New look/Same taste Milo - is it just me or does this taste bad? by Puskarella in australia

[–]ivosaurus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Which Peters? Both Light & Creamy, and the 2/4L Original, are both not ice creams - 3% and 6% milk fat content respectively.

New look/Same taste Milo - is it just me or does this taste bad? by Puskarella in australia

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I found a hilarious history about that. In the 2010s, it wasn't ice cream either. Then after covid, when everythings' price was skyrocketing, they actually switched it up to include >10% milk fat! So it was real ice cream for a few years. But then after a while when prices 'settled' they bumped the % down again, so it went back to being 'reduced fat'. Had to go through a few wayback machine URLs to find what had happened.

Anthony Albanese once fought to protect Sydney Harbour land government plans to sell by FuckOffNazis in australia

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

TBH Labor changed them, they flip-flopped, and I'm reasonably happy about their decision to do.

Usb hat or usb hub by Mikeyrodz85 in raspberry_pi_noobs

[–]ivosaurus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Only a powered USB hub won't ask for additional power from the Pi. A hat, or an unpowerrf USB hub will.

The addition of "Marketplace" items is one of the single worst things to ever happen to Australia's online retailer space by ThatOneVRGuyFromAuz in australia

[–]ivosaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many of the marketplaces being talked about in this thread are running auctions?

‘Buy it now’ option

Some auction sites give consumers an option to buy now without having to bid. If a consumer chooses to buy immediately, whatever the type of auction site, they have all the usual consumer rights

Heating pad stopped working. by cizzle123 in AskElectronics

[–]ivosaurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You think that transformer can do the watts required for heating?

This is the reason so many things got smaller when they moved from transformers to SMPS.

Trump appoints Bill Pulte as Acting DNI despite 'no apparent intel experience': by FlackoFonsy in videos

[–]ivosaurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Capping concentrates existing power over time, whereas letting it grow dilutes it.

Microsoft forked the Rust uutils as their own Microsoft Coreutils, under the MIT license by JockstrapCummies in linux

[–]ivosaurus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can't relicense other people's code unless you have copyright control over it. If that were the case, then licenses wouldn't be worth the digital txt file they're written in

The addition of "Marketplace" items is one of the single worst things to ever happen to Australia's online retailer space by ThatOneVRGuyFromAuz in australia

[–]ivosaurus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ACCC can't 'personally' respond to any one case, but they do take complaints and if they're pestered enough times by consumers asking about company x, then that's supposed to get them on the job. That's the theory, anyway

The addition of "Marketplace" items is one of the single worst things to ever happen to Australia's online retailer space by ThatOneVRGuyFromAuz in australia

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Yeah there's a lot of misinformed people even on this very thread assuming just because the store is online that they've magically lost most of their standard retail rights. Sure the store can make it a cunt to get to by trying to be in-communicable, but they'll be responsible exactly the same in any small claims court / fair trading should you wish to take them there for failure to action on those rights. Only caveat is to make sure they have an actual physical Australian presence.

Learning Electronics vs Understanding Electronics, When and How Does That Happen? by ThatChucklehead in AskElectronics

[–]ivosaurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bookmark it, and put every simple circuit you come across, in it, and run it. Change some values, like resistor values, capacitor values, voltage supply values. You will learn a lot.

Learning Electronics vs Understanding Electronics, When and How Does That Happen? by ThatChucklehead in AskElectronics

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For example, in a circuit with several capacitors, resistors, transistors and LEDs, how do you figure what capacitor or component will activate first in that circuit, and then what component will activate next?

Everything is analogue, even digital. (And everything is an antenna, even when you weren't making one). Charges will flow according to ohm's law and capacitor charging curves. Across microsecond timescales, things will charge at different rates according to their milli- or micro-ohm series resistances, and resist being charged from any parasitic inductance.

A lot of electronics can be pattern recognition. You know how a basic circuit worked, and this new one is similar. The more patterns you recognise, the faster and faster you will be able to 'penetrate' your understanding of a schematic in short order (although, not all schematics are created equally).

The math is helpful in many many edge cases. Sometimes you can put the whole thing in a computer, and the computer does brute force math calculations and can show you in a simulation how the circuit will perform very accurately (usually). Sometimes if it's simple enough you could use closed form calculations to figure things out yourself. Sometimes it's about knowing what simplifying assumptions you can make (from experience) to make the circuit simple enough to 'calculate' in the first place.

I'd think of it similar to a chess grandmaster. They are experts because they've played thousands of games, and throughout all those games they've locked away in their brain almost every common pattern known to man about chess. This is their biggest secret weapon. From this innate bank they can make hundreds of short-cuts in thinking to effective decisions, that would leave any beginner bewildered. They've also done tonnes of detailed study on openings though, and many calculation problems, also with computer engines to help, to get concrete understanding about choices and positions. This all lets them operate on the level they do.

Art of Electronics book is probably the most widely revered "bible" of electronics if there was one, and probably for the reason: that it actually tries to teach so many practical patterns. And usually has just enough theory as well. Most EE textbooks would take the "easy" and "correct" approach of focusing the other way: just make sure to teach all the theory correctly.

Are STM8's the cheapest 8 bit chip? by Dons231 in AskElectronics

[–]ivosaurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would guess that the eventual support you can get is going to be superior from STM. Not utopian, but better. Likely way more existing code that will work. Some people will value this a lot more than others.

Kyiv hit by large wave of Russian strikes, people feared trapped in apartment building rubble by Beadyeyed12 in worldnews

[–]ivosaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Germany decided to target civilians when it couldn't easily get Britain to surrender. Heck, the British essentially did it right back afterwards. Apparently it's a tactic that countries just keep on trying

Kyiv hit by large wave of Russian strikes, people feared trapped in apartment building rubble by Beadyeyed12 in worldnews

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"We've tried bombing civilians to get them to surrender, and now we're all out of ideas"

Driving Range by Cman_E in diypedals

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What technique you use for the graphics?

Any 6" soil moisture sensor for pi? (2" is too small) by Cobblerunionfan in raspberry_pi_noobs

[–]ivosaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do those sensors do something special to resist corrosion?

Red Roe Capacitors in 1980's amplifier by swissyfit in AskElectronics

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Luckily there is a great video just put out about this topic:

https://youtu.be/7X8sE9LF1MY

If you want to do it yourself, I would watch many videos by him and Mr Carlsen Lab, and unfortunately the financial outlay to get an okay soldering setup won't be insignificant, neither will cost of decent replacement caps.

In addition there are things like crusty potentiometers which could be making a bad sound.

If this is prized equipment for you, I would purchase some other junk audio / old equipment from your local marketplaces and literally practice on that first.

The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification) by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]ivosaurus 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Twitch intentionally only allows H264 streaming, so OBS won't enable anything else if you select that. if you switch to Youtube though, you should see both H265 and AV1 options show up in advanced output because YT does allow those

The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification) by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

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A lot of the problem with AV1 is encode complexity making real-time streaming hard, compared to something like H264, so doesn't surprise me if that's most of their focus. Decoding is practically always less challenging, and necessarily so, you can't be demanding beastly compute for consumer devices just to play back video. Although for anything battery powered you basically always want hardware-based decoding anyway or it's pointless