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by avidiax 3y ago
I took a couple of year break from the US; things seems to have gotten much worse. I have decades of driving experience in the US, and even I find it a difficult environment to drive in. People are just extremely unpredictable and are appar
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Using figures from 2019, the study looked at the direct cost of car crashes—everything from the price of emergency response, medical expenses, court fees, congestion, the cost of property damage, you name it. NHTSA found that the total
723.
by avidiax 3y ago
You have definitely had the wrong matcha. Prepared the traditional way (powder, hot water, and a bamboo whisk), it is a bit foamy, strongly bitter, with grassy notes.
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Fees: 0-2 hours FREE; 2-3 hours $2; 3-4 hours $4; 4-5 hours $6; 5-6 hours $8; 6-7 hours $10; 10+ hours a maximum daily rate of $10. Not exactly extortionate, and the website explains that this keeps people from leaving cars there overn
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by avidiax 3y ago
It's dollars per month. I have heard that Netflix is not charging enough for their ad-free tier to compensate the lost ad revenue. Pricing an ad-free tier is a bit problematic. You would think that it should cost simply the ad-revenue
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by avidiax 3y ago
People hang commercial art in their homes all the time, and that's essentially design-by-committee. I see no reason that someone wouldn't hang an AI poster print in their AirBnB that's abstract, or even a "commission&quo
727.
by avidiax 3y ago
"Smart" computer monitors are starting to arrive, and soon will probably be the only mainstream option. It is just too easy to tell investors "we are not a commodity display manufacturer; we are an ad platform with X% YoY gro
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by avidiax 3y ago
Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), it's called, generically. https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-t... The TV makers don't need ACR when you are using apps on their OS. Those apps
729.
by avidiax 3y ago
This still happens today. Some chip packaging doesn't provide enough protection from UV. https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=99042
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by avidiax 3y ago
Fuzzy logic sounds like it has been superseded by neural networks. It has much the same principle, i.e. gates/neurons that are tuned to provide a non-digital output. But with fuzzy logic, presumably the parameters and network are hand
731.
by avidiax 3y ago
You are judging this by the outcome, as though it were pre-ordained, and also assuming that this is the only method this agency has. It is much more likely that this backdoor would have gone unnoticed for months or years. The access this ba
732.
by avidiax 3y ago
This is a bit dated, but if you are interested in general electronics (rather than digital electronics), you can try https://repairfaq.org/ . Digital electronics is in many ways much easier, but the analog part tends to snea
733.
by avidiax 3y ago
The NSA demands that Intel and AMD provide backdoor ways to turn off the IME/PSP, which are basically a small OS running in a small processor inside your processor. So the precedent is that the government wants less embedded software i
734.
by avidiax 3y ago
The ones in the US are simply a crash bar. I suppose you could argue that someone might choose to burn instead of getting grease on their hands, but that sounds unlikely.
735.
by avidiax 3y ago
Just coat the bar in anti-climb paint. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-climb_paint
736.
by avidiax 3y ago
> assembly qv hasn’t been catastrophic (right?) The door plug that blew out of a plane because the screws weren't installed didn't kill anyone, but only because the nearest passengers had their seatbelts fastened. Is there any
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by avidiax 3y ago
In addition to it being technically illegal, you probably can't transmit well on CB without an external antenna and amplifier.
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by avidiax 3y ago
There are 5W and even 50W GMRS bands. You would need a license in that case, but it's not expensive. The handheld would be non-compliant, but that wouldn't be detectable on-air unless the deviation or power is outside spec for tha
739.
by avidiax 3y ago
I think there's one more intrinsic safeguard for these radios vs. drones. Handheld radios are mostly not useful in an urban setting (compared with a cell phone), and only other radio users can even be bothered by them. Unlike "dro
740.
by avidiax 3y ago
I found the acting to be so wooden that I couldn't watch more than a couple of episodes.
741.
by avidiax 3y ago
I don't want to spoil the series, but there are some long term payoffs lying in wait. > I'm supposed to believe only advanced scientists can solve it Only advanced scientists will realize that solving the problem is intractable
742.
by avidiax 3y ago
example.com, example.net, and neverssl.com all lack HTTPS.
743.
by avidiax 3y ago
You can add http://connectivitycheck.android.com , http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com , and http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html to your list.
744.
by avidiax 3y ago
Spammers are probably not using their own computer or electricity, so this would be very attractive for them.
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by avidiax 3y ago
It will not work to prevent someone from copying a webpage. It will work to make ad-blocking difficult enough that most people don't bother anymore.
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by avidiax 3y ago
"Company claims they can beat the market. Just needs a small up-front investment to start winning big." Clearly if this company had a way to generate bitcoins more cheaply than anyone else, they'd just mine the bitcoins.
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by avidiax 3y ago
It would not be representable, since even 1 unreachable point would have to have infinite area. If you allowed the 2D map to become 3d, I suppose you could have an infinitely high spike or low trough.
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by avidiax 3y ago
I prefer the typical isochron presentation over the warping. It's unfortunately hard to find free, public isochron maps, though. Some examples I've found: https://www.targomo.com/developers/apis/isochrone
749.
by avidiax 3y ago
And even more don't know how great FZF (Fuzzy Finder) is. When properly setup, Ctrl-R now shows a fuzzy search of your command history.
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by avidiax 3y ago
> they prefer vacancy to lowering rents. My understanding is that this results from the terms of commercial loans. If they were to sign a lease at a lower rate, they'd have to lower the appraised value of the real estate, which woul

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