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Comment Re:But iCANn think of many reasons to resist capit (Score 2, Insightful) 18

There's always been a section of borderline mentally ill crazies on slashdot.

I wonder sometimes what sort of lives those guys ended up living from the mid 2000s that were posting the netcraft copypasta, enraged rants about open sores and Lunix etc.

Perhaps trolling a technical community was the least harmful thing they could have been doing with their unreleased anger.

Comment Re:OK (Score 5, Informative) 169

Power usage has a daily pattern something like this:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdb-excel.com%2Fwp-conten...

The battery lets you take some usage from a period of low usage ( like approximately 5am on that image ) to charge up your battery array and then discharge it back into the grid at the highest usage point ( like 6pm on that image ).

A whole lot of engineering is worrying about the worst case of your metrics, so taking some usage from your best case and using it to make your worst case better is a great improvement.

Comment Re:Another predictable move (Score 4, Informative) 121

It's not a polished drop in replacement for reddit, but lemmy is looking better all the time. Folks can either create their communities ( subreddits if you like ) on public instances or host them on their own gear or VMs and everyone else can access them via federation on the other instances.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.michaelaltfield.net%2F2023%2F06%2F11%2Flemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities%2F

The userbase has been increasing at a pretty high rate since /u/spez initiated reddits suicide attempt.

Comment Re: Sure (Score 1) 198

I think moving functions into electronic automation rather than logic with vacuum lines and pumps is a step in the right direction, even if it is a bit proprietary to start with.

I don't have a Tesla, but my company car is a General Motors product ( last of the Australian V8 Holden Commodore's ) that I have had from new. It went through three BCM's ( Body Control Modules ) before the thing because when it was pretty new it started doing mysterious things like the doors not unlocking / locking and not starting because it couldn't detect the remote and weird error messages about tyres being deflated, power steering faults etc.

I honestly feel bad for the next owner of this old dinosaur V8, they are screwed. You could replace the ECU with a dozen other after market modules that would run the engine, but the BCMs are very difficult to cleanly integrate with an after market part and run half the stuff in the car. It doesn't seem that different to the Tesla situation to me.

Comment Re:Sure (Score 1) 198

If you have a chance to visit a physical Tesla store, have a look at the deconstructed vehicle they have in there.

There is so much less crap in their driveline compared to a regular petrol vehicle with gears and radiators, manage emissions and junk to pump fuel around etc, let alone the insanity that is in a hybrid car to make dual drivetrains work which is about the worst of all worlds.

I would be amazed if they can't make giant margins if they don't go broke figuring out how to manufacture them.

Comment 8 bit breadboard computers (Score 2) 117

Look up Ben Eater's 8 bit breadboard computer on youtube for an example of what you can build from discrete components with a ton of patience. He does use some off the shelf parts, but he does demonstrate how you would go about building those parts right from discrete parts like transistors and resistors.

Depending on how much you want to compromise by buying off the shelf you can end up with something that can only just add a couple of numbers together and blink some LEDs to give you the answer or end up with a mostly functional 8 bit computer from the 80's.

Comment Re:Or just use MythTV (Score 1) 49

Tvheadend is pretty good these days. The only thing in your list that I haven't seen any evidence of is commercial skipping.

I've just migrated off mythtv onto tvheadend and kodi and because they didn't have a great legacy of old analog tuners and other crazy, the setup for a bunch of DVB-T and DVB-S tuners makes a ton more sense than the gymnastics you had to do to map different multiplexes to specific tuners.

Comment Re:Slashdot crying wolf again... (Score 1) 215

Check out the IPv4 address space consumption graphs at http://www.potaroo.net/tools/i..., there is no new space for you in North America. In fact the only place there is still new space for you is in the African region.

See the 1 /8 remaining red line, that's where most of the RIR's started their run out policy which for APNIC at least this means you can only get space if you are using it to transition to IPv6.

Noone is going to make anyone give up their old /8 IPv4 allocations and if they did it, would delay this date by a couple of months.

  It's all over man.

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