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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
People make the same claims about cleaning their air conditioner. Yeah it’s blowing cooler inside: you’ve just chilled the condenser and left some residual evaporative cooling.
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
It’s the faucets and sink fixtures that can jump out at me. I… question some of the Amazon-grade ODDALLCAPS fixtures’ ability to not spring a leak in the long term. Showerheads are more whatever .
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
Aka: a heuristic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
Nothing active anymore, all converted to static sites. If you’re on page 2 of the results, you effectively don’t exist so I stopped bothering/benefiting from display ads. Coincidentally, I did try to get deeper into the cellular servic
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
I feel the same about my old blog articles. I used to rank pretty well trashing crappy credit cards and encouraging people to switch to better options, then Google decided that 10 results for the card issuers website was better. Same shit w
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
> but hardly reliable on the scale of years. I’ve had similar experiences with “enterprise”-grade hardware. But sometimes the “price” isn’t just the hardware, but also having someone on-call 24/7 to support and possibly fly-out to i
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
> Generator attached to the flywheel instead of the starter motor, and then find some way to squeeze a drive motor by the rear diff (probably more complicated, but surely not impossible). Some vehicles have this as a “battery starter gen
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
I was thinking of a “feature” on manuals that ran electrical and accessory-belt stuff full blast during engine braking. The best time to run your a/c or turn the seat warmers: when you’re trying to expel energy. Would give you some ext
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
I just bought an ESP32-C3 with a tiiiiny 0.42" LCD screen for CAD$3 from Aliexpress off their "Choice" items menu.
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
I just mix rolled oats into my yoghurt. Much cheaper.
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
You might be missing out on any benefits from statins that are independent of the cholesterol reduction. It’s non-zero and debatably substantial.
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
Canada is moving away from moving regular mail by air to cut costs. Dunno if it will move by train or truck. Probably too late to add much volume on the ground.
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
I know windows likes to start blaring my music in the middle of the night when my wireless headphones finally die
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
You can do similar math with building above ground oil storage tank capacity aaaaaand giving everyone free gas cans. And you can get out every drop. And it’s always ready to go. Do need to cycle your inventory. Fire departments probably wou
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
Similarly some AV software would “listen” to your IRC comms to check for c&c indicators which meant you could paste it into a channel and a pile of people would disconnect (and you’d be quickly banned).
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
This needs a blog post & HN submission
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
That’s me. I’ve gone through $2 on deepseek in a month as i’m doing 1 project.
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
Same for washing the panels. Could even work a system onto already-running trains. And the RightOfWay is already maintained to keep thin grasses & trees away that may fall on a line. Often the line is already built-up for flood preventi
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
Then you get situations like a last minute (ie: knew 30 days in advance) trip from Munich to Berlin where we found it cheaper to rent a newish mid-range Mercedes and it for two. Sure we had to actually do the driving, but hard to turn down
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
That’s why pharmacies are allowed to give them out directly here for shingles (Ontario Canada and possibly other provinces)
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
I can’t wait to see what happens when we have an Epstein-Barr virus vaccine.
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
> I tried coding with Deepseek But soooooo cheap. Especially for those of us where a monthly sub doesn’t make sense.
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
I had a vendor acquired by one of these types of outfits. I looked through their assets and it clicked: “this is where software goes to die”
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
I’ve used it to combine excel spreadsheets pretty well. Got a bunch of comments in one spreadsheet but now I have an updated version without comments, move those comments over. Can give it some pseudo-code type of prompt. There are probably
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
Mass (low-value) testing is only more affordable if you value people’s time at $0/hr
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
Same joke in the rust (aka pothole) belt
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
Must be close to actually worthless if they’re not shipping them out-of-state, no?
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
Now that my vehicle is approaching 20 years old, I’m so so so happy it has more interior comfort upgrades rather than mechanical ones like 4wd or a turbo.
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
Dunno why these programs never took a sampling approach and data-mined which makes/models/years to target the next year/cycle.
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
> but its sensors don't always read the signs very well, so you'll often slow to 50 km/h (about 30 mph) for no reason. Ah, did your car pick up the speed limit sign on the French auto-route for… motorcycles filtering betwe

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