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Review of Delta PD3.1 240W USB-C Power Adapter [video]

0cVlTeIATBs — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:43:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq70ANTj0hM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661662

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New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws"

0cVlTeIATBs — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:11:52 +0000

My favorite snack ever, since discontinued, are also covered by patent. Partially popped popcorn that used to be at Trader Joe's.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7579036B2/en

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery – more range and even lower cost"

0cVlTeIATBs — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:03:10 +0000

For comparison, BYD's are in the $10k range

https://electrek.co/2024/03/06/byd-launches-cheaper-seagull-...

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "IrfanView"

0cVlTeIATBs — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 14:19:43 +0000

ACDSee old versions (2.6.1?) would preload the next image in memory while scrolling through a folder, making it extremely useful in the age of hard drives. It became bloated, but the only reasons to switch were for newer image formats, and sometimes .gifs would crash it.

FastStone Image Viewer is the performant, slick image viewer I use now.

IrfanView has some rough defaults like if you scroll to the end of a folder, a window pops up that you have to click away before you can scroll back. I use it all the time for simple editing, not viewing.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "World Backup Day"

0cVlTeIATBs — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 14:01:50 +0000

FreeFileSync

It's what you'd like if your idea of simplicity is dragging and dropping one folder to another, but want to more closely see what files have changed before the copy.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included"

0cVlTeIATBs — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:51:12 +0000

That's the final blow for me. The last use case was when esoteric discussion there would be one of the few search engine results.

I've already long ago edited out all my old posts and deleted the accounts. So sad to see sites grow to become gated advertiser-friendly communities.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "'Pure veg fleet': Indian food app Zomato sparked a caste, purity debate"

0cVlTeIATBs — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 02:22:15 +0000

Are vegetarians perceived as being bigoted, especially by lower castes?

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "DongleHider+ Framework Laptop Expansion Card"

0cVlTeIATBs — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:00:09 +0000

Wireless mice are faster than wired mice*

*At least, LTT put out a video as such some years ago. Regardless, if you like wireless, BT is a bottom of the barrel solution.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "Porn Sites Need Age-Verification Systems in Texas, Court Rules"

0cVlTeIATBs — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:11:25 +0000

>The law applies to websites in which more than one-third of the content "is sexual material harmful to minors."

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "Kagi and Wolfram"

0cVlTeIATBs — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:22:27 +0000

I don't use kagi. On WA, this search results in the answer with a prompt with the engine's assumptions, and includes a link to change the assumption to "math" from "word."

These prompts don't show on kagi? Seems like including them would be an avenue for improvement.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027"

0cVlTeIATBs — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:12:33 +0000

>they're using "angstroms" I kinda hoped once they hit 1 "nanometer" they'd stop using these fake units of length.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "Ask HN: With all the layoffs – how are you?"

0cVlTeIATBs — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:25:48 +0000

Depressive hole here. Seeing the concept of finding my first job in tech as near hopeless for someone like me, who has weak network/hustling skills. Going to events I've met other unemployed people, many friends/acquaintances are unemployed or laid off, and differentiating myself from any of them is a social challenge I've never prepared for. It feels worse when it's apparent that to do so, I need relevant work experience and what relevant education I have is not what counts.

When I consider the advice to seek an "adjacent" position and then move to the role I want internally, it feels like I'm in an even worse position because to work tech support, any customer-facing experience is preferable, meaning anyone who's worked retail has yet another leg up on me.

Well, you asked. I'd rather not try to give advice even if I have any.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "X blocks Taylor Swift searches after fake AI videos go viral"

0cVlTeIATBs — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 22:55:30 +0000

If by "monetizing the destruction of civil society" you mean making money from posting celebrity nudes on the internet maybe you'll be glad to learn the people doing it are doing it for free.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "Everything2"

0cVlTeIATBs — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 21:20:49 +0000

>1 C! >2 C!s

Are these posts rated in Cuils? This is bringing up old memories.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "My SBC Collection"

0cVlTeIATBs — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 16:33:52 +0000

I also have a bunch of SBCs lying around waiting to be used, and also an ODROID HC2 which has been in use for years. I only dislike that it's not powerful enough for encryption--LUKS + samba could not read/write at disk speeds and was unreliable in my testing.

Really wish there would be an upgrade to the HC2 with about three to four times the performance.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "2TB microSD card is on the way early next year"

0cVlTeIATBs — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:21:04 +0000

Oops, I mean tibibits.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "2TB microSD card is on the way early next year"

0cVlTeIATBs — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:19:37 +0000

I think you both have fallen for the bullshit marketing of storage manufacturers who want you to think you're getting 16 terabits of capacity. You're not. You get 16,000,000,000,000 bits.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "2TB microSD card is on the way early next year"

0cVlTeIATBs — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:17:30 +0000

I know we all like big numbers but

>said to have read speeds of up to 100 MB a second and write speeds of up to 90 MB a second

is useless to say, especially when write caches exist. I only care about minimum speeds, short of in depth analysis. The card is V30, which guarantees 30MB/s write.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "TACF is no longer supporting development of D58 American chestnut trees"

0cVlTeIATBs — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:18:04 +0000

I'm reminded of one of my favorite pieces of trivia: there are more trees in America now than there were 100 years ago.

New comment by 0cVlTeIATBs in "A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography"

0cVlTeIATBs — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:08:22 +0000

Well, the Rittenhouse case had a very important moment when the victim admitted that, while looking at a freeze-frame view of a video taken when he was shot, he had raised his pistol which was pointed at Rittenhouse only a fraction of a second before. [0]

That photo was critical for the defense getting him to say that.

There were also concerns over wether or not zooming in on an iPad should be allowed in that case--like if a red pixel next to a blue could create a purple one, etc.

[0] https://www.denverpost.com/2021/11/08/shooting-victim-says-h...