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by userbinator 3d ago
Power is cheaper than things failing earlier than they could have due to thermal cycling.
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by userbinator 3d ago
You shouldn't need to change the temperature regardless of those things. My house remains at 68-72F basically all the time. Thermal cycling accelerates aging of materials.
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by userbinator 3d ago
Unchecked OCR can lead to amusing results: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374359
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by userbinator 3d ago
Rather Claudish(?)-sounding README (and even the examples!) aside, this definitely has that early 20th/late 19th-century aesthetic. I think 99% of it is due to the choice of font.
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by userbinator 3d ago
My idea of HVAC is that it should be "set and forget", so "smart" is the polar opposite of what I want. The round Honeywell on the wall has been doing its job for the past few decades, and will likely last many more with
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by userbinator 4d ago
2G also needs a tiny amount of spectrum in contrast to the newer standards, as it was designed almost exclusively for voice calls, where a few Kbps is sufficient for good quality speech. (And 64kbps, which is only 8KB/s, is considere
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by userbinator 5d ago
I suspect this article is LLM-generated, but for something which is supposed to write like a human should, this writing style is sure irritating to read.
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by userbinator 5d ago
I was suspicious when they started obfuscating URLs in their own browser, then on their SERPs, and now this... For many years, I had my filtering proxy rewrite the URLs in the way mentioned in the article. Almost exactly a year ago, Google
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by userbinator 5d ago
but in houses with water tanks This is another big surprise to Americans, which went from no running water to high-pressure mains.
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by userbinator 5d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process is a more focused article about it.
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by userbinator 6d ago
WebGPU/WebGL is another thing that only trusted sites should be allowed to use, just like JS in general.
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by userbinator 7d ago
A quick search online for "oscilloscope clock schematics" finds plenty of content on how to build one. Were you referring to this AVR oscilloscope clock? http://www.dutchtronix.com/ScopeClockH3-1-Enhanced.htm
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by userbinator 7d ago
Nothing to do with AI, but just the general storm of trying to force the Internet into a proprietary, tightly-controlled walled garden with strong identity verification.
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by userbinator 7d ago
Because the location of the pole is constantly shifting, the TRM of ancient pottery points in a slightly different direction than that of pottery made today. Did anyone else have a strong "WTF?" reaction upon reading that senten
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by userbinator 7d ago
When I read the title I thought it would be about depleted uranium, which other aircraft have used as weight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Trim_weights_...
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Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 (2014)(labguysworld.com)
22 points by userbinator 9d ago|4 comments
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by userbinator 9d ago
Almost 13 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759426
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by userbinator 9d ago
How much does he even care about the details of X these days? I suspect the original C&Ds were just their legal team wanting to "do something" upon hearing about Nitter somehow, and not Elon personally commanding them. ...and
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by userbinator 9d ago
You spent --- what I'd assume would be several k$ from prices found online --- to buy a self-playing piano, and are now asking if you can release the tools to have it play the music of your choosing? IMHO the fact that you even had to
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by userbinator 9d ago
Soon enough you will realise that everything is a derivative work, and the sooner that happens to everyone, the faster the delusion of Imaginary Property will disappear and lead to actual competition and progress.
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by userbinator 9d ago
Two letters is luxury, when most BASIC interpreters in those days only recognised 1-letter variables.
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by userbinator 9d ago
Just ask your preferred AI tool if it can shrink the OP's code while keeping the same functionality; I suspect it could. At this point, LLMs are probably no worse than an average human at sizecoding or targeting resource-constrained pl
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by userbinator 10d ago
but using the source itself as the target of function calls and loops is new to me This was standard practice on interpreters for 8-bit microcomputers; with only a 64K total address space, creating an AST first seems immensely wasteful, s
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by userbinator 10d ago
To be precise this is 1024 bytes of C, which compiles to a binary many times larger, and implements a very tiny subset of Python. loops work by jumping backwards and reparsing the source each iteration This is how the DOS .bat processing
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by userbinator 10d ago
Computer files are very unintuitive concept for humans. That's just an excuse they give to justify the cycle of learned helplessness and control by Big Tech.
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by userbinator 10d ago
A file system, especially a local one, invites interoperability and control over one's data. Hiding this from users makes it more difficult for them to have that control, and now they have to rely on the application vendor to do in a p
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by userbinator 10d ago
That's not a UI issue.
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by userbinator 10d ago
They certainly design --- to look good at first glance, but not necessarily be practical.
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by userbinator 10d ago
because the original Macintosh didn't have arrow keys on the keyboard. However, the very next keyboard they designed did have them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Macintosh_Plus_Exte... I can't im
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by userbinator 10d ago
Thinly veiled marketing post. I've had to use Finder, and it's definitely frustrating in a "Think Different" sort of way, but this article doesn't actually mention why beyond vague statements. Here's a concrete

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