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by arghwhat 2y ago
The main reason to not have it is that unless you’re out of cellular range or has no data quota left, it’s just worse than just streaming the same stations over the internet, which also offer more content as running FM stations is expensive
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Not really. People who track link usage use links to a tracking service which redirects to the target, or embeds tracking metadata in the URL. You could have a tracker which produces shortened links, or try to hide your tracking metadata by
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by arghwhat 2y ago
hard to have an efficient VHF antenna using traditional designs Smartphones a lot* of antennas, but most target 1/10th the wavelength of FM radio.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
You listen to DAB using a DAB radio like you listen to FM broadcasts with an FM radio. If you’re listening to something on your phone through a data plan, it’s not DAB, but an unrelated streaming service.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
And again, more nuanced than "vegan diets", taking just the abstract of the linked hypothesis: > Three recent case-control studies conclude that diets high in animal fat or cholesterol are associated with a substantial increase
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by arghwhat 2y ago
>Best sources of riboflavin: ... Whey protein powder ... Not the gains I was expecting.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
While it is true that pharma does not earn money if you do not need drugs, I would not blame them for not forcing people into gyms. Unlike the food industry which directly causes the issue by pushing addictive and unhealthy food, I suspect
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by arghwhat 2y ago
He also shakes his fist at the software stack, but loudly enough that it has AMD react to it.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
The highest recorded air temperature is 56.7°C, while the lowest is 89.2°C. That's a 145.9°C wide range.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Title should be How kernel CVE numbers are assigned.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Pekka Paalanen wrote a nice blogpost about the concept of repaint scheduling with graphs: https://ppaalanen.blogspot.com/2015/02/weston-repaint-schedu... (note that the Weston examples gives a whopping 7ms for com
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by arghwhat 2y ago
> While I wouldn't be surprised if this is technically true in a hardware sense, software-wise, Windows knows where the cursor is before it's finished rendering the rest of the screen The earlier you sample the cursor position
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Unless the issue is that your setup cannot composite at 60 fps (don’t get me wrong, not pretending that Windows isn’t at fault if that’s the case), then neither double buffering nor software cursors introduce delay. Unless your goal is tea
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by arghwhat 2y ago
To be fair, Pokémon is abbreviated English, while pachinko is recent from pachin, the onomatopoeia of the loud sound made by the metal balls. I believe the change into “h” sounds is more applied to words that were traditionally initiated in
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by arghwhat 2y ago
It's not that simple, people do not buy each TV episode or movie they watch. They subscribe to a small number of streaming services which decide what content to produce and/or acquire. The only reasonable way for someone to pay fo
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Hmm, maybe they are referring to a specific branding used on recent models, e.g. a "Windows on Snapdragon" sticker similar to "Windows 8 Ready" and stuff. Linux laptops still tend to be special order or niche brands, but
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by arghwhat 2y ago
https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Just think of dihydrogen monoxide. Instantaneous addiction, and withdrawal is fatal!
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by arghwhat 2y ago
> There is InteractiveViewer[0] but it does not actually cause a re layout of it's children and it also doesn't respect the ScrollBehavior of the platform. There is also Two Dimensional Scrollables[1] which is a new official Fl
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Well, there are caveats to flutter. One, the packages are clearly Material first, with Cupertino not having the same coverage and integration. There's a lot of common iOS UI constructs that are missing or incomplete, and Material is th
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by arghwhat 2y ago
You do not have the freedom to choose an HOA, only the freedom to move somewhere else. Unless you define "freedom" as "not held captive", I don't think that really counts. A fun John Oliver video on how corrupt HOA&
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by arghwhat 2y ago
The primary peculiarity and cause of issues is the Microsoft "filter driver" concept that allows I/O to be intercepted for a variety of purposes. A primary use-case for this is Just-in-Time anti-virus scanning, both for Windo
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Thanks for the link. What an amusing band-aid. It's weird that they're mixing ReFS into it, as NTFS is not at all the problem. It feels like they're either using this as a random opportunity to air ReFS again, or as a decoy t
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by arghwhat 2y ago
There are frustrations on Linux, but there's also a lot of development where its Windows or macOS that gives "death by a thousand cuts" so there are definitely reasons for you to pick that over Windows or macOS - even with WS
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by arghwhat 2y ago
If you use the expanded definition of engine (e.g., "search engine", where "engine" is mostly used as a synonym of "machine"), then neither is a subtype of the other - they just overlap occasionally. However, a
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by arghwhat 2y ago
> Motors primarily convert electrical energy (or fluid/air pressure in the case of hydraulic/pneumatic motors) into mechanical motion. Just like you call it a "hydraulic motor" in the parenthesis, the former is an &qu
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by arghwhat 2y ago
... engine and motor has never been synonymous. The phrase "electric engine" should cause physical discomfort to anyone hearing it. But feel free to call it all a motor - that's a clean superset of all the things an average p
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by arghwhat 2y ago
The issue is that narrow tires have a very, very inefficient suspension behavior, and road surface and rider movement causes it to be constantly exercised. That does not mean that you gain anything from going nuts - there are diminishing re
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Quoting the article posted in another comment ( https://www.renehersecycles.com/12-myths-in-cycling-1-wider-... ) > The German magazine TOUR built a sophisticated setup with a motorized dummy rider and found that a 28 mm-w
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by arghwhat 2y ago
No: A 20W tire is a 20W tire at 18 mph. At 10 mph, it's roughly a 10W tire (rolling resistance should be mostly linear at these speeds). Going from 20W to 10W tires therefore only saves you 10W total at those speeds. At 120W, you are i

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