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by avhon1 6y ago
Arc welding structural steel with lead-acid batteries is well-established among hobbyists. Here's somebody who reinforced their truck bumper using six 6-volt golf cart batteries, jumper cables, and filler rod, in 2008: https:/&#x
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> Treat fines like payments > e.g. park illegally and let yourself think of the (expected value of the) fine as a parking fee This doesn't seem like something you're "allowed" to do. Maybe more like "able&quot
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> Maybe Ajit Pai’s FCC replacement could get V2V/DSRC back on track? It's a bit late for that. The FCC reallocated the spectrum last month. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-368228A1.pdf
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The issue is worse with Rust, which is still a young and rapidly-changing language. Debian stable currently packages rustc 1.41.1 (February 2020), which is 11 releases behind the most recent 1.48.0 release. The older compiler's differe
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Sure enough, the little information popup (activated via the "i" in the top-right) has this information: > All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Reddit > Prevents Reddit from tracking your IP or JavaScri
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This could be handy for slideshow presentations. The contents of my screen aren't always easy for other people to look at and understand. This allows for copy-pasting code in and getting a nice clean "screenshot" out of it.
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> bought (mostly by people that don't know the world could be not trash) These laws prevent package labeling from informing would-be consumers of the (potentially better) products the imitate. People could know that they have altern
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> trying to discourage the usage of "something style" naming The law prohibits exactly this. From the Wikipedia article [1]: [Under Protected Geographical Status laws] it is also prohibited to combine the indication with words
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Counterfeit: made in imitation of something else with intent to deceive : forged [ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/counterfeit ] Teaching how to produce something that is like (or even identical) to something
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If it were merely about preventing deception, your example would be illegal just because of the deliberate de-emphasis on the word "alike". A cheese-buyer with poor eyesight could reasonably look at the packaging and think it was
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A convenient link to the video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6T_BJjitGQ
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I'm curious, do you mind giving an example of a software idea which is not potentially profitable?
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It adds a layer of indirection (which has to be intercepted and emulated) for every single access to RAM.
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If I host my own website in the United States and post writing which is non-protected speech in Australia, might I be required to block Australian IP addresses from accessing it, or even to remove it altogether? Even though I don't hav
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If Joe Schmoe is a very public proponent of X, then everyone will make that connection themselves. Also, if Joe Schmoe and Alice Shclalice have different, but aligned, support of X, it can be useful to your audience to identify different pa
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I'm not sure it's possible to ban criticism without also banning opinions. If you give a presentation on how some new tool or technique is good, you're implicitly implying that the existing alternatives aren't as good. M
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The maintainers of the previous repo didn't get a chance to file a counter-notice. That's why many people are upset at github about this, they took down the repo (and all of the forks, I think?) as soon as they received the letter
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yt-dl binaries from the previous repo will update from that same repo, which basically 451s now. Presumably, the update mechanism in this repo has been pointed to itself rather than upstream, and once you get binaries from it, you can resum
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A key part of "implemented well" is the interpretation and execution by whoever is in charge. Unfortunately, there isn't really a way to know, or ensure, that a group of people will act in good faith and accordance with a doc
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A nuclear thermal rocket works just fine in atmosphere. It has a similar profile to chemical rockets, in that you can tune the reaction or the bell nozzle to work well in atmosphere or in vacuum. The biggest problem with using this as a fir
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Having used paid software development tools, I really don't think this is the case. In particular, I'm thinking of Xilinx Vivado, a popular FPGA IDE that starts at $3000/seat and is one of the worst pieces of software I'
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Atomic Rockets has some good info on this. > When it comes to [high thrust, high specific impulse] propulsion systems we might actually be able to build in the near future, the list includes Orion drives, Zubrin's nuclear salt water
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For one thing, it was a (perhaps fanciful) new cold-war weapon intended to give the upper hand in a full-scale invasion of the U.S., so it didn't need to be particularly economical. For another, only (IIRC) two of the engines are used
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It doesn't have to be popular in order to be successful, or worthwhile.
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Tox (clients include uTox and qTox) has an... interesting history, but is technically interesting (true p2p), and worked fairly well when I last used it (around 2018). https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore https:/&
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I'm happy they haven't given up on release songs altogether. I can only imagine how much contributor time it takes to make them, but they are a wonderful bit of programmer culture.
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For a lot of the people you're asking here, the answer is probably "don't use a streaming platform to listen to music". That's why there's at least one subthread about recommended music-playing programs.
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With the naked eye, stars can be seen to have subtly-different colors. Other commenters have pointed out that Mars is rather distinctly orange/red, and easily visible in the skies of North America now. One example between stars right n
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USB-C cables are only required to have the basic USB 2.0 differential pair on one side (the "top") of the connector. The mirror pair of pins in the connector are not connected to anything. https://commons.wikimedia.org&
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According to the standard, you can't. There is nothing, however, stopping a manufacturer from making USB-C cables with very fine-gauge power conductors[1]: electrons could flow, and a data connection could be negotiated, but resistive

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