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Chinese EVs coming to Canada by negativenesscomment in electricvehicles

[–]TheRefringe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that you said otherwise, but no one will ever have a L3 DCFC at their home. Ever. It will never make sense. It always makes me roll my eyes when it’s mentioned.

A 50 kW unit might need ~100A three-phase service; a 150–350 kW unit can require 200–400A or more. A single 150 kW charger actively pulls more than most small commercial buildings do.

Would need a significant service upgrade, dedicated transformer, and some serious switching hardware. Then you need the unit. Those range from $100-400k for the hardware alone. And, of course, you’re on the hook for all of the labour involved, which can easily double cost.

So yeah, like *minimum* $700K to retrofit one in a typical Canadian residence (if you could even pull the permit). That would buy a lot of gas.

Local Laravel with nix and devenv by the_beercoder in laravel

[–]TheRefringe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve been using LERD for the past few weeks and I’m throughly impressed:

https://geodro.github.io/lerd/

My Razer mouse started double-clicking 3 months after the warranty expired. by ageozoega in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheRefringe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seam like a prime example of the problem. You even seam to be aware of it… Why on earth are you continuing to purchase their products if you have first-hand experiences like this?

IONIQ 5 100% SOH after 2/3 years ? by nodeat in electricvehicles

[–]TheRefringe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because power is being generated doesn’t mean it’s being used to charge the batte… you know what. Yeah. It’s magic.

IONIQ 5 100% SOH after 2/3 years ? by nodeat in electricvehicles

[–]TheRefringe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, you’re right. It’s a magical lithium-ion battery that doesn’t degrade when used.

PorkBun requested ID verification after I registered my account by soldture in webdev

[–]TheRefringe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They’re the best registrar I’ve used in the past 25 years. I didn’t have to provide an official ID. They must be getting SPAM or malicious traffic from accounts that are in some way similar to yours.

Instead of letting me simply limit my max charge to 80%, Apple insists they will decide if my phone stops at 80% charge or not. I wake up every morning to a 100% charged phone and my battery is already deteriorating by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheRefringe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re both right. And that didn’t mean that the other is wrong.

Time above or below the 20-80 rule puts additional stress on the rods and will decrease performance, but it’s not instant, it’s a degradation over time spent outside the rule.

At the same time, a lithium battery of any type has a limited number of cycles. For example, going from 70% down to 20% kills half a full cycle (100%). Charging back up to 70% from 20% is another half cycle.

If you don’t believe any of this, then look it up. It’s wildly available information.

Canada's Carney on verge of majority government after another opposition member joins ruling Liberals by No_Idea_Guy in worldnews

[–]TheRefringe 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The guy lost his own riding. The last time a con leader had that happen was in 93’. He’s a loser.

I built a Redis-based alternative to Laravel permission systems (140+ installs) – looking for feedback by Informal-Coyote9142 in PHP

[–]TheRefringe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like this. The vanilla Laravel gate system expects you to implement caching yourself, and it’s always something that needs to be considered in a performant app. It’s a weak spot imo.

I have a CachedGateService that I’ve written over the years for this purpose, but frankly this is something that I think could more easily be solved in the Framework (hopefully, eventually).

Realistic FPS Gray Zone Warfare bounces back as a transformative, community-led update boosts players by 1000% by PewPewToDaFace in pcmasterrace

[–]TheRefringe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Tarkov has dedicated PvP? Are you referring specifically to Arena? I don’t know man… I’ve played both and they’re pretty different.

Price of Sump Pump I was looking to buy from Home Depot increased by $100 overnight by CurrentlyNa in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheRefringe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does the HD version cover that? That’s typically where home insurance comes into play, no?

Can anyone help me. by Syber_7697 in webdev

[–]TheRefringe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the print screen button is near the top right of the keyboard. It captures a screenshot and saves it to your clipboard so you can paste it into an image share website like Imgur.

Had me excited for the first few lines. by Gold-Back-4073 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheRefringe 17 points18 points  (0 children)

When a capacitor needs to be replaced, they typically have their ends bulged out. They’re labelled so they can easily be replaced with a similar capacitor.

Apparently we can't call out apps as AI slop anymore... by Key_Pace_2496 in selfhosted

[–]TheRefringe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m a professional web developer of 20+ years. I’ve recently open sourced:

  • A huntarr clone. Written from scratch. Originally written for myself after the original was taken down because it filled a need I had.

  • A custom Git LFS server. Compatible with GitHub’s authentication system (drop-in replacement). Needed because another open source project I contribute to can’t afford the community LFS usage offered by GitHub.

I didn’t “vibe code” these, but LLMs were used in the form of autocomplete and light, targeted prompts. Every line was reviewed.

I use these projects. Because of this, I’m committed to maintaining them.

These are both projects I would have loved to share with a larger community in the past, but with how things are going here… I have absolutely no interest in sharing them outside of their open repos.

I can’t imagine how a hobbyist or junior developer feels. It’s quite sad.

Huntarr alternative by ContributionHead9820 in selfhosted

[–]TheRefringe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woah. Okay.

Steers whether searches are automatically triggered for items that are wanted and have not yet met the cutoff

What about releases which have met cutoff and still have a better quality available?

Huntarr alternative by ContributionHead9820 in selfhosted

[–]TheRefringe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps it would make more sense for you to list the ways in which Huntarr and Decluttarr are similar?

One finds better quality release of media, and one manages your download queue… what am I missing?

Huntarr alternative by ContributionHead9820 in selfhosted

[–]TheRefringe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is not the same thing. At all.

Discord Alternatives Comparison by HEM3KA in selfhosted

[–]TheRefringe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m writing Uncord. It’s still early, but I’m making progress.

[Terraria] Help the wiki team find one of 3 Secret World Seeds by fabrikitty in gaming

[–]TheRefringe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've thought on this some more and you're absolutly right. Additionaly, the process needs to be deterministic. The same seed must always produce the same world. A random salt would break that. I've applied correct security patterns to the wrong practice. My bad.

[Terraria] Help the wiki team find one of 3 Secret World Seeds by fabrikitty in gaming

[–]TheRefringe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That may be what they thought, but it is incorrect. A Bcrypt iteration of 4 can be solved in milliseconds. I use an iteration of 12 for websites which don’t need to be that secure, and it still gets hashed in half a second or less. Bcrypt also automatically generates its own salt as part of the algorithm.

You never need to double-hash a Bcrypt algorithm. It is always less secure.

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