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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
Ah! What a coincidence — I registered my Banana Republic account with a gmail "+" email (eg, my_email+bananarepublic@gmail.com) as is my standard practice with retail accounts, and I have the same login issues. It's quite odd
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
I don't know how they achieved it specifically, but there is a moment in the broadcast[0] they did where they show the umbilical on the rover and mention that it was cut. I'm curious as well how they did it! [0] https:/&#x2F
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
Most defog is just a soap film, and many divers including myself just use baby shampoo diluted in water. Store-bought defog is expensive and doesn't really work any better. However, when diving you leave your defog wet (hence the baby
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
Reading about their clock and my subsequent research into how one would "communicate" through design that a particular site (say, nuclear waste dump) was harmful and not something to be messed with or explored was the original imp
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
Some days I dream of a distant future in which an average being (human or otherwise) comes in contact with a hard disk drive containing humanity's knowledge. I think about the vast number of layers that have been combined to create su
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
Yeah I dumped my Teflon cookware years ago, with the exception of one nice nonstick baking sheet I have. Cast iron requires a bit of care but it’s really not that hard. Plus if you screw it up, just strip it down and start over! For acidi
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
The really awful thing from that story (Planet Money did a great recent episode on the ProPublica coverage) is that they are able to get away with this through Arbitration clauses. By way of their contracts, they strongarm their contractor
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
I don't mean to me facetious, but I am genuinely curious: why should you get to have it your way? You are attempting to buy a product they do not sell.
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
I'm so confused about Autodesk's licensing now. I have an Eagle subscription at $100 a year and a number a months ago they bundled in F360 with it, which was a welcome change. But now, F360 alone is $300 a year (and they say it
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
I don’t have kids, but this strikes me as lacking empathy in the current climate. Choosing to have kids or not pre-COVID came with a set of expectations, risks, and choices that were fairly well defined. Parental leave, childcare, proximit
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
These standards are robust to step-function changes like unplugging and plugging in, through smart electrical, mechanical, and software design. There's a ton of detail here, so if you're interested feel free to DM me. However, th
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
A lot of it has to do with the electrical properties of such a switch. Even older versions of DisplayPort have massive data rates, meaning each electrical signal switches many millions of times a second. Also, each signal may have to sw
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
I love that we have ideas and theoretically a combination of technologies that can take us to Mars and beyond in a short timeframe. The way I see it is that while chemical rockets are un-economic, as you point out, for a large scale colony
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
Ah, that's a good point. I wasn't thinking about the relative energies of the electrons themselves.
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
Is it also a relative improvement of the energy conversion into electricity vs. into heat? Intuitively the photons energy will be partially converted into both (conservation of energy) and this efficiency improvement seems like it would sk
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
I respect your adherence to your beliefs and that you are ready to stand up for your side. However, I think the thing that you’ve missed here is that not all users are the same . Many many other highly technical folks on this website agre
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
I see where you are going here, but neither of those items (nor any independent of a comptuer) provides the same utility as an iPhone.
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
Fair point. From the way I see it, Apple is not a traditional hardware company, persay. It’s not like buying a PC from Dell. Dell sells hardware , and just that. The difference is Apple sells a user experience . Sure, you have to purc
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
"...absolutely nothing to do with conceiving, designing or developing such a successful game." But it has everything to do with distributing the game. Also it has a lot to do with outsourcing the maintenance of the mobile pla
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
The fact that you phrase this in such a binary fashion invalidates your point. Decisions are never so one sided. Apple's version of gatekeeping is a balance between providing a user experience that they control and design, and manag
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
I think that's a pretty un-based fear. Almost certainly any restaurant, and especially a bar, will use a professional ice making machine. At the volumes if ice they go through, it wouldn't make sense to make it in any other way.
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
Just thinking out loud here — 1. I think it's a lot harder to rig something to look good vs. like a landslide. 2. Making it "close" could potentially open up risk if something the victorious/controlling party didn&#x27
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
As someone who is both new to Twitch and uses it for “alternative” content to gaming (eg. music streams, cooking classes, etc), I find this rebranding confusing and poorly timed. Clearly the platform is mostly for gaming, but the pandemic
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
I realize I didn't make my point well — I intended to use the roads comparison as infrastructure is typically roadside on poles, or underground in a roadway. I thought it would be a relatively good analog for how many miles of cable w
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
Questioning my daily routine led to me noticing significant improvements to my hair health. My lightbulb moment happened on a scuba trip (diving 4-5 times a day for week) where I wasn't showering like I usually do, but just rinsing off
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
Personally, I read it more as "95% of it is over a single medium", and that it's less about the actual length. But, for the sake of comparison, the US has 6,853,024km of roads and 95,932km of expressways according to Wikipedi
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
I totally understand how this feels. I've always been a night owl, staying up in my teenage years until 3 or 4 in the morning working on a project. I can just think more linearly when my brain is tired. Pre-covid I was regularly doin
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
It is incredibly dangerous in comparison (as a scuba diver). These courses generally have a requirement of being a very competent diver (hundreds of logged dives, for example) and they just won't pass you if you don't know what y
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
The more expensive beans from Costco are great as Toddy cold brew! I don't like them as normal hot-brew...too much cigarette/burnt flavor comes through for me as you mentioned — but not in the cold brew!
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by Ductapemaster 6y ago
I'm a cynic about unlimited vacation policies for a few reasons: 1. At its core, I believe it's a clever bit of financial engineering disguised as a worker-first policy. All of a sudden your startup doesn't have any accrued

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