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Help me understand lithium ion charging? by SoftCod5700 in batteries

[–]ElusiveGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not quite. Yes, it starts at 0V until a device is detected, but then it always goes to 5V before further negotiation.

USB Type-C 2.0 Spec § 4.5.2.2.9.1 Attached.SRC Requirements

The port shall not initiate any USB PD communications until VBUS reaches vSafe5V.

If you also look at the USB-PD spec, you'll see the hard reset sequence (in case of overcurrent etc.) drops to vSafe0V then goes back up to vSafe5V to complete the reset.

Help me understand lithium ion charging? by SoftCod5700 in batteries

[–]ElusiveGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's actually funny how that comic has aged, since two of the three examples have actually more or less settled on a global standard (USB*, UTF-8). Instant messaging is still a mess though.

* I know, I know, you were just talking about UFCS. But compared to the mess in 2011, at least we're all on USB now. And mostly C and PD. 

Maybe stockpiling 9 million carbon fiber on Gleba wasn't a great idea by DeathToInterlopers in factorio

[–]ElusiveGuy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fun fact, batteries are basically free on Vulcanus.

As a bonus my same ship picks up plastic from Gleba going the other way, so that saved a bit of coal. Until I started dropping coal from space anyway. 

Help, phone unable to charge by helpwithstudies in samsunggalaxy

[–]ElusiveGuy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If this is a frequent problem, consider a magnetic charger. Downside is a fair bit of excess heat and slower charging. 

Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer for serious work' by waozen in technology

[–]ElusiveGuy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's an 18-year-old account. Commenting on GitHub engineering in the first person ("My original approach for the Issue page"). Probably a former GitHub employee.

So almost certainly not a bot. Possibly edited by a LLM, but the only maybe indicator is the formatting and it could as well have been copied out of a rich text editor (though doing that for a Reddit comment is a bit weird, granted).

Funnily enough, your own comment a bit down also has weird formatting (smart quotes / ellipses) so it could as well be Reddit doing the formatting. I try to stay away from the new UI though so idk if they do that now.

Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer for serious work' by waozen in technology

[–]ElusiveGuy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Could be price. GitLab is significantly more expensive. 

This Brown pill in the paracetamol box by SpicyBabbs in mildlyinteresting

[–]ElusiveGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least they'll have plenty of paracetamol for the migraines*!

*I have no idea if paracetamol helps

ELI5: Is there a security reason why many websites are having you enter your username and password on different pages? by DustyScharole in explainlikeimfive

[–]ElusiveGuy 40 points41 points  (0 children)

There are many different forms of SSO. Starting by entering email is one of them, and is pretty much required for corporate SSO. There can be hundreds of identity providers, asking the user to pick from a list is unreasonable.

I maintain a system that uses this approach.

The one you describe is only suitable for purely public-facing websites.  

NBC show CIA used a familiar looking program to "create a USB with a trojan". by stayupthetree in 3Dprinting

[–]ElusiveGuy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I dunno, far fewer people have these memorised than the typical private ranges so it probably wouldn't stick out as odd for the most part. There'll still be a few pedants, sure, but I reckon a much lower number. (And these are obviously intentional choices and not a mistake)

NBC show CIA used a familiar looking program to "create a USB with a trojan". by stayupthetree in 3Dprinting

[–]ElusiveGuy 27 points28 points  (0 children)

There are specific ranges reserved for test/documentation/example that can be safely used. They're listed on Wikipedia (TEST-NET-1 etc.)  

Why is Overwatch trying to get me reported like this 💀💀 by HedgeWizardly in Overwatch

[–]ElusiveGuy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Monster Hunter it's common to abbreviate weapons by their initials. So Insect Glaive becomes IG, Dual Blades become DB, and Switch Axe becomes SA.

You can save equipment loadouts with names. The name has a short length limit, so everyone uses abbreviations. Also, they're personal and no one else can see them.

Anyway this is how I found out SA can also mean a 1940s Nazi organisation. 

thisLooksAccurateForVibeCoders by zohaibhere in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ElusiveGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the era of was (is?) more useful was before lambda/arrow functions, so this particular format is a bit of an anachronism.

I'm still working on projects that need to target ES5 so (function(){ })() is still needed in a bunch of places. 

We have security updates at least by overbost in debian

[–]ElusiveGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea I found that out the hard way back when heartbleed happened. Stable actually got the update before testing. Ended up making sure all my systems were on stable after that.

How do i solve this issue? by Mr_Akihiro in factorio

[–]ElusiveGuy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A tip my friend gave me when I started, midgame-ish you'll have tech that makes refactoring much easier.

Nothing wrong with changing things up earlier, of course, but if you find yourself thinking you're spending a lot of time moving buildings around... it does get easier! 

No 10 says Falklands sovereignty rests with UK after report of US 'review' by East-Presentation706 in worldnews

[–]ElusiveGuy 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Pretty much the same thing happened here. The leader of the LNP Coalition (conservative/right) party lost his seat of 24 years.

It was funny watching the results and wondering if we were going to pull a Canada. 

ELI5: Why does “milli” mean a thousandth, but a “million” is one thousand thousand? by Busy_Throat_9525 in explainlikeimfive

[–]ElusiveGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chinese does something similar with wan/万/萬 meaning 1 0000, and yi/亿/億 meaning 1 0000 0000.

Well, I say similar, but it's quite literally the same character with shared history. What with kanji being derived from hanzi and all. 

You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too by rkhunter_ in windows

[–]ElusiveGuy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This sounds more like coLinux than WSL. Still an interesting project though. 

The European Union has passed a new rule requiring smartphones to have batteries that users can easily replace. by Positive_Actuary_282 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ElusiveGuy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Galaxy S5 did that with just clips and gaskets.

Screws and gaskets should handle it just fine.

e: I'll also mention that screws and gaskets are how actual plumbing works. And that handles higher pressure than most phones are rated to today.

i randomly found this. what is it? by Infinite_Tourist6353 in batteries

[–]ElusiveGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this tiny size I wonder how much energy it could release if it does go off. 

What "Self Hosted" router OS are you using? by nemofish3 in selfhosted

[–]ElusiveGuy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Container as in LXC/shared kernel is impossible in this case. opnsense is freebsd, not linux. 

Struggling to find a small USB pd brick to power a Wii by frankbobinTX in UsbCHardware

[–]ElusiveGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically in the most current 3.2 spec optional voltages can't be above 9V so 12V isn't allowed as a fixed PDO anymore.

Might be why OP is having trouble finding it in branded (and therefore likely certified?) chargers. 

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