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by billfor 2y ago
I loved being able to go a month without charging or changing batteries. I don’t know if there is currently anything on the market than can run for a month on its own.
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by billfor 2y ago
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40071540
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People who repair the most important infrastructure(theverge.com)
4 points by billfor 2y ago|0 comments
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by billfor 2y ago
I have outdoor and indoor. For outdoor it was helpful for wildfires and knowing when to go outside. For indoors I sometimes pay attention to it. It gave me some surprising insights into cooking and the pollution it causes - so now I try to
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by billfor 3y ago
I also use 0README.txt so it show up first when sorting by name.
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by billfor 3y ago
It's called a cat person.
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by billfor 3y ago
They may just put restrictions on when you can charge and drive.
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by billfor 3y ago
I read that as assuming that the "bank teller only" answer implied that the person was not a feminist, since most people would assume that being a bank teller does not make you a feminist. In any case, a bad phrasing to give for a
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by billfor 3y ago
I read the article as being about service meshes now being a cost item whereas they were free or low cost. I’m not sure debating the technical merits speaks to that.
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AI nonsense about rat with giant penis published by leading scientific journal(telegraph.co.uk)
9 points by billfor 3y ago|1 comments
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by billfor 3y ago
Because life expectancy is nearly at an all time high. Folks that are 50 or older grew up playing with all sorts of toxic chemicals and most of us are still here and fine. If anything you are more likely to become ill by excessive worrying
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by billfor 3y ago
I’ve used Tasmota with Wi-Fi and mqtt and it works great.
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by billfor 3y ago
Another great (free) museum is the Meguro Parasitological Museum in Tokyo. Many of the parasites on display there affect fish only - I think they're some of the worst looking ones... https://www.kiseichu.org/e-top
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by billfor 3y ago
Has anyone found a good way to control all the features of a heat pump with home automation? I’ve been lookin at Daikin and Mitsubishi but Daikin no longer has an open api and I don’t see much on Mitubishi. It seems like every heat pump com
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by billfor 3y ago
Objects Lost Everywhere /s
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by billfor 3y ago
Or the guy that died of a rare bacterial infection that he got from using his dirty metal straw he never cleaned /s
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by billfor 3y ago
Speedqueen washers and dryers are simple and made in the US. Built like tanks. Double the cost of the cheap imports though.
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by billfor 3y ago
And we still have film ratings. A kid isn't supposed to go to R rated movies if they're under 17....
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by billfor 3y ago
I'm still waiting for my Saturn V Gantry. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/a88109ec-9970-4fe1-98b4-9bd5...
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by billfor 3y ago
https://nypost.com/2023/04/01/nj-factory-imports-cocaine-pla...
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by billfor 3y ago
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en
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by billfor 3y ago
An MRI emits RF fields as well to snap back the magnetic field. That's the banging noise that you hear when you are inside an MRI. https://mriquestions.com/radiofrequency-waves.html
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by billfor 3y ago
The difference between conspiracy and the truth is about 6 months
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by billfor 3y ago
Herman Kahn but Immanuel Kant.
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by billfor 3y ago
Besides the timer there are settings for brown rice, which may take a while to attend to if done by hand. Also some models have pressure. Others let you give feedback as to the final product and will take that into consideration for future
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by billfor 3y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20231102154251/https://www.nytime...
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by billfor 3y ago
It’s not natural. I use both hA and Openhab with about 20 integrations/addons and HA breaks more (hello zwave}. Openhab almost never breaks on an addon level. If it breaks at all it’s in the core and patched quickly.
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by billfor 3y ago
Consumer reports has an agenda or is incompetent. Maybe for dishwashers, paint, or mattresses, but most of their reviews are biased or poorly reviewed. The classic example is the way they dinged Tesla for the full self driving because it w
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by billfor 3y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Sagan himself said to be skeptical of those in authority. "Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" https://w
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by billfor 3y ago
LineageOS replaced CyanogenMod. And don't buy a phone from Aliexpress in Mexico....

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