DanTheManPR

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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
This practice (adding a ? to a declarative sentence) is very informal, and so you wouldn't see it used in published English language media, so I'm not surprised that you may never have encountered it. It's used as a shorthand
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
You can find the FLAG cable referenced in the article on this map. The easiest landmark for finding it is the narrow section of the Malay peninsula. Stephenson spends some time in the article covering the overland construction there.
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
I'm also a new homeowner, and my mortgage + property taxes + insurance + utilities are about 2/3rds of what I was paying for rent last year. Will ongoing maintenance on my home eat up the $400 a month I'm saving? I guess that
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
Apple continues to support OS updates on the iPhone 6s, a device released almost 6 years ago. Nor is it reserved for their flagship models - the 2016 iPhone SE also gets the latest and greatest. Meanwhile, my flagship android phone from 201
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
That gives an interesting sense of scale to the problem. Dealing with C02 emissions is similar to water waste treatment, both in concept and in scale of infrastructure required.
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
The government of Taiwan has been willing to maintain the status kayfabe, including maintain the "Republic of China" name and holding China's seat at the UN for a couple of decades. It all seems quite ridiculous from the outs
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
A fresh install of Catalina was unusably slow on my 2010 Macbook pro (to say nothing of even trying Big Sur!). I had gone back and forth between MacOS and Linux on this machine over the years, and the Linux experience has been improving in
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
To expand on that: the home building rate kept pace with population growth up until the housing crash, and then collapsed. I'm not sure how much of a lag time there is between population growth and the demand for more housing, but even
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
Bagram is about 25miles outside of Kabul, though.
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How else are you going to get people to download the app?
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
In The Economist case, the app update is making me seriously consider cancelling. UI can be subjective... but what's not is the unresponsiveness and lack of reliability in the audio playback. It's not acceptible for these to degra
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
I wondered about the claim in the first sentence, but it is true. Toyota and it's subsidiaries produced ~9.5million vehicles in 2020, or ~2.4million per quarter. Tesla's total vehicle sales since it's foundation are ~1.4milli
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
Yes, if you have root on your phone.
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
Syncthing has re-framed how I think about the file systems of my computers. I used to occasionally plug in my phone to sync pictures and documents to my desktop. Now I don't even think about the distinction between them - the files sim
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
You may have to manually step through the conflicts menu to resolve them, choosing which device's version to keep. But typically that won't happen unless both device's versions of a file change at the same time.
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
Is that a function of the wavelength it's using? A quick search suggests that starlink uses 10-12ghz, are trees opaque at those frequencies?
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
I wonder if they'll finally make it possible for more than one instance of Settings to be open.
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Definitely quite usable for modeling parts and basic assemblies. I use it almost exclusively now when working on community hobby projects, so as to make sure everyone has access to the development tools to make their own modifications. But
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
The advancement of CAD software over the last 20 years has been one step forward, one step back. There are lots of small, genuinely helpful everyday improvements (try doing modeled threads in Solidworks 2001 vs 2021), but they've also
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
Per the article, he was unpaid. Literally just a prisoner.
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
Tomato is such a slick piece of software, combined with one of the most practical pieces of consumer electronics I've ever owned. Only reason I stopped using it was because of eventual advances in networking tech. My old WRT54G with To
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
The CDC has an excellent visualization for this. 2020 is a major outlier in the last few years in terms of excess deaths. If you drill down into the local data, you can see some really stark visualizations: for example, the tremendous incre
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
I am experimenting with it as a replacement for hobby projects that I want to share and collaborate on. I was always leery of Fusion 360 precisely because it was not truly free, and instead encumbered by the whims of Autodesk. If I want to
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
What's interesting is how strong the selection pressure seems to be to have melanin content adjusted to match the local conditions for sunlight. In the western hemisphere, where humans have only lived for ~20,000 years, there was alrea
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
The ratio of the thickness of the glass compared to the unsupported span of material makes them relatively much more rigid than a big, floppy pane of glass. A glass window is not only much less rigid, but also maximizes the surface area tha
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
Fortunately, a lot of Android phones these days offer both systems, so you can use whichever is most convenient for you at the moment.
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Excellent, this is now a top option for me!
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
FYI, it has been called YouTube Premium since 2018. I pay for it, as I can't stand advertisements. For the amount of Youtube content I watch, it's one of the more cost effective services I pay for.
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
I remember being very bored a lot in the 90s. Waiting around in the laundromat, sitting in waiting rooms, riding the bus, doing house and yard work. Books and walkmans and gameboys existed, of course, but they were slightly too big to alway
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
They work great for that, I used my Surface 4 to RD into my workstates a few times, and was able to do 3D modeling work with it. The only downside for that kind of work is the lack of an ethernet port, but that's a given on a slim mobi

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