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by Wistar 1y ago
In the early 90s a friend bought a five or six chamber Aga. He had lived in a house in Europe that had had one and he loved it. It cost a fortune to acquire and to install as the house had to be structurally reinforced to accommodate the we
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by Wistar 1y ago
GM, at least on their new Equinox EV, no longer supports either Apple CarPlay or Android Auto electing instead to provide only the Google built-in infotainment system and apps. I discovered this just yesterday while researching the Equinox
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by Wistar 1y ago
My complaint about BMW, at least the one that I drove a few years ago, is that the warning sound for a passenger who hasn’t put on their seatbelt is the same warning sound as when the engine is about to catch fire and explode.
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by Wistar 1y ago
Same is true of my Ubiquiti UniFi. You can set the brightness 1–10 and even set times of day when lights and display should be on or off.
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by Wistar 1y ago
I wear one for taking photos of reflective objects, particularly car interiors. Sure minimizes retouching my stupid face out of reflections. Black cloth gloves, too.
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by Wistar 1y ago
Back in 2001 a 6-year-old boy undergoing an MRI was killed when an unsecured oxygen tank was pulled in to the machine. https://www.psqh.com/analysis/mri-safety-10-years-later/
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by Wistar 1y ago
The first in WA was directly adjacent to the Burgermaster on Northup. The next set of buildings was nearly directly across 520 to the south.
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by Wistar 1y ago
A bit surprised that TILTH is not in the acceptable word list.
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by Wistar 1y ago
Heck, I want a new iPhone mini sized iPhone. I am stubbornly sticking to my iPhone 12 Mini because it is the form factor I really want.
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by Wistar 1y ago
Actually, I discovered that, as long as the machine has a TPM and it is turned on, I can just set it (Win 11) up initially with a throwaway MS account. Then, I add local admin and user accounts and, using the admin account, I delete the MS
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by Wistar 1y ago
Did you check your BIOS settings to see if you can turn on the TPM? Worked for me on several circa 2018 custom built machines. The builder, Puget Systems, shipped the machines with the TPM turned off. With the TPM turned on, Win 11 installe
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by Wistar 1y ago
Alas, I have long since misplaced or discarded the item.
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by Wistar 1y ago
Years ago, my spouse thought I had marked an item in a sciplus catalog and so bought it for me as a birthday gift. I unwrapped it to find a plain brown box with an L-shaped metal fitting of some sort with a single black insulated wire that’
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by Wistar 1y ago
WH: “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.” https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/29/wh_hostil...
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by Wistar 1y ago
I can't remember exactly what he said but it was something along the lines of staying aware of the changes in the community.
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by Wistar 1y ago
I have a lifelong friend who is a very successful investor and who has been habitually reading obits since his high school days. I recall his explaining that obits served as an opportunity radar.
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by Wistar 2y ago
Yeah, and right up front, too. I noticed that only after it was too late to delete my comment.
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by Wistar 2y ago
I cannot remember if I first saw this here on HN but, here is a detailed video of an incredible artificial sunlight rig build. It's big but the results look, well, amazingly real, at least to the camera. https://www.youtub
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by Wistar 2y ago
“Boys, keep off the moors. Stick to the roads, and the best of luck.”
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by Wistar 2y ago
I recently purchased my first non-Canon lens for my Canon 5D, a Sigma 105mm f1.4 Art with EF mount. I bought it specifically for bokehrama (Brenizer method) work—mostly car stuff. It’s comically big and heavy and I have read of people havin
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by Wistar 2y ago
“…rush it to shelves after waiting for eight years.” Jumbo shrimp.
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by Wistar 2y ago
Standard time in the summer would mean sunrise at about 4AM here in the Seattle area. That'd be fairly disturbing to sleep.
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by Wistar 2y ago
Hmm. Well, I for one, my spouse for another, LOVE the time shifts—especially the one in the springtime. It is hard for me (us) to imagine not having the time change to DST every year. If the time change is discarded, I certainly hope it is
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by Wistar 2y ago
In the mid-80s, I was dating someone who was studying genetics at Sac State. One day, I read an article that made the claim that a female dog that has been hit and injured by a car can later have puppies that are inherently afraid of cars.
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by Wistar 2y ago
It is hard to not use plastic vacuum bags for sous vide. Although there are re-usable silicon bags, such as stasher, they are — personal experience here — not very good for sous vide.
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by Wistar 2y ago
It’s not the SV circulator but the plastic vacuum bags folks are most worried about.
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by Wistar 2y ago
I have been keeping my 12 Mini in as pristine condition as possible. I often keep the phone in my vest pocket and really hate the size of … well … anything larger than the Mini. Best form factor ever for me.
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by Wistar 2y ago
It was a Platte River Networks employee who erased and used Bleachbit on the archived .pst files after the subpoena but had been ordered to do the deletions three months before the subpoena and failed to act until after the subpoena. https
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by Wistar 2y ago
Although maps are very useful, for me it is the street view functionality that I find the most useful—especially if I am driving somewhere I have not been before. I can rehearse key points of the drive, see landmarks, exit numbers, and so o
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by Wistar 2y ago
Me, too. Thought a script failed to fire on iPad/Safari.

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