qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 35 points 3 months 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 months 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 months 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!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 4 months ago

I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 4 months ago

But once you got that XFree86 config dialed in, life was awesome.

(Ok looks like Xorg has been around for 21 years, so maybe you were running it instead.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 13 points 4 months ago

That works for linear motion but not for rotation---that requires acceleration (provided by gravity).

(I know, it's a meme comment and I'm being pedantic...)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Per the Linux kernel coding style:

Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.

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