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by e44858 3y ago
Also known as hallucination
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by e44858 3y ago
Air pollution had high amounts of lead before leaded gasoline was banned in cars. Lead is way more toxic than wood smoke.
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by e44858 3y ago
That function was using an unsafe block to disable the bounds check. This kind of bug would likely be impossible in "safe" rust (that didn't use unsafe).
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by e44858 3y ago
The older version of that page explains it better: https://web.archive.org/web/20200220182425/https://support.s... "Signal Android can be configured as your default SMS/MMS app" "Appl
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by e44858 3y ago
They're equally evil, but Apple has a better marketing team to make them look less evil.
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by e44858 3y ago
On Android you can easily replace the stock SMS app with a simpler one if you like. Not possible on iOS.
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by e44858 3y ago
https://grapheneos.org/ https://lineageos.org/
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by e44858 3y ago
How? The bootloader is locked, so it will only run Apple-approved software.
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by e44858 3y ago
I live in a desert climate, and I frequently get exercise-induced asthma in the early summer when it's hot and dry. A useful metric is the dew point, for me asthma kicks in when the dew point approaches freezing. If you live in a more
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by e44858 3y ago
Exercise-induced asthma is likely caused by dehydration of the airway surface: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6834710/ Increasing the air temperature is not enough, you also need to increase hum
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by e44858 3y ago
Google Fi currently uses the T-Mobile infrastructure. I wonder if this new partnership means that it will support AT&T as well.
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by e44858 3y ago
Tidal's "HiFi" format was actually the lossy MQA. Seems they recently started to convert their catalog to the truly lossless FLAC: https://www.techhive.com/article/1974696/tidal-flac-preferre...
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by e44858 3y ago
Esphome supports several AC units using a simple dongle: https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/pioneer-mini-split...
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by e44858 3y ago
Not exactly: "the law only “maintained” slavery where it had not been abolished, i.e., in law, in the colonies occupied by the British from 1794 to 1802 (Martinique essentially) and, in fact, in those situated east of the Cape of Good
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by e44858 3y ago
Maybe they don't have a choice: "in May 2000, legislation passed that required network operators with significant market power to open up access to their infrastructure." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
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by e44858 3y ago
It's gotten a lot faster a few months ago when they started using OpenGL instead of CPU rendering.
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by e44858 3y ago
Do anti-money-laundering laws apply to BitCoin? It would have the same problem because exchanges could share blacklists of high-risk wallet addresses.
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by e44858 3y ago
If it's a calm humid day, the ammonia will combine with moisture to form a vapor that's heavier than air, so it will settle to the ground instead of dissipating. That means if you have even a tiny leak from the pump nozzle, over t
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by e44858 3y ago
Ammonia fuel pumps will not be a fun place to hang out: "Anhydrous ammonