Viewing profile — mikepavone

I fell in love with the Aptera back during the Automotive X Prize era. Back then batteries were expensive enough that a vehicle that got decent range by being ultra-efficient was r…

> For me the bigger problem is that it's classified as a motorcycle, which may mean wearing a helmet, and needing to have a class M license. The only state that requires a motorcyc…

Sounds like they've worked on some ActivityPub related software based on their other blog posts and codeberg. The details remind me more of the Bluesky PDS though. It's nodejs-base…

Chevy Volt was still a parallel hybrid. The gasoline engine was used for driving the wheels for highway cruise because it was more efficient. I think the range extender version of …

Article reads like it was AI-generated too

Yeah, the Saturn is probably the more practical target. The SH-2s are clocked a little faster, the memory bus is 32-bit wide and there's an off-the-shelf 4MB RAM expansion cartridg…

For what it's worth, the Sub 68K (mostly*) does not share memory with the main 68K. This makes SMP impossible, but on the bright side there's no contention. Sadly, there's also no …

Neat to see this on HN after discussing this a bit with you on the Emudev discord (I'm Mask of Destiny there). I'm curious if you tested this on hardware. I think I mentioned this …

So the problem with the Model 1 that the mixing cable is trying to solve is that the expansion port on that model has audio input pins, but no audio output pins. Now strictly speak…

It should. There are some small differences between the Nomad and a normal Gen/MD, but nothing that should impact something like this

I'm working on adding Sega 32X support to BlastEm [0], the Genesis/Mega Drive (as well as some related Sega systems these days) emulator. I've gotten most games working on this poi…

Yeah, with some effort it's possible (or at least it was) to extract the ROM from the Steam release and play it on the real hardware. They went to a fair bit of trouble to prevent …

I'm not sure it's even a particularly relevant comparison to an hour of use of various other electronic devices. I'm sure the median user is running a lot fewer queries than a Clau…

As someone with a self-hosted Mercurial instance dealing with this, I will say that the big names (OpenAI included, but not exclusively them) generally at least use proper user-age…

Nothing stopping you from encoding h264 at a low frame rate like 5 or 10 fps. In webRTC, you can actually specify how you want to handle low bitrate situations with degredationPref…

> They shared the polling code in the article. It doesn't request another jpeg until the previous one finishes downloading. You're right, I don't know how I managed to skip over th…

You probably won't get acceptable latency this way since you have no control over buffer sizes on all the boxes between you and the receiver. Buffer bloat is a real problem. That s…

> When the network is bad, you get... fewer JPEGs. That’s it. The ones that arrive are perfect. This would make sense... if they were using UDP, but they are using TCP. All the JPE…

Wow, I only paid $265 for 96GB of DDR5 back in April. Same brand (G.SKILL) as the kit in the article too.

FWIW, they still seem to have not actually pulled the trigger on the account requirement and they've removed the "Starting soon" portion of the nag bar text in the Hue app (though …

> This is not how nuclear works. Nuclear sets a low price that corresponds to its cost, then lets more expensive marginal energy sources set the final price. This may be an accurat…

You totally can do it with some combination of overbuilding, storage and increased interconnection. It just starts to get expensive the higher the portion of your generation you wa…

I have a 2017 Bolt as my only car and the slow L3 charging is definitely a downside, but I haven't found it to be a huge issue in practice. On a trip long enough to worry about fas…

IIRC, the EUV had an option for normal adaptive cruise control, but I don't think any ever had a Super Cruise style option

If you compare it to the commuter rail systems in those places, BART feels impressive (though less so with the service cuts). I was a regular rider on the Metro North New Haven lin…