Hacker News: CarVac

New comment by CarVac in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

CarVac — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:36:24 +0000

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

New comment by CarVac in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

CarVac — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:10:46 +0000

At my past place Fios was excellent but I've had mixed results recently, with ping spikes and a lot of suspected traffic shaping of things like Youtube.

Service is pretty good though.

New comment by CarVac in "My Favorite Keyboards"

CarVac — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:57:47 +0000

Mitosis is the layout that I like, it doesn't require a huge thumb stretch.

New comment by CarVac in "Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made"

CarVac — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:08:39 +0000

I consume copious amounts of cold mugicha. It's amazingly refreshing and very cheap.

New comment by CarVac in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

CarVac — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:15:34 +0000

We can collect income tax from children of tourists who happen to be born in the US on vacation? Great!

New comment by CarVac in "1250-HP Chevy Corvette ZR1X Is Now the Quickest Car We've Ever Tested"

CarVac — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:15:09 +0000

The fastest drag racing cars still are internal combustion. When raw speed is the goal, the torque doesn't have to be efficient, you can get it from an engine spinning away in its power band with a controlled amount of clutch or torque converter slipping.

This is still crazy from a road car though.

New comment by CarVac in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

CarVac — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:14:50 +0000

> Besides being cheaper, the induction motors have the advantage that if they are used only as auxiliary motors, you can cut the power supply to them at any time, in which case they will consume nothing.

EESMs have this advantage too, you can simply cut power to the field winding.

New comment by CarVac in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

CarVac — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:13:16 +0000

Efficiency varies according to the load and RPM.

Permanent magnet motors have higher peak efficiency but EESMs are better in non ideal conditions, particularly low torque high RPM i.e. highway cruising where efficiency is more critical than at low speeds.

New comment by CarVac in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

CarVac — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:52:38 +0000

Sometimes limitations can have benefits.

New comment by CarVac in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

CarVac — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:51:55 +0000

Regardless, for me the CD is actually painful to listen to even at low volumes, while the vinyl is excellent.

New comment by CarVac in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

CarVac — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:00:45 +0000

There's compression and distortion for sure on the vinyl, but when you look at the waveform on the digital it's right up to the max. It completely changes the sound.

New comment by CarVac in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

CarVac — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:08:57 +0000

It's true from time to time. Low's last digital releases are actually unlistenable due to heavy-handed compression, but the vinyl seems to have been spared.

I had to record the vinyl to get usable digital files.

New comment by CarVac in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

CarVac — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:04:08 +0000

My LG OLED TV does have a headphone jack, and I send that through a mixer (combined with my CRT gaming setup's output, my record player, and my PC's output) to my stereo.

New comment by CarVac in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

CarVac — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:02:29 +0000

It's the ergonomics that I have an issue with.

New comment by CarVac in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

CarVac — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:01:43 +0000

I always viewed the classic scroll method as a mirror to what happens on screen.

New comment by CarVac in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

CarVac — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:44:59 +0000

Speaking of "natural scrolling" it is horrible because most scrolling is downward and "natural" is an ergonomically inferior pushing action instead of pulling.

It's only natural on the actual display itself.

Anothe affront to nature by Apple, along with killing the headphone jack.

New comment by CarVac in "Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack"

CarVac — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:54:10 +0000

The thermistor looks like a Semitec ###NT series, if you want the exact one.

103NT H34G, I suppose?

New comment by CarVac in "Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)"

CarVac — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:21:54 +0000

Zigzagoon using growl made it say my "hp rose"

New comment by CarVac in "There's still no point in gigabit broadband"

CarVac — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:15:23 +0000

I figured 300 megabit Fios would be enough but I think that when you cheap out, they more severely throttle places like Youtube on the backend.

New comment by CarVac in "The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)"

CarVac — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:34:01 +0000

The PH-0 and smaller screwdrivers from Good suppliers like iFixit or Wera are actually JIS because there's no downside.

But if you happen upon a real PH-0 it will destroy the JIS screws.