leisesprecher
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- Comment on Nature is blunt. 1 week ago:
I’m still not sure, what exactly the journals are actually doing.
Like, in all seriousness, what service do they provide? Just hosting the platform for anonymized reviews and basically a blog for the actual articles? That should cost maybe a few millions each year, yet this sector makes billions in revenue.
- Comment on End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell 2 weeks ago:
He’s still on YouTube, in case you didn’t know.
- Comment on How much current can I safely pull from an ESP8266? 2 weeks ago:
Two stupid questions:
1.) why is there a 5V regular for a USB plug that’s supposed to be 5V only?
2.) will this regulator output more than 2W and burn itself out or is there a self limiting thingy? The 3W from the wall include power supply and board, so 2W don’t seem too far off.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de | 6 comments
- Comment on Revised Raspberry Pi 5 chip comes with unexpected power savings 2 weeks ago:
What really bothers me is that rpi seems to have “lost its way”.
I’d argue, there are essentially two camps here. The close-to-x86 camp, who want powerful, but efficient small machines, and the tinker-board camp, who want cheap machines with barely any power needs, basically a microcontroller on steroids, that you can buy an entire school class worth of for a few bucks.
Rpis started in the latter camp. 35€ for reasonable performance, great software for kids to tinker with, hardly any requirements, everyone has a usb mouse/keyboard.
But nowadays pis are in the no man’s land between. They’re priced above cheap N100 PCs, but are not as powerful, and simultaneously way too expensive and involved for throwing them at children - like it was initially intended.
I’m not sure, how that’s supposed to be sustainable.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 2 weeks ago:
That’s one of the reasons I lost almost all interest in games.
It already costs an arm and a leg to stay somewhat on top of the hardware requirements, I can’t justify to myself also investing hundreds of hours into essentially busy work.
I don’t enjoy fetching Fred’s uncle’s magic shovel of doom from a stupid generic dungeon 4h away.
Maybe I’m weird, but I use games more like interactive movies. I want a story, not some artificial and ultimately pointless “challenge”.
- Comment on A unique aquaponics system to produce more fish and vegetables with less energy 3 weeks ago:
I have to say, I’m always skeptical of proposals that seem too active.
Agriculture is mostly passive. Of course plants need care, but most of the time, they’re doing their thing alone. If you need constant monitoring, maintenance, resource cycling, etc, etc, it’ll drive costs up very quickly and will need to be detached from nature quite a bit.
This is, at best, a niche solution for rich countries. It won’t feed the masses.
- Comment on Chat is this real 4 weeks ago:
…and immunity is exactly what this is about.
Every time you get surgery, you sign a waiver basically saying “there’s an inherent risk to this, we’re not liable unless someone really screws up”. And that’s exactly what Disney is trying here - just using an absolutely bonkers interpretation of it.
- Comment on Chat is this real 4 weeks ago:
That’s not the same. You still don’t have any legal claims against the hospital or the doctor. You can’t sue your surgeon, because you missed, say another week of work because of some unexpected bleeding.
- Comment on Chat is this real 4 weeks ago:
Or at least reasonable.
It’s perfectly reasonable for, say, a tattoo artist not to be liable for the medical bills, if the ink causes a hitherto unknown allergy to kick in.
It’s not reasonable to argue that a streaming service agreement covers liability for being cut in half by a train.
There has to be a reasonable understanding of the underlying risks that are covered. Some things are just inherently risky, and if the buyer knows and understands that, she can agree on taking that risk. Otherwise, no doctor would ever touch any patient ever again.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 5 weeks ago:
Look at crowdstrike. A tiny error disabled millions of computers for hours. Think about what would have happened, if this wouldn’t have been an error, but an actual attack.
Look at the supply chains of medical supplies. One major outbreak of some bacterial disease in India or China will lead to them stopping exports and since so many pills are produced there, a huge drop in global supply.
Look at the undersea cables. There are not that many and capable malicious actor could easily destroy a lot of them.
Look at the power grid. I don’t know about other parts of the world, but the European grid, spanning pretty much all countries in Europe plus turkey, has no plan for a cold start. If it breaks down, there’s gonna be blackouts for weeks.
Of course, none of that will end society, but that’s not how collapses work anyway. One event triggers another, and the combination leads to the collapse itself.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 5 weeks ago:
As a software engineer, this is exactly how software works.
