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@jripley@mastodon.social That's a dick move by TI to use the same letters in different combos.
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@clim8_solutions "New study" -- sheep & solar has been a known thing for quite some time. I do worry about the quality of peer reviewed studies! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-15/uq-uses-sheep-to-cut-grass-at-gatton-solar-research-farm/7734770
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town The 0:15 and 0:45 offsets really confused North Americans and Europeans I was working with on an IEEE (and later IEC/IEEE) timesync standard. I had to point out that Nepal and Chatham Islands (NZ) have 45min as legal offsets. So much for getting away with encoding offsets as multiples of 30min!
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@gemlog Don 10 field cabling still used by armies for calls in the field. It can probably be used a a tow-rope if need be. https://hamradio.my/2025/12/why-don-10-the-history-of-the-armys-toughest-cable/
VDSL field modules means it's now possible to use Don 10 as an IP bearer.
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@VisualStuart@pdx.social Instagram does the same thing when you share links. Trim that stuff off!
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@quadrivial I though this was a story about Brisbane oil refineries. Bulwer Island was a BP refinery on the north side of the river mouth, and Lytton is an Ampol refinery on the south side. It looks like the names did come from Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
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@danmcd@hostux.social @SystemsAppr@discuss.systems Things were so much simpler when it was Ethernet (10BASE-2 most likely) for the LAN and SLIP/PPP/E1/T1 for the inter-network links.
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@badtux@mastodon.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Maybe that's the appeal of VBA? I never made the move from VB6 to VB.net, so no idea how stable that is. VBA seems to keep on trucking as it is.
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@BruceMirken @CStamp One area the companies can take blame for is not fitting higher end safety features in small cars. 25y ago I'd you wanted ABS and dual airbags the minimum size was a VW Golf (big when used to driving a Mazda 121), and bigger still for traction control and side airbags. Minimum safety spec laws have helped, but now the small cars are no longer imported into Australasia.
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@andrew_shadura@mastodon.social @fabio@manganiello.eu And FossWallet too. Something that looks like a wallet is more likely to get past security though.
https://f-droid.org/packages/nz.eloque.foss_wallet
Nice to know it is just a ZIP though, and something to explore for fun.
Samsung and its owners are a bit different to companies and owners in the west. They pay their taxes, including a whopping ₩12T (US$8B) inheritance tax. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0px8g13xgo
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@Infoseepage @Andii @pluralistic Yeah, 1 and 2 axis tracking not worth it for the power gain you get. Much better off "wasting" more money on panels if you have the space. Anything mechanical will give you grief in the future.
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@Infoseepage @Andii @pluralistic Just make sure you have separate maximum power point trackers for each orientation of panels.
Over-provisioning panels and optimising for late afternoon is starting to be done more widely in Australia. A 5kW inverter can generally have around 6kW of panels connected as standard.
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@munin Design for Manufacture, Design for Installation and Design for Maintenance are fundamental. And so often missed. Design engineers need to at least see, and ideally be involved in, making and using the product. I was fortunate to be taken under the wing of an experienced technician when I was a graduate engineer and it opened up my eyes.
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@Pheebe@tech.lgbt @mikecox@mastodon.iow.social @mttaggart@infosec.exchange Fax machines didn't have toll blocks. Very few places secured the phone cable ... BYO handset and off you go
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@argv_minus_one If too many people have clear and unambiguous communications what will the lawyers do for work?
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@BruceMirken @CStamp I first drove (but did not own) an EV in 1996, and they've definitely improved. The limitation for Australia is charging. Even the Tesla charger sites are in poor locations, and forecourt charger locations are rare as hens' teeth. People I know with EVs all do home charging as standard and use fast charging when travelling.
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@CStamp @BruceMirken Definitely not a lease. Maybe used, but I need to do a lot more research. At around 4500km/y (combined use of two people) the cost of fuel in a 10y old 1.6l hatch is not a big impetus for change.
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@KiwiEV Once upon a time there used to be a decent amount of real chocolate on a marshmallow egg. It was all downhill once Cadbury stopped producing them in Dunedin.
