ImprovedSilence

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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
It’s still my goto, but there’s a ton a new bike tech that’s come about since, e-shifters, disc brakes, bottom bracket standards. Things keep changing…
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
I mean, sure Facebook has its bad points, but anyone who thinks that this is true clearly has no idea how hard it was to stay connected to so many people pre-Facebook. And keeping up on those connections really does have value.
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
Im from US, and we always had a vegetable garden growing up. Names were much the same from my point of view. Gourds were mostly hard and ornamental, squash is an edible gourd, and they weren’t really too much of a thing until the internet
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
Agree on the assessment of spaghetti squash. One of my favorites is delicata squash, sliced and baked with a lil oil & salt.
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
This is 100% the reason I have an iPhone. I can usually eek out 5 yrs on an iphone before it’s taken one too many falls. Which has also been why any iPhone of mine has died, no other reason than I fumbled it around with no case on it….
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
I’ll blame private equity. Made in U.S.A. brand gets bought by PE that uses a pile of debt. Then they just dump all that debt on the company, and no shit, “we can’t afford to make things in the USA anymore”, because we loaded up the bran
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
Yeah, and I think it’s the only way to get any kind of apple tree.
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
My large state school had a computer science degree, and a computer engineering degree. The latter being much more mathematically rigorous, and in the college of engineering, not college of science (and sort of adjacent to an electrical en
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
yeah, but the extra features don't cost extra money for the manufacturer. For example, BMW sells a subscription for heated seats. But... EVERY BMW has the hardwere in place, seat heaters and everything installed on the car, even if y
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
I kinda disagree. There's clearly a cap, where you can't spend anymore to get any better/more powerful cards. At competitive levels, it really doesn't matter. Every kid that plays hockey needs $500+ in gear, but you w
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
You might not be able to get the exact strap, but there are certainly numerous aftermarket straps (from low to high end) you can easily get. The strap is more than likely held in by a spring bar, and the while there are various widths, t
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
It’s more to remove hot air from the top floor, and allow cooler air to fill the bottom of the house.
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by ImprovedSilence 3y ago
I had a co worker with a 6 cylinder Honda Valkyrie. I don’t believe it’s possible for a bike (or maybe even a car) to have a better sound: https://youtu.be/eoo5f7FkuDU
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
>> Which is like, relevant inside a building only, at which point preheating and cooling isn't that useful My garage in the winter would disagree throughly with that statement.
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
My grandparents always swear by using "brown soap" if you think you've been exposed to poison ivy. aka Fels-Naptha. It's a pretty strong soap, but I don't think it contains naphtha anymore.
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
Yeah there’s no denying that it definitely helps that electricity is a good bit cheaper in the US, making gas v. Heat pump heat pretty much on par in the northeast at least.
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
It’s been economical for 30+ yrs for Germanys climate, they just have older housing that’s never been updated. Every heat pump has backup source of heat too. Which will be electric coils or gas usually, so you don’t even have to give up g
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
Working locally: When you want multiple windows configured more compactly or more customization than any gui emulators. But it really shines for remote work where you’re not running a vnc, where u have a persistent terminal session, mainta
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
Ok. Care to elaborate at all?
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
Couldn’t agree more. I tried to switch to safari awhile back, and loved most of the interface, the snappiness, the open tab view for people like that open a gazillion tabs. But the ads I struggled to get rid of (specifically YouTube comm
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
That seemed to be the feel in 2008 as well. Lots of companies that were fine choose to have layoffs just because they “saw” a rough economy ahead. Self fulfilling prophecy, or just trimming the fat…?
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
zomg, genius! I can't wait for Monday now.
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
>> It looks wrong, it feels wrong, and it's just not going to work. Eh, the RJ-45 jack is thicker than the laptop, I think this is good enough of a solution for now. And I’m someone that would spring for the ethernet adapter. I’
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
I shit you not, I searched purpose of life, got no counter. Searched meaning of life, got a counter: https://imgur.com/a/SfzILul Both typed into the "url bar", and not search box on goolge.com. The only dif
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
meh, my wife's car does that, but to me it's not the same. I think if I can put into words what I like about manual transmissions, it's more than just the control to change the gears, it's the actual tactile feeling of
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
yeah, from experience, wind direction can definitely play a larger part in how far sound travels than is immediately obvious too.
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
Yeah I’ve def had grey market Levi’s jeans. As in, as far as I could tell, made by same company, but clearly had manufacturing defects that I’d never had to worry about from a store or said companies website. So somebody was putting factor
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
why not just use bc -l ?
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
Primitive technology is a pretty fascinating YouTube channel along the vein of (re)building everything from scratch. https://youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
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by ImprovedSilence 4y ago
Another similar vein, the electrical engineering handbook https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780121709600/the-electri...

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