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Maxion
3y ago
It's quite interesting what a search engine can be in 2024 when the product isn't the one using it, but the search results themselves. Kagi with a wayy smaller budget than Google have really managed to make something pretty cool.
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3y ago
You don't need to ADD bots, you can just not ban as many...
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3y ago
Let's hope the internet can connect us with someone who lives near by and has a ibrary card!
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3y ago
Airplanes don't need GPS to fly. Jamming GPS won't cause any crashes.
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3y ago
This map is basically copied from GPSJAM.org, which started a while back.
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3y ago
The feature to block sites is very very helpful. It is so much easier now to find small suppliers, get rid of all the blogspam. I can even block legit merchant sites that just aren't good and that I don't want to see clogging up m
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3y ago
Even fuel injected ones?
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3y ago
I wonder if this holds true for a wood burning sauna too? An active fire in the stove creates a massive draft that'll pull air through the stove and out the chimney.
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3y ago
I'm not really sure what you're critizisng? This was a study done in the early 1990s looking at what would be the best way to build a sauna. This isn't a study in HVAC optimization for a house. FWIW current finnish building c
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3y ago
The fact though is that trucks create several orders of magnitude more wear on the road than even heavy SUVs. Getting rid of trucks should have a higher priority than cars IMO.
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3y ago
> Part of the problem is that if you actually just do the most efficient thing, giving people money to go find housing and food (and I understand some won't be able to manage that and need help) then you end up poking a hole in the
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3y ago
I've toyed with various SaaS designs and multi tenanted databses always come to th forefront of my mind. It seems to simplify the architecture a lot.
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3y ago
But it is not a retrospective study? They took blood samples at baseline from all participants, and later on some developed dementia?
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3y ago
It doesn't have to be very thick at all. Harder part would be to keep it in place, as it would act as a sail.
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3y ago
Well, assuming an alien species that can deal with interstellat travel I am sure they can figure out a way to stay at a lagrange point.
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3y ago
Do note that humans have messed around with plants for a long time and that has caused loads of issues from loss of biodiversity, invasive species and what not. I don't think direct genetic manipulation of plants will have any worse ef
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3y ago
Chrome isn't open source, chromium is. Best not to confuse the two.
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3y ago
Uh, why not link to the actual YouGov poll rather than the blogspam? Here: https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/48239-54-per...
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3y ago
Gardening leave is usually a term for a paid non-compete. I.e. you're not allowed to work in the same industry for 6 months, and you're paid salary for those months.
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3y ago
Not really in the nordics (europe?)
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3y ago
Checkout Shawn Willsey:s youtube channel, a geology professor. He's been covering the whole thing starting from last fall. Excellent videos, explains what is going on and makes you excited for geology. Here's his live stream from
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3y ago
> If you have the power to cross the stars, surely taking off from a steep gravity well wouldn't be a problem. Different problems entirely. You don't need a lot of thrust to get to high velocities. But you need a lot of thrust
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3y ago
For heating e.g. a swimming pool a solar heater would be more efficient.
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3y ago
Feels like negotations broke down, and Apple published this publically to put pressure on.
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3y ago
Yep, the app store is also very profitable for them so they can afford to have this go to the courts. They want the minimum amount of regulation possible, so they first lobby the regulators to apply as little regulation as possible and that
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3y ago
They soon will
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3y ago
The UK electric code is wild. A ceiling rose light fixture in Finland has three wires: - Earth - Neutral - Live
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3y ago
Depends on where you are, up here in Finland we have no solar in the winter when our power consumption peaks. Wind is unreliable and can be too low for over a week.
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3y ago
> It's become somewhat of a litmus test for me. If potential clients are are surprised by the time, cost and effort if these things, it's usually a sign they're not a well thought out venture, and therefore not a great cli
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3y ago
The volume, I'd presume.
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