FractalParadigm

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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
They stopped updating/supporting the code about 6 months before the big redesign (last push Oct '17, redesign launched Apr '18). Call me a bit of a conspiracy-theorist, but they just happened to raise $200 million on their Se
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
I can't offer any hard proof (especially now the site is down) but I've cross-seeded many files to private trackers after removing [rarbg] from the filename and deleting the additional files they add. Looking at my client now, I
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
Even with a DSG-equipped car like the parent likely has, you can use the "manual" mode ("M" on the shifter) and downshift to as low as the car will allow. This also has the benefit of 'preparing' the transmissi
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
Unless said legislation/determination only applies to electric cars, they'll have to give manual ICE vehicles a look-at as well; my TDI for instance can engine brake so well that it behaves very similarly to regenerative braking
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
Is there a reason they couldn't just jack up the PWM frequency? Most OLEDs seem to be under 500 Hz[0], which leads me to believe that there's something limiting them from performing any faster. Basic LEDs on the other hand can eas
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
Yes, and very happily too. Defender seems to not really care where the files are, as long as there's readable data on a drive mounted somewhere accessible, it's all fair game.
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
There are quite a few Canadians who live close enough to, or travel across the border often enough that their personal phone/number is from a US carrier, usually the closest town or city to their own. Depending on how often or how you
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
If that's the case, how are 3rd-party head units allowed to use AA? I know for an absolute fact that mine recieves exactly zero data from the car outside a simple +12v signal that tells the radio to turn on/off. Do aftermarket rad
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
Bingo. A company can run their stuff however they please. The union can ask for, or demand anything they please. Neither side has to 'give-in' to the other. You would be hard-pressed to find a company that allows its union to dict
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
Personal experience shows you can typically use the same payment method and often even the same email address (with a different alias) to get around most bans. You'll get the odd place where this doesn't work, usually because they
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
Friends of mine own an appliance store. They begrudgingly sell Samsung appliances and TVs because that's what people want to buy. No matter how much they tell their customers that Samsung is crap, and that they'll be replacing the
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
A windchill of just under 78°C is *not* common anywhere I'm aware of in Canada. There are usually a handful of days each year in places like Fort McMurray that will hit windchill values in the -40-60° range, otherwise most of the popu
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
If you have a VW, the RCD330 is an excellent OEM upgrade that is plug & play with most 2005-2015 VWs. I had the same list of requirements on top of Android Auto, and it checks every box. Other OEMs might have similar upgrades that come
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
That's a part of what the article dives into. For example the LED matrix hat they were using from Adafruit was probably the most expensive option they could have used at $25/unit, and the article gave examples of much cheaper (i.e
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
When I was driving transport truck I applied for a job at Coca-cola, and was told after the interview I wouldn't be getting the job, because their security cameras saw me drinking a Pepsi while driving in the parking lot. Apparently it
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
I have a really hard time calling those plans "unlimited" when it becomes unusably slow after your full-speed allotment. I hope the waiter told you about their app discount before you ordered, because best-case scenario that 250
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
The problem isn't the speed, it's the ridiculous bandwidth caps imposed by ISPs. Here in Canada a fairly simple 10GB data plan runs about $75/month, if a restaurant is offering me a discount and requires their 250MB app to ge
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
Here in Canada we refer to "traffic cones" as pylons. As someone living in London, Ontario, the first couple paragraphs of the OP was particularly funny to read; some sentences could be changed very minimally and apply all the sam
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
The funny thing is Nvidia already has 2 sub-part-numbers for better-than-the-xxx0-cards, without creating another line of xxx5 products. The 16GB could have been branded 4080 Ti or 4080 Super with the 12GB being the 'base' 4080.
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
I don't see it as jobs lost, but jobs moved. You still need people to build these robots (or self-service kiosks), and you need people to maintain both hardware and software. One less pharmacist at the front-line is one more developer
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
And in Canada. 99.9% of the time if the machine asks you to use the magstripe period there's something wrong and the payment isn't going to process regardless.
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
I used this software (the app version) a couple weeks ago for the first time. I grabbed a great clip while playing a game and wanted to show it to a friend, but I didn't want to send the full 500MB 60s video when the clip was only ~6 s
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
I know it's a memel, but as a millennial with a 6MT, I know far more people in my age group who own manual cars, than older people (say over 45) who can drive one period. My brother an I are capable, as is my dad; one of my four aunts
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
Meanwhile in Canada we got to keep all-day breakfast, but lost out on a handful of only-at-breakfast items. McGriddles were gone, but came back around January of this year. Breakfast McWraps were also taken away but haven't yet returne
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
As a Canadian it still blows me away that Robertson isn't as ubiquitous everywhere else as it is here. They are far superior to Phillips in every way.
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
And yet, it already happens today. How many US companies invent something, just to be knocked-off 14-times over by various overseas entities within a year? It's not a once-in-a-while occurrence either, with virtually everything from el
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by FractalParadigm 4y ago
I've looked at the smaller ISPs in my area and they're terrible as far as pricing goes. Both the "major" options are still using Rogers' last-mile infrastructure, they offer poorer customer service (because of the p
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
We can throw anecdotes around all day, but I personally know a good ~dozen or so people including myself who were huge into piracy before Netflix came along. Over the past few years, we've all gone "back to our roots" because
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Not completely unplayable, but I distinctly remember the first Dead Rising on Xbox 360 having completely illegible text on CRT displays[0]. No amount of squinting harder could have fixed that. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Also related: Spurious Correlations[0]. These are great and really drives home the idea that correlation neither equals or implies causation. At least one of these graphs implies that if the US wanted to reduce the number of drivers getting

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