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Re:LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% (2012) on Thursday March 20, 2025 @12:42PM (#43425546)
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Re:LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% (2012) on Thursday March 20, 2025 @12:41PM (#43425538)
Exactly, it consumes heat.

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

Re:Trying to Recreate iOS on the Web on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @07:47AM (#42450013)
On desktop Firefox (133) on Ubuntu (24.10) it does look blurry.
Re:The Size of BYD's Factory on Monday November 25, 2024 @04:32AM (#42234656)
Nor the other way round, though.
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)
Re:BYD Launches Hybrids with 1,300-Mile Driving Range on Friday May 31, 2024 @10:38AM (#40535784)
Can you explain?
Re:My Experience Donating Stem Cells on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @10:23AM (#34339415)
Czech Republic: Český národní registr dárců dřeně (https://kostnidren.cz)
Re:Atom Was Archived Today on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:08AM (#34011600)
Have you tried LSP with gopls on Sublime 4 recently? Works great for me.
Re:“My chest fridge consumes about 0.1 kWh a day.” on Saturday November 05, 2022 @09:41AM (#33481378)
We tried 1 kg of baking soda. It absorbed a little bit of the humidity, but the mold appeared on the food itself.
Re:“My chest fridge consumes about 0.1 kWh a day.” on Saturday November 05, 2022 @09:38AM (#33481355)
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.

Re:“My chest fridge consumes about 0.1 kWh a day.” on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:34AM (#33464976)
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.

Re:“My chest fridge consumes about 0.1 kWh a day.” on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:03AM (#33464690)
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.

Re:Aggregated Gas Storage Inventory – Europe on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @04:27AM (#33341146)
Yearly. See the tooltips in table headers.
Re:Firefox for iOS 32 on Friday February 26, 2021 @04:57AM (#26273118)
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.

Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t on Saturday January 30, 2021 @07:55AM (#25968671)
Take a look at https://tldr.sh/.
Re:The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @09:33AM (#25517942)
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.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:13AM (#25515871)
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).

Re:Show HN: Raspberry Pi garage door opener on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:12AM (#23190280)
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.

Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:49AM (#21523438)
Is it turtles all the way down?
Re:I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:20PM (#21447196)
I was really surprised that modern smartphones are not able to ring an alarm while they are turned off.

My daily driver, Sony Ericsson ELM, rings an alarm each morning I need it, for the last ~9 years. Even when it's off, even if the battery is dead (once had a problem with a charger, couldn't even boot the phone, but it rang each morning for a week).

My iPhone? If it dies, it dies. Not even talking about Android.

Re:Wooden bikes on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @09:25AM (#18502850)
I don't think you want to do a blind test on a bike.
Actually, I do. This is not a form for user to change his own password, rather a administrators form to change another user's form. And for such actions the administrators identity and privileges are checked. But I understand your reasoning and thank you for pointing it out.

And yeah, I try to use GET only for safe requests, but I should be more careful.

Well, a while ago I saw this code (on my own project!): window.open("?controller=users&action=changePassword&name=" + user_name + "&password=" + password)

I was horrified, glad it isn't live yet, and I fixed it immediately. But I'm still wondering whether I was so sleep-deprived or drunk when I wrote this. It's over SSL, so it should not be that big deal, but still, GET shouldn't be used for such things.

Re:What happened, Gmail? on Sunday April 29, 2018 @05:25AM (#16951317)
When I used Gmail, I didn't use inbox because I sorted my email in folders, which were missing from inbox at the time. But now I use Thunderbird to manage all my mail and I'm more than happy with it.
But does it rhyme in both British and American English? Just wondering as English is not my first language.
Re:Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk? on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:29PM (#16758082)
And regex cheatsheet.
Firefox keeps alive pinned tabs, don't know about chrome
Re:Professionals need our 4:3 screens on Sunday February 18, 2018 @07:54AM (#16405848)
> I also think that the author actually has a different problem: a bad trackpad. He stated he needs to scroll a lot to view content, and a nice trackpad goes a long way with this.

Well - he has no trackpad, actually. The X60s he mentions has only a trackpoint. But even though this trackpoint is wonderful for scrolling, it's not the point - he wants to see the content, not scroll through it.

I get it, when I upgraded from X61s to to a new 12" laptop, I also didn't like the reduced screen height. But these old laptops had low resolution screen, and the extra resolution of FHD screen more than makes up for the smaller vertical physical size. And I can have two documents side-by-side.

Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:22PM (#16170322)
Wow.

Firefox 59: 474 ms

Edge 41: 164 ms

The difference is smaller with newer FF, but that is amazing from Edge!

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