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stoobs commented on UK government advises deleting emails to save water   gov.uk/government/news/na... · Posted by u/bifftastic
sna1l · 17 days ago
seriously wtf ... it rains all the time there :)
stoobs · 17 days ago
Not anywhere near as much as the stereotypes/memes/etc would have you believe.

Most of the issue though is the water companies funnelling revenue to shareholders and not maintaining the network, so they lose an awful lot of water through leaking pipes.

The privatisation of critical utilities and infrastructure was such a stupid move.

That said, the recommendation is nonsense, emails and photos make up a tiny fraction of the cooling requirements for data centres.

stoobs commented on It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)   news.sparkfun.com/14298... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
yjftsjthsd-h · a month ago
Perhaps the formatted capacity, or the safe capacity, but I can specifically recall being able to format those same floppies up to... I forget, maybe ~2MB? Something like that.
stoobs · a month ago
Yeah, the unformatted capacities of 3.5” floppy disks were:

SS-DD - 512KB

DS-DD - 1MB

HD - 2MB

ED - 4MB

LS (floptical) - 21MB

Technically you could format some of the lower density media in the high density drives and get the expanded capacity (although you may have needed to modify the media a little - holepunch to make an HD drive see a DS-DD disc as “HD”), although it wasn’t always very reliable and depended on the physical media and the capabilities of the individual drives.

Different file systems used the 2*80 tracks differently, hence the different formatted capacity, DOS usually had the lowest, Macintosh in the middle, Amiga had the most (although the Amiga HD floppies were a bit of a cludge - the drive spun at half speed due to a limitation of the Amiga floppy controller, which was also the reason you couldn’t just use a “PC” HD floppy in an Amiga without modification).

stoobs commented on Tesla reports 14% decline in deliveries, marking second year-over-year drop   cnbc.com/2025/07/02/tesla... · Posted by u/ceejayoz
stoobs · 2 months ago
I'm expecting sales to drop even further at this point.

Elon is too toxic, and they got distracted with the whole cybertruck nonsense and kicked the model 1/smaller more euro-focused one into the long grass

stoobs commented on UK to buy F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers   theregister.com/2025/06/2... · Posted by u/belter
neepi · 2 months ago
That will be because BAE Systems Tempest is crawling along with little investment.
stoobs · 2 months ago
Yeah, with Japan joining, I'm at least a little hopeful that it will prompt a little more positive action from the government to loosen the purse-strings a bit to get things moving again...
stoobs commented on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch
sofixa · 5 months ago
Flash that will survive the heat and humidity of a washing machine for a decade?
stoobs · 5 months ago
Place in the correct location and pot it correctly (conformal coating) and it won't be an issue.
stoobs commented on In memoriam   onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_... · Posted by u/ColinWright
edwinjones · 6 months ago
Hexus shut down years ago did it not?
stoobs · 6 months ago
The reviews/news side did, but the forums kept going until this.
stoobs commented on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row   bbc.com/news/articles/cgj... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
okeuro49 · 6 months ago
Apple did the right thing.

I would much rather they were transparent, so that people can move services, rather than build a backdoor in secret, to appease the far-left Labour government.

stoobs · 6 months ago
Oh stop with "far left" nonsense, none of our main political parties are much further than slightly left or right of centrist.
stoobs commented on ElevenReader   elevenreader.io... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
fl0id · 7 months ago
though they wouldn't need to use MLX, could also use pytorch etc
stoobs · 7 months ago
I think there's an issue somewhere in Kokoro though which means it doesn't actually take advantage of MPS, I did get a modified version up and running, but it was no faster than CPU, even though it passed all the internal tests using mps.

I might try using F5-TTS-MLX instead actually (https://github.com/lucasnewman/f5-tts-mlx) and see how that does.

stoobs commented on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting   theverge.com/news/609207/... · Posted by u/ambigious7777
malfist · 7 months ago
And they're probably not real. Take look at any of the clones of the dyson hair dryer and check their proclaimed RPMs, many of them would have the tip of the fan blade spinning at several mach if they actually hit their limit.

There's aquarium heaters on amazon that say they're 10kw or more and plug into a 120 outlet.

I bought a magnet that is supposed to hold "150 pounds", but pulls off the ceiling (in it's strongest position) with just 10-15 pounds.

Amazon specs are fake.

stoobs · 7 months ago
The Ninja one and probably the Breville ones will be accurate - I have the same Ninja kettle here in the UK and its 3000Watts vs the US 1500Watts.
stoobs commented on Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC–but it sure is fast   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
gnafkcud · 7 months ago
20% increase in performance for a 30% increase in power

sure looks like a dud

stoobs · 7 months ago
and a 25% increase in cost

u/stoobs

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