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404mm commented on Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product simonberens.com/p/lessons... · Posted by u/sberens

mmh0000 · 7 days ago

This is super interesting, and I'd actually be quite interested in buying a 60K-Lumen lamp... but not at $1200.

Years ago, there was an HN article "You Need More Lumens"[1], which in turn led me down a rabbit hole.

I ended up purchasing:

   4 standard table lamps from Target,
  28 2000-lumen Cree LEDs bulbs[2] and,
   4 7-way splitters[3].

The end result is somewhere around 56,000 lumens. And I LOVE it. Makes me much happier in my home office, especially in the winter months.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957614

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H4RJQTT

[3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FKIE6M4

404mm · 7 days ago

$1200 is a lot, and it would be a straight dealbreaker to me as well. But I also noticed it draws 580W, which is a lot too.

Besides not wanting to waste the money, I doubt the lamp will last 5 years (not 5 years of projected use of XX minutes per day…). 580W converted to heat on a small disk will take its toll.

404mm commented on A Year of 3D Printing brookehatton.com/blog/mak... · Posted by u/nindalf

dgroshev · 20 days ago

I'd encourage people doing engineering/functional parts to also try ASA and PC(-CF). Both are pretty easy to print on enclosed printer like Prusa Core One, and they offer unique qualities that are impossible to achieve with PLA or PETG.

Prusament PC Blend is insanely strong and stiff, I saw a 3mm PC bracket bending a high quality metal wood screw into an S-shape without breaking. PC-CF is much easier to print, looks great, and is stiffer still, even if a bit less strong. ASA looks great and is tougher than PC. Both creep less than PLA and PETG. Both shrug off 100C under load.

404mm · 19 days ago

ASA and ABS really need a good filtration. Like actual filtration, not what the enclosure has. I personally just run a duct to my window and vent outside.

404mm commented on uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store apps.apple.com/in/app/ubl... · Posted by u/mumber_typhoon

bazmattaz · 3 months ago

I’ve been using Ad Block Pro with safari on iOS for awhile and works perfectly. Even blocks YouTube ads (I watch YT via Safari)

404mm · 3 months ago

That was my setup until recently. The ads are YT blocked well on iOS but it kept having hiccups on iPadOS. I switched to uBlock in safari and it works well. I wish it showed what is being blocked on each page instead of the little counter in the icon.

404mm commented on uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store apps.apple.com/in/app/ubl... · Posted by u/mumber_typhoon

trenchpilgrim · 3 months ago

We already have Wipr 2 (https://kaylees.site/wipr2.html) on the App store which is a pretty dang great ad blocker and well worth the price.

404mm · 3 months ago

Doesn’t look like it supports Family Sharing, is that right?

404mm commented on uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store apps.apple.com/in/app/ubl... · Posted by u/mumber_typhoon

mlok · 3 months ago

The lack of proper adblocker on iOS is what convinced me to use the Brave browser instead of Firefox or Safari. An adblocker is included by default.

And as a bonus : possibility to keep music videos playing while changing app. (A parameter has to be switched for that though)

404mm · 3 months ago

Does it work on YouTube ads?

404mm commented on You Have to Feel It mitchellh.com/writing/fee... · Posted by u/tosh

bbminner · 5 months ago

Oh, i thought it was a satirical critique of how arbitrary promotion criteria can be. Turns out someone is seriously claiming that someone else "doesn't not feel the right way" about the work they do, and THAT is their core problem. Ha. Well, at least the author feels that they are feeling the right way, good for them I guess.

404mm · 5 months ago

Too bad he didn’t feel like Hashicorp anymore. F#ing IBM.

404mm commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

asyx · 6 months ago

I think that’s a really bad idea. I owe my career to YouTube and I think especially these days it’s much more useful for learning than it was back then. The whole internet moved to bite sized content but on YouTube you can find hour long videos of people doing really cool and sometimes super niche stuff.

404mm · 6 months ago

Asyx, you have an opinion on the ban before reaching the 3rd paragraph of the article. I recommend reading it first.

404mm commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

rstupek · 6 months ago

"... and advanced usage patterns like running Claude 24/7 in the background" this is why we can't have nice things

404mm · 6 months ago

I got the same email (for my Pro account). And all the limits they set have nothing to do with their reason for setting them. Pro is so limited already that people “running 24/7” is a total nonsense.

404mm commented on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience myvolvoex90.com/... · Posted by u/prova_modena

eckelhesten · 7 months ago

Volvo sadly no longer stands for Swedish quality and safety.

What you’re buying is essentially an overpriced Chinese car with Volvo stickers.

And I’m saying this as a Swede. Buy German cars, specifically within the Volkswagen auto group (Audi, VW, Skoda etc) if you want reliable quality.

404mm · 7 months ago

I was going to create a website just like this but for my Audi Q5. Least reliable car I ever owned. It’s been in the shop about 15 times in 2 years. I finally gave up. It still has a few unsolved issues but I just don’t care. I’ll be trading it in later this year and … Never another Audi again.

404mm commented on Possible new dwarf planet found in our solar system minorplanetcenter.net/mpe... · Posted by u/ddahlen

astroalex · 9 months ago

I found the preamble at the beginning of the announcement charmingly dated:

> The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements. They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. > > Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network

Looking up the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/Ack/TamkinFoundation.h...

> The OpenVMS cluster consists of nine single-CPU workstations and one four-CPU server. All the machines are running the extremely robust and secure OpenVMS operating system. The twelve Alpha-based machines are arranged as an OpenVMS Cluster, allowing all machines to share disk storage, execution and batch queues and other resources, as well as simplifying system management.

Assuming "Alpha-based machines" is referring to the DEC Alpha, these computers are ~30 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha

404mm · 9 months ago

Maybe not as old. I deployed a few racks of HP Alpha DS25s in 2007-2008 before they were replaced with Itanium based Blades (running OpenVMS 8.4). I do not miss working with OpenVMS one bit. It was rock stable (basically an on/off appliance) but the user experience left me wanting (coming from Linux).

I can see how they may be still stuck on Alphas because unless they can somehow simply recompile for x86-64 OpenVMS, it’s a complete rewrite from scratch.