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postpawl··on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Is in Development
Home Assistant yellow seems to have a pretty good solution, but it’s not currently active cooling for cm4. It’s a lot like a cpu cooler mount. Can see pictures here: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/home-assistant-yellow...
postpawl··on US unemployment has been under 4% for the longest streak since the Vietnam War
If the Department of Labor report the article is referring to is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly Employment Situation Summary, then unemployed doesn’t include gig workers (and it probably should).
postpawl··on WPA3 Enterprise 192-bit mode at home
You’re sure it’s not actually the PMF setting causing that? More details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/rq6jtr/psa_if_you...
postpawl··on The Downfall of Amazon: Top Ranking Electrical Fuses Show Dangerous Results [video]
A lot of people trust Amazon and expect them (or their sellers) to sell a fuse that works. A lot of us make a dozen decisions about what to buy every day, and sometimes you don’t have time to do a bunch of research. This isn’t a problem that should only be pushed onto the individual buyer. There should be some required testing on safety critical products. It wouldn’t even cost that much to have an electrical engineer spot checking a few of the products.
postpawl··on The Downfall of Amazon: Top Ranking Electrical Fuses Show Dangerous Results [video]
I saw an example of this recently during the test of some large DC fuses for solar: https://youtu.be/6o9tbhgtws4?feature=shared

Some are slow burn fuses and don’t pop until you exceed the rated amperage for a long time and by a lot of amperage. Not really what I expected. Some of the fuses do work like you’d expect and pop when they exceed the amperage by a minor amount.

postpawl··on How to Build a Small Solar Power System
If you’re looking to do something a little bigger, I think these guides are better:

* https://faroutride.com/electrical-system/

* https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/

postpawl··on Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?
Trueanon’s series about the Falun Gong was pretty funny: https://youtu.be/SzzQkblfF3Q?feature=shared

Didn’t know Shin Yun was so wacky and how a lot of the Chinese organ harvesting myths originated from the Falun Gong.

Last year they did a series called The Game on California’s Synanon cult and that was really good too.

Just a warning: they’ve got some pretty edgy humor (and long rambling intros) and it’s not for everybody.

postpawl··on Matter, set to fix smart home standards in 2023, stumbled in the real market
There are some smart home hubs that support self hosting. Home Assistant and Hubitat are both really good solutions.
postpawl··on An AI that learns about chemical reactions and designs a procedure to make them
> I am somewhat serious because I am a musician.

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postpawl··on Desalination can beat batteries for excess energy
The state is extremely gerrymandered: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/20/texas-redistricting-...
postpawl··on Large amounts of benzene detected in Texas.The residents werent told for decades
> CHANNELVIEW, Texas
postpawl··on Ask HN: Why aren't Django Admin style dashboards popular in other frameworks?
Flask has flask-admin: https://github.com/flask-admin/flask-admin
postpawl··on A.I. Muddies Israel-Hamas War in Unexpected Way
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” -René Descartes
postpawl··on DaScript: Fast and Versatile Scripting Language
Yeah, having to change 2nd IF statement line just because you changed the conditions on the 1st IF statement seems like a big negative.
postpawl··on Michael Bloomberg pumps $500M into bid to close all US coal plants
https://texasgop.org/fossilfuelsresolution/
postpawl··on Pi-Hole V6 Beta Testing
The goal with CivetWeb is better portability across platforms, a single binary, better performance, and keeping scripting extensibility through lua?
postpawl··on Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries
Deep cycle lead acid batteries are the cheaper option for the first 1-3 years, but LiFePo4 has more discharge cycles and a longer lifespan (500-1000 cycles vs 3000-5000+).
postpawl··on Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
Discourse is open source: https://github.com/discourse/discourse

You could hook it up to a mail provider and can host it yourself for less if you wanted.

postpawl··on Samsung unveils monobloc heat pump for residential applications
Fridges cool a smaller contained space and don’t need as big of a compressor. ACs need to dissipate a lot more heat and you need to move that heat outside. You can get a decent mini split AC for $500 these days, and pretty much all mini splits have the valve to reverse the flow to make it heat pump.
postpawl··on My time with Rails is up (2016)
“simpler, more flexible ORM like SQLAlchemy would serve you better”

SQLAlchemy is way more complex and does more stuff (more robust connection pooling for example). There are a lot more complex things you can do with prefetching related rows with SQLAlchemy (there’s like 5+ different ways to do it?).

You’ve actually used sql alchemy for a project? It’s great, I just wouldn’t describe it as simpler.

postpawl··on Allie Beth Allman, the Queen of Highland Park
I would agree it’s not the main reason why people live there. The separate school district is probably a bigger factor.
postpawl··on Allie Beth Allman, the Queen of Highland Park
The article doesn’t really mention it, but having a house in Highland Park is also a tax dodge. It has some of the lowest property taxes in north Texas. It’s practically part of Dallas, but the property taxes are lower than Dallas proper.
postpawl··on Artists have forgotten how to draw
Sounds like you’re mostly describing streamers? There’s a lot of educational and news content on YouTube as well.
postpawl··on Moderna CEO made $400M last year–2,435x the median salary of employees
Oops I misread the parent comment as “more than 1 and 1000”
postpawl··on Moderna CEO made $400M last year–2,435x the median salary of employees
Uh, source? What are you talking about?
postpawl··on Moderna CEO made $400M last year–2,435x the median salary of employees
Look up the rates of heart damage from actually getting Covid without being vaccinated?
postpawl··on Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD (2016)
You’re sure it wasn’t just comment on the original thread? Looks like it was submitted by someone else?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280494
postpawl··on Texas worker accused of being on drugs was dying of heatstroke
It’s called the Death Star law for a reason: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-death-star-house...

(Spoiler: it’s for eroding local control for democratic run major cities and not for preventing conflicts)

postpawl··on The problem with federated web apps
There’s an open issue on Lemmy’s GitHub about making it easier to combine multiple communities on separate instances: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

Seems like something they’re thinking about solving.

postpawl··on The problem with federated web apps
The centralized platforms seem doomed to reach a point where they’re squeezing as much cash out of users as they can while users provide their content for free. If we need to create multiple accounts to fight back against enshittification, I think that’s a fairly minor downside for increased competition.
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