benplumley (u/benplumley)

benplumley commented on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower supercarblondie.com/elect... · Posted by u/chris_overseas

lazide · 3 months ago

It’s great anywhere you want more power but are limited by space and/or weight for performance reasons. Aerospace, e-bikes, electric race vehicles, electric motorcycles.

But yeah, EVs seem weird except for racing reasons perhaps.

What I can’t figure out is how they dissipate the heat - double digits kw per kg is crazy.

benplumley · 3 months ago

    The YASA axial flux motors benefit from much shorter windings and direct oil cooling which gives an unparalleled performance proposition.  
      
    A 200kW peak-power radial motor, run continuously, might typically give 50% of peak power between 80 and 100kW, as a result of thermal limitations. In contrast, a 200kW YASA motor runs continuously at 150kW thanks to the improved high-thermal-contact cooling that oil offers.

From https://yasa.com/technology/

benplumley commented on Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023) dgross.ca/blog/linux-home... · Posted by u/AgaoAnar

t_mahmood · 5 months ago

Ha ha, I tried something similar when I had to go to Thailand for my wife's treatment. And failed spectacularly. Fortunately, my laptop had all the files. I didn't have Tailscale at that time.

My Desktop, WoL on, tested to be working Android Phone, always on

All have SyncThing installed. Mobile had Tasker installed.

So, the idea was to have Tasker monitor a folder inside SyncThing, When I need my computer, I put a file inside that folder, when Tasker finds that folder, it sends WoL to my desktop, and deletes the file, Computer wakes up. When I see the file deleted I know, the beast is now awakens ....

When I actually did try that from Thailand, the file did not got deleted, nor the beast woke up.

What happened? Turns out, my mobile restarts automatically after some time of inactivity. Which, locks Tasker out, and the whole process fails.

So, operation wake the beast was busted.

benplumley · 5 months ago

Since you're already using Tasker, you could use it to launch Tailscale on the phone at boot - I've got mine set to do this so my phone reconnects to tailscale after a reboot.

benplumley commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

stalco · 8 months ago

I installed it. I really wanted to love it but it’s bad. It’s very busy and the proportions in the Settings app are awful. It’s on the “cozy” side of things (as opposed to “compact”). This means you see less options at one time on the screen and have to scroll more around the OS to get where you need to.

As for accessibility… It’s hell. Have a look: https://imgur.com/a/6ZTCStC

benplumley · 8 months ago

Is the WiFi enabled, or does it just have a blue icon behind it?

benplumley commented on Noise-canceling single-layer woven silk and cotton fabric onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

jcims · a year ago

Apologies for the ADHD induced tangent. Has anyone else noticed that regular little party balloons seem to have a passive noise cancelling effect? If you bring them close to your ear there's a zone of 'dead air' when they are maybe an inch away. My theory was that there's something in passing through the rubber envelope that creates a phase delay or inversion, but it could just all be in my head lol.

benplumley · a year ago

Could it be an interaction between static electricity from the balloon and tiny elements in the ear?

benplumley commented on Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies community.wolfram.com/gro... · Posted by u/bschne

perihelions · a year ago

There aren't any other ingredient cycles in unmodded Factorio (besides the trivial barrelling/un-barrelling of fluids).

benplumley · a year ago

I thought you could go between heavy and light oil cyclically, but I think the recipes I'm thinking of are from UltraCube. The others are a subset of nuclear (Kovarex and reprocessing), so I think you're right.

benplumley commented on Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies community.wolfram.com/gro... · Posted by u/bschne

teekert · a year ago

Those are Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), like used in make, and Snakemake. No mention of that word though. There are some nice libraries and visualization tools for DAGs.

benplumley · a year ago

That's a coincidence, that the author only picked recipes that are made without cycles. Other Factorio recipes (e.g. nuclear fuel processing) are cyclic.

benplumley commented on LTSE shutters cap table management business (formerly captable.io) equity.ltse.com/lp/import... · Posted by u/mrobins

mrobins · 2 years ago

Title edited for clarity

benplumley · 2 years ago

You've landed on an excellent garden path sentence, as shutters, cap, and table are all both nouns and verbs!

benplumley commented on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml... · Posted by u/thunderbong

professoretc · 2 years ago

> You automate all the recurring things (this is built into Gnucash

Is it? When I last looked at GnuCash (which, admittedly, was like 7 years ago) you could not setup automatic categorization of transactions. You couldn't say, while going through imported transactions, "Every transaction where the payee is utility company should come from the Utilities account". The idea was that GnuCash was using some kind of Bayesian scheme to learn how to categorize your transactions automatically, but you had to input your transactions manually 3 or 4 times before it started working. Which, for me, seemed like a huge waste of time since 90% of my transactions could be automatically categorized by simple keyword matching against the payee or description.

benplumley · 2 years ago

I'm not talking about importing transactions, that's not a feature I use because it'd take longer than entering manually if you did it daily. I'm talking about the scheduled transaction editor, where you enter e.g. your rent manually once then schedule the same transaction to happen monthly. This should still work if you also import the non-recurring ones.

benplumley commented on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml... · Posted by u/thunderbong

lionkor · 2 years ago

I continue to be confused how people use these kinds of programs. They're cool, yeah, but how do you keep track of your credit card(s), bank account(s), possibly your significant other's as well, subscriptions, fees, automated payments, cash in/out, taxes, varying income, investment returns, savings, balances on platforms you may use like wise/revolut (for travel) in different currencies, automated "fees" like interest on savings, loans, which may change every now and then, etc?

I dont see any good way to manage this stuff, maybe just by monitoring what goes in and out of a main account. I would love if there was a protocol that all these services supported, but there sure as hell isn't.

At that point, does something like GNU Cash become just another inaccurate representation of in, out and have?

Edit: Maybe you just update it once a month from statements?

benplumley · 2 years ago

You automate all the recurring things (this is built into Gnucash), enter the non-recurring things (takes a minute or two a day if that day even had any transactions) and reconcile against the bank's statement/app/website monthly to make sure its representation stays accurate.

Once you've entered a transaction once, its autocomplete handles those going forwards so entering a new transaction is as quick as typing the first couple of letters of the shop name, pressing tab a few times, then entering the amount.

benplumley commented on Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation failures theregister.com/2023/09/0... · Posted by u/pg_1234

ryanjshaw · 2 years ago

It must have changed as I don't see that at all:

> Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage

> Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind

benplumley · 2 years ago

That's the heading, the title is still "small staff" for me. The heading is what shows at the top of the page, you'll see the page title in the browser tab's name among other places.