Everything is just a huge mess bolted and duct taped together, sometimes over decades. And it’s all way too complex to understand and crap like crowdstrike happens.
You can’t rely on anything anymore and I’m pretty sure, our highly interdependent world will come very close to collapse if anything major happens. Covid was a warning shot, but nobody heard it.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 5 weeks ago:
That’s the nature of capitalism.
Look at healthcare, software, construction. Unless there’s a very clear incentive to produce high quality (laws or enforceable contracts) things will go lower and lower in quality.
And unfortunately, a lot of consumers don’t care all that much about quality. They want crap that looks fancy.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 5 weeks ago:
For a lot of Asian countries the “asian dream” is still somewhat realistic.
Just look at China or Korea. Many of the older folks there grew up in abject poverty, but the countries managed to develop themselves through hard labor into modern, wealthy nations. The promise of “my kids will have it better” was actually true for them. And that promise still drives a lot of the work culture. In China the first cracks already appear, since for the first time in 50 years or so, the current youth has no way up anymore.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 5 weeks ago:
It’s not about capabilities, it’s about cost.
If you can exploit your workers, pay shit wages for long hours, you’ll get a cheaper product. You can get the same output by applying higher standards, but that would mean hiring more people.
- Comment on Technically Correct 5 weeks ago:
It’s security theater through and through.
Apart from the obvious failings of these checks, think about what kind of damage a single backpack of explosives can do to a packed airport during holiday season. You can literally put a ton of explosives on one of those trolleys, roll it into the waiting area and kill 200 people easily. No security whatsoever involved.
Reality is, most security measures are designed to keep the illusion of control. Nothing more. Penetration testers show again and again that you can easily circumvent practically all barriers or measures.
- Comment on He really wants to kill that platform lol 5 weeks ago:
Where exactly do you think you’re writing this?
- Comment on He really wants to kill that platform lol 5 weeks ago:
What’s really baffling to me is that a bunch of nerds with too much free time on their hands basically stomped out a fully fledged Reddit alternative within a few months, including multiple frontends and apps.
Yet Reddit spends millions on development every year, for no discernable improvement whatsoever, while still turning no profit.
Where is all that money going? Seriously, Reddit is a very simple site. There’s nothing that hard about it. The amount of data is tiny, since the content is external, none of the resources are that time critical, a lot of content can be cached.
What are the devs doing all day?
- Comment on Hermit Crab Housing Market 5 weeks ago:
Also, sometimes you just want a tight fit house to show what you got.
- Comment on Hackers hope to democratize laser-based processor hacking — $500 RayV Lite relies on 3D printing, a laser pen, and a Raspberry Pi to bring costs down 1 month ago:
Why the question marks, the answer is always yes.
- Comment on Does anyone know what happened to the Surface Duo? 1 month ago:
It’s interesting how often Microsoft managed to bring truly innovative products a few years too early to market and then just silently fails.
They had tablets in the early 00s, ARM laptops, folding phones, media centers.
- Comment on Simple light-sensitive light switch? 1 month ago:
That’s incredibly fancy.
- Comment on Simple light-sensitive light switch? 1 month ago:
At least the last problem could probably be solved by simply a simple housing so the sensor “looks” outside - at least I hope so.
- Comment on Simple light-sensitive light switch? 1 month ago:
I thought about that as well, but the simple ones seem to have no sensitivity setting, and they are are butt ugly and bulky - not exactly what I want in my room.
- Submitted 1 month ago to askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de | 11 comments
- Comment on Germany’s solar market faces price wars, consolidation 1 month ago:
Weirdly enough, Germany installed more PV this year than ever before, and we even almost met the goals for the entire year in the first half: energiezukunft.eu/…/jahres-zubau-ziel-fuer-die-so…
I think the main issue is here that everyone and their uncle started to bolt solar panels on buildings, so the installer market is flooded with supply, but the demand can’t keep up.
- Comment on Damn it Salmo 1 month ago:
This is what’s happening in highly complex software over time. Every larger system has corners like this.
I’ve worked on a system that required that you send invalid XML, because some bloke 10 years ago didn’t know what he’s doing and hardcoded a certain structure.
Easy fix, but our clients relied in the old behavior, and nobody bothered fixing it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Their single vote pods cancelled the upvote button.
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 1 month ago:
Yes, but not using her body.
- Comment on I AM BUTTGRABEN 1 month ago:
See also halibut - Heilbutt in German.