donw

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by donw 2y ago
Ah, yes, the original ultra-luggable.
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by donw 2y ago
There is no way to turn a phone truly "off", but you can isolate it from both listening in on conversations -- which modern phones do regardless of how they are configured -- and preventing it from connecting to a network. You&#x2
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by donw 2y ago
Depends. In my culture, there's a strong push against being constantly online. Phones must be kept in a backpack or otherwise stowed during social occasions, unless absolutely necessary. Ideally, you turn them off, stuff them in a Fara
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by donw 2y ago
Renting a movie with Mom and Dad was a special kind of excitement as a kid. Walking around the store, looking at all the covers to try and figure out what we were going to watch. Usually, you had seen a preview for any given movie, or had a
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by donw 2y ago
> The government should not be throwing people in prison for allegedly "spreading lies for personal or political gain" Many people don't know that the Soviet constitution guaranteed freedom of speech[1] (Article 125[1]), p
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by donw 2y ago
Ben eater did an excellent series on YouTube where he built a CPU from scratch on breadboards: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J256... His channel has a lot of other really great stuff on general ele
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by donw 2y ago
That looks useful, thanks!
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by donw 2y ago
For some values of "open source": the datasets used for information about the plants and such are unavailable as of the last time I checked.
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by donw 2y ago
Technically, the US does as well. You have 240 V at the panel, but you only run half for each common circuit.
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by donw 2y ago
Cue rebrand to “AWS Code Freeze”.
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by donw 2y ago
Given the number of people here that have absolutely seen Blade Runner, it’s surprising that more aren’t making this connection.
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by donw 2y ago
Depends on what you mean by "publicly funded sports stadiums". Stadiums that can only be used by a handful of local professional athletes? Hell no. Stadiums that are part of local public infrastructure are a different story. Fac
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by donw 2y ago
As an aside, it's really kind of nuts how much backing and investment the Communists have received from the West, including Wall Street, all the way to the Russian Revolution, and continuing to the present day.
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by donw 2y ago
Retirement homes are basically in the business of funneling the life savings of elderly residents into their own coffers. For a fully mobile senior requiring no additional care, you're looking at a minimum of USD $3500/month at
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by donw 2y ago
True. Also government tactics 101. Difference being that HP won’t shoot me for buying a printer from Brother.
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by donw 2y ago
Yeah, even experienced lifters tend to shy away from 1RM lifts, especially as you get older. Just too little margin for error.
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by donw 2y ago
Not only that, but it won't have the same soundtrack, which is iconic for planes of the era. Still quite an achievement, but would be nice to see a more authentic engine option.
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by donw 2y ago
To be fair: the only reason I want trackers for my kids is so that I can find them if (a) they run off and get lost; or, (b) they get nabbed. The average small child can't say what Dad's phone number is, or even his full name. Y
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by donw 2y ago
For a single-family dwelling, 1000 sqft seems fairly normal in Japan. It’s also fair to mention that the lot sizes are drastically smaller: 1/16 of an acre is on the larger size here, and you’d be hard-pressed to find anything bigger t
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by donw 2y ago
The saying in weightlifting / bodybuilding circles is "you can't out-train a bad diet".
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by donw 2y ago
Food in the US seems designed to make people obese. When you look at ingredient labels in Japan or Germany, you see a short list of what you would expect, plus maybe a preservative. In the US, you see an entire chemistry lab: artificial col
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by donw 2y ago
Except for the minor issue that this density plays a significant part in Japan's well-below-replacement-popluation birthrate. You may have noticed, walking around Tokyo, the lack of children. I certainly do every time I'm there --
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by donw 2y ago
I cannot be the only person that read this as “MetalWindow”, a.k.a. “walls”.
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by donw 2y ago
Tokyo Disneyland two weeks ago was an absolute circus in the middle of the week.
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by donw 2y ago
Who would you go with?
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by donw 2y ago
True! Hydro would contribute, and likely geothermal as well. Probably also some generation from the methane generated by composting garbage at scale.
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by donw 2y ago
The entire grid would be nuclear and carbon-free if environmentalists hadn’t spent the last 70 years fighting against it.
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by donw 2y ago
Toyota offering a V8 (both gas and diesel) in its trucks would change the market in a big way.
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by donw 2y ago
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means... what you think it means."
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by donw 3y ago
> You don’t want to do it very long, because they don’t make oil pressure in reverse. US energy policy has entered the chat.

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