PlunderBunny

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by PlunderBunny 10mo ago
The Slate Auto pickup will have plastic panels [0] - I assume they're not expecting to be shot down by the NTSB. 0. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/video/everything-you-need-k...
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by PlunderBunny 10mo ago
iTunes Ping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping
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by PlunderBunny 10mo ago
Related also to the way Australians and New Zealanders use understatement for humorous effect, e.g. that last example you gave could be used to describe any condition up-to the point of death.
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by PlunderBunny 10mo ago
Some consumers clearly do care, but mega-corporations aren't content with making a profit - they will kill profitable products because they're not profitable enough. (Apparently the 12 and 13 mini had about 5% of iPhone market sha
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by PlunderBunny 10mo ago
Two extensions/patches I'd like to see for macOS: 1. Remove all icons from menus. 2. Make mouse-over do nothing - I should be able to move the mouse anywhere on the screen, and nothing should change colour/pop out etc.
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by PlunderBunny 10mo ago
In New Zealand, a hydroelectric dam was effectively build for an aluminium smelter [0] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwai_Point_Aluminium_Smelter
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by PlunderBunny 11mo ago
Are you distinguishing between speech and writing? I'd agree on the former - that no-one talks that way.
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by PlunderBunny 11mo ago
Yeah - I’ve heard people say that the laptop lid (screen) is too thin for the sensors required to do proper FaceID (as opposed to just using the existing optical camera, which is easily fooled). But I don’t understand why the notch part of
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by PlunderBunny 11mo ago
'Hot spot' as in Settings->Personal Hotspot? I've had that enabled for more than 10 years, and could count the number of times I've found it off and had to turn it on again using one hand. Sounds like a regional/
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by PlunderBunny 11mo ago
I don’t have any data or links to contribute, but my gut feeling is that this effect would be dwarfed by population movement, specifically urbanisation - if rural areas are emptying out as everyone moves to the city, you can get the same pa
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by PlunderBunny 11mo ago
How are you calculating driving any distance as being cheaper than $1? Surely if you factor in wear-and-tear on the car, you couldn't even get out of the driveway without eating that $1.
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by PlunderBunny 11mo ago
In New Zealand, you can (effectively) force the co-owner of a property to sell or buy you out. The laws allowing this were introduced decades ago to prevent one person in a couple holding the family home 'hostage' (typically, a hu
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by PlunderBunny 11mo ago
An attempt was made in the section "Band Structure and Effective Mass" of the chapter "Basic Semiconductor Physics" to tie the two disparate subjects together.
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by PlunderBunny 11mo ago
I've never worked at a company that would choose to have less programmers instead of choosing to do more work. I guess such companies exist though.
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by PlunderBunny 11mo ago
Also known as “Mermaid’s tears” [0] (although this name can encompass other artificial things found in the ocean also). 0. https://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-mermaid-tears.htm
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by PlunderBunny 11mo ago
Bon!
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Do you have consistent gaps between all your teeth, and/or other conditions like strong enamel, or a good diet? If so, congratulations - flossing might not do much for you. But it's ridiculous to suggest that - if you don't f
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Maybe the person with the 'admin' account (the employer) can add instructions like 'focus on professionalism' that aren't visible and/or can't be overridden by the employee?
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
If it's any reassurance, I think the consensus is that the rate of degradation of your battery will slow considerably once it gets past 20% (of the order of 1-2% per year, i.e. the battery will outlast the rest of the vehicle by a long
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
The article does a very bad job of explaining the 'why' part, but I think they're saying that the benefit is in feeding the solar panel output to the trains without going through the (national) grid. It's presumably che
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
>The thing that mostly irks me about Apple these days is soldered in RAM and non-upgradeable storage. Isn't the 'soldered-in' RAM and storage fundamental to the M-series architecture? It's not like there's a boar
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I don’t see Beachwood 4-5789 on that list.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
People were developing an emotional connection to the Eliza program in the late 1960s [0], the code for which would have contained less characters than the discussion on this page. 0. https://www.theguardian.com/technology&#
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Yeah, but have you ever smelled a little bit of meat that has been stuck between your teeth for a while?
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
My father was a University teacher, and he would get a cold regularly between terms - as if the body knew that it couldn’t ’give in’ until the work period was over.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
From the concluding paragraphs of the latter document: “Why should the right wing be allowed to monopolize the intellectual high ground?” Wow, how times have changed.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Did you route the support requests to /dev/null as well?
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
There are some models of MacBook Pro where one side has more 'thermal headroom' than the other side. I have one of those models, and I can't remember which side it is.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
“Even when it was the bears, I knew it was [the immigrants].” [0] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Apu_About_Nothing
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I try to buy my clothes from shops that sell to the trades/safety gear (e.g. brands like "Hard Yakka", although I guess that brand probably doesn't exist outside of Australasia). Most of these shops do a good line of car

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