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by blamazon 4y ago
I think dumpsterlid is proposing to focus on commuter-dense-metro systems rather than inter-city.
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by blamazon 4y ago
Is this just a random coincidence? Is there some explainable reason why the dimension is perfect? Surely IKEA did not have this use in mind when originally designing this?
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by blamazon 4y ago
Someone Who Isn't Me may have been long buying contacts 'from Canada' online with an expired prescription. They're supposed to check prescription for US customers before shipment, but...
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by blamazon 4y ago
I'm not that commenter but I'm also prone to tangential dot connecting in situations like this. The only explicit connection in that comment to this post is the word lawnmower, yes. The implicit assumed connection is that we all k
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by blamazon 4y ago
FTA: > Even though the UE authenticates the tower there are still several messages that it sends, receives, and trusts before authentication happens or w/o authentication. This is the weak spot in which the vast majority of 4G attac
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by blamazon 4y ago
"The Real Reason Your City Has No Money" : https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
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by blamazon 4y ago
Doesn't New Zealand have tons of hydro? Is it possible summer solar could be used to pump up a mountain reservoir somewhere with that energy sold 6 months later at a premium?
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by blamazon 4y ago
Really cool project, I didn't know x86 emulation was possible on the Espressif platform. I had a chuckle at this from page 2 regarding an earlier attempt to piece wise translate the x86 assembly to C: > "Unfortunately, it turns
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by blamazon 4y ago
A similar story played out in Jalopnik, an automotive blog with a similar irreverent outsider ethos under the same Gawker Media Group umbrella as Deadspin. Many writers came and went, including a group that started The Autopian ( https:&#x2
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by blamazon 4y ago
Something like 97% of shipping containers are made in China. This is presumably not lost on regular readers of container-news.com.
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by blamazon 4y ago
There are many softwares attempting to solve this problem. Airplanes, bridges, cars, robots, they are catalogued in these systems. They tend to fall under the "Product Lifecycle Management" or 'PLM' name of softwares. Or
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by blamazon 4y ago
I like the end of the article: > Xie met her current boyfriend at a wedding, where they were working as a professional bridesmaid and best man. He’s promised to make her the happiest bride. “We will hire 24 groomsmen and bridesmaids,” Xi
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by blamazon 4y ago
Ah, you mean those halcyon days when China blew up a satellite in 2007 to demonstrate its anti-satellite military capabilities and caused a huge debris field? https://swfound.org/media/9550/chinese_asat_fact_sheet_
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by blamazon 4y ago
Unions and bicycling are two topics that I rarely enjoy reading HN comments about, but here I am.
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by blamazon 4y ago
I listened to an interview on NPR with someone else who was a leader on JWST and the host asked this leader if there was ever a time when it all felt hopeless, that things were doomed to fail. The leader said: no, never. When they encounter
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by blamazon 4y ago
I think it should be noted that the Georgia Tech Online Master's in Computer Science (known as OMSCS) mentioned in the article costs about 7,000 USD, all-in for a 5-semester program. [1] This seems to me an amazing bargain for a Master
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by blamazon 4y ago
In the passenger terminal of JFK airport somewhere there is a device where you put your glasses inside a clear plastic box and it makes a big show of washing them like a miniature car wash. Takes a few quarters, seems to work pretty well. I
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by blamazon 4y ago
Not literally from the Apple store as a merchant, but you can get the same style of tables, yes. A web search turned up these folks who may be involved in the actual Apple store tables: https://fetzerwood.com/
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by blamazon 4y ago
Also, these things are usually battery powered and work great in a pinch to turn any space into a conference room. If you've ever tried to have 4 people in a room on headphones or laptop speakers having a remote-inclusive meeting, you
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by blamazon 4y ago
That's not a rule, it's a guideline. Rules don't start with "please": > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened t
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by blamazon 4y ago
https://archive.ph/bNmbX
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by blamazon 4y ago
Plus one on this. My employer buys tens of thousands of 50-80 inch TVs a year and none of them are "smart." The supply is out there. Do expect to pay more though.
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by blamazon 4y ago
It's worth also reading this and similar comments by dang on the topic for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148
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by blamazon 4y ago
Check out section "(11) General Interference with Organizations and Production", if you have worked as part of a corporation it may feel familiar...
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by blamazon 4y ago
Yes, I was sarcastically pointing out that working oneself to death is not a competitive advantage.
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by blamazon 4y ago
Why should I not simply work 24 hours a day, every day of the year? This way no one can out compete me.
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by blamazon 4y ago
Tangentially related: "Why is your email in my car?" https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/02/16/why-is-your-email-in-...
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by blamazon 4y ago
I have a pipe bender that looks kinda like this but sideways and yellow and mounted on a tripod. I bought it from a guy who does water-suppression system installs for warehouses. https://www.harborfreight.com/16-ton-hydrauli
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by blamazon 4y ago
For the simplest case yes, a way of bending big pipe and some way to make two big holes in the ground to then cement the thing in. (Or similar) But it quickly gets complicated - making smaller holes in concrete type surfaces is easier, less
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by blamazon 4y ago
In my car-centric city (southeast USA, population ~125k) when I visit private property with no bicycle parking, I try to find the owner and offer to install one of these just for the cost of materials. The idea being, they can put in anothe

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