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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I’d love a car that was just a car, a set of speakers, and A/C. My 2004 TJ is pretty much that - it's dash is reminiscent of the basic dash I had in my old 94 Ranger. In an original Wrangler (ie - pre-JK, 2 door), the dash is
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Strange - one of my former supervisors had modded his truck's center console to use a Android tablet of some sort (don't recall which one, but it was fairly high-end - maybe one of the Samsungs) - it was basically "built-in&q
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Definitely going to be following this, as it's something I've thought of doing for my "next" phone - for basically all the reasons you've stated. I'm sick and tired of not being in total control of my current p
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Technically, yes, "resistance causes the heat" - but why? Well - because in a CPU, voltages are being manipulated. Those voltages represent binary values. Usually a positive voltage is designated as a binary "1" and a ze
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm wondering how this is going to effect the hobbyist and small business electronics markets here in the United States? Know how cheap and easy it is to get a small number PCBs made in China and shipped to the US? That's over. So
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Meat still does equal wealth to a certain extent - have you priced a whole rib-eye roast, or a full-sized beef brisket lately? They ain't cheap (and if you buy one, they are daunting to cook - because you know if you screw it up, you&#
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Also - that "white meat" is actually a form of bleached dark meat. McD's used to sell chicken nuggets that were a mix of dark meat and white meat. Some were a piece of dark, other's were made of breast meat chunks. But c
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm still saddened that Pringles aren't cooked in peanut oil any longer - they tasted so much better before; now they're fairly bland (regular version).
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Spoiled food is definitely gross, though. There are probably more than a few foods you eat that are technically "spoiled" - it's just termed differently, like "fermented" or "aged".
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by cr0sh 7y ago
The best time I ever had was in a "bull pen" situation (our team at the time called it alternatively the "oven" or the "barn"). It was at a new job, doing something new to me (server automation), and our team c
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Most of us have fell down these rabbit holes of learning before; the author does a great job of illustrating the concept, showing the solving of an "ultimate question" about how/why something works the way it does. I don&#x27
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Rabbit holes and their implications aside... As a software engineer, a part of me has died because of the hardcoded strings (in the pam_motd.c patch). Why aren't these defined as constants in the header file? Hopefully there's a g
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by cr0sh 7y ago
On a motorcycle helmet, it should be reasonable to expect to pay a hefty price for something quality. It's one of those items that has to work, that one time you need it. After that, who cares - you must throw it away and buy another.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I once ordered a really large socket (36mm for the axle nuts on my Jeep) from Amazon. I can't recall what they shipped it with, but I do recall the box was mostly empty, no padding, air bags, or whatnot. But they wrapped that socket wi
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I think most people with a pulse would say that $1/hr is not a livable wage. Depends on who is getting that $1 and where they are at in the world. I am certain there are places in the world where $1 an hour would be considered alm
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> As for Amazon, I like them too. I know they have a lot of cheap Asian stuff. But sometimes, that is exactly what I want (cheap but good DC stick welders). I'm of the same mind - sometimes (ok, a lot of times) I want the cheap stuf
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Depends on the act, and the accused, I guess. I'm sure similar things happened in the 1980s - I was a kid who didn't pay much attention to that kind of thing back then. But there were plenty of scandals of a lesser nature that wou
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Also - if the item you purchase is small enough, it might be able to fit into one of those China Post "e-packets" (or whatever they call 'em) - which is basically a government subsidized free fast airmail shipping option. Vir
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by cr0sh 7y ago
It wouldn't surprise me to find out this is some kind of "business" - where you have an Amazon seller account post up various items charging only pennies, then you hire a bunch of people to purchase the products (so they are
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by cr0sh 7y ago
This is interesting - I think any of us who save things off the internet have made something like this (I usually save entire sites or large chunks, though - so I have a different toolset - still, I also do single pages, so I might try out
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by cr0sh 7y ago
One thing my wife and I have done to our house, which is a regular "ranch style" 1970s home - here in Phoenix, Arizona - is to add on our back porch "house curtains". Our porch faces toward the west. We have a huge mesqu
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by cr0sh 7y ago
My wife and I a couple of decades ago took a camping road trip down the middle of New Mexico, starting near the top of the state. One of our first stops was to visit the Acoma community, which is a pueblo built on top of a mesa; very few pe
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> But it's considered a fringe eco-hippy interest and not something most of the population needs to care about. Here in Arizona, if we built things for cooling more like in the middle east (windcatchers/solar chimneys/qana
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Also - it only works for part of the summer; we're in our so-called "monsoon season" right now, and humidity is highly variable, but is generally above what most evap coolers will help with. However, if there is some evaporat
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I think it was like 111F / 44C. HA! That's like a cool summer day - stay a while here in Phoenix, and you can easily experience 120+F days at times. Nothing like it being 2am and 100+F degrees outside... On the flipside - sho
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by cr0sh 7y ago
One thing that was found with solar panels is that because they are dark colored, they heat up in the sun, and on an angled roof, the gap between the panel and the roof has a "chimney" effect that draws the air up and out the top
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Wear a respirator and goggles and do it during the coolest period of the year; even so, bring some water with you. Put down as much as you can afford to (as thick as possible, but evenly thick). When my contractor did mine, he put in 1-2 fe
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> With this design, there have been 3 icky-hot days so far this year, when there was no wind and the night did not get very cool. As you noted, this used to be a fairly standard design for homes in some areas. Perhaps a "whole house
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> The truly sad thing is that the house was about 1 mile from the i95 corridor, where a ton of fiber sits, going to the northern VA datacenters. No option for a wifi or optical LOS connection over that mile distance? Or was that not some
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by cr0sh 7y ago
An optical path simulation I found (or maybe it was mentioned here or elsewhere?): https://ricktu288.github.io/ray-optics/

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