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by bigbaguette 5y ago
Between the pictures of the 8086 from 40 years ago and this, it makes me wonder what die shots will look like in 2060. Will we be slicing compute cubes?
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SARS-CoV-2 exposure in wild white-tailed deer(pnas.org)
8 points by bigbaguette 5y ago|3 comments
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
Well, the last battery I bought from iFixit was flawed and killed the logic board. Victim among a few others of a bad batch. They refunded the battery at least. Now I can fry my logic board again without having to go through the major pain
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
In Tulamben on the East coast of Bali you can find the opposite: the submerged wreck of a ship that's never been sunk: the USAT Liberty. She's been torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during WWII but stayed afloat. As she was gettin
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
It's been a few years the government wanted to decouple the debt laden infrastructure and the retail parts (Hercule plan). Keep the former state-owned so that it can front the upcoming heavy investments and sell the retail activities t
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
To bring a bit of perspective on everything, it's good to remember that democracy, or what the West idealises as such, is not necessarily the ultimate regime that every country in the world needs to follow right now for its own sake.
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
Have a look at the response headers (!)
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
Thinking next time I need a big panel I'll shop in the digital signage area, and take care of inputs and sound externally. Philips got the BDL line, NEC also a big supplier.
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
I can't help but wonder, with fusion: When we'll be able to harness this energy in a stable and net producing manner, yes that will cut carbon emissions and solve the nuclear waste problem, but also, is it going to be the catalys
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
special mention to tfwno.gf from the very politically incorrect cock.li (who also owns aaathats3as.com and a few others I probably shouldn't mention here)
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
Reminder that Australian citizens wanting to leave the country need to ask for permission from the border force, and the exemption process has been quite opaque, and denounced as arbitrary in some cases. Oh and also, this decryption bill fr
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
It's been thirty years the IPCC is warning humanity about this. Should be about time to listen, nah?
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
1% doesn't mean much like that but let's say for the UK alone that would amount to 680k deaths. Does that still sound acceptable? WWII death toll for the UK was 0.94% of the population.
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
Well it's not only a matter of helping countries, but funding the civilisation infrastructure that allows businesses to operate and turn a profit in the first place. In the case of Uber, there wouldn't be much business without roa
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by bigbaguette 5y ago
Keep in mind that from inside the cave, it's always blinding outside. But the moment you step out, your eyes will adapt and it won't be as bad. Cheers mate
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by bigbaguette 6y ago
There is a variety of anticipated risks linked to the reduced activity during the pandemic and its effects on air travel as a whole. However, this kind of oversight might not be equally managed everywhere in the world https://ww
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by bigbaguette 6y ago
Crazy strong EM fields to make sure that the plasma doesn't get anywhere near anything!
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by bigbaguette 6y ago
Iirc that was because the spring loaded lens mount was losing its strength and the lens wasn't able to focus properly anymore
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
The manufacturing process makes them worse. On a mass scale, every cent counts and the first thing to take a hit is the quality of the flour and the density of the dough. Then it's machine mixed, frozen, and baked in the very same cond
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. One thing for sure is that exercise if a massive factor considering the time we spend sitting still in front of screens. Our bodies aren't meant for that.
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
Same when I go camping in a natural reserve, without electricity: daylight is the sleep governor and it's incredibly effective and effortless, without even a sensation of jetlag. But it's not the place for cerebral activity, where
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
Mac keyboards, you get used to it in no time. alt ( for the curly bracket alt-shift ( for the square one A ton of special characters are accessible this way
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Off-Facebook activity(facebook.com)
710 points by bigbaguette 7y ago|379 comments
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Google search experiments new placement for favicons(twitter.com)
1 points by bigbaguette 7y ago|0 comments
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
This post is perfect to spot people who comment without reading the source. :q
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
A lot of people do that to make sure it doesn't update itself without a warning and loose their jailbreak
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
Because it's a sensitive subject. I posted the very same submission a few hours before and it got flagged in no time
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
or just that we remember the ones who succeeded and forgot all the others
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
It doesn't seem so: "we're sorry we hurt your and other's feelings. We'll remote the Santa Hat." https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268#issuecommen... Which apparently
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
wow just realized pidgin seems instagram-capable https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-instagram

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