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by albrewer 4y ago
> Basic queries like "how to change a light bulb" are better answered on Youtube Hard disagree. If the best content for the problem is a video, then sure, bubble that up to the top of the search results. But to limit yourself t
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Hyperbolica is a recent example
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> I've built a fair amount of production software in Rust. Any examples?
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> if you bought and financed through GM, they may have attached a secondary GPS/cell tracker to your OBD2 port ALL buy-here-[pay|finance]-here car dealerships put a GPS tracker in your car. Where it's located and how it's
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by albrewer 4y ago
Basically, the dielectric constant of air is not infinite. If the electrical potential is high enough between two points, air can conduct electricity. If you put a small bit of conductor near two legs of a high voltage system, and that cond
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by albrewer 4y ago
I really wanted to get an electric motorcycle, but the current market leader charges $20k for something that can get to highway speeds and go 70-80 miles on a charge. I'll have to stick to my $9k ICE motorcycle for now, unfortunately.
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I think that was just the restaurant owner having fun while making sure every part of their menu showed up as a restaurant search result
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by albrewer 4y ago
I just asked to be screened for ADHD. The guy was pretty skeptical, and the test would have been out of pocket with or without insurance. In the actual test, you had to watch a square flash on the screen at random intervals and click a clic
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by albrewer 4y ago
I programmed a ton of stuff on my calculator for various math classes. The one I was most proud of was a Newton's Method program that would show all the intermediate steps that simulated doing it by hand. That hour of programming saved
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by albrewer 4y ago
As a newly-graduated mechanical engineer with 8 years of being on the TI-8(1|2|3) bandwagon, I bought a HP-35s six months after graduating because my co-worker would consistently get answers faster than me on his calculator. It's just
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by albrewer 4y ago
On the flip side, I asked my psych to take an ADHD test because I found the stuff at /r/ADHDmemes consistently hit far too close to home to be a coincidence.
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> raised with that working class crab mentality Man, I thought I was the only one that described it like this, but apparently it's so common it has its own Wikipedia page[0]. The entire fucking region I lived in was too busy acting
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My old truck got 22 highway mpg, and the average family size sedan gets somewhere between 27-35 mpg (or up to 45 mpg if you count the Prius), coming out to roughly an extra $1,200 a year at $5/gal assuming 10k miles a year. Additionall
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by albrewer 4y ago
In some typefaces it becomes more obvious - see the first graphic on this page for a few examples that more closely resemble an 'et' ligature: https://creativepro.com/ampersand-history-usage/
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by albrewer 4y ago
Yeah, renting a truck for, say, 2-3 days was something like $250-300 in my case. If I need one more than 2-3x a year it approaches the price point of a cheap truck vs a family sedan or SUV.
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by albrewer 4y ago
A CNC plasma cutter, sand blasting, and paint booth (with additional supporting equipment) can support a business for making really fancy signs for businesses. This guy on YouTube is basically exactly that: https://www.youtube.co
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by albrewer 4y ago
In a snappy aphorism: Schedule your downtime or your equipment will do it for you.
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The company I used to work at started out in MS BASIC sometime in the early 80's. The founder is a mechanical engineer who started programming all the formulas he was using instead of cranking them by hand every time. In the 90's,
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by albrewer 4y ago
The lack of an immobilizer is why the 1997 Honda Civic was one of the most stolen cars ever
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> which seems to exists as a series of images and animations in my head, call it a "world" model perhaps This is how most things are in my mental model of almost all higher-order concepts and subject areas. Mostly for math, but
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by albrewer 4y ago
Yes, they do, but they do it pretty quietly - think messenger, or their dating service, or their games section - these are all parts of Facebook, but they used to not be. Messenger and Games are the oldest ones. They're huge, they keep
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by albrewer 4y ago
Anything less than 1.5 miles is walkable in a reasonable amount of time, at least to me - that comes out to about a 30-45 minute "commute." The problem is that everything is so spread out (there's not that much to walk _to_),
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by albrewer 4y ago
Just one letter off from introducing people searching for waterproof clothing to top-of-the-line CPU architecture.
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Why not have research snakes? And a research mongoose to eat the research snakes? And research jackals to eat the research mongoose? And research lions to...
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TIL I've wanted to retire since I was 22.
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This is somewhat how CheatEngine works currently. I use it all the time for skipping the grind in games I would otherwise enjoy.
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I see you're getting downvoted, but that would be the ultimate goal, yes. If you can devise a circuit without anything that does state switching, it's going to be faster than any digital circuit.
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Why not suffocate them with nitrogen or co2 or something?
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Rice and beans are considered hazardous cargo because, when exposed to moisture, they expand significantly and can rupture their packaging.
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From the video it looked like it would be pretty simple to lift the tiny pin wafers into the pin decoding region if there's nothing stopping you from over-lifting.

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