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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Obviously you should use an exponential search, assuming you don't know the age of the oldest human.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

Not sure how serious your comment is, but I could certainly imagine Microsoft introducing new dependencies/hooks/all-executables-must-support-copilot, etc., that break compatibility faster than Wine can keep up. Glad to hear that's not the case!

For old stuff though...yeah, I'd hope it's not moving backwards :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 22 points 4 days ago

my pro tip.

I see what you did there.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Torvalds uses it too I believe, so you're in good company (Debian for me, though my heart belongs to Slackware).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The difference between a cheap bike and a nice bike is similar to the difference between a Chromebook and a decked out ThinkPad or Macbook IMHO.

You're absolutely right: most folks just browse the web, and a Chromebook is enough. But the other products do have value.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Whenever I mess with my bike brakes, I only do one wheel, then a few rides later allow myself to do the other. That way if I botch it I should have another brake that sorta still works.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago

I don't think it does---I think OOP is doing the math and then inputting the sum.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 34 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The thing that fascinates me is that every single digital microwave I've ever used behaves the same way, and allows the "seconds-place" to be 0-99.

My best guesses are

  • There's some ASIC that's been around forever and everyone uses it (a cockroach chip like the 555)
  • The first digital microwave did this and all subsequent ones followed
  • There's actually some implementation reasons why this is way more sensible.

Writing it in software, there are different ways that folks would probably implement it, for example, "subtract one, calculate minutes and seconds, display" seems reasonable. But nope, every one I've ever used is just the Wild West in the seconds department.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

200MWh is about 1/100 of Little Boy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Compressed air can get out all at once given the right circumstances.

Storing energy in a way that can go boom is something I'd be a little scared of, were I a nearby resident. I'm sure thermal batteries can have gnarly failure mechanisms but I would way rather live near one of those than a giant compressed air cylinder.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Right now the only thing I genuinely feel is missing that would increase my happiness, is an exercise routine.

I'll put in a plug for cycling. You can nerd out over the latest bike gear, restore vintage bikes, or just pay the nice folks at your local bike shop to set you up and focus on the riding, it's up to you!

You can also ride "unplugged," or you can measure speed, cadence, heart rate, even power output (if you spend $$$)---again, something for everyone!

Good luck!

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