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by blamazon 4y ago
> For a few years I would occasionally get mail from people thanking me for helping them jailbreak their DVD player or smart appliance. That is delightful and brightened my day! Thanks for sharing :)
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For more irreverent/surreal/humorous takes on the auto industry, I can recommend The Autopian, a venture started by former Jalopnik writers: https://www.theautopian.com/ (Jalopnik was sort of the original irrevere
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Also related to marine industry: https://gcaptain.com/ https://container-news.com/
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It seems to me an ordinal rule of business is, in order to scale, sell systemic solutions to customer's problems, instead of selling mere widgets. I interpret this change as communicating 'iPhone is a system whose benefits are pre
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This is just a jurisdictional turf war. SEC calls them securities and CFTC calls them commodities. The courts will decide. Re FTX via CFTC: "The complaint charges all three defendants with fraud and material misrepresentations in conne
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Awesome tip! I really want to go back with the goal of riding every funicular and cog railway, so this will come in handy.
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Spray also seems to me much less deleterious for the biosphere and such. Apex predators are crucial low-quantity members of food chains and it seems possible that a grizzly sprayed by humans one or more times will take the hint and avoid cl
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If you make loud noise, be big and frightening, black bears tend to run off. Pocket air horn is good for this but you can also just shake your arms above your head and go 'blahfhahabfwhehe'! Grizzly bears, whole other class of ani
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Worth noting, Switzerland has awesome public transport. I went there as a tourist and criss crossed most of the major urban centers without a car. You can even go to the top of mountains without a car! It's a little funny to see people
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You can press 3 on the keyboard to skip 30% of the way in, it's a reasonable approximation.
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Heck, forget the phone, I had an extended job once across the street from the New Jersey McMaster warehouse (Robbinsville Twnship) and you can go in there to get the same treatment. We spent A LOT of money on same day parts.
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You're right and I'm wrong! There it is, plain as day. That's fascinating. I guess they updated this and I didn't notice.
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Their phone support is excellent, I will say. Still, to call for a ship quote is a bit of a faff that feels intentionally anachronistic.
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Tip: have a fun car that you buy rockauto parts for? Send them a photo by email for their magnet series! They do a new one every month and so they can often oblige you within a few months. They send you a stack of magnets with your car on t
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A huge advantage of McMaster I didn't see enumerated is the 3D models - for nearly every fastener, and for certain other products, you can instantly grab a 3D model and bring it right into your CAD design. As far as I know no one else
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When I used to catch the orange line from Mass Ave every day, one could just ask the friendly MBTA helpers there to open a gate for you. Ostensibly a service intended for hands full, handicap, etc, but they knowingly used it to let people o
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Relative to the infinite recursion of metric paper, it is abject chaos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI
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On sponsor block, most of the creators I follow have visual indicators for the sponsor time so I can just tap the arrow key or the screen until that goes away. I guess I don't mind that 'skip ad' arrangement since the creator
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I mean, is it worse than a traditional Hollywood type model for low level creators? Aren't traditional media firms famous for shenanigans like making entry level work so underpaid that you basically need wealthy parents to get your foo
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Can someone explain to me why this sentiment is often downvoted on HN? Why is YouTube seemingly the only software platform that people chafe at having an ad-free tier and seemingly believe should be completely free to all with no ads? It se
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"Mitchell and Webb - Kill The Poor": https://youtu.be/owI7DOeO_yg
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Flavour Wheel for Maple Products [pdf](agriculture.canada.ca)
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To anyone that hasn't drank various types of maple syrup, I highly recommend it. Maple syrup can have a very different taste profile based on where the trees are, what year it is, animal diversity in the area, etc. As a species we have
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For anyone else wondering like I was: yes, same Donald Rumsfeld.
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Annoying how headlines these days will always leave details like that out for clickbait. But, next sentence is very interesting: "Along with producing anxiety in the mice who consumed aspartame, the effects extended up to two generatio
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To me it's at the root just an ethical capital allocation problem. We can split hairs about specifics but it's hard to argue Petro is interested in the common good, it's obviously interested in making money from oil extractio
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In that case I think you want something that will 'vulcanize' with the material in the gasket, rather than being adhered... I don't know if that's feasible for your exact material but I know there are methods of rubber p
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Good lord, all the plastic in the world being four percent of oil and gas production is terrifying. Implying the rest basically ends up combusted into the atmosphere? The fact that increasing the percentage of oil and gas used for plasti
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Fair point on the posted laundry basket being a win. But it is undeniable that it's so inexpensive because of all the plastic that was disposed. We also didn't see all the identical laundry baskets that went straight into landfill
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I mean E-bikes on roadways. In the posted article the author is replying to a text while waiting to cross a roadway. Common enough scenario, I do that all the time and don't flinch at passing bikes because bike phone snatching isn&#x27

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