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by aidenn0 5d ago
Mainly it's just everybody grew up using top-loaders, though it's also easier to get clothes in and out of a top-loader than a front (unless you have a huge machine). [edit]Oh, and also the up-front cost of a top-loader was about
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by aidenn0 5d ago
Top loaders also act as spin dryers...
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by aidenn0 5d ago
I got a 503; maybe hugged to death? https://web.archive.org/web/20260117044133/https://k0lee.com...
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by aidenn0 5d ago
This statement just makes me think of a line from The Diamond Age in which two kids in a post-nanotech future first see a scrap of hand-woven cloth and after thinking decide that it must have been made by nanomachines because no human cou
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by aidenn0 5d ago
> Because there are two games going on, and they have different winners. In the code game the resource is the software itself, and free wins every time, because anybody can copy code, so any attempt to charge for it invites a copy that d
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by aidenn0 6d ago
You missed the part where they have already pre-paid for the GPU-hours and they pay the same regardless of he electricity used. Also, even if they were paying for electricity, they would lose less money mining crypto than factoring RSA nu
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by aidenn0 6d ago
When's the coming age of crypto-anarchy?
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by aidenn0 7d ago
That's a question without a good answer; compare asking the same question about e.g. Thomas Road Baptist Church (minus the "Bay Area" part). Many members of the Effective Altruism movement have given away substantial fraction
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by aidenn0 7d ago
Anyone know why this site brings Firefox to its knees (I'm on a Ryzen 9700X with 64GiB of RAM and scrolling has about a 2-second lag)?
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by aidenn0 10d ago
Consumers care about a lot of things besides that, it's just that (as you mention) those are the two most legible things to consumers. Your specific example of cars is, IMO, not correct: Honda, for years, could charge a premium on the
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by aidenn0 10d ago
If you think about The Event you can figure it out. (Don't think about The Event).
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by aidenn0 10d ago
The DOD effectively can't "just mandate" things and it's because of politics (which is a superset of corruption and incompetence). There's a very small number of major contractors and if you pick one of their APIs a
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by aidenn0 11d ago
I wear a silicone wedding band. The "durable memento" went missing when I took it off at the gym. My wife bought me a new gold band for our 15th anniversary and it lives in my jewelry box, since I don't want to lose it.
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by aidenn0 11d ago
It depends on if you want to answer the question "Is Valve charging us more" or "Are we paying more"
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by aidenn0 11d ago
Taxes aren't included in the US prices; I'd have to pay 1138USD for the 256GB model, which is 1593AUD, so it's only a 16AUD premium over where I live.
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by aidenn0 11d ago
Android phones with unlocked bootloaders are awkward, but doable. It would be somewhat un-Valve-like if they lock the bootloader.
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by aidenn0 11d ago
I have not tried them; I thought that was clear from my wording.
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by aidenn0 12d ago
Thinking AI is an existential threat to humanity because it will take over the world and thinking AI is a non-existential threat because it makes disinformation and hacking easier are not even remotely the same thing. It's about as muc
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by aidenn0 12d ago
My impression is that it does, but I daily-drive an Android phone, so maybe someone else here can comment?
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by aidenn0 12d ago
XMPP is more reliable than Signal on iOS. My wife regularly doesn't get Signal notifications for messages that I sent when she was in a marginal service until hours later when she opens the Signal app to send me something. On Android,
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by aidenn0 12d ago
How ergonomic are the modern AVIF encoders? I like libjxl (and cjpegli) because they are really good at generating reasonably compact, high-quality images. For every other image encoder I used I couldn't find one setting that would
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by aidenn0 13d ago
You can also defend it against tarnishment. They can argue that IKEA appearing in a violent video game has negative associations with their trademarks.
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by aidenn0 14d ago
> And just Tesla set to a high power mode, if when starting to drive it you do max acceleration for 1-2 minute you drain a significant portion of your battery very quickly. An airplane under typical operation has a much narrower ranges o
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by aidenn0 14d ago
No reasonable person would have been confused into thinking it was an official IKEA game; IANAL, but it seems unlikely to me that IKEA would have ultimately prevailed in court, though a simple change to the color of the logo would probably
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by aidenn0 14d ago
Technically, no. However there are metamaterials in which certain wavelengths exhibit a negative index of refraction, which cause light to behave in some ways similarly to if it were moving faster. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by aidenn0 14d ago
Not all filesystems support swap files.
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by aidenn0 14d ago
You don't need to be merging multiple source pins into fewer output pins; it's very normal for multiple ground pins to appear on an output connector, and for the 12V GPU and motherboard pins you see multiple output pins at 12V as
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by aidenn0 15d ago
Couldn't you still fry a PSU if the cable assumed multiple common pins to the PSU, but the PSU had different voltages across those connectors?
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by aidenn0 15d ago
double-sided velcro holds less well and is more likely to stick to things. Just toss a pair of diags in your box if you are worried about getting the zip ties off.
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by aidenn0 15d ago
I seriously doubt that I'll ever need the 3 floppy-drive cables or 10 IDE cables that I have.

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