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New comment by MrMid in "LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% (2012)"

MrMid — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:42:08 +0000

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New comment by MrMid in "LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% (2012)"

MrMid — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:41:34 +0000

Exactly, it consumes heat.

> ... took advantage of small amounts of excess heat to emit more power than consumed.

New comment by MrMid in "Trying to Recreate iOS on the Web"

MrMid — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:47:03 +0000

On desktop Firefox (133) on Ubuntu (24.10) it does look blurry.

New comment by MrMid in "The size of BYD's factory"

MrMid — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:32:22 +0000

Nor the other way round, though.

New comment by MrMid in "Show HN: We made a small and cheap network switch"

MrMid — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 06:37:53 +0000

The intended use-case for this board is some robotics applications. I don't think parts of robots need to communicate via gigabit. 10/100 Base-T is presumably easier to implement and thus cheaper and smaller (which is the point of this project)

New comment by MrMid in "BYD Launches Hybrids with 1,300-Mile Driving Range"

MrMid — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:38:04 +0000

Can you explain?

New comment by MrMid in "My experience donating stem cells"

MrMid — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:23:10 +0000

Czech Republic: Český národní registr dárců dřeně (https://kostnidren.cz)

New comment by MrMid in "Atom was archived today"

MrMid — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 07:08:42 +0000

Have you tried LSP with gopls on Sublime 4 recently? Works great for me.

New comment by MrMid in "Low Energy Chest Fridge"

MrMid — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:41:16 +0000

We tried 1 kg of baking soda. It absorbed a little bit of the humidity, but the mold appeared on the food itself.

New comment by MrMid in "Low Energy Chest Fridge"

MrMid — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:38:26 +0000

We bake it on low temperature for like two hours. We did it just once, so we cannot assess whether it's still efficient with the baking energy included.

But the winter is coming now, so the extra heat generated when regenerating won't go to waste.

New comment by MrMid in "Low Energy Chest Fridge"

MrMid — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:34:54 +0000

The cooling in this freezer is all around the walls, and the condensed water stays on the walls and then falls down on the bottom. There was originally no drain hole, and even adding the drain hole didn't solve the problem.

It was designed as a freezer, not a fridge, after all.

New comment by MrMid in "Low Energy Chest Fridge"

MrMid — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:03:33 +0000

We made such chest fridge from an old freezer, and have been using it for almost a year now. The floor space it takes isn't that concerning, as it doubles as a counter top. It really is very efficient.

The only problem we have is humidity. With everyday use, a lot of condensed water gets stuck inside, the humidity goes near 100 % and the moulds really like that.

We tried many things, including making a drain hole inside, but nothing helped. We "solved" it with putting 1 kg of adsorbent (silica gel) on the bottom. It lasts about two months between regenerations, so it is quite usable this way.

New comment by MrMid in "Aggregated Gas Storage Inventory – Europe"

MrMid — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 08:27:29 +0000

Yearly. See the tooltips in table headers.

New comment by MrMid in "Firefox for iOS 32"

MrMid — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:57:36 +0000

Because Google is a major source of funding for Mozilla. I don't remember details, but they tried to be funded by other search providers. It didn't provide enough funding, though.

I guess promoting Google search is essential for them to keep building great products. And guard net neutrality. If we don't like it, we are probably not donating enough.

New comment by MrMid in "Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t"

MrMid — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 12:55:15 +0000

Take a look at https://tldr.sh/.

New comment by MrMid in "The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC"

MrMid — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:33:15 +0000

I have the WD19TB and it is great. I've never had problems with it, though Dell updates its firmware frequently, so it seems they are still tuning it.

New comment by MrMid in "Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back"

MrMid — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 09:13:59 +0000

They also have a mobile app with downloadable maps. Look for Mapy.cz.

I used it throughout whole Europe, and found it superior to even local apps (map content) and OSMAnd (map rendering).

New comment by MrMid in "Shadertoy Path Tracing: Fresnel, Rough Refraction and Absorption, Orbit Camera"

MrMid — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:33:18 +0000

This is part 3. Part 2 discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23445575

New comment by MrMid in "Show HN: Raspberry Pi garage door opener"

MrMid — Fri, 15 May 2020 09:12:49 +0000

It has been presented to me as an alternative to GSM. It's short for Long Range. They marketed it as a product for smart city, not smart home.

But of course that doesn't mean you can't use it that way.

New comment by MrMid in "Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network"

MrMid — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 12:49:14 +0000

Is it turtles all the way down?