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@fatlimey@mastodon.gamedev.place @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz struggling to get my head around an '89 report being described as "the ancients". Not disputing, just having trouble accepting.
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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone Just a "test server" huh? No doubt one that was loaded up with a snapshot of the production database.
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@benbradley@hachyderm.io @Endof10@floss.social The 2011 laptop is surprisingly good (Toshiba, 4G RAM, 500GB SSD). Even Windows 10 works well. Win 10 is now a dog on my 2007 baby laptop (1.2GHz, 2G RAM, 60G SSD) but Fedora 30 runs adequately. There's a 2004 XP machine I should run up for a laugh too (last used in 2012) and take a family photo 😀. Batteries are stuffed in all laptops, except for the one that was replaced over the weekend.
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@ieeespectrum No, Colossus was the first electronic programmable computer. It was classified for a long time (and Brits know how to keep secrets).
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/2008-09/colossus/colossus.html
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@BruceMirken EV premium for new cars is way more than low thousands for comparable makes here. If you go with EVs from China (no shortage) you can save money but there are ongoing issues around service and support. Importers "new to the market" getting into strife with pesky consumer protection laws.
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@ajft@aus.social So inconsiderate. Couldn't even be bothered pressing the little button that folds the mirrors in. /s
The US has a history of expecting to win wars rapidly by walking in. It didn't work in Canada 214 years ago, it's not working now. Will the US ever learn? https://www.history.com/articles/how-u-s-forces-failed-to-conquer-canada-200-years-ago
How the heck does the US FCC authorise a commercial satellite operator to use Amateur Service frequencies for "emergency" TT&C, but only when not over the US. If outside the US then it's not the FCC's call (apparently foreign authorisation will be needed, but watch the strong-arming). https://www.iaru.org/fcc-approves-ast-space-mobiles-license-for-emergency-ttc-operations-in-the-430-440-mhz-amateur-radio-band-outside-the-us/
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@daisy Does the Boox support band 28/n28? None of the e-ink phones I've looked at did the AU special bands, and the specs I saw on the Boox page don't mention bands. Now that Western Europe is moving to use band 28 hopefully it will be in more devices.
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@BruceMirken Leaf has just been cancelled for Australia and NZ 😕
https://archive.is/wV6dr
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@cstross @Cadbury_Moose @tienelle There's metric madness too. A tablespoon in most parts of the world is 15ml (3 teaspoons). But not in Australia, where a tablespoon is 20ml (4 tsp). That messes up trans-Tasman recipes.
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@BruceMirken $1100 year pales into price difference. In Australia the Ioniq 6 goes for $70k to $95k. The Camry is $43k to $60k. So bottom spec difference is A$27k or US$18.6k. Fuel savings will take 17y to recoup (no present value or financing considered), assuming battery lasts that long.
Energy security is a big plus, and if you have cheap/free PV then payoff is faster. Service costs are much lower on EV too. But capital cost of EV is a big show stopper.
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@Infoseepage @Andii @pluralistic MPPT is an electrical thing, it makes sure power it taken from the panels at the best voltage. I'm pretty sure all inverters have some form of MPPT, but better ones will have 2 or 3 that allow for different insolation, and hence optimum voltage, between strings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_point_tracking?wprov=sfla1
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@WhombeX @BruceMirken I mentioned the Camry and Ioniq 6 since that's what Bruce listed in the first post. Yes, there are lots of cheaper options for EV, but also for ICE.
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@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net It's not even the best chain store Mexican in Australia. Hubris is really off the scale.
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @bonsai@hachyderm.io The real "Golden Rules"... Those that have the gold make the rules.
@BruceMirken If the USA is going down this dangerous path I wonder if they've learnt from their past war gaming? https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-us-military-lost-war-iran-simulation-207099
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@tkalvas @becomethewaifu @tilton The civilised world uses mm² for wire cross section, from appliance flex through to high voltage power lines. The US uses AWG for little stuff and "kcmil" for the big stuff. A "kcmil" is the area equivalent to one thousand wires a thousandth of an inch in diameter (kilo circular mils). Also called MCM because some people prefer roman numbers.
Is there a more horrid unit?