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Olivers Place
Personal blog · omattos.com · on HN as londons_exploresystemshardwareeconomics
Olivers Place is a personal blog at omattos.com about systems, hardware and economics. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Bcache – Awesome and terrible at the same time”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Olivers Place for a Raspberry Pi radio transmitter write-up and for background on the MyPowerbank hack that charges phones from Santander bikes. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Random stuff I do…
Most-linked posts?
- Bcache – Awesome and terrible at the same time2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-07
- Generating Power from Gym Equipment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-13
What Hacker News says?
bcachefs is written by the same person who wrote bcache... And that has a lot of subtle eat-your-data pitfalls.[1] I don't really trust bcachefs not to do the same. [1]: https://omattos.com/2020/01/02/bcache.html
Comment linking /2020/01/02/bcache.html
on “ntfs2btrfs: In-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to Btrfs”Submitted Worldwide power grid with glass insulated HVDC cables as a story · 143 points
HN discussionI support no prison sentences for VW... The engineers were meeting the letter but not the spirit of the rules, just as so many other companies do. You probably have done the same when you did revision just before a geography test at school - you probably only learnt the syllabus rather than going to the library and learning everything in the geography section. The VW engineers made a car that had only 'revised' enou…
Comment linking /2021/11/11/appliancegate-the-energy-efficiency-fraud.html
on “3M’s PFAS Crisis Has Come to Europe”Submitted Generating Power from Gym Equipment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis page basically says "Install this file, magic!" If you want the technical details behind it, a good starting place is http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspb... Or the blog of the creator at http://www.omattos.com/node/19
Comment linking /node/19
on “How to Build a Raspberry Pi Radio Transmitter”Submitted How much memory does a desktop Linux system waste? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYour comments about the gear size, etc. are interesting, but I don't see how they're strictly necessary. Can you explain? For example, can't an arbitrarily small gear work as long as the force contributing to the torque is sufficient? And isn't the force a product of the driving force (human leg/crank) and the load on the generator? And we can't see the load on the generator, so there may well be step-up gearing and…
Comment linking /2022/06/19/gym-power.html
on “MyPowerbank hacks Santander bikes so London's homeless can charge their phones”Submitted BCache: Awesome and Terrible at the Same Time as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI agents will choose their own pricing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Appliancegate: The Energy Efficiency Fraud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI is a winner-takes-all game as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bcache – Awesome and terrible at the same time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visit this page to waste some bandwidth as a story · 1 points
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