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tinix··on Types as Interfaces
fair, maybe i should have said "protocols define behavior" instead of interface
tinix··on Types as Interfaces
types are not interfaces.

interfaces describe behavior, types describe shape and structure. the difference is subtle but important.

tinix··on Libera IRC Channels Sorted by Number of Users
i'd love to hear more about this setup!

what kind of rack lets you just jack in 12v batteries with no concern about charge/discharge?

what's the spread of their capacities?

do you group similar capacity batteries together? somehow and charge/discharge them together?

won't nearby large capacity batteries spread/smear their voltage with other batteries on the rail? the smallest batteries will just get obliterated, and the large ones will do the heavy lifting, right?

do you have something that disconnects batteries when their voltage drops too low? and does it charge them too?

if you put every battery on its own charger, and then use a high/low voltage disconnect, maybe this works, to connect random batteries together on a shared rail...

am i overcomplicating this? or is your setup dangerous?

are you assuming everything has the same float voltage, and you never need to actually discharge, and then you never charge either?

as soon as you go off mains/float voltage, and actually use this battery system, some batteries will deplete faster than others since they have less capacity.

are you using it for purely backup purposes only, and not recharging?

tinix··on Python Modern Practices
pip freeze was an overly simplified hyperbolic jest...

fair point, so when this packaging mess happens, can one not strike a balance, and define the dependencies that you need, then, and let the resolver handle the rest?

tinix··on Synchronization Is Bad for Scale
yep this is a physical problem as much as it's logical. but I'm very much an abstract systems thinker.

it reminds me of lean wastes... kinda.

organizing better and having autonomous units of work would be more efficient than bottlenecking decisions to a shared resource.

this applies to social systems the same as physical ones, for sure.

tinix··on Python Modern Practices
so then maintain a curated requirements.txt...
tinix··on Python Modern Practices
pyenv? great! then just use pip with requirements.txt...

what's wrong with pip freeze? why are there so many competing tools?

it's very anti-python IMO.

tinix··on Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet
light phone is android though...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LightPhone/comments/jqtfu4/heres_ho...

root too... https://www.reddit.com/r/LightPhone/comments/jqtfu4/comment/...

tinix··on Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for 1-year-old baby
There are people named Null that cause issues, for sure.

There's an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/327/

tinix··on RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) Sleuthing with the TinySA (2021)
Ahh found it: https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=TinySA4.Comparison
tinix··on RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) Sleuthing with the TinySA (2021)
Are you thinking of nanovna? There's only one tinySA afaik ..
tinix··on Kobo announces color e-readers
there have been color ereaders for over a year now...
tinix··on Washington's Lottery forced to pull site after creating AI porn of lotto user
topless isn't porn, breasts can be exposed in public here. the ai just knows

https://www.kuow.org/stories/it-s-totally-legal-to-be-naked-...

tinix··on How a leap second caused havoc with the Internet (2021)
Google didn't start this... It's standard practice to speed up or slow down the clock during transition in ERP systems.

VAX/VMS are way older than Google.

tinix··on If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly
Keep going... ...

Try: ISP router intercepts DNS and drops the record because your company put private addresses on public DNS and the router has rebind protection.

tinix··on The Golden Age of Cordless Power Tools
i have good luck with these: https://powuse.com/collections/cordless-power-tool-battery-a...

The company was responsive to support before ordering to ensure compatibility.

The interfaces can be adapted... it's just voltage and all you have to do is step up or down.

tinix··on Notes on my Remarkable tablet
If you use a case or folio, i recommend a wireless charger receiver that you just permanently leave in the port, no plug fatigue to worry about then.

something like this: https://pakshwe.com/product/type-c-bottom-left-top-right-sid...

Otherwise there are magnetic usb adapters that let you charge or transfer data with a cable still... while avoiding plug fatigue.

tinix··on Notes on my Remarkable tablet
There's an app that runs natively on RM2 that supports Zlib downloads. You'll have to tweak the source to work with your personal domain.

I buy physical books and then get digital copies from Zlib (if publisher doesn't offer digital downloads that is...)

You can also just use Google Drive or SSH to copy books from another device like Kindle, Android, or a laptop.

tinix··on Notes on my Remarkable tablet
https://www.etsy.com/market/remarkable_2_templates
tinix··on Notes on my Remarkable tablet
It's just a pdf, so yes. The only difference is"paper size".
tinix··on Notes on my Remarkable tablet
There are sellers on Etsy that make Remarkable templates (ex, navigable daily planner with monthly/weekly views). I've been using one for years. They will customize if you ask nicely...
tinix··on Write a Letter to Your Future Self
i did this in 2006... forgot about it until now. i miss the old internet. glad this thing is still around though... will definitely send another one.
tinix··on An ideological divide is emerging between young men and women around the world
excuse me? got a source?

2 party systems aren't normal in most of the world. even in a western centric view that's not true... I'm struggling to see what leads you to say such an extreme idea as this.

tinix··on Men are going to brutal boot camps to reclaim their masculinity
summiting a mountain seems like a better idea...
tinix··on A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)
gulf breeze florida? i grew up around there, lots of air force bases in the region, and seeing "UFOs" was very common. can't say i ever heard about abductions though... we definitely saw craft accelerate very quickly without sonic booms (which were common from jets)
tinix··on Ask HN: Anyone Using Peltier Dehumidifiers?
those work well for a very small space like a chest freezer (i used one in a fermentation chamber/keezer). I would not use them for a room, they won't work well, get a real dehumidifier.

you could try damprid too, but you ideally want silica that you can recharge.

if your bathroom has a vent or ventilation hooked up to central air none of these solutions will help because you're fighting the airflow of the whole building.

tinix··on Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL
nyud.net (coral cdn) was my first experience with this pattern... back from the slashdot days in the 00s.
tinix··on Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine
pcengines apu platform is great if you're comfortable with command line. they are EOL now (no new hardware updates) but doing the same thing with any Linux box is trivial... plenty of off the shelf options for modular hardware.
tinix··on Facebook Kills PGP-Encrypted Emails
we have large healthcare networks as customers, some send provider data to our company in a pgp envelope.
tinix··on The real realtime preemption end game
just a buffer under/overrun
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