askvictor

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by askvictor 6d ago
There's nothing stopping you from charging money for FOSS software. Sell the first one for as much as it cost to write it.
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by askvictor 8d ago
Is that 10% best case or average case? Also, what's the capex on the the sails, and what's the additional opex (training, maintenance)? Not trying to pooh-pooh the idea, but as said, I've seen articles like this regularly for
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by askvictor 9d ago
News articles to this effect have been popping up occasionally for the past 20 years at least. So the economics don't seem to stack up. At least not yet; but if oil gets a bit dearer...
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by askvictor 9d ago
Why can't they pump more water down there to create pressure?
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by askvictor 11d ago
Not quite sure of the intent, but I have variously thought of starting a business based on an idea or gap in the market I could fill with my coding skills... only to realise running a business is not fun at all. Even getting an app publishe
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by askvictor 14d ago
Interesting; in Australia I'm using exclusively 4G with no problems
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by askvictor 16d ago
"the mountain in the sea" is recent sci fi that deals with this idea.
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by askvictor 17d ago
What does 'civilized' mean? Usage here seems to be another way to express your own biases. I consider myself civilized, and have a rich and meaningful life, but my house is much less clean than many. I prefer to spend my time and
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by askvictor 19d ago
Cleanliness is overrated. Sure, it's great for surgery and if you actually have a wound, but your immune system needs pathogens to train on, or it does silly things like attacking your body, or reacting to pollens.
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by askvictor 20d ago
That's how a real plane's control works, so many games do the same.
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by askvictor 22d ago
This is only to make getting a fix faster - A-GPS downloads the almanac data via the internet (fast, but needs internet) instead of directly from the GPS satellites (slow but works everywhere). It doesn't make it any more accurate.
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by askvictor 26d ago
Pining for the days when phones had IR blasters (e.g. galaxy s6); that would work perfectly for this
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by askvictor 1mo ago
See also: ISO standard for brewing tea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103
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by askvictor 1mo ago
That would include me, except for the fact I'm e-cycling a lot more than I would have pedaled previously (and driving a lot less)
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by askvictor 1mo ago
By far the biggest source of carbon emissions is coal. The others make an impact too, but if we're not addressing coal, there's almost no point addressing the others.
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by askvictor 1mo ago
Oil is a small proportion of carbon emissions. Coal is where it's at, and Iran has very little to do with that.
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by askvictor 1mo ago
People with knee problems, areas with hills. An ebike is still active movement; sure you're not getting any cardio, but it's immeasurably better than driving. If this (or any ebike) is a thing that gets someone on a bike that othe
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by askvictor 1mo ago
Thanks, I got it wrong. Not sure where I got 30% from.
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by askvictor 1mo ago
I've been using fluff busting purity, though it hasn't been updated in a few months so starts to crack at the seams.
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by askvictor 1mo ago
Decaf still has caffeine; about 30% of the original from the bean iirc. Tea, as well as caffeine, has other compounds that are calming. And yes, there are plenty of other compounds in coffee, as well as purely psychological effects.
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by askvictor 1mo ago
This exists for facebook.
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by askvictor 2mo ago
This was up a week ago
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by askvictor 2mo ago
True, but compared to a lot of modern electronics Kobos are generally better for repairability (and that was even before the EU directive)
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by askvictor 2mo ago
A free market that avoids externalities like climate change?
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by askvictor 2mo ago
I never said most people. But it's not uncommon. I personally find it ridiculous, and hold onto my phone until it's unusable, but plenty of people in middle class Australia seem convinced that they need the new one whenever it com
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by askvictor 2mo ago
People already buy new phones every year, this just creates even more reason to do so
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by askvictor 2mo ago
I don't believe so (unless you're getting down and dirty with the OS, which, you probably can do since it's Linux and not particularly locked down). There are all manner of partitions on there, whereas the usb just exposes th
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Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)(short-stories.co)
503 points by askvictor 2mo ago|6 comments
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by askvictor 2mo ago
The screens tend to be commodity items (look on AliExpress), as do batteries and sd cards, so the are a lot more repairable than most modern electronics
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by askvictor 2mo ago
I replaced the screen on my Kobo Clara hd recently after it broke; by far the hardest part was removing the old screen from the glue holding it on to the metal plate. Apparently newer models are much easier to repair. Also, while you have i

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