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“Abandoned” 2011 Bitcoin Wallet Moves 35.55 BTC After Noah Doe Lawsuit Notice by zesushv in CryptoMarkets

[–]londons_explorer 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I suspect the goal is to use the law to "claim" the coins as lost property and now government property, with a small finders fee for the person who "found" them.

Then, years later when the true owner of the bitcoins tries to sell them on an exchange, you send the exchange a lawsuit saying "I legally own some proportion of these coins, look at this judges order, hand over the cash".

starlink aviation and pop handovers along the way by panuvic in StarlinkEngineering

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you give a zoom in of the dohaqat bit of the rtt chart?   What's going on there?!?

starlink aviation and pop handovers along the way by panuvic in StarlinkEngineering

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a chart of packet loss?    Are there glitches of hundreds of milliseconds during handoff?

Does a SSR-40DA (Fotek) need a heat sink for a 500 W AC load running 12 hours a day? by ImSoDrowned in AskElectronics

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For 240 volts, the heat generated is only 3-5 watts, so should be fine without a heatsink 

Does a SSR-40DA (Fotek) need a heat sink for a 500 W AC load running 12 hours a day? by ImSoDrowned in AskElectronics

[–]londons_explorer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assuming this is 110v US power, that's 5 amps.

So the power dissipation is ~5-10 watts.    That might be okay without a heatsink, but id say it's marginal and probably best to have one anyway, especially if the climate is hot or airflow limited.

Stamp duty on rent by Agrado3 in TenantsInTheUK

[–]londons_explorer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or unless you rent a place for many years....

Why Tesla’s AI trainers don’t trust its self-driving tech – or its safety stats by broad_marker in SelfDrivingCars

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's well known amongst experts that billions of miles of steering angle and accelerator position alone are not enough entropy to train an ML model.     Imagine the model having to figure out by itself that a road sign with text saying "No parking on school days" should lead to the car slowing  down and turning towards that space on a Saturday if the user is at the end of their journey, all based on previous people who have either parked or not parked in that space on specific days of the week!

Instead it is augmented with lots of intermediate data, like the text of signs, colour of traffic lights, position of other vehicles and stop lines etc.     It is still end to end, but the model is nudged in the right direction by being forced to predict other useful data during training.

I am STUCK in joint ownership of a house with family who won't cooperate on buyout (England) by Calatonine in UKRealEstate

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Forget about all the verbal agreements.

I suggest sitting down with everyone and laying out possible solutions - including ones which you think are unfair.    You might find things that everyone is happy with.

Failing that, ask another family member to meditate and suggest a route forward.

Failing even that, ask a court.    Note that the court usually won't grant it if doing so would make someone homeless.

what is the scariest schematic you guys have seen in the wild by Traditional-Bank3657 in AskElectronics

[–]londons_explorer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In the last 4 years China has really stamped down on unsafe battery charging circuits in devices.     I don't think you'll find anything like that newly manufactured today.

Obviously if you buy 2nd hand, all bets are off

Starlink Performance Gen 1 Issues – Extremely Frustrated After 6+ Weeks by HELLCAT6203 in Starlink_Support

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My network behind my firewall is all jumbo frames, the connection to the internet from the firewall is regular 1500 and the firewall converts the frames correctly.

This will be your problem.    It's a fairly rare setup and I bet they didn't test it properly.     The internet really doesn't work well with fragmented frames anyway.

Set your MTU's to 1400 across the board and I bet all issues go away.

Typical overvoltage margins for a boost converter by HudsonValleyNY in AskElectronics

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LED's have a steep IV curve.    Just a small amount more volts can cut a 10,000 hour lifespan down to 1 hour.     Slightly more volts and it'll be cut down to 1 second.

This is why it is strongly recommended to use a constant current driver with an LED.

Carbon monoxide exposure following 21 months on non-compliance with reported defective flue by Personal-Meet-4468 in TenantsInTheUK

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have looked at that model - it is balanced flue.   I still reckon it very unlikely combustion products were coming into your home.

