zik
@zik@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bombs Awat 2 days ago:
I wonder what the “duck that hurt” rate is for these fish
- Comment on Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing 2 months ago:
That’s absolutely not true. Bluetooth has many “profiles” which define different capabilities. Here’s a list of them. These are all defined in the official bluetooth standards.
- Comment on AMD lawyers claw back CUDA compatibility layer ZLUDA 3 months ago:
Not in reliability…
But they’re probably still selling more CPUs to your average buyer who never even heard about the controversy.
- Comment on Hermit Crab Housing Market 3 months ago:
It’s a tax on buying a house.
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 5 months ago:
All this tells me is that they have a great PR department.
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 5 months ago:
Meanwhile Mercedes has already reached level 3.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
Fair enough. I’ll fix that.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
It was hardly ever used in WiFi. Two modulation schemes were available in the original WiFi spec, FHSS and DSSS. DSSS was always preferred over FHSS and in practice FHSS was hardly used and eventually obsoleted a decade ago. It was never “the basis” of WiFi as claimed in the meme - that’s simply incorrect.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
Yes, it’s been obsoleted in wifi since 2014
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
This is mostly wrong: while she did invent what would later be called Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS), it isn’t used in modern WiFi or in GPS. It is used in Bluetooth though. (It was an option in older WiFi for a while)
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 6 months ago:
We should treat them like snipers? ie. We should rush them and neutralise the threat they pose?
- Comment on Taylor Swift needs a glass of water at night too 7 months ago:
In my country that means you wouldn’t respect most people who’ve paid off a house. 1 million isn’t as much money as it used to be.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 7 months ago:
Close… That moon’s called LV426
- Comment on CFCs 8 months ago:
It’s already been addressed in Linux - not sure about other OSes. They doubled the size of time data so now you can keep using it until after the heat death of the universe.
- Comment on Finland detects more GPS jammers as drivers increasingly try to hide their tracks | Yle News | Yle 8 months ago:
It’s not just EVs - most new cars have these tracking devices where they sell your data to your insurance company to be used against you.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 8 months ago:
I honestly don’t know why people go to restaurants in the US. I don’t want a guilt trip with my expensive meal. Talk about a buzz kill.
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 9 months ago:
The STM32WB55 in the flipper has a versatile wireless peripheral built in which can be used to implement various protocols including Bluetooth, zigbee, etc… Support for I2C, I2S and CAN is pretty standard stuff - the ESP32 is nothing special in these respects.
Maybe they chose the STM32WB55 because its wireless support is more flexible than the ESP32 and allows them to implement a wider variety of protocols? Or possibly just better documented, giving them the chance to do things they can’t on the ESP32? I haven’t compared the inner workings of the two chips’ wireless support so I can’t say for sure.
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 9 months ago:
The ESP32s are nice chips, but the STM32s are also really nice to work with and work fine for this task. Changing to an ESP32 wouldn’t make any real difference to the user so the choice is moot really.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
As an Australian enjoying summer right now I honestly think it’s a bit chilly on days we don’t get to 25C.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
We see 50C in Australia from time to time now thanks to global warming.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
A perfect temperature to slow cook beef ragu
- Comment on Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business 10 months ago:
Or rather bad press for Daihatsu, who this is actually about.
- Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 10 months ago:
Trolley buses are a weird niche. They require permanent overhead cable infrastructure like trams do but don’t have the other benefits of trams - low rolling resistance and no tyre pollution. I figure if you’re going to install a trolley bus route you probably might as well install rail at the same time and get the benefits of trams. (Streetcars for the North Americans out there)
- Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate 10 months ago:
We have ranked voting in Australia. It works pretty well.
- Comment on Headphones are a crutch 11 months ago:
It’s not uncommon among high level classical musicians apparently.
Personally, I prefer Spotify.
- Comment on TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms | TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration. 11 months ago:
As far as I know only the US would even humor such stupidity. In my country (Australia) they wouldn’t even let it go to court since the common law right to legal justice overrides contract law.
- Comment on Google Reveals Gemini, rival to GPT-4 11 months ago:
The name existed a long time before that protocol. I don’t think they can claim any kind of rights over it.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Has Been Completed by 1.3 Million Players, Shadowheart is Most Popular Love Interest 11 months ago:
That’s just how good you are.
- Comment on Employers push for staff to return to the office after working from home as commercial property values plunge 11 months ago:
All the rubbish they quote about collaboration is based on no real evidence either, or at best “studies” by corporate linked institutes with an agenda.
They make up all sorts of reasons why they want us back in the office but the reality is pretty obvious - it’s simply not necessary for many employees to be in the office at all.
- Comment on Come Back! 1 year ago:
If you knew about Poland’s political situation you’d want to run too.