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7y ago
Thanks! I didn't know the ENC28J60 could be that cheap. I had seen it in the past but it was always 10-15$ and with a microcontroller, that made it quite expensive. Next time I order a bunch of ESP8266 from China, I will add a bunch of
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7y ago
> As you said yourself ... the airpods are better bluetooth headphones than the ones you had. Sure but we were talking about switching from bluetooth headphone to wired one, thus why I added that part even though we were on an Airpod thr
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7y ago
> At small volume with assured availability right now you can plug together off the shelf microcontrollers and ethernet modules for $3-5 per node. Source? I'm looking for that right now and can't find any cheap microcontrollers
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7y ago
> But after having used Bluetooth headphones for a while, going back to wired headphones was pure hell. For me going back to wired was amazing. I no longer had to charge my headphone to listen to my music. Want to output to the speaker?
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7y ago
When I pay to compensate my CO2 emission, it goes into tree planting project.
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7y ago
> I would expect that any non personalized ads being served on videos marked as being for children will also probably be targeted at children. In a weird coincidence my SO told me a few minutes ago about how Youtube is cruel right now by
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7y ago
> We could argue that the cargo ship would sail irrespective of that passenger, but we could equally make the same reasoning for people buying last minute seats that would otherwise fly empty. Sure but the cargo ship business isn't
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7y ago
He paid 2 146$ to go from Hamburg to Vancouver in 3 weeks. It would be 1 000$ more if he want his train ride from Toronto to Vancouver to have a bed to sleep during the 4 days it would takes. For 600$ he could do the same in 15 hours and th
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7y ago
> The suspicious thing is YouTube tries to detect children's content, not users who are children… Theses whole changes are happening because they were tracking childrens (well they were tracking everyone, which included childrens).
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7y ago
> As I understand it, if he marks his videos as being for kids, they end up effectively demonetized and comments aren't allowed. Source? The blog post from Google mentions no longer serving personalized ads, which sure is much less
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7y ago
Have you tried that at A&W? I don't know what they do differently, but when I cook them at home the texture isn't as good, nor is the taste (but that's probably simply the condiments).
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7y ago
> To truly substitute pork this industry will have to become as massive as the pork meat industry is now. Meat has 2 levels though, you need the industry to feed the pork too. If you skip that step and directly feed us, that's much
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7y ago
> there needs to be an overview that can show where storage is used. And clicking around on Google Drive it appears there isn't such an overview. If you click on Buy Storage, it does say where it's used. Not the most obvious, b
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7y ago
It's to save on shipping. They got quite a bit of warehouse nowadays. They just share all the same inventory, thus have to move less stock in between warehouse and you get your stuff faster. It fail when their FBA inventory is fake tho
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> I just wanted to use that opportunity to vent my frustration with the constant push to update everything all the time and judging any piece of software by using "when was the last update" as a metric. The update in theses cas
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7y ago
I took a look at a recording of the Atari ST GUI on Youtube, it didn't seems that fast to resize a basic folder view windows. Who care about boot time when you do it once in a while versus actually using that interface? https:/&#
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7y ago
> that has spent decades preparing And that's a major part to argue about, whether it's a fight that's worth it or not.
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7y ago
> But long before then you'll see the same in other countries, Italy, the UK, the USA, France, Germany and Spain all have areas that would be much harder and earlier hit than NL because they have no fortifications whatsoever as a st
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7y ago
This is seriously scary, how easy it is to make disinformation. The article never mentions beaming all this data to the car maker. In which world could you believe that GM could make enough from the data to pay to transfer that much data? T
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7y ago
> Doesn't this also imply you don't have to be paying for any type of service/connectivity on your end and GM can be paying for the connectivity on theirs and be extracting data unbeknownst to the driver? You can always pr
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7y ago
Let them breath a little for god sake. Yeah they aren't up to the task of hosting a video that goes viral, for two simple reasons, first they are way too new to have the kind of infrastructure to support that and second, it's not
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7y ago
Floatplane was never about the viewer though. You should look at their video for the release of the beta[0], I still haven't watched it though, so I could be wrong on some stuff, but that video will certainly make everything more clear
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7y ago
> If this were the case, then rich people everywhere else would be speeding like crazy and just paying the small fines. It's an issue, they call this affluenza. > That clearly is not the case, because fines are not the only thing
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7y ago
I don't know how many software engineer they got on that team, but considering how much they raised and how much their product is used, $300k seems actually quite cheap for something that people consider here as being an awfully big mi
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7y ago
Why wouldn't it be? You save 300k, that's an engineer salary... that's pretty much the meaning of a job, building value that's higher than your salary. This clearly took less than a year of engineer time. Seems like they
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> Even if this is completely true, it does not absolve the driver of any responsibility, so I don't really see the point of bringing it up. It does if your only choice is using it or not. Being responsible is about making choice to
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> I don't think they are saying "Most people shouldn't drive cars" so much as "We need to make irresponsible driving much more of a big deal." I don't see how you could interpret my comment as believing
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> I expect self driving cars to have an emergency brake An emergency brake isn't the end of all sadly. > laws require you to be present and focused to drive on the road Sure, I'm not arguing the current state of self drivin
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7y ago
One day we won't be able to drive at all, it will be all self driving, and at that point, you'll no longer be able to do anything to avoid an accident. That would shift the default responsibility to the manufacturer and then split
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7y ago
> American Express cards also have a higher fee than the standard Visa or Mastercard and plenty of retailers complain about that or refuse to accept Amex. American Express isn't Visa or Mastercard, they are all on different payment
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