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barbegal commented on Show HN: My Tizen multiplayer drawing game flopped, but then hit 100M drawings   drawize.com/... · Posted by u/lombarovic
barbegal · 4 days ago
Congratulations! Works amazingly well.

Does it generate enough revenue to be self sustaining?

barbegal commented on Is Your Bluetooth Chip Leaking Secrets via RF Signals?   semanticscholar.org/paper... · Posted by u/transpute
vardump · 2 months ago
A side channel attack revealing AES key from just 90,000 traces.

Sigh, side channel attacks seem to be everywhere now.

barbegal · 2 months ago
That 90,000 traces did take 225 hours to capture so it is truly a huge amount of data and not a trivial attack.
barbegal commented on Cheese Crystals (2019)   snipettemag.com/cheese-cr... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy
gus_massa · 2 months ago
The article is dated in 2019, and the wayback machina has a version saved in 2020 [1] but ChatGPT was launched in 2022.

[1] https://snipettemag.com/cheese-crystals/

barbegal · 2 months ago
Thanks, good to know that I'm wrong!
barbegal commented on Cheese Crystals (2019)   snipettemag.com/cheese-cr... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy
barbegal · 2 months ago
Is it just me or does this have a familiar "edited by Chat GPT" feel to it? I can only take this chatty writing style in moderation but it seems everyone is using Chat GPT to edit their work in the same way.
barbegal commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade?   sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx
colechristensen · 4 months ago
Having studied battery lifetimes in an engineering context for a significant amount of time I've regularly wondered how much of the slow battery degradation in these car battery packs is "cheating".

That is how much of the battery capacity is hidden by the battery management system when the car is new and then slowly doled out as the battery ages to make for the appearance of very slow degradation even though the individual raw cells would be wearing out quite a bit faster? If this were true what you would see is after this excess capacity was exhausted would be battery capacity falling off a cliff eventually, though this data seems to show a couple hundred thousand miles of consistent capacity with no cliff.

SSDs do a similar thing for capacity and wear with a sizable proportion of capacity reserved to replace bad blocks as the SSD ages.

Whenever I make this comment almost everyone responding is just guessing about how I'm wrong and new chemistries are so much better, etc.

barbegal · 4 months ago
Yeah as far as I can see all the companies that study EV batteries and provide degradation reports etc. all do so by using the data from the manufacturer. I would trust data about battery degradation a lot more if the data came from an independent data logger, logging voltage and current.
barbegal commented on Telo MT1   telotrucks.com/... · Posted by u/turtleyacht
crote · 5 months ago
The Smart ForTwo and Smart ForFour sold pretty well in Europe, and they are minuscule: the ForTwo was only 270cm (106in) long and 150cm (61in) wide!
barbegal · 5 months ago
The ForTwo has two seats and no truck bed so it can have enough space for a crash structure in front of the driver. On top of that its NCAP rating expired in 2021 and it is no longer being sold. The next generation of the ForTwo is likely to be longer in order to improve safety (if it ever makes it into production)
barbegal commented on Telo MT1   telotrucks.com/... · Posted by u/turtleyacht
masklinn · 5 months ago
> I can't see any way this could be sold in Europe

It's 3860 x 1854mm, there are vehicles smaller than that being sold in europe right now (in the A segment, not quadricycles): the fiat 500e is 3632x1683, the suzuki ignis is 3700x1660. The citroen c1 (discontinued 2022) used to be just 3470x1620.

Hell there are B segment cars which aren't much bigger, the R5 e-tech is 3920x1770, the yaris is 3940x1745.

barbegal · 5 months ago
There are smaller vehicles being sold but the distance from the front bumper to the driver's legs is much longer because they don't have a bed taking up space at the back.
barbegal commented on Telo MT1   telotrucks.com/... · Posted by u/turtleyacht
barbegal · 5 months ago
The reason why we don't generally have vehicles this small any more is because they don't pass crash tests so I'm wondering how this fares in a crash test. I can't see any way this could be sold in Europe unless there's some very clever engineering to make the front end more resilient in a crash.
barbegal commented on New battery has life so long you may never have to recharge   neowin.net/news/this-amaz... · Posted by u/Bluestein
mr_mitm · 5 months ago
Will it ever be comparable to a "real" battery? The energy output has a clear upper limit. Are there materials that produce only beta particles at a high enough rate per gram that could power a cell phone with a half life of more than a few days?
barbegal · 5 months ago
Assuming you could get these to 10% efficiency (which is theoretically possible) and a phone needs 0.2W of energy to function then you would need a source capable of supplying 2W of energy (of which 1.8W would be dissipated as heat). The phone would be fairly hot all the time but 2W could be dissipated without it overheating in most environments. Strontium 90 generates 0.95 W/g so in theory a few grams of strontium 90 would be enough to power your phone for many decades (the half life is 28 years). But if someone were to accidentally put such a phone into an insulating material it might overheat and become a dangerous radioactive mess!
barbegal commented on New battery has life so long you may never have to recharge   neowin.net/news/this-amaz... · Posted by u/Bluestein
barbegal · 5 months ago
Not comparable to a real battery any time soon based on the paper https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/cc/d4cc0...

> The perovskite betavoltaic cell achieved impressive parameters, including a short-circuit current density of 15.01 nA cm−2, an open-circuit voltage of 2.75 mV, and an energy conversion efficiency of 1.83%, all of which represent significant improvements over previous works.

u/barbegal

KarmaCake day3024January 10, 2018View Original