I grew up in a city with temp reaching 48 Celsius in the summer
Of course this wasn’t very good for electronic devices and hence every console I bought died with a year of over heating.
For my PS2 I managed to extend the lifetime by placing big blocks of ice in a tray underneath it and the console sitting on top on a rack to avoid contact.
I had to replace the ice every hour but the system worked well enough till the console died eventually of water damage.
When I was a kid I had an laptop that would overheat when playing age of empires. So I had a bicycle pump setup under my desk so I could quickly blow in some air every 3-4 minutes... If I was to late or forgot the whole thing would just die and all game progress was lost. I remember laughing at the whole situation whenever I had to pump in air.
At some point I bought one of those laptop stand with built-in fans.
Thanks for reminding me of those good old days :-)
I love this story. As an adult the thought of stopping every few minutes to manually cool your computer is insufferable, I would rather just not play on that laptop. But yeah, as a kid, I could see myself perhaps having done this.
Even with a hot ambient temperature, you can still keep your devices at a safe temperature by increasing air flow with large external fans. You need larger air flow because you'll saturate the air quicker, and you have less thermal run-off (close to max temperatures).
Towards the end of the life of my NES it started to overheat after maybe an hour of use. I remember being very stressed trying to defeat bosses in legend of zelda and save as quickly as possible. For whatever reason, mild graphical corruption would start to appear for awhile prior the system resetting itself so I usually knew I didn't have much time left.
If I were smarter I probably would have just disassembled the NES and cleaned it but I was a dumb kid at the time so I just lived with it.
When I was a kid, I modified my (shitty, generic beige) case by cutting a hole on top, mounting a 120mm fan, and ducting it with PVC dryer duct to fit over the CPU's HSF (which I think was an Athlon XP 2000+). Airflow dynamics aside, it worked like a charm, and knocked the CPU temps down to ambient.
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Edit as this is flagged by many people already: My opinion is all art and historical text should be discussed and talked about. Apparently an attempt to share the context is not very appreciated here.
No horse in the race but I find it important to try to understand the perspective from all sides.
At least that swastika thing was on a bulletin board in a dorm, I think it would be much harder to object to one being shown in context in a history class, for example.
It is not similar at all. Kids all over the world draw swastikas on bathroom stalls and such, just to provoke. Rarely do they get beheaded/stabbed as a consequence, though.
Swastikas are not acceptable, but very few have any strong personal feelings about it. The prophet of this ideology, however, is like a (glorified) family member to 1/4 of the world's population, and you can very easily get killed for depicting him. The most recent and well-known case was the stabbing of Salman Rushdie.
You mean like how a Swastika is shorthand for "I support the extermination of Jews and black people"... An image of Mohammed is shorthand for "I support stoning women who don't cover their faces"?
Or on anti-Nazi media like the Wolfenstein series of computer games. For Wolfenstein 3D at least, Germany made them replace all the swastikas with neutral imagery before the game could be released there.
what difference ? The clockwise version (࿕) is called swastika in Hinduism, and is the exact same symbol as what the Nazis used.
It used to be (until the 1930s) used in art quite a lot all over Europe.
You can still find it high up on the facade of old houses.
And Yes, some people are offended by it, but when you explain both the building and the symbol predate Nazism, they usually calm down.
It took several near burn-outs and tons of hours of my life lost due to frustrations before I truly understood this. The world is what you want it to be.
Hopeless because everyone in the world is so selfish? You create the world you live in. Live selfless and see the world transform around you.
Frustrated you have to constantly interfere to make someone good at their role? You have to yourself believe they are the best in that role and then see them flourish.
Afraid your relationship might not workout? The fear itself will make your worst thought a reality.
Your life becomes extremely easy once you truly understand the world is what you believe it to be.
Note: There are of-course strings attached to this concept, but understanding the power of this is life changing.
Want to point out how incredibly good the website phys.org is.
I was first introduced to it over 15 years ago and remember visiting it using dial-up internet from Pakistan as a teenager to learn about the latest developments in physics.
Symbian was the era that trains you to never be afraid of debugging the hardest problems and understand how big of a blessing documentation is.
A few examples of my childhood experiences making a game for Symbian:
1) Debugging that one problem which would cause the whole OS to crash
The crash log didn't help cause it wouldn't flush the logs to disk in time. My under developed concepts of multi-threading didn't help much either not that I know much more today 10 years later.
2) Overriding OS memory safety to read accelerometer data from memory in phones that didn't have APIs for it
The patience and creative thinking you learn tackling with such high levels of uncertainty and painful problems is incredible.
I am not aware of how engineers learn engineering (I am self taught) but this kind of patience and endurance does shape a lot of my engineering skills today.
Earlier Windows versions shipped with the same wonderful developer experience. My favourite was a bool API function returning 2 under certain circumstances that you’d better be aware of.
And by “earlier” I mean from Win 3.1 and up to W8 era or thereabouts, when the documentation finally started to improve.
Not comparing but I did a similar project 8 years ago at the peak of Israel / Palestine conflict to compare tweets from Palestine vs tweets from Israel.
Incredible difference when you see them side by side.
It would be great if someone would execute such an idea for more areas of conflict to bring awareness.
As someone for whom the conflict affect my childrens' wellbeing, and having good friends on both sides of the conflict, I would love if you would share your findings. If you prefer private conversation my Gmail username is the same as my HN username.
> It would be great if someone would execute such an idea for more areas of conflict to bring awareness.
If you have any ideas, I can help code it or host it.
Whenever there is a flare up over there, it dominates US news sources, and I’ve been using proxies and VPNs since the 2000s to get another set of articles from other mostly Western countries
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There are certain regulations that make it much harder to implement E2E.
The data in a therapy app can be considered part of a clients medical file and the medical file has various compliance regulations affecting it e.g the data has to be accessible for the organisation for 15+ years.
This has created a structure making E2E almost illegal in some healthcare domains as the policy ensures that the client data can be accessible to future therapists and accessible to the organisation under catastrophic scenarios.
Only the app being E2E enabled is half the picture, the regulation has to either change or the compliance to the regulation by the mental health organisation has to be creatively done to ensure a complaint E2E implementation.
This makes it a bigger, costlier problem than making therapy more effective and hence a ton of hesitation as unfortunately you don't 'need' to do it.
Of course this wasn’t very good for electronic devices and hence every console I bought died with a year of over heating.
For my PS2 I managed to extend the lifetime by placing big blocks of ice in a tray underneath it and the console sitting on top on a rack to avoid contact.
I had to replace the ice every hour but the system worked well enough till the console died eventually of water damage.