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Comment · 4 hours ago
The design is called a splayed pin fin heat sink.

The rounded pins present minimal resistance to incoming air streams and Incoming air streams can enter from all directions (omnidirectional).

Round pins generate extensive air turbulence.

I'm guessing the more splayed the pins, the greater the air turbulence and it allows for air movement in all directions; the time / gps chipsets are meant to run cool.

Comment · 2 days ago
That the World Series was even on.
Comment · 2 days ago
I live in the US, and have heard nothing at all about this. What surprises me is this never used to happen when I was a kid.
Comment · 11 days ago
Thank you
Comment · 15 days ago
I Started with an Aura One, it was my very first eink device. When it died about a year ago, I bought a Kindle Scribe thinking I was getting an Aura, but with a larger screen.

B/W only, thin in the hand, simple interface, PDF transfer via USB.

Comment · 15 days ago
Which one do you have?
Comment · 21 days ago
There's a todo app I'm working on that is meant to mirror the status of an existing kanban board using the api integration from kanboard. (So you can self host it all). Kanboard acts as the project flow, and the ios app sync adds ios 'tasks' and calendar sync. I thought it would be easier than it is to finish. A Kanboard based life is a pretty good one though.
Comment · 1 month ago
At the library and picked this book randomly from off the shelf. First stamp was 1986, an old hardcover copy with no dust cover. I'd never heard of the book.

But 30 pages in, when the monk finds the cave: "Mustering his modest command of pre-Deluge English, he whispered the words haltingly: FALLOUT SURVIVAL SHELTER"

Comment · 1 month ago
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller.

It gives very strong Fallout vibes. Having played the original games I think there is an influence.

Comment · 6 months ago
FYI your website mentions Mac and Linux compatibility but the website only shows a download link for Mac. I found the linux options on your gh account and will try it out.
Comment · 8 months ago
With a crystal of the right dimensions and correct input voltage could one feel the crystal vibrating?
Comment · 10 months ago
Could you deep fry the spoons in your oil of choice? Imagine a commercial fry cook from a fast food restaurant. The heat would open the wood pores there by removing moisture content replaced with penetrant from the oil bath. Remove, let cool, and wipe off. In theory I don't believe there's anything wrong with the idea.
Comment · 10 months ago
I noticed something like this earlier, in the android app you can have it rewrite a paragraph, and then and only then do you have the option to send that as a text message. It's just a button that pops up. Claude has an elegance to it.
Comment · 10 months ago
I'm writing this on a grapheneos pixel 5. I have the app for very-large-USbank and a few others. With 'exploit protection compatibility toggle' enabled they works fine. In what regard this applies to device attestation I couldn't say.
Comment · 11 months ago
This only applies to Windows and I think you're referencing desktops.

Ten years ago I think rule of thumb was uptime of not greater than 6 months. But for different reasons. (Windows Server...)

On Solaris, Linux, BSDs etc. it's only necessary for maintenance. Literally. I think my longest uptime production system was a sparc postgres system under sustained high load with uptime of around 6 years.

With cloud infra, people have forgotten just how stable the Unixken are.

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