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by Smoosh 6y ago
Lighter pistons allow the engine to rev higher. Power = Torque * revs. At 6000rpm a typical piston has to be accelerated from zero to ~50km/h and back to zero 200 times per second. Every bit of weight saving helps.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Are you trying to get on my enemies list? ;-) Actually, I wondered if someone would bring up Access. The problem with it is that it is trying to be a "real" database with an accessible interface. I feel it doesn't do either
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by Smoosh 6y ago
> Apple Macintosh IIci Insert meme "Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time" But I still have one somewhere in a cupboard.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Do we want that though? Didn't we kill them for a reason?
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I am trying to decide whether a political party could be created (in my country) which implements rational evidence-based policy. All policies and their implementation would require a postulate, and pre-defined criteria for success or failu
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by Smoosh 6y ago
"Literally no reason" ?? He was recorded flashing a white power symbol while driving a (presumably liveried) company truck. Now I think, after hearing his story, that a public apology and explanation would have been enough. But he
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by Smoosh 6y ago
oh, come on. "resting his hand ... what looked like" ??? Wasn't the story that people in another car taunted him and urged him to make the symbol, and they recorded it when he did? He may have not known what the meaning was
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I've always thought that Excel redesigned as a database could be a viable product.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
You can always try an affordable online service like Backblaze B2 as one of your options. I haven't checked lately but I think they cost around $5 per terabyte per month. Plus usage, but that would be minimal for an archive.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
What if the list contains/is itself advertising, and the random person is everyone on a huge list of active email accounts?
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by Smoosh 6y ago
The article says "When you provide us with your email address, it is never sold, shared, or used to invade your privacy." So, one of you is lying. I don't have the means to determine who, but I don't see what your motiva
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by Smoosh 6y ago
{being ultra cynical here} The ultimate will be when companies specifically start advertising on Facebook, just so they can then pull that advertising to do the virtue signalling.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
There's an old saying that has long struck me as being both horrid and true - "Kick a dog and it will always crawl back in the end". While I don't condone animal abuse, I see this all the time in human relationships. Onc
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by Smoosh 6y ago
The article also implies that if anyone can guess your email address, they can send you/share with you a list. I wonder what anti-spam measures AnyList implements?
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by Smoosh 6y ago
> something so quirky and archaic Try APL. It's the 1960s equivalent of 05AB1E.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Sorry to criticize, but as a daily maintainer/writer of COBOL, your characterization is a bit off. Besides technical inaccuracies (PIC 9 is for numerics, 88 is a conditional value in a field) you don't seem to grasp what's tr
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Somewhere around 1980 I wrote a Mondrian picture generator for the VIC-20. It was pretty good as I recall. I was going to submit it to a magazine, but never did. I wonder what happened to that cassette?
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Similarly, almost all the YA novels involve a transformation from ordinary mortal, perhaps even social outcast, to someone who has superpowers and/or is the special chosen one (and the story is the journey to overcome challenges and be
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I haven't upgraded because my Fujitsu scanner only has 32 bit drivers. I'll have to come up with a kludge using SANE.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
There's also the fact that companies will location-shop, pitting states/towns against each other to host a new headquarters etc. So if the company can seek to reduce their overheads for their own financial benefit, why not the sta
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I'm also suspicious that the article keeps emphasizing "amateur photos given to authorities" as if they are deliberately steering away from the term "police surveillance footage" or perhaps "images obtained by
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by Smoosh 6y ago
> seriously, who uses F-keys? Mainframe programmers. They are an essential part of interacting with an IBM mainframe (even for basic things like paging up and down through documents).
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Kelamir, perhaps you are confusing UBlock Origin's policy with that of Adblock Plus. https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads
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by Smoosh 6y ago
> in order to maximize profit I'm wondering where this idea comes from (I'm not criticizing you specifically, but that maxim). Do no investors value stability, longevity, ethical behavior etc?
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Or perhaps the opposite. They could have designed a motor and battery package which other manufacturers could build into their own designs. Thus they would get a start into electric vehicles without needing to invest in the entire productio
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by Smoosh 6y ago
> Facebook also uses its own apps' to track employee locations Not unexpected, but another reason not to work there.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
You can't? https://www.imore.com/how-block-ads-your-iphone-or-ipad
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I'm reminded of this study: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe...
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Yes, both blacklist and whitelist.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Or that the Navy is happy with these pedestrian explanations, but realize that the public will claim "weather balloons again, another government cover-up" if they provide such an explanation. So they release them as "unexplai

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