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lstodd··on Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT
Well, any 3G or later mobile backbone is SIP+SCTP over IPv6. So in many ways it won already
lstodd··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
I wonder is there a market for portable EMP guns to disable crap like that? I mean, it's pretty trivial to make one out of shocker, some foil and a ditched microwave oven and it will kill most any electronics on sight.
lstodd··on Automating Immersive Reading
Okay.

It is a small font within a small column which wastes like 60+% space of a screen, and I use tabs, eh? Tabs are not windows, I will not resize my browser just because of one single tab.

This is a horizontal 24" 1920x1200, not a fucking phone.

so I respectfully plead for you and everyone else to forget those ridiculous horizontal margins.

lstodd··on Automating Immersive Reading
xubuntu, 2x iiyama IVM610F those are 24" 1920x1200, firefox latest.

For some reason when I open hn it's readable. When I open your site it's.. not.

lstodd··on Automating Immersive Reading
If that's about reading why do I need to zoom to 140 in FF to just begin reading?
lstodd··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
Well, yes. One day. To the point I have another eve without much of known issues sketched in my notebook, which is ofc nothing.

Can you please tell of what you disagree with?

lstodd··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
which is why you have to hire people who master the art of yap whatever on camera, so the video production guy can have something to work on.

or did you think onlyfans?

lstodd··on No AI Fridays
well, iphone dies of battery discharge.

in 2023 I had a pretty nice night ~4km from a town in Montenegro. I could even see it from the mountain I was at and still had to sleep under a bush because I was not prepared enough. Thanks to thousands years of history they have ancient outlets for mountain springs so you can have drinkable water in most unexpected places while walking down from a misadventure.

Imagine that happening ~20km off civilization. Unprepared one will just die, iphone+satellites or no.

lstodd··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
I don't disagree with there being an opportunity or using CNC, I only point out that pinning everything to materials suitable to widely available CNC is too limiting.

Like, using plywood for verticals is overkill, they don't experience any bending, while 19+19 is 48 so you might as well use glued wood board for example.

lstodd··on No AI Fridays
hah. try go hiking for couple days in mountains. no cellular, no charging, flaky gps, vhf/uhf radio don't work and your only hope is that you are prepared enough to survive getting out of there .

I don't even about sailing 100+nm off shore.

people assume every point of earth is somewhy equivalent to their porch.

lstodd··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
I applaud you and your project.

But CNC isn't the silver bullet. What I ended up with is 25mm glued wood for frames, 55mm for tops and 15mm plywood plus veneer for facades.

If you use 19mm for frames, you won't have enough strength for hinges, which would inevitably be abused.

If you use 19mm for tops, they will sag and vibrate. The best top I have is actually 55mm IKEA glued oak.

lstodd··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
yeah, those cardboard tables.. I had to glue in 2-4 (5 by 10 cm) stringers and refix legs to them for it to hold a measly epson c8600 and even then it stands on wooden planks to distribute the load.

ikea is a great inspiration for making your own furniture and then a source for bearable spare parts.

lstodd··on The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)
Energy efficiency is secondary, that can be mitigated by solar power plus some thermal mass inside. That is actually most efficient use of solar from my pow.

Their bane is hydrogen partial pressure dropping due to it leaking through the metal of the tubes. That .. is problematic. OTOH it'll last for like 20 years before you'd need to replenish.

lstodd··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
Problem with EVE is that they did not have a solution for the problem of resource accumulation from the start. It was mitigated to some degree by great wars of old, and then wormhole space, but then they a) sold out to koreans with their interesting approach to MMOs, and b) merged the chinese shard. This did not help at all.

Now.. Py3 is nice, and I guess that move signals that at last they pay attention to engine instead of bolting on useless p2w crap, but to really revive eve this is not it.

In my opinion (joined EVE in 2006, still own a JF and few carriers there), what is needed is a massive sink for all the accumulated assets. Idk, expand the universe like tenfold. Then it would be fun again.

edit: also ditch all the nullsec sov mechanics and revert to something resembling the pre-TCU state. I can't for the life of me think of a reason why they chose to die on the hill of not adding more systems.

lstodd··on The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)
There is no compressor. No moving parts. The only thing that I personally heard was heater relay clicking (that was 70s tech) and some intermittent bubbling.
lstodd··on The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)
USSR made compact fridges like that, called Морозко. They are still made. No moving parts, very quiet.
lstodd··on What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)
yup. haha.

imagine 3d-printing a TEU. Or a container hauler.

lstodd··on A few feral cats in an ALGOL trenchcoat.
Kate is close in feel to TurboWhatever IDEs (and used them, pascal, C, C++ back in the days)
lstodd··on 507 Mechanical Movements
No it's because the fans blade frequency is in resonance with the darn transcievers. But you are right.
lstodd··on Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
you still have convection even in a sealed room. its walls also do not have zero thermal conductivity so if you don't move, you only have to reject about 100W and that is survivable

but I would not want to live in that bath house.

lstodd··on Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
nope, no typo. 15C+100RH+no convection = you just die in a few hours.
lstodd··on Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
haha. no.

try opening your window in +15C high humidity and then sleep.

I assure you, sleeping in a 0-5C sleeping bag on the nearby sea shore would be a more acceptable experience.

You just never lived there, yes?

lstodd··on Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
Ceiling (or for that matter any) fans work on your own evaporation. So unless you accept unacceptable levels of humidity or acclimatized to much hotter climate than Sweden and are there for a short time they are not a solution.

Ground source is overhyped and overpriced. District heating and air-exchange AC is still the winning solution.

lstodd··on Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
Well, summers are summers. Besides typical eu ac is a thermal pump, you can heat up with it, although even in mediterannean winter it's not quite adequate.
lstodd··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
To the first approximation you have to control thermal output of your wiring.

Since it's I^2*R, you have to size your wires according to max sustained current, take into account thermal conductivity of where your wires are placed and keep all contacts tight. Also size circuit breakers according to that max current so they trip before the whole thing catastrophically overheats. Which is a trivial exersize in itself.

Short-to-case and leak current protection (the reason for three-wire systems/PE conductors and differential protection) takes second place. In larger installations there are also considerations about grounding / ground loops, but that usually does not matter for residential.

This is what the most of the code should be about (I never read US ones, but was doing apartments/small homes for like 20 years already).

The rest, as in colors, sleeves and exact connectors used is helpful, but not critical, and if you think that a typical contractor would not botch it up in a most horrible way, well..

lstodd··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
So you do it according to the code or better. No cheaping out on components, no shoddy work. Insurance won't revive you or your loved cat either.
lstodd··on Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
Yup. It's that weird.

Also read Nick Gorkavyi: The Oscillating Universe: Einsteinian Cosmology of Black Holes and Gravitational Waves

lstodd··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
Pulling in the electrical connection is actually simpler. So you might as well do that yourself too.
lstodd··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
See the Brazil movie :)

Idk for Americas, but here in rural EU no one would give a fuck. Some will ask for help.

lstodd··on Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018)
How many wells (and how deep) and on what area one needs for a 1 (one) GWe sustained over 100 years? Timespan is critical too you know, you are cooling the rock below, so heat flow must be kept constant over the life of the plant.

Any numbers for that?

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