bluGill
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- Comment on JLCPCB Locking Accounts, Mentions “Risky IP Addresses, Activities” | Hackaday 1 day ago:
Not when the target is expected to know that. Spelling it out is for when the reader might not know.
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 2 days ago:
What can they figure out? If they can detect cancer when it is easy to treat I'd pay much more than that.
i don't think they can detect anything useful, but if they can.
- Comment on anyone have a sheet music system/workflow that works? 5 days ago:
I had found that. A lot of projects are early releases that have not been touched in years - is that because they are stable or because the author gave up before making them useful? Which is why I want not a list but an opinion from someone else doing this.
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- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 1 week ago:
Thanks for the reminder, I need to do that again.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 1 week ago:
They exist, but hard to find. Most people doing this are hobbyists doing the conversion for their own fun. They might help you with your project but for liability reasons they are just helping.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 1 week ago:
A V8 has a lot of low RPM torque so if you drive with a light foot it can do very well. Most of the energy from an engine is used moving the car, not engine losses. A smaller engine is always going to do better at the same load, but the difference isn't going to be large if everything else is equal (which it often isn't)
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 1 week ago:
Most people who are cheap enough to do without the amenities still want them and so will buy a used car with all the amenities over a new car at the same price without.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 1 week ago:
It is less valid for accounting software than cars on the road. If you mess up accounting software CEOs go to prison for tax fraud. If you mess up car software it is someone else who dies, but no prison time for the CEO.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 1 week ago:
Points don't fail that often, and I just need to file them every very months.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I have enough of a machinist background to doubt the threads are anywhere close to perfect. However if you are saying more than good enough I will agree.
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 1 week ago:
i have never heard of that. Which doesn't mean much as there are thousands of differet christian churches and they disagree on many things.
- Comment on Must my Jellyfin server be able to AV1 videos? 1 week ago:
Or is it better to save a few bucks now and save it for next year when something new comes out that is faster anyway. Maybe there is a new codec that matters in 3 years but nothing today supports: so either way you are forced to replace your server.
There is no right answer, you are taking your chances when planning for the future. There are many computers more than 10 years old still working just fine in the world, and it is possible that whatever you buy today will be as well. We get enough press releases that we can predict what will happen next year close enough, but in 5 years we have much less information. There is no way to know if saving money is a good choice today or not. I can come up with scenarios either way.
Look at power use. Often last generation hardware uses more power for the things you do today and so the few dollars you save today are made up with in the power bill over the next couple years. (though if you use that new hardware to do something the old couldn't do the new will use more power!)
If there is only a few dollars difference in price go for the best. However when there are hundreds or even thousands of dollars it becomes a harder decision.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 weeks ago:
Fiber makes a big difference with fruit. it slows down absorbtion on often sugars are locked in fiber needing time.
Glucose affects the gi it is absorbed directly into the bloodstream. Futose cannot be used directly and so the liver processes it - no gi index applies.
Sucrose generally implies no fiber and so the simplification works fine. With the added constraint that only half of the molecule is glucose and influences the gi index.
that is as far as I know things so I need to stop. Even then I'll stand corrected if an expert weighs in (though it is more likely the 'expert' is self proclaimed and really knows less than me so I place a high burdon of proff for correcting me despite this not being where I'm an expert)
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 weeks ago:
Sugar - sucrose - is split into frutose and glucose in the stomach. your whole thesis is not how digestion works. Frucose is processed in the liver, but all other claims are something I've never seen real science back up
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 2 weeks ago:
Patents have a short life span. The patent wall keeps expiring and then everyone can use it no cost. the big improvements are long gone and all they can patent is small improvements you can do without (though you may not want to). They also run into those making things do their own r&d and have their own patents.
- Comment on Does the filament path of ruby nozzles degrade + is DUROZZLE any good? 2 weeks ago:
Everything will degrade should be your defaut assumption. The question is how long, and that feeds into the ecconomic question of how much is a given level of quality worth.
i can't answer your question, but hopefull this helps you understand why you didn't frame is quite right and in turn figure out the correct answers for you-
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
There is a lot of great music that I've never heard. (there is even more bad "music") Once in a while I want to hear something different, and streaming does that for me. Not well, but I have a hard time finding something better.
- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 4 weeks ago:
Perfection requires x-rays or tearing the wall down.
a rule of thumb is the middle third is for pipes nd wires, the outside thirds are for screws. This doesn't always hold (it is physically possible in all cases), but tradesmen try for it.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 4 weeks ago:
Gfci or rewire.
If you put in a gfci I'd connec the ground to the metal box - wood is not a great ground but with the gfci doing safety purposes wood is enough for some things that want ground (that is a shield). If you can get a ground wire to enough places connected to enough different points it will fool most ground testers - remember that this is only useful if a gfci is providing safety and your goal is to fool the other reasons you want a ground.
- Comment on Asbestos Paint? 4 weeks ago:
Asbestos is normally in the texture under the paint, not the paint itself. (Not that it can't be in paint but the texture is a different thing)
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
People talking about vitamins universially mean suppliments. Whole foods are better, but people talk about eating healty then (also meaningless but potentially better)
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
There is a difference between vitamins and food. Food has nutrition: not just vitamins but calories, fiber, and such. Vitamins mostly make your pee expensive as your body has to work to get rid of the excess to keep the right balance.
sometimes vitamins are needed - see your doctor for advice not internet comments. without medical advice vitamens are wasting money
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 4 weeks ago:
leaving someone out is never effective. So it is often good to force one language for work purposes. Though personal convertations can be whatever.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 4 weeks ago:
Samsung appliances have had a bad reputation for more than a decade now. I don't know how they can still sell appliances - how is it not everyone knows yet? How is it they still haven't fixed the quality problems?
- Comment on Machines might not be able to reproduce themselves 4 weeks ago:
Bootstraping is what you are looking for. A lathe is often the start of bootstraping because a lathe can make itself. You can also use a lathe to make a lathe, but if you do it that way you slowly lose accuracy over generations (but it is much faster and so most lathes are made with lathes). By having a lathe make itself you restore accuracy (and if you have learned something can sometimes get even higher accuracy than previous rounds). Before you can make a lathe you need precision flat surfaces, but it turns out only basic tools are needed to bootstrap that (and a lot of time). A lathe is considered a machine.
The point is that robots can make themselves if you program them for that. I'm making a clear distinction between reproduce themselves and make themselves here. A nearly worn out robot can restart the whole thing (so long as it does fail completely too soon) of making a new robot that is bigger and more accurate than it ever was (if bigger and more accurate is desired by the programming). That doesn't mean the same robot could reproduce itself, instead it has to cause a robot to make itself.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
They need to invite lemmy somehow too. I know no ceo but still plenty of radicals. Not just on .ml though that is the worst.
- Comment on Senators Press Amazon’s Bezos on Unfair Scheduling Practices Hurting Workers: Amazon’s “just-in-time” scheduling leaves hourly workers with volatile schedules, uncertain paychecks 4 weeks ago:
I find it weird that every part time jobs tries to play off flexible scheduling as a perk. Their schedule isn't flexible, they decide what shifts they want me to work. It might be better than factory work where you always work exactly the same shift or you must take vacation (or sick leave but they demand a doctor's note) - but you can plan around that well in advance. Meanwhile every full time job I've had wasn't factory work and so the expectation was "work any 8 hours per day, make sure you show up for the important meetings)
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 4 weeks ago:
Lifetime for security. Other features (new drivers...) you can pay for, but security is lifetime. You need to escrow enough money to provide this service or prove that nobody is using the OS.
All services required for use of the device are also lifetime - though they may charge a subscription price so long as that price is clear to the customer before the first sale and prices go up by inflation only. After 15 years they can drop the service if it is easy for a "normal user" to switch to a different subscription provider; and all source code required for someone "skilled in the art" to create and maintain their own service provider is publicly released under terms that allow modification and redistribution was released at least 5 years before killing their own service.
You are allowed to drop support for any protocol that is not latest recommended state of the art so long as you maintain what was recommended at time of release. If a newer protocol comes out you need not support it. (Which is to say you can be IPv6 only today, and if the internet switches to IPv12 in the future you don't have to support that)
The above applies to anything network connected. OS, web browser, Security camera, thermostat....
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
Every study I've seen says that vitamins make not difference in the majority of cases. Low vitamin levels can have cold like symptoms, and in that case vitamins will fix the problem.