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Like a switching regulator? That would be fine, a linear regulator though definitely not from those kind of voltages! Such a huge voltage drop would make a lot of waste heat. What …

That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, coal plants take at least 10 hours (but can take up to 48 hours) to start, warm up and synchronise from cold. That’s why hydro, gas, and inc…

I hate it, they've just gone and smooshed a bunch more AI crap into Jira too in the last few days. Useless buttons to "suggest subtasks" and "improve issue" and offer to write the …

Honestly I hope people's distaste for AI generated content grows stronger. The existing mass media is bad and inauthentic enough, AI content is even worse... I find myself mostly w…

That seems an incredibly generous description (or breathtakingly naive, but I'm giving the benefit of the doubt because hopefully most people aren't that credulous). The point of H…

Of course there’s no actual official ‘china export’ mark and that is just what some Chinese factories were claiming when they were caught slapping a (accidentally mis-spaced) CE co…

I doubt it’s even saving cost, it’s just incompetence. It works with the USB A to C cable, so job done. They’ve probably never plugged it into a PD charger, and probably just copie…

That’s impressive, I have managed to break a lot of micro connectors (not even from proper stress, just from prolonged normal use) but I have never managed to break a USB-C cable o…

What solution are you proposing though? As long as people can buy USB-C connectors on the open market, they're going to be able to create devices that horribly deviate from the spe…

That was exactly the point of the project though - it was designed by the conservative side of politics in our country to try and crowd out investment in batteries and other renewa…

What kind of part? I use Octopart for a lot of things, like ICs (sometimes some variants are available in low quantities but others aren't and only in thousands). For stuff like pa…

Buying custom PCBs from China makes sense if you're interested in making electronics . It was more than a decade ago that the equation shifted to the point that making them at home…

Strange response... Since when is the idea of ‘duty’ supposed to be ‘deeply American’? I’m not American but happy to agree with the OP - being an elected MP is not just a job and i…

Yes, in this case it's a slightly different (and much more common) strategy - EEE was a bit of a Microsoft trademark but we see what's happening here much more widely, especially b…

Noticed this with hire cars, we have 'school zones' that only operate within certain times (like 7am - 9am and 2pm - 4pm) and new cars pick up the 40 km/h from the sign but obvious…

That’s nothing to do with the OP’s comment, and ignores the second part which I pointed out too (that nobody is forcing you to use this optional feature that most people want), so …

That doesn’t make any sense… The comment you’re replying to is about people’s desire for a particular feature, but pretty much any car that supports CarPlay also supports the Andro…

> The difference isn’t huge (I think it’s 10-20% or something) A 10-20% reduction in fuel burn is actually considered pretty huge...

Funny though how whenever these laws are pushed though, the legislators are more interested in strongly identifying people to gate services despite the fact that they should have p…

Yeah, I expect it's pretty similar to how long-term, constant stress is correlated to poor longevity, but frequent bouts of short term stress of intense exercise followed by recove…

Yes for other countries, it’s a standards thing not something unique to the US!

I've done a lot of travelling between Australia and Europe via Dubai on the A380, and I've definitely noticed the same thing, you can really feel it. You can also see it on the int…

Suggesting a video app is more dangerous than 13 year olds playing unsupervised with actual explosives and real guns...