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benplumley··on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

    The YASA axial flux motors benefit from much shorter windings and direct oil cooling which gives an unparalleled performance proposition.  
      
    A 200kW peak-power radial motor, run continuously, might typically give 50% of peak power between 80 and 100kW, as a result of thermal limitations. In contrast, a 200kW YASA motor runs continuously at 150kW thanks to the improved high-thermal-contact cooling that oil offers.
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benplumley··on Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)
Since you're already using Tasker, you could use it to launch Tailscale on the phone at boot - I've got mine set to do this so my phone reconnects to tailscale after a reboot.
benplumley··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Is the WiFi enabled, or does it just have a blue icon behind it?
benplumley··on Noise-Canceling Single-Layer Woven Silk and Cotton Fabric
Could it be an interaction between static electricity from the balloon and tiny elements in the ear?
benplumley··on Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies
I thought you could go between heavy and light oil cyclically, but I think the recipes I'm thinking of are from UltraCube. The others are a subset of nuclear (Kovarex and reprocessing), so I think you're right.
benplumley··on Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies
That's a coincidence, that the author only picked recipes that are made without cycles. Other Factorio recipes (e.g. nuclear fuel processing) are cyclic.
benplumley··on LTSE shutters cap table management business (formerly captable.io)
You've landed on an excellent garden path sentence, as shutters, cap, and table are all both nouns and verbs!
benplumley··on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
I'm not talking about importing transactions, that's not a feature I use because it'd take longer than entering manually if you did it daily. I'm talking about the scheduled transaction editor, where you enter e.g. your rent manually once then schedule the same transaction to happen monthly. This should still work if you also import the non-recurring ones.
benplumley··on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
You automate all the recurring things (this is built into Gnucash), enter the non-recurring things (takes a minute or two a day if that day even had any transactions) and reconcile against the bank's statement/app/website monthly to make sure its representation stays accurate.

Once you've entered a transaction once, its autocomplete handles those going forwards so entering a new transaction is as quick as typing the first couple of letters of the shop name, pressing tab a few times, then entering the amount.

benplumley··on Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation failures
That's the heading, the title is still "small staff" for me. The heading is what shows at the top of the page, you'll see the page title in the browser tab's name among other places.
benplumley··on Ask HN: Is Slack having some trouble?
They don't have to worry about SLAs if they just never acknowledge that they had any downtime!
benplumley··on Parents, environmentalists to Google: stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer
It's a school - write or find a comprehensive set of instructions (for the happy path), give each student a chromebook and a blank USB, and have them do it. You get usable laptops and the students learn an important life skill - not necessarily that they memorise the instructions for next time, but that they learn what's possible.
benplumley··on Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share
Steam is there, with Proton, and Lutris. It's almost a better experience than the twelve different launchers situation I left behind (though they're annoying in very different ways!)
benplumley··on Firefox address bar
F6 works too, and you can press it again to unfocus it (TIL)
benplumley··on 240W USB-C PD chargers are nearly here, says Framework CEO
It doesn't get the chance to build up in a laptop because of the fan. A 20W phone fast charger gets much hotter than a laptop, even though they should only be wasting a couple of watts on heating, because they have no active cooling (and pretty poor passive cooling).
benplumley··on How a heat pump works
> nothing's stopping you from circulating cold water in the summer

Condensation is - air conditioners have an integrated drip tray which drains to the outside, but if you ran chilled water through radiators they'd all make puddles of condensation on the floor. Retrofitting drains might be possible but I've never seen one and I can't imagine it'd be cost-effective vs installing mini-splits.

benplumley··on US startup's bladeless VTOL can reach up to 0.8 Mach
It's in the "Filter lists" tab of the uBlock Origin dashboard.
benplumley··on Average EV fast-charging costs soar above petrol
Their next story: microwave theft up infinity percent in the last 75 years.
benplumley··on Ask HN: What's on your home server?
Very similar to my setup! I really like my Beelink, I was initially sceptical because it was so cheap.

I run Pi-Hole, Tailscale, Photoprism, Syncthing, and Terraria, amongst other things.

benplumley··on Why would prisons ban my book? Absurdities rule the system (2022)
Why would you expect to get the same answer to those two questions? They're completely different, and answering Yes to 1 and No to 2 is self-consistent.

Or do you mean that responders answered No to 1 and Yes to 2?

benplumley··on Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
Same earlier, but I can now get it to work very intermittently, with the error "Uh oh! Servers are behind, scaling up..."
benplumley··on Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
Tailscale only allows you to create a new account by signing in with Google, Microsoft or GitHub. It's a real shame because it's a great service otherwise, but this left a very sour taste.
benplumley··on SPACs collapse as $11B of deals are called off within an hour
They incur significantly less disclosure from the actual business that's going public than an IPO does (because the SPAC files these instead, before they've chosen a target). So, a business that thinks it's too weak and/or early to IPO can merge with a SPAC instead.
benplumley··on FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client
That's really weird then. I'm often in Thailand and Google's never tried to change my interface language, though it does keep suggesting videos in Thai.
benplumley··on FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client
Have you checked what Accept-Language header you're sending? Eg on http://myhttpheader.com/
benplumley··on Life in the slow lane: how the slow cooker changed the world
I didn't really notice until the last paragraph, which was egregious. "Even if you've already got one that works fine, it might be a bit worn out, buy a new one".
benplumley··on I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
The problem with using old phones is that the battery swells up after a few months left continuously on charge. You could extend the life using Tasker and a smart plug, but you'd lose a lot of the UPS's potential.
benplumley··on WhatsApp Remote Code Execution in Video Call
> Which would you prefer?

The native app, no question. Why would I want to make a facebook account just to get notifications from a third party (you)?

benplumley··on Nvidia Hopper Sweeps AI Inference Benchmarks in MLPerf Debut
How about "50% faster" and "50% as fast"? If these are different (which to my ear they clearly are), then "200% faster" and "200% as fast" are different too. Naturally it's all quite ambiguous so whoever's writing the press release can pick the more impressive meaning in each case.
benplumley··on Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
Hey, totally unrelated, but the way your status page is set up made me think your site was down for months (I had started to assume permanently) - when it last went down for maintenance I got redirected to https://status.marginalia.nu/?query=... which said, and still says, "Site down for maintenance" across the top.
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