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New comment by bmicraft in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bmicraft — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:32:18 +0000

I never said loud. Comfortable podcast listening volume in both cases.

New comment by bmicraft in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bmicraft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:24:07 +0000

You can turn up your car stereo and mow over pedestrians undisturbed in your two ton death machine yet I'm not allowed to cycle on a bicycle-only path with with a podcast and transparency mode enabled? For my own safety? Safety from car drivers that fell asleep driving with their stereo on?

New comment by bmicraft in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bmicraft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:21:33 +0000

> The "plausible sounding-text generator" generated plausible sounding text. More news at 11

Yeah, that's what LLMs do. Now is it true? Who knows!

New comment by bmicraft in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bmicraft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:19:19 +0000

My XM4's always do that at the beeps from the cash register, although I always attributed that to their volume rather than frequency. My theory was that they refuse to produce sound loud enough to cancel the beeps for safety reasons.

New comment by bmicraft in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bmicraft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:10:54 +0000

There is no handshake, all that's needed are two 5.1 kΩ pulldown resistors. By omitting them the manufacturer saved all of about 0.1c and made their device incompatible with compliant usb-c chargers.

More info: https://hackaday.com/2023/02/07/all-about-usb-c-manufacturer...

New comment by bmicraft in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

bmicraft — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:41:07 +0000

The author may feel like this is true, but she probably probably doesn't care for the Kafkaesque nature of the system and doesn't stand to profit from their misery either.

New comment by bmicraft in "FreeCAD v1.1"

bmicraft — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:49:18 +0000

Or don't and adjust it in the sketcher? If you name your constrains you can just reference them directly elsewhere.

I think that's much easier as you don't have to go back and forth with a spreadsheet.

New comment by bmicraft in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

bmicraft — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:31:23 +0000

The main problem with PHEV is, that's it's comparably small battery will age very poorly because it will both: a) do more charge/discharge cycles per distance driven, and b) get charged and discharged closer to 0 & 100% making the battery age even faster.

New comment by bmicraft in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

bmicraft — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:40:54 +0000

I've had some very bad ram (lots of errors found when tested) and consistently the only thing that actually crashed because of it was Firefox.

New comment by bmicraft in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

bmicraft — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:29:02 +0000

That's what named pipes do.

New comment by bmicraft in "EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)"

bmicraft — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:02:26 +0000

The Galaxy S5 was only 8.1mm including camera bump, removable battery and IP67 rating.

New comment by bmicraft in "Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish?"

bmicraft — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:18:04 +0000

Is it? I can see the broiler glowing, so at least a decent chunk is close to visible light.

New comment by bmicraft in "Australian author's erotic novel is child sex abuse material, judge finds"

bmicraft — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:12:42 +0000

I think that's the most, if not only relevant part to base your decision on

New comment by bmicraft in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

bmicraft — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:47:17 +0000

There was a story here the other day, bitlocker keys stored in your Microsoft account will be handed over.

New comment by bmicraft in "Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89"

bmicraft — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:05:15 +0000

You created an account to shill for a product?

New comment by bmicraft in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

bmicraft — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:28:26 +0000

> Personally I would not create "EU-INC" but just make all local entities legal in every country. Then countries could compete to be the best system to attract companies and entrepreneurs.

Like the current downward spiral of US states competing who can have the lowest corporate tax while letting their infrastructure crumble? But hey, that's a long term thing and we don't think about those. Only which companies move to my state in the next year/quarter/month.

New comment by bmicraft in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

bmicraft — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:43:50 +0000

You can't even get half the cheese ww have here

New comment by bmicraft in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

bmicraft — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:05:43 +0000

Truly spoken like someone who's never been out of their region.

New comment by bmicraft in "Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression"

bmicraft — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:19:40 +0000

5k is not a distance. 5km, 5 thousand feet or yards are. I've never heard of this weird and unnecessary "abbreviation"

New comment by bmicraft in "Linux Runs on Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores (2024)"

bmicraft — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:05:57 +0000

For all intents and purposes, the fist raspberry pi is pretty much that, except maybe the tailored OS. Although I'm not sure what would even fit between a fully featured rtos and a trimmed down linux.