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Guess it also depends on your system. I pretty routinely keep several hundred firefox tabs open with no issues … but I’ve got 80GB of RAM to go around, so it’s fine.

I’d really like to see a laptop made with this type of display…

If you keep 1000 tabs open, maybe. Otherwise, it’s not too bad.

I was scared for a long time to switch

But … why?

I’m honestly asking here. What’s so scary about using a different browser? I’ve got (let me count…) at least 6 different browsers installed on my current machine, switching between them for different tasks each of them is better at.

It’s not like switching from Windows to Linux, where you actually have to say goodbye to Windows (maybe) in order to make the switch. You can easily install Chrome and Firefox, using whichever one suits you at the moment. So what’s so scary about switching?

Maybe then Chrome can finally die.

IMO, the UK especially has no room to talk when it comes to measurement systems. They still use an unholy hodgepodge of imperial and metric and on top of that they have just a few weird as fuck things, like using ‘stone’ to refer to people’s weight and nothing else.

Nah … I’ve met random small business owners from the Midwest. And they are not the kind of people you want having unquestionable authority.

Pretty much all caves are in karst topography. What’s so special about this area in particular?

Interesting … what’s special about that one spot on earth that all 4 of the deepest caves would form there?

Anyway, I imagine this graphic is likely to change in the future, since the deepest parts of caves are often the least well-explored. When I was doing work as a cave explorer, we often did day trips to map parts of the upper cave, but trying to get to the deepest portions involved major multi-day expeditions. To get to the deepest unexplored frontier of one cave I worked in required a 4-day journey, one way.

You still haven’t touched your grass yet.

Touch some grass.

So, more on the scam side than on the shitty, overpriced product side.

Anything highly advertised is always some sort of scam and/or shitty, overpriced product.

Anything you see advertised more than once is a product to avoid. Especially if you see those advertisements on youtube.

Those profits will not be passed on 100% to consumers, but parts will be, to draw more people into the store.

Really, though, got any data on that? Because what’s to stop a store from passing 0% of that onto consumers and thus increasing their profits?

all those cards etc are just provided to tie you in, to increase the margin of the store. Reject them

Nah, fam. I’m getting that 10% veteran’s discount.

products will be more expensive in stores that use more expensive cashiers

All stores have at least some cashiers. At least, all the ones I ever go to.

And I’m going to need a source about those self-checkout stores being cheaper, because I sure haven’t seen that.

One of the main reasons why I refuse to use self-checkout.

A few more reasons:

• In some stores, gift cards, discounts, coupons, etc can’t be used in self-checkout.

• It’s essentially making me do the job of the cashier for free. Fuck that noise. They want me to do it, they can pay me.

• The line for real registers is sometimes a bit longer, but it tends to move much faster, because it’s not full of a bunch of grandmas having their first experience with a robot accusing them of theft.

• Gross germs all over the self-checkout machines, which I’m sure are never cleaned at all.

Maybe if we massively overbuild renewables, and then the AI bubble pops, electricity demand will suddenly drop, leaving us with an almost completely renewable-powered grid, since there’s no longer enough demand to spin up the fossil fuel plants?

Interferometry, maybe?

Two microphones, side by side. Signals that come from directly in front (or directly behind, unfortunately) will hit both microphones simultaneously. But sounds coming from the side or any other angle will hit each microphone at slightly different times. If you then have a hardware or software solution to filter out any sound waves that don’t match, you’ve got a highly directional microphone that should work well in any frequency range. (Can also use this setup with 3 microphones if it needs to be 3D and filter out noise from above and below as well.)

There are commercially available setups that do this, but in theory it shouldn’t be too hard to build your own, either. I mean, in theory, you could just feed the outputs of both mics through an and-gate transistor into a single output, and that very simple hardware would do the filtering for you – you’ll only get the outputs from when both mics pic up the same sound at the same time.

Maybe just stick with audio recording, but use a more directional microphone? (And use foam to isolate it from any vibrations in the walls/floor.)

(it’s a heartbeat sensor that csn detect a heart beat several kilometers away)

Damn. When the robots take over, we are so fucked.

Yeah, lol. Everybody here coming up with complicated solutions … just tie a string between these two mounting holes. That’s it. That’s all it takes.

Depending on the type of motor, it may still have a motor capacitor to help it get started. Certain types of electric motors need a capacitor in order to start safely from a standstill, no matter how old they are. (And such motor capacitors can often be pretty large and dangerous.) And even if you’re not opening the motor housing where such a capacitor would probably be located, that capacitor will still be connected to certain electrical leads inside the machine, and touching those leads could expose you to it.

So still a good idea to check.

30V won’t kill you.

Well, it definitely can, in certain circumstances – if there’s enough amperage available and if something (such as having wet hands) reduces the electrical resistance of your skin.

But, yes, with current in the micro-amps even when dead shorted, this shouldn’t be too dangerous.

Though, OP feeling a tingling when they touch it gives me pause. 30V shouldn’t really do that in most cases. OP is measuring AC voltage here, but maybe there’s also a DC voltage on it?

2/3 of these goals could be accomplished just by removing all AI integration.

Been playing a lot of (emulated) Pokemon Violet this week. Just getting into the post-game now.

(lol, get rekd, Nintendo. I’ll emulate whatever I want, and you can’t stop me.)

… I’m just impressed with the hexadecimal keyboard. Did you buy that somewhere or did you custom-make it yourself?

Seriously, though, maybe try this solution first:

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As stupid as that looks, it’s very possible that it would be more than enough to get your wifi signal where it needs to go, at basically zero cost and zero energy usage.

Not really any way to determine this on paper, really. Other than ‘it depends’.

Depends on what materials the walls are made of, the model of your wifi router, the orientation of your router’s antenna(s), the orientation of your laptop or phone or whatever’s antenna, what obstacles or vegetation might be between the two buildings, what other devices nearby might be producing interference, whether or not Mercury is in retrograde, etc. In an edge case, even the daily humidity or precipitation may make the difference between a usable or unusable signal.

As others have said, the best way to test would be to just stand with your phone at the location where you’d put the repeater and see if your phone gets a strong wifi signal there. If it does, a repeater will probably work.

However, a repeater isn’t the only solution that could work here. Other potentially good solutions:

• Run an ethernet cable from the house to the office. (Faster, more reliable, but would require running wires.)

• Use a network over power lines setup, to have wired network without needing to run any new wires. (Still faster than wifi; might not be quite as reliable as other setups, though.)

• Use a directional wifi antenna to extend the range of your router. If you point it at the office, that will probably extend the range more than enough to reach it. (A directional antenna will be more reliable than a repeater, and for a comparable price. Also will save a little electricity, since you don’t have to power the repeater.) If you want to be really cheap and creative, you can make a directional antenna – that can actually be a lot more effective and reliable than it looks, and can be done at basically no cost.

• Have you tried simply using it without any upgrades? It’s only 70ft away, and wifi can definitely reach that far if conditions are good. Maybe try moving your wifi router closer to a window or exterior wall. If your router has movable antennas, make sure they’re positioned vertically for best signal distance. If you have a lot of neighbors, go into your router’s configuration and experiment with changing the wifi channel. If I remember right, there are 11 different channels, and if you’re on the same channel as a different nearby network, the two will interfere with each other and have greatly reduced range … but if you have it on a different channel, that will avoid interference and improve range.

Do we not know of any habitable zone exoplanets orbiting stars hotter than the sun? Or is that just not shown on this chart for some reason?

This week, I been playing…

Mindustry

Open source factory tower defense. What more can I say?

Forza Horizon 5

When I only have a short time to play, I’ll open this up for some dumb fun. Just recently got the Hot Wheels DLC, and that’s definitely worth trying. Takes a normally half-serious racing game and adds loops and boosters and upside down track and all kinds of other bonkers shit. So now you’re taking real-life serious cars on completely ludicrous, impossible tracks through cool scenery. Huge smiles were had.