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by ansible 5y ago
Yes, many of the gas leaf blowers use regular automotive gasoline, with a 50:1 mixture of oil added to the gasoline. They do have electric leaf blowers, but those offer minutes of runtime instead of hours. So those might be suitable for a
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by ansible 5y ago
Typical gas-powered leaf blowers use a 2-cycle engine. These in general are not efficient, and need oil combined with the gas to lubricate the motor. This oil is of course burned as part of the combustion, which generates a lot more pollu
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by ansible 5y ago
The "left wing" in the USA is the "center-right" in other parts of the world. We're still a ways away from basic stuff like universal health care that every other developed country has.
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by ansible 5y ago
I ordered a set of SLS floppies from some random person I learned about via Usenet news groups (comp.os.minix and later comp.os.linux). It used Linux kernel version 0.99pl12 or thereabouts. I had previously been using Coherent Unix (with t
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by ansible 5y ago
> I'm not from Scandinavia and the vast majority of US politicians look like interchangeable parts to me as well. USA citizen. What's hilarious is that 10 years ago, I would have readily agreed with you. Both parties were to
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by ansible 5y ago
Yes, I'd be someone who jumps up to rush the hijackers. Because I'd have nothing to lose. And if all I do is soak up some damage and die, it may give others behind me a chance. I'm not especially brave or fearless or anythi
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by ansible 5y ago
Thinking about this stuff is what prompted my thinking about things like suicide. The Universe is so vast. So much space, most of it with only the barest wisp of gas. Most of the solar systems we see in the night sky may not have life (we d
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by ansible 5y ago
> These are all solvable issues, but they are huge ergonomic downsides that are now pushed on local network admins to the point that for them it's still much easier to just disable IPv6 rather than learning about all these small is
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by ansible 5y ago
I doubt that's going to happen any time soon. Nintendo would rather publish its old games on its own store. Ditto for Microsoft and Sony. The older consoles now usually have a collection of ports for old games sold on the newer plat
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by ansible 5y ago
In our current setup, we only NFS export a btrfs subvolume, with no subvolumes inside that one. So that should be OK, if I'm reading this right. I'm a big fan of btrfs snapshots, but with some other recent issues, I'm wonder
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by ansible 5y ago
> sqlite is renowned as a project that tests meticulously... Any language that can produce a C library interface identical to the existing one for sqlite3 would be a good candidate for a reimplementation. If you show me a Rust library
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by ansible 5y ago
> ... pointing a laser the wrong way ... I don't see how the two situations compare. If you are shining a laser light towards an aircraft, you are deliberately trying to inflict harm upon the pilot, and could easily cause an acc
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by ansible 5y ago
> Can you just put hydrogen into an existing helium blimp or would you need to design a new one based on flight data? The issue is more about the permeability of hydrogen gas. It can seep through all kinds of materials, including meta
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by ansible 5y ago
I've thought the hybrid airship approach has a lot of benefits, and fewer drawbacks than conventional airships. What's the full-scale design going to look like? Will you continue to use the standard blimp shaped envelope? Or will
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by ansible 5y ago
So, yeah, I guess the grandparents and older aunts / uncles they may be living with are fucked. But who cares about them?
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by ansible 5y ago
Just as a general comment: weight alone is a shit measurement for overall health. You really want to know your body fat percentage, at a minimum.
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by ansible 5y ago
> To lose weight, you simply need to intake fewer calories than you burn. While this is true, there a lot more complications. You body has its own idea of your weight set-point, and tries to keep your body mass in that range. Any sh
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by ansible 5y ago
I guess it also matters what we define as a prebuilt. Some prebuilts are just standard components assembled (hopefully competently). Some prebuilts, especially from Dell, HP, Acer and Lenovo will have custom motherboards, custom power supp
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by ansible 5y ago
Yes. I remember being confused more than once about extended memory vs. expanded memory. These days I'm dealing with an SoC company that has a dozen variants of the same processor, which have different combinations of four letters in t
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by ansible 5y ago
Old enough to remember Plug-N-Play ISA cards? More like Plug-N-Pray... har har. It was also a bit of an art back then to stuff as much of the needed TSRs and device drivers into the memory above 640K, to leave as much room as possible for
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by ansible 5y ago
In general, you can still save a lot of money, and have a higher quality end result by building your own desktop system, unless you want a really low-end machine. Well, this is not quite true these days, but if the blockchain madness abate
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by ansible 5y ago
> the monochrome version is typically 20% - 30% more expensive than the color version, which is counterintuitive... The market for monochrome sensors is very tiny compared to the rest of the commercial products. Every phone now has 2
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by ansible 5y ago
> I'm not exactly sure how the edge pixels are treated ... It is quite common to have more than the "nominal" number of pixels in a sensor array. So there are extra pixels for the edges.
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by ansible 5y ago
> Now if they're sniping you from a mile away, that's a bit worse. Humans snipers regularly make kills at that distance or farther, so that's not really a new threat. I'd be more worried about the development of sup
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by ansible 5y ago
That's a great channel, I really like their "reacts" series that comes out every Saturday. They also had a good one from Sunday about the Pentagon UFO videos.
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by ansible 5y ago
And in one sentence, you have explained why actually-free market capitalism must not be allowed to exist, and instead must be heavily regulated to allow other stakeholders to have a say in the operation of any company.
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by ansible 5y ago
The flip side of that argument is look at how vertically integrated companies like Samsung are. Apple used to buy processors and such from other IC vendors, and now they are doing that in-house. I don't know how Motorola could have bee
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by ansible 5y ago
Oh, I hadn't realized it also got sold off. Let's see, what all was sold off: computer division, analog ICs (Onsemi), digitial ICs (Freescale, NXP), base stations (as mentioned), mobile phones (Motorola Mobility, Google, Lenovo).
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by ansible 5y ago
What happened with the network / base station side of the business? Moto was doing very well with that in the 1990's. It seemed like that business kind of evaporated, but I don't know why.
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by ansible 5y ago
Yes. Before the start of the smartphone revolution (circa 2005) the "smartphones" of the time are what we'd call flip-phones now. They were smart in the sense that they could run apps (J2ME, blech), take pictures and such. M

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