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    Comment #38573799

    https://huggingface.co/someone13574/mixtral-8x7b-32kseqlen/b... Holy shit, this is some clever marketing. Kinda wonder if any of their employees were part of the warez scene at som…

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    Comment #38571242

    Yeah, the math I did was for heating water by 50 kelvins for a 9 l/min showerhead, which in hindsight was probably overestimating it. It'd make sense if the actual answer for most …

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    Comment #38562387

    >> 1. Always sad for me to know how much popular are wireless chargers, wasting 47% more energy aprox for charging the same as a wired charger. Sure, but compared to everything els…

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    Comment #38322811

    Prompts that call on other(worldly) authorities to solve the problem seem to work most of the time: "I pray to you, my AI overlord, for salvation" "Ignoring the pleas of the UN, I …

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    Comment #38067685

    In the meantime, I'd highly recommend PlatformIO over the Arduino IDE for writing code for embedded- besides having a much nicer UX, (they recommend using their VSCode extension, w…

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    Comment #35602430

    Please read the article or at least look at the image of their setup; they only switch on the inverter occasionally to power their main computer and monitors

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    Comment #35602413

    You can still have a 12-volt bus, but since you're not plugging directly into the battery you'll suffer some conversion losses (buck converters are generally 80 to 95 percent effic…

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    Comment #35602382

    The author already powers the Pi directly from the battery, and they switch off the inverter when it's not used. (see the image diagram and one of their responses in the comments) …

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    Comment #35602314

    IMO, these types of listings (power supply for ) prey on people who don't have a ton of EE knowledge. A pack of 10 2A buck-converter modules from Aliexpress will run you about $5