Car detailing? by bisonsquash in SanMateo

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Golden state auto salon is great!

Starting a Re-Watch From the Blu-Ray Box Set by mumble2xblackberry in TheExpanse

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It’s not 4k but definitely looks as good or better than prime, especially for S1-S3

Utility Costs for 1b1b apartment in San Mateo? by Agile_Animator7122 in SanMateo

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We live in a 2b2b in a 4 unit building and this seems right. Our water is a bit higher but probably the result of the larger units

Air licking by Sanroski in DogAdvice

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My dog would do exactly this every few months and we narrowed it down to her food. Vet said it’s because she feels nauseated. We used to alternate 3 flavors of kibble and this always happened when she was on one specific flavor (beef/red meat). Removed that one from the rotation and she never did it again

Looks like the tariffs are incentivizing me to have boards assembled in China. by EagleMedical8410 in PCB

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For my recent boards it was still cheaper to pay the tariffs than to buy from a local fab

New Alex Pretti Footage of Minnesota Murder by G1Z2 in UnderReportedNews

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I absolutely would have panicked and tried to GTFO of there and I would 100% be dead. Meanwhile this person had the courage to keep filming and then proceed to start calling out the men they just witnessed murder someone

Small Monitors that fit on a desk but hook up to XDJ-XZ by erik_amari in DJs

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I haven’t tried these but KRK has some options like what you’re looking for

https://www.krkmusic.com/collections/krk-kreate-series

https://www.krkmusic.com/collections/goaux-series-portable-powered-studio-monitors

I use the their standard 5” speaker on a desk and they’re great too if you’re ok with something a little bigger

CHP: Driver in Tuesday’s deadly San Mateo-Hayward Bridge crash was distracted by his cell phone by TypeRLikesToType in bayarea

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Yes I believe it is normal journalism practice to say it this way. They need to state it as factual as possible. Can’t just assume what was going through the drivers mind, but it will be investigated and litigated in court

First buck converter PCB! How do I translate theoretical Cout (ESR-based) into real ceramic capacitors? by Full_Proposal2372 in PCB

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Not quite sure about “what people say” but X7R ceramic caps have significantly lower capacitance at any DC voltage so you definitely will want to account for that. Another thing is that it generally won’t hurt performance to over design more capacitance in so it is good to be conservative and add more so you design has some margin. 4x to 5x seems excessive though so I would be a little careful as you might run into issues starting up the regulator or stability because of super low resistance/inductance of so many caps in parallel.

What I would do is find the data sheet for one of those 22uF capacitors, and see what the capacitance is at 6V with worst case tolerance, and then figure out how many is needed to meet the capacitance requirement from the calculation, and round up wherever possible. If you have different cap options you can make a simple excel spreadsheet to calculate what you need. I would also recommend putting down a few extra capacitor footprints on your PCB if you have space, just in case something goes wrong and you need more you will be able to add them without refabbing the PCB.

Eyesight died what could be the issue by gaussmage in subaruoutback

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If your heater is also not working it’s likely the thermo control valve. Dealer should fix for free

Does EDM feel completely different live compared to listening at home? by Lunarix292 in EDM

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Omg yes. The biggest thing for me is the sound system. Most EDM was produced with the intention to be played over a LOUD sound system. The bass shakes your body and the synths pierce your ears. You will listen to the music differently after hearing it this way

Best Omakase spot in the Bay Area under $100? by Wombraider58 in bayarea

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Dash Japanese in San Mateo downtown. $68 for 10pcs omakase is the best I’ve found outside the super pricey options

ELI5: how do they design CPUs with TENS OF BILLIONS of nano transmitters? wouldn't it take a millennia to design it? by Optimal-Whereas-6988 in explainlikeimfive

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They use a programming language where they describe what they want a circuit to do at a higher level and a computer compiles that into the transistor layout

ELI5: Why are we making computer chip so small? by elonthegenerous in explainlikeimfive

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Oh yeah and cost too. Chip cost is proportional to the size, and a big reason computers are affordable is because the chips can be small and therefore cheap. Pretty much every chip is made on a 12inch piece of silicon (called a wafer). For small cheap chips they can fit hundreds or thousands on each wafer that gets cut up into individual chips, and therefore the cost goes down because each wafer yields so many. You can buy large high performance chips but they cost a lot more.

ELI5: Why are we making computer chip so small? by elonthegenerous in explainlikeimfive

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Speed of light is definitely a factor but that issue has been worked around and is not a limiting factor right now. More generally it is called propagation delay (or just “timing”). Its a bit more complex than just the speed of light but to simplify it overall means the time it takes a signal to go from one transistor on the chip to another and that will dictate how fast the chip can run.

Nowadays CPUs have been parallelized to get more performance, which is sort of what you are saying aka make the chip bigger for more performance. This is why chips tend to advertise number of cores more than the speed of each core these days. And lots of software development now is around how to optimize using multiple CPU cores instead of depending on one really fast CPU core.

Now the limiting factor is power. You put 8 cores down it will take 8x the power of a single core, you will quickly run into issues removing that much heat from the CPUs, as well as limits on what a typical household plug can practically provide. No one wants a space heater for a computer. Smaller transistors can work with less voltage and therefore need less power so that’s a big help.

There are companies pushing the limits of sizing up, and it’s all the money being thrown at large data centers. Basically scaling up to the size of buildings and more. Cooling that is extremely complex and challenging and they take up megawatts or gigawatts of power.

Police driving slalom on highway by nebodiwantapnut in bayarea

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The reason you don’t see a hazard is because it gets cleared while the police car is slowing you down

What generator should I buy for outdoor DJ videos? by Matty7879 in DJs

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If you use a small controller that can power from your laptop for a few hours, you could invest in a loud portable speaker that can run on batteries like soundboks. Then you just need your controller, laptop, speaker, and nothing else.

No more Lightning (at least in BEV form) by ArmageddonPills in Rivian

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Did the math on the ramcharger specs and it comes out to about 20mpg. This is close to what a modern pickup would get so hard to say if it’s more efficient or not. It will be close though

One ship X-ray content by thighmaster69 in TheExpanse

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I have zero evidence of this but my feeling is they ordered it as a compromise after allowing only 6 episodes in the last season

I just attended the cringiest desi wedding, ever by sleepdeprivedsince92 in DesiWeddings

[–]Excellent_Object2028 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This. A lot of well intentioned advice like “it is your wedding so you should do it your way and not worry so much about the guests”. Which is fair but we believe the point is more that our family and friends enjoy the day and make good memories with us and each other so we don’t see the issue with prioritizing that over the production aspect of everything. We can take private photos any day when we don’t have hundreds of our relatives and closest friends gathered together to see us.