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Retro Handheld Battery Life: The Evercade's 4-Hour Runtime Sparks a Debate

2025-05-28

While reviewing the Evercade handheld console, the author discovered its meager four-hour battery life, a stark contrast to the original Game Boy's impressive 20-hour runtime. The article analyzes the battery life of various Nintendo handhelds throughout the years, highlighting the decline in battery life despite significant performance improvements in modern devices. The author explores factors like operating systems and processors, using examples like the Nokia 3310 to illustrate the difference in battery longevity across eras. Ultimately, the author questions whether high performance justifies sacrificing battery life.

(brainbaking.com)

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My 11-Year-Old Starter's Secret: Citizen Science Reveals Microbial Diversity

2025-04-30

The author participated in a citizen science project, submitting an 11-year-old sourdough starter (Stinkie) for analysis. Results revealed Stinkie's strong similarity to starters from Switzerland, Greece, and Finland. It boasts higher acidity and yeast cell counts than average, but its bacterial profile is overwhelmingly dominated by Lactobacillus brevis, while its yeast is purely Saccharomyces Cerevisiae. This suggests that long-term monoculture, while ensuring consistent results, may limit flavor diversity. The researchers provided a Dough-Pro AI assistant (actually ChatGPT) to help interpret the data.

(brainbaking.com)

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The Rise and Fall of the Game Boy Advance: A Retrospecitve

2025-03-30

The Game Boy Advance (GBA), released in 2001, revolutionized the handheld gaming market with its powerful 32-bit processor and impressive launch titles. However, its lack of a backlit screen and the eventual rise of the Nintendo DS ultimately led to its decline. This article provides a detailed look at the GBA and its iterations (GBA SP and Game Boy Micro), covering hardware specifications, gameplay experiences, market performance, and comparisons to other Nintendo handhelds, showcasing its triumphs and shortcomings.

(brainbaking.com)

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Link Rot Investigation: Personal Blogs Face High Risk

2024-12-24

Blogger Wouter Groeneveld conducted a link rot investigation on his blog, Brain Baking. He checked 3179 external links across 453 posts, discovering approximately 7% were broken, with 404 and 403 errors being the most prevalent. Broken links stemmed primarily from personal blogs, followed by corporate sites and other resources. The findings highlight the lower stability of links on personal websites and a high link rot rate in academic papers. The blogger recommends website builders use permalinks, linkers carefully choose their targets, and consider local storage for external resources.

(brainbaking.com)

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Go: When to Say No

2024-12-14

A developer, after years of using Go, is switching back to Java. He finds Go lacking in several areas: limited looping options, absence of higher-order functions, cumbersome error handling, overly restrictive coding style leading to verbose and hard-to-maintain code, and an immature package ecosystem. While acknowledging Go's suitability for infrastructure projects, he advises against its use in complex enterprise applications.

(brainbaking.com)

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