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by axiolite 3y ago
> I cannot reasonably run lengths of 110v extension cords down the block to charge a car overnight, and acquiring my own house with a garage is dramatically more expensive You don't need a garage, just some sort of reserved parking
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by axiolite 3y ago
> The greatest thing about roundabouts is that they protect against the idiot that goes through an intersection at full speed. Who is protected exactly? https://c.tenor.com/GLRaFTDEqngAAAAd/roundabout-poland.gif ht
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by axiolite 3y ago
Your observations are quite apt. "Researchers in Belgium found that single lane roundabouts without a protected bike lane increased crashes by 93%, while Danish researchers said roundabouts that did have separated lanes saw an 84% redu
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by axiolite 4y ago
> why would the union have any problem with the NTSB interviewing them? They don't. You sometimes have to read more than just the HN headline to understand what the issues are.
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by axiolite 4y ago
> By supporting bad pilots they're making them all look bad. Airlines in particular have a long and pervasive history of blaming "pilot error" for any and all safety issues. Until and unless it is conclusively proven that
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Nowadays you start an application by clicking a fixed location in the task bar or by pressing the windows key and typing the first two or three letters. Back than, you had to navigate a ridiculous start menu tree. Not me, I installed 3
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by axiolite 4y ago
Windows NT4.0 icons were the best: https://winuxinfocenter.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/deskto... Why 98? Same icons on 95 were they not? No argument that the Windows UI has gone massively downhill wit
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Does there exist a nice way to play your own mp3s on a phone today? There are tons of MP3 player apps for Android: vlc - has a surprisingly decent UI for music. (Open Source) Simple Music Player - gets the job done. (Open Source) Rocke
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by axiolite 4y ago
It's clean and fast, and completely useless as a store. Can't even estimate shipping & tax without creating an account.
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by axiolite 4y ago
Except those disorders don't often translate to people acting terribly towards acquaintances. Sociopaths may be the nicest people you've ever met, if and when they want something from you. Schizophrenics may be various levels of d
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by axiolite 4y ago
I've only seen two designs of magnetic USB cables. The most popular is round, and I've confirmed different manufacturers' tips/cables are fully interchangeable. The other style is oval shaped, and those would obviously b
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by axiolite 4y ago
Magnetic cables are a good solution to this and other problems. The magnetic tip stays inserted at all times, preventing lint infiltration.
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by axiolite 4y ago
That's been done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
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by axiolite 4y ago
I'm a bigger fan of just de-noising video, and leaving it gone. I don't want it replicated, UNLESS the de-noised video is such a low-bitrate blocky mess that you absolutely NEED the noise in the video to hide it. Conan The Barbar
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by axiolite 4y ago
Unfortunately, Germany's currently problems are self-inflicted and were entirely predictable. They were encouraged to build LNG terminals and reduce their reliance on Russian gas back in 2014: Following the 2014 February coup in
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by axiolite 4y ago
Absolutely NONE of your sources quotes anyone claiming that N95 masks don't protect against disease. In several cases, (early on) the statement was made that "drugstore" (surgical) masks won't protect the wearer, and onl
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by axiolite 4y ago
Please point out anywhere that "officially correct information" stated that n95 masks did not reduce the chance of infection. Very early on, I recall statements discouraging mask use because of concerns the public would incorrectl
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by axiolite 4y ago
> one could easily overload the -12V bus People can easily overload 12V motherboard fan headers, too. > if they are trying to get a lot of CFM. If so, they probably have a PSU larger than the entry-level 350W unit I specified. Higher
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by axiolite 4y ago
> "there is no readily-available 24V source from an ATX power supply," This is false. ATX provides both +12V and -12V: * https://pinoutguide.com/Power/atxpower_pinout.shtml Hooking them together would pro
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by axiolite 4y ago
> She doesn't seem likely to reoffend Oh yes she does. You think she's going to be happy at a menial job? No, she'll be right back with a new con the moment she's back on the street. Only now her name recognition w
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Could someone explain to me why cars running on natural gas aren't popular in the US like they are in South America / Europe? There are many fleets which use natural gas. Municipal buses, city garbage trucks, etc. There, th
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by axiolite 4y ago
MPlayer primarily uses libavcodec (the -lavd in your command line refers to it) for decoding, which is part of ffmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org/libavcodec.html There was a lot of overlap in MPlayer and ffmpeg in the early days.
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by axiolite 4y ago
A good RSS reader is like a DVR for everything else (text, images, audio).
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by axiolite 4y ago
And here's the solution: https://marclitchfield.github.io/paperclips-auto/
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by axiolite 4y ago
> You can care less about your colors, but for some categories of graphic designers, that's not an option. For many more, it IS an option. If it's trivial for them to select pantone colors for their designs, they probably will
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by axiolite 4y ago
> uses the word "open source" VERY liberally when selling you stuff. RedHat has consistently been the most aggressive supporter of Open Source out of any for-profit companies. Not only do they contribute to open source project
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Pantone can make money at every level Yes, but there's something to be said of the "First one's free, kid" business model. Making it frictionless to get into your ecosystem usually results in many more sales in the
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Death is final. Years in prison can't be undone any more than death can. Would you in principle call torturing someone for years on end but eventually letting them go free, a lesser crime than a quick death? > State and federal
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by axiolite 4y ago
> new battery chemistries are self-contained. Think of, say, how rechargeable AA batteries can fit into standard alkaline AA slots. You might notice that Li-Ion AA batteries CAN'T be charged by Ni-Cd or Ni-MH AA battery chargers. E
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Does anyone remember the defacto original ad-blockers that blocking popups were? I was using the Internet Junkbuster (and later: Privoxy) in the mid-90s, many years before that. https://web.archive.org/web/1996122

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