labsin
@labsin@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Aluminum 2 months ago:
Pure aluminium is only used when you need to have very little reactivity.
General construction steel have >98% weight iron. Around the same as most aluminium alloys.
- Comment on Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? 6 months ago:
Cause selling new games is more profitable.
If a new games costs €60 and older games €5 or less (which would be a lot less on streaming services), they’d have to sell at least 12 old games for every new game they sell less cause of this change. And if gamers spend more time on older games, it’s highly possible that they’d buy, even just a single game, less.
It’s the same with movies or TV. They would only loose money if they make the whole archive available as there is just so much of it that some of the new things could become irrelevant.
Not that I’m against archiving, but it is caused by the creative sector having to have to make money, which isn’t easy for smaller players, and greed.
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 7 months ago:
There is rockbox that is an alternative firmware that adds every feature missing by default
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
Small PHEV’s would be ideal for the current generation. Battery advances will come, but we should always try to optimize with the current technology and 10 cars with a 10th the battery of a Tesla would be better for the future.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 8 months ago:
If they need permission for third party cookies and those are now no longer possible, the popups can go already.
And if a site doesn’t want to serve people that accept date hoarding, an account with terms and conditions is the only logical way to go.
Belgium forced facebook to not track users without an account and they reacted by doing this exact thing (requiring an account to even read pages). It made it a lot easier for me to not having to deal with Facebook at all. If some store or organization only had the info on Facebook, I’ll just tell them I can’t access it 🤷♂️
- Comment on When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024 - Socket 8 months ago:
Other package managers, like nuget, throw errors if all dependencies on a package cannot be met by a single version.
This is probably the result of it copying all libraries in the same output directory and that .net cannot load 2 different versions of the same library so more an application restriction.
The downside of this is that packages often can’t use newer features if they want to not block the users of that library and that utility libraries have to have his backwards compatibility so applications can use the latest version while dependent libraries target an older version. Often applications keep using older versions with known security issues.
- Comment on dotnet developer 8 months ago:
They also couldn’t call it “.Net Core 4” so they called it “.Net 5”
Will they keep skipping numbers or start thinking about not naming everything the same.
- Comment on A mother used her EV to power her son’s dialysis machine amid storms and a blackout | Electric vehicles with bidirectional charging can be life-saving, especially in times of power cuts and natural... 9 months ago:
Depends on the grid. If the lines and transformers are already used close to their limit, more smaller buffer batteries and smaller solar installations, closer to the user, could be more efficient and not require grid adjustments. The closet to the user, the less grid adjustments are needed.
Industrial roof solar should be standard in any new building by now. Companies need the power in the day and it can be used without even needing to use the grid.
- Comment on YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix 10 months ago:
This issue was detected when running Firefox on Linux on Apple silicon. Firefox on Mac just identifies as x64.
It’s probably not on purpose by YouTube. It’s stupid they put restrictions on some heuristics to begin with but maybe because otherwise people would think YouTube is not loading properly while it’s the software decoding on the not capable arm PC that can’t handle the resolution.
- Comment on [HN] Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found 1 year ago:
How are lithium batteries non-renewable? The batteries are mostly metal and can be truly recycled, as in the recycled product can be as good, or even more pure, then new. That’s now already the case for lead batteries.
The process for recycling lithium ion batteries is worse cause they are highly flammable. They need to be disassembled by hand and then put through difficult processes. The percentage that gets recycled right now is low cause of the cost. But the price of recycled lithium is becoming lower and new higher. Car batteries are already being recycled as they need to be disassembled and processed cause of the fire danger anyway.
- Comment on Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from 1 year ago:
Lol haters. Can’t really blame ppl for saying fanboy if talk like that. You post a hateful quote and ppl are nuance it. Doesn’t seem that bad.