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Relief mixed with sadness as New Zealand bids farewell to ‘hated’ giant hand sculpture
  • A different perspective: https://i.imgur.com/KUK7Qb9.jpeg

    From the 20th or so level of an office building a couple of streets over. Every photo of this seems to be the one from ground level looking up where it looms over you, I feel it is important we have one turning the tables and looking down on it.

  • JetKVM - a polished take at the nanoKVM(?)
  • While I have a personal general rule against backing electronics on Kickstarter and would likely wait for it to be available at retail, I wouldn't necessarily immediately discount this one.

    It's probably worth noting - mentioned in Jeff Geerling's video - they had a MOQ of 1500 on the metal case, which likely forced them to be significantly further through the process than a lot of Kickstarters are at launch.

  • More than 22 tonnes of cheddar stolen from Neal's Yard Dairy
  • My first time hearing that word too, but apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truckle

    late Middle English (denoting a wheel or pulley): from Anglo-Norman French trocle, from Latin trochlea ‘sheaf of a pulley’. The current sense dates from the early 19th century and was originally dialect.

  • Solar panels between railway tracks?
  • Putting a solar roofs over any open-air carpark you happen to own is just a hilariously easier option. Hell, you could erect these OVER the train tracks.

    https://greenox-group.de/photovoltaik-carport/ (Article is in German, but it's really more around the picture)

    According to a completely un-sourced picture I found online, one carpark (in the USA) is typically around 5.5 x 2.6m, so if you had even 50 carparks on your site you could have ~715 square metres of panels. More, if you figure a way to cover the aisles between the rows of carparks too.

    At the top end of all applicable figures (panel efficiency, solar irradiance, inverter efficiency), that could net you ~160kW at solar midday.

    Now on the other side, standard-gauge railway is around 1.4m wide, and maybe you could cram a 1m width of panels between the rails.

    That sounds like a lot - 1000 square metres per kilometre, and there are thousands of kilometres of railway lines out there - but it's harder to install, harder to service, gets dirty faster, is liable to get damaged, and now you have to figure out how to extract power from somehing a kilometre long, instead of an area that could be a square only around 35m (~115') on a side (for the above 50 carparks).

    I know which one of those I'd want to run the cables for.

    As has been pointed out many times when this dumb-ass idea comes up, only once you've exhausted every other possibility (carparks, rooftops, putting panels ABOVE roads/rivers/canals/cycleways/railways) and have literally no other viable installation locations, then we can talk.

  • Has anyone actually seen that show?
  • Funnily enough, I just watched it for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

    I think it might have been a different viewing experience when it was new, but it's hard to not view it through the modern lens where 30 Rock made it - and therefore defined the "genre" of show-about-a-SNL-type-show - and Studio 60 didn't.

    Wikipedia indeed includes an entire section about this in the pages for both shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_60_on_the_Sunset_Strip#Similarities_to_30_Rock / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Rock#Similarities_to_other_media

    But it does answer the question of "what if in a parallel universe, 30 Rock was a slightly weirdly paced character drama?".

  • Thanks, Logan.
  • Can also recomment "Sqwincher" (stupid name aside) products.

    https://www.sqwincher.com/products/single-serve-qwik-stik-zero/

    As they market primarily to people working in construction / other trades - and are therefore sold at the likes of electrical and safety supply stores - we buy them in bulk for when we're spending weeks installing racks of servers in our datacentre at work.

  • Is this a 2230 M.2 Slot?
  • it's essentially 2 PCI Express x1 lanes and USB 2.0

    Sometimes there's only a single PCIe lane though. And as you say, that's not a x2 but explicitly two x1s.

    No WiFi card needs the bandwidth (yet), at PCIe 3 speeds you've got around 7.8Gbps for a x1, and PCIe 4 double that.

    The Coral comes in a "dual" version for exactly this reason (https://coral.ai/products/m2-accelerator-dual-edgetpu/) you just have to be very sure the slot you're putting it in is actually delivering two PCIe connections.

    Also for bonus fun, most WiFi/BT cards use the PCIe interface for the WiFi and USB for the Bluetooth.

  • MKBHD is getting cancelled over $12/month wallpaper app, ad overload, and excessive permissions
  • While the price is undoubtedly an issue, I'm concerned this wasn't higher up in the article

    Brownlee says the money from the app is split 50/50 with artists

    HALF? Like I get that people are going to sign up to get exposure, but that is a hefty premium for doing very. very little work.

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