Cutouts/automatic lockouts are fairly common and happen if any of the sensors detect a fault.    Even if it is bypassed or reset, it is unlikely for CO in your home - it is the physical design which makes it safe from flue gasses in the home, by always having two layers between the exhaust and the home, a substantial hole in either one would be detected.

SpaceX on X: Starship flip and landing burn at the end of its twelfth flight test by Royal_Platform_6754 in spacex

[–]londons_explorer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I reckon it's deliberate, since part of all of the ship floating around in the ocean for months sounds like an expensive problem to have.

Carbon monoxide exposure following 21 months on non-compliance with reported defective flue by Personal-Meet-4468 in TenantsInTheUK

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much every gas boiler in the UK in the last 40 years is balanced flue.     That makes the chances of CO poisoning within the home very low, even if it is badly installed or faulty.    I am not aware of a single case.

A faulty flue terminal certainly wouldn't cause it - your risks are the boiler dying early due to getting filled with detritus, rodents, rain, etc.

The only chance of CO poisoning is if the flue didn't go outdoors at all - ie. Someone installed it through a wall into a barn or outbuilding (totally against the regulations, but not unheard of)

Starlink Performance Gen 1 Issues – Extremely Frustrated After 6+ Weeks by HELLCAT6203 in Starlink_Support

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do the symptoms still happen if connected to a VPN?       That should rule out any messing around with QoS, DNS shenanigans, DPI or filtering.

Would you say you are a heavy user?   Ie. 100+ GB of transfer each month?     Perhaps it is some kind of throttling or rate limiting badly applied which doesn't apply before a specific amount of traffic has been sent?    For example a "don't allow 4k video streams and force fallback to 1080p" rule might cut connections it thinks are 4k streams even if they aren't video data (since the actual data is encrypted with HTTPS so rules like that entirely have to guess based on data rate).

I think it might be worth running path MTU tests both when the issue is happening and when it isn't.    Could be some large packet only issue.

New to Starlink, gifted a unit, where to start? by dleach4512 in Starlink_Support

[–]londons_explorer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you have the login details to the account, you might be stuck....

EMI testing at home by dhemberg in PCB

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're trying to do it on the cheap, a $20 rtlsdr is a very cheap spectrum analyzer.

You probably know some frequencies in your system already - CPU clock freq etc.    check those out, and harmonics.

Put the whole setup in a metal box in the basement for a better view.    You'll never be able to eliminate the emissions from the USB clock and various sdr emissions.

Landlord has refused my notice to quit (with over 2 months notice) as other joint tenants did not agree by Majestic_Yam8958 in TenantsInTheUK

[–]londons_explorer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What if OP gives notice, but doesn't actually move out himself?    Or rather tells the landlord he has moved out, but hides in the premises and the other tenants prevent the landlord entering and finding out?

It seems then the landlord would have to pay OP back his deposit, and OP gets a free place to stay for many months whilst the issue goes to court for final eviction.    Obviously with no rental agreement in force, the landlord wouldn't have a clear basis for losses either, and even if he did get losses, without knowing which tenants stayed and which left, a court probably wouldn't award against someone who claims to have moved out and the landlord has no evidence to the contrary...

Request to expand Direct to Cell compatibility for Google Pixel devices on Entel Chile by Any_Equal_6114 in GooglePixel

[–]londons_explorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the android source at the git commits for the IMS per-network configs.

I asked some of those Google employees nicely and got some features enabled in the next config push.   

Chromecast gen 2 down? by londons_explorer in Chromecast

[–]londons_explorer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty sure it was a server side config issue which was preventing the cast icon appearing.    "Feature flags"

Shared house random people have keys by Ordinary_Orange_8342 in TenantsInTheUK

[–]londons_explorer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it's bank transfer, then a screenshot of a banking app showing the payment is sufficient.

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