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by dont__panic 4y ago
Woah, that belt chain tensioner on the GPI... very nice solution to a common belt drive issue! Thanks for the link, I'd never heard of these folks. Love seeing innovation like this in bicycles.
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Perhaps the emergency communication with satellites is a handshake, and the "test" mode for the beacons simply doesn't complete the handshake?
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGDgnp7-uck ("Is that a PS Vita" in the middle of a dramatic, slow-paced show)
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Don't wait until you get the degree to start applying! Send out those applications in droves until you start to get tired of it. Then study for tests. When you get sick of studying, get back to applying. It's honestly just a numbe
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by dont__panic 4y ago
You know damn well there's a new "Staff Engineer" at Apple who fluffed this "algorithm" up as an argument for a promotion from Senior Engineer. And likely a few product folks and managers who ballooned this entire p
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Any personal locator beacon recommendations? It's one of those items that I could very much use during bike touring, hiking, and bikepacking... but I've never bought one because it seems like a very large cost for something I won&
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Seeing news like this makes me sad initially because it feels like every "decent" tech company out there (Mozilla, Wikipedia come to mind) keeps getting sucked into culture wars that distract from their core missions. Take a step
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Flats are increasingly popular for touring as well. Turns out that unless you're trying to maximize efficiency at race levels, flats work pretty damn well. And even for racing, the value of clipless pedals is dubious compared to a dece
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by dont__panic 4y ago
I would guess the Priority 600X adventure: https://www.prioritybicycles.com/products/600x As far as I know, that's the only mountain bike sold with a pinion + belt drive stock.
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by dont__panic 4y ago
And of course there's the element of "carrying literally all of your clothes, water, shelter, and food" on the bicycle for the whole year. You might carry your laptop and a change of clothes to work, but probably not multiple
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by dont__panic 4y ago
When stocks and real estate are inflated and you fear a crash, isn't it better to put your money in bonds, CDs, etc?
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by dont__panic 4y ago
> And finally, they need to come-to-Jesus quit shipping at a rate that doesn't allow absolute quality of assembly and requiring multiple service center visits. Whomever convinced the CEO that shipping anything to be repaired later d
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Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable(pluralistic.net)
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Interesting read, though the writing itself is ironically quite clunky for an article about writing. It's bad enough that I still suspect it might be written by an AI. It's worth noting that technical writing is basically two
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Ironically, they just cancelled Westworld before the intended final season. Not exactly a "consistent quality" show, but HBO does cancel some stuff, too. But it is not nearly as bad as Netflix's track record of killing show
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Maybe you should get your friends on Signal, and use their (E2EE!) Stories instead, if that's the only feature that matters to you?
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by dont__panic 4y ago
The product mentioned in this post, Haven, seems very much like a self-hosted (optionally cloud-hosted, for a fee) 2010-era Facebook to me. The distributed nature suggests that it won't go down the Facebook path.
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Which ad filters block facebook ads? IIRC a few years ago they had a surprisingly robust ad-blocker-blocker technique, using a crazy stacked div strategy to hide ad text.
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Is it possible that Facebook's feed is not as good at that supposed goal as it is at getting people to scroll endlessly? I've stopped using Facebook and Instagram in the last few years, so I can only speak from observing friends a
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by dont__panic 4y ago
I know it's already been said, but: swerve across the double yellow into oncoming traffic to avoid hitting them. Jeepers. You should probably take some classes on driving if you think this is the correct behavior in that situati
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Frankly, the only thing I wish I would have realized beforehand is that you’re basically forming your young adult friend group with a bunch of people who are going to be spread out over the globe in ~5 years. For a lot of us, th
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by dont__panic 4y ago
I have replaced my SE's battery three times, and the screen/front sensors once. The battery is at 100% health as of my latest replacement a couple of weeks ago. Signal is still my slowest messaging app. It's not some subjecti
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by dont__panic 4y ago
I am using an absolutely ancient phone (2016 iphone SE) that's perpetually in low power mode, so it's possible that this isn't a big problem for other iOS users. It's also rather slow on my mac, but I have noticed that m
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by dont__panic 4y ago
What's wrong with Apple hardware? I hated the 2016-2020 era of butterfly keyboards, limited ports, overheating processors, and touchbars as much as anyone, but I'm really happy with my 16" M1 Max these days. I wish it had a U
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Agreed. The larger and larger vehicles of today are so much more dangerous for pedestrians, but they make me wonder: has any country ever prioritized pedestrian safety in car design? Feels like the sort of thing that manufacturers ought t
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Thanks for calling this out. I was grumpy and unfair. I'll remember this in the future and try to do better.
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Exactly. I'm glad they update the app regularly, but the giant popup banner is an aggressive way of advertising that.
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Good point. I do not like the Story format, so I'm pretty prejudiced against them. The author does a good job earlier in the announcement of explaining the reasoning, so my sniping above is exactly that -- unfair sneering. Thanks for c
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by dont__panic 4y ago
It might be a smidge snarky, but it's literally the only justification Signal provides for adding this feature to their app. Why is it not OK to analyze their reasoning?
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Play/pause always starts the Music app, regardless of your preferred music player. It's annoying for those of us who don't use the built-in Music app at all. Your command doesn't work. The music app actually lives at `&#

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