 2y ago
I would imagine if the design/assembly information was broadly available (internally) in the past, there's probably one or several "digital twin" emulations of the craft, or at the very least specific subsystems of it&#x
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by tomooot 2y ago
Most racing bicycles are right up against the limit of the minimum weight allowed. Sometimes they even add ballast weights to stay over the limit, and fit them as low as possible as lower weight = better cornering performance due to moving
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by tomooot 2y ago
Tiny aerodynamic gains from lack of cabling. But also allows more flexibility (sometimes literally, as anisotropic properties can be engineered into the layup) in the design of the composite material frames, as you don't need to worry
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by tomooot 2y ago
$100 is plausible though, and if you had some outdated mining hardware (still likely to be single use ASIC hashing setups rather than computers) along with a lack of morals/ethics, then I can see it happening for sure.
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by tomooot 2y ago
One example that springs to mind is the documentation site for WLED, an incredibly powerful microcontroller firmware for controlling addressable LEDs: https://kno.wled.ge/
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by tomooot 2y ago
As far as I understood the explanation, the incoming ("external") 50Mhz clock signal is a core requirement of the spec: all of those workarounds are just what is required to meet that spec, and be able to TX/RX using the prot
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by tomooot 2y ago
The squeeze is mostly within the segmentation of VRAM between products, it's basically a commodity and this week the spot price for 8GB of GDDR6 has varied from $1.30 to $3.50 [1]. Yet to get a card with 8GB more than one with comparab
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by tomooot 2y ago
I've converted a £10 trash tier quadcopter to run off of 30G wire. Only 5 meters range, and the weight and momentum of the wire cause extremely difficult to control oscillations, but it still flies (badly)! The transmission losses over
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by tomooot 2y ago
I think modding communities are a reasonably good analog to this. Up until someone realized you could change the alpha channel of wall textures to make them transparent, the way to get a custom skin in Counter Strike Source (and 1.6), was t
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by tomooot 2y ago
Neural nets using individual tubes as nodes? Although the current trend seems to be quantizing down to a minimal amount of bits to process more in parallel, in an analogue system you could have a near "continuous" range of values.
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by tomooot 2y ago
AMC7135 might work: it's a linear LDO fixed current regulator designed for driving LEDs, which internally is basically an N-channel MOSFET which holds it's gate voltage in the linear region and actively adjusts it to provide const