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by bityard 1y ago
Almost all tire wear comes from accelerating and decelerating. Some from turning and cornering. Basically anytime you are asking them to stick to the road when the car's velocity is changing. Just coasting in a straight line does not c
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by bityard 1y ago
Yes, but the Mazdas we had were worse than average. They were made of thinner gauge metal than I've seen on any other car (both frame and body panels) and I they didn't bother to add even a token amount of paint or other rust prev
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by bityard 1y ago
Sorry, I meant Kia Sorento. I guess my brain is already actively trying to forget it.
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by bityard 1y ago
That has never been supported: https://wiki.debian.org/SystemDowngrade
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by bityard 1y ago
Geocities hosted my second website, my first one was somewhere on CompuServe I think? I had a GeoCities site for quite a few years, somewhere at the top level of SiliconValley. I can't remember the 4-digit number and I've never be
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by bityard 1y ago
I don't know where you live but where I live in the Midwestern suburbs, $3k is on the low end for almost any significant home improvement/repair project except maybe repainting a room.
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by bityard 1y ago
I recently got rid of a 2016 Kia Sonata with a severe (and getting worse) oil burning issue. It was well under 100k miles. We really liked the car otherwise overall. Great price, seemed to be made well, easy to work on. The extended warrant
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by bityard 1y ago
Maybe they are better now, but I had two Mazdas between about 2005 and 2015. They were fine for the most part, but their frames rusted out and had to be scrapped well before the rest of the car was worn out. They're not really suitable
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by bityard 1y ago
For those who just want to have one nice reliable monospace font and move onto other concerns in life, there is Hack: https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
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by bityard 1y ago
I had a nice little chuckle when reading the intro paragraph: > As software developers, we always strive for better tools but rarely consider a font as such. We must travel in different circles, it feels to me like half the developers on
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by bityard 1y ago
Some people use proportional fonts in their IDEs, and have been for decades. It's just not exactly a mainstream practice. (I seem to recall that Microsoft used proportional fonts in their IDEs in the 90's. Or maybe I'm thinki
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by bityard 1y ago
My favorite use of the Game Genie (Well, _Super_ Game Genie) was finding codes that would break a game in a way that made it more challenging--but not impossible--to play. Generally, this meant graphical glitches. But sometimes it meant stu
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by bityard 1y ago
Anker is above average, but the bar for average when it comes to Chinese electronics is, "might not burn down your house immediately." For reasons probably bordering on OCD, I watch a LOT of teardown videos of various electronics.
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by bityard 1y ago
> Putting tariffs on solar equipment imports is an insane self-defeat. We should be importing as much cheap solar and battery gear as we can get our hands on. The tariffs are going to impact me heavily because I had planned on buying a s
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by bityard 1y ago
I have done a fair amount of noodling around with the numbers and have come to the conclusion that within a decade, maybe two, we'll start to see rural homes disconnecting from the grid in significant numbers. Or for new homes, not con
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by bityard 1y ago
Easy to say, hard to do. The cost per mile rises non-linearly.
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by bityard 1y ago
Not THAT Dave Jones, unfortunately.
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by bityard 1y ago
What heart rate monitor did you get and would you recommend it?
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by bityard 1y ago
Who is "we"? There are many options for working with microcontrollers at the hobbyist level and that's because there are many different needs. It sounds like you don't need/use Arduino and that's fine. My comme
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by bityard 1y ago
It's great that these kits are available and fairly cheap. But as it turns out, the kit that TFA links to is a Chinese clone of Arduino and none of the profits made on that kit contribute to further development of Arduino hardware, sof
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by bityard 1y ago
Teaching academically-correct C++ is not one of Arduino's goals. C++ just happens to be one of the tools in the box. EE's complain that Arduino doesn't teach correct electronic circuit design principles. Which is also not one
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by bityard 1y ago
For technical parents, you can do this with a SIP server, a pair of ATAs, and of course the phones. No subscription needed.
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by bityard 1y ago
This is my method too. I check them once a day and once they are just a little soft and most of the green is gone, I pop them in the fridge and they are ripe for about a week.
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by bityard 1y ago
I had an interesting experience taking my son to see the recent-ish Mario movie at the theatre that made me realize that the theatre business really is changing. It was the weekend. Sunday I think. Middle of the day. I hadn't been to t
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by bityard 1y ago
It's been around long enough that I think it's pretty well known by now. At any rate, it was posted 11 months ago by someone else and has a number of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41370187
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by bityard 1y ago
You could be right. I'm not actually a heavy smartphone user, there are a few things I check but I mostly just read email, HN, and a handful of low-traffic subreddits. I'm not sure _more_ introspection is what I need, I literally
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by bityard 1y ago
Yeah, injury is one of my issues. I have not been a consistent runner all my life and ramping up too quickly has lead me to a torn tendon (twice) which takes MONTHS to heal.
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by bityard 1y ago
I love biking! And I do bike a lot. In fact, I often bike and run on the same day. But where I live, biking is only feasible about 5 months out of the year unless I invest in a bunch of cold weather gear. (And impossible at least 2 months o
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by bityard 1y ago
Uh, if it's open source, why is there a waitlist? What is there to wait on and what do they need your email for? Pretty fishy. (Or phishy?)
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by bityard 1y ago
Alright, so I'm open to ideas here. My problem is getting bored while running. When I'm in a good routine, I run on my treadmill indoors. (I can't currently run outdoors for reasons I don't want to get into at the moment

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