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by dublin 4y ago
Once upon a time, Google had unbelievable public trust. In recent years, though, Google has become actively evil, and squandered that trust to the point that no one really trusts Google anymore, but since we allowed the big tech companies
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by dublin 4y ago
Or you could use Apple's iTunes as an example of how to build one of the world's worst and most user-hostile interfaces, but one that every iPhone user must deal with unless they let Apple have complete access to all their informa
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by dublin 4y ago
The "three on the tree" manual column shift is the ultimate anti-theft device these days. There aren't many of us left who know how they work.
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by dublin 4y ago
Heck, Mercedes can't even get steering column stalks right. For decades, they've insisted on an asinine arrangement that combines way too much (turn signals, wipers, mist, clean, high-beams) into one stalk that is positioned so
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by dublin 4y ago
There are three groups of people buying high-end cars that might require a 5+ year loan in the US: 1) The independently wealthy, who don't finance anyway, but pay cash (unless the manufacturer offers 0% financing - never turn down a ch
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by dublin 4y ago
No, we lost what little ability we had to do that when manufacturers abandoned the globally used single and double DIN radios for tightly coupled and proprietary systems tied to each individual car. NOTHING on current cars control and &qu
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by dublin 4y ago
Orbital solar is an incredibly stupid idea that just will not die. Even Elon Musk has been quite open about it being one of the stupidest ideas ever. You only get about 3-4x (NOT 9x) of the power you'd get on earth in orbit, and putt
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by dublin 4y ago
If you ignore them, then you never know when they stop working. Really. The fact that they look the same working or not is one of the problems with them, and why you really do need monitoring and someone to pay attention to the monitoring
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by dublin 4y ago
And this is not likely to change as long as Iowa gets pandered to in every presidential election cycle.
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by dublin 4y ago
Just putting arrays on commercial rooftops is the most cost-effective solution by far. And no you can't really grow crops or much of anything but low grass/weeds under the panels due to 1) the problems (of shading with tall weeds
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by dublin 4y ago
Your comment shows you really don't know much about solar PV. Deserts are horrible for solar, for two major, and a bunch of minor reasons: 1) Heat kills PV efficiency, since, to a first order approximation, current is proportional t
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by dublin 4y ago
Absolute dreck. Here is the level of trustworthy info you'll find in this affiliate marketing piece masquerading as content: "...even though that increase might only be a few degrees above room temperature, doing this overnight,
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by dublin 4y ago
My brain only has to focus on ONE at a time. I can be blissfully unaware of the thousands of others that are ready when I decide to pay attention to them. (I also run almost everything fullscreen almost all the time. Even a 4K screen isn&#
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by dublin 4y ago
Correction: You have chosen to give Pocket your most personal data. No thanks.
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by dublin 4y ago
Tabs are not in RAM in Firefox - they don't get loaded until you click into them, so you can effectively have a nearly unlimited number of tabs open. (My primary browsing PC has only 8 GB of RAM, but handles thousands of tabs with eas
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by dublin 4y ago
I've worked with thousands of open tabs for many years now. (I'm not defending my habits to anyone - this is how I prefer to work, and it is not negotiable.) AFAIK, this many tabs is only possible with Firefox. In the main windo
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by dublin 4y ago
Glad to make a difference. Thanks for building the PiBox, BTW. It looks to be a great product, and I'm looking forward to getting mine soon. (Since you've said y'all are assembling them here in Texas, I'm hoping my shi
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by dublin 4y ago
I bought one. If you really look at what all you're getting, it's not expensive at all - in fact, I think it's something of a deal (esp. given supply chain constraints and the value added by their mainboard i/o, case,
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by dublin 4y ago
Well, if you do buy the PiBox, it supports two 2.5" SSDs, which should do you unless you need a LOT of backup. I've found Duplicati works quite well across mixed Windows/Linux backup scenarios, and it can also push your back
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by dublin 4y ago
FYI, the high-priced PiBox config includes TWO each 2 GB SSDs (which you can stripe and/or mirror), so the price is not really at all unreasonable when you consider the cost of the drives alone are about half the asking price. And jus
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by dublin 4y ago
I call B.S.: I've used those "toys for solo tinkering" in production control, monitoring, and data collection/communications applications in industrial, energy, and manufacturing settings. Sounds like you just don'
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by dublin 4y ago
Yeah, the solar lensing point is WAY the hell out there: since 1 AU is 8 light-minutes, so the 548 AU minimum works out to 73 light-hours away. When LIGHT takes half a week to make a one-way trip, you're in the deep space boondocks, f
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by dublin 4y ago
If you are not fully on-board with the latest current tenets of wokeism (keeping up with this is itself a full-time job), and the cancel culture it creates (remember, the slightest slight is cause for you to get cancelled!), then you sh
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by dublin 4y ago
Or, contra number 6 above, use Tcl, where everything is a string in the first place....
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by dublin 4y ago
One word: awk.
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by dublin 4y ago
I'm amazed at how many people who build graphs never learned the very basic rule that used to be taught in freshman engineering classes: Unless there is a really good reason, always scale the axes of your graphs using a range from
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Restaurant QR codes considered harmful(city-journal.org)
5 points by dublin 4y ago|5 comments
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by dublin 4y ago
QR menus are at best a massive PITA, and at worst a frustrating and obnoxious intrusion preventing a good dining experience. (Let's face it, almost all digital menus suck when viewed through a business-card-sized porthole, whether PDF
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by dublin 4y ago
Anything is potentially cherry-picked, but there's no question that superinflation is real now (inflation is really much higher than the officially reported), and we stand on the precipice of hyperinflation. Later this year, the dry,
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by dublin 4y ago
My parent tried heat pumps twice. They are incapable of even handling the usually not-very-severe winters of central Texas without resorting to turning on their pathetically weak resistance heaters, an those can cost nearly $100/day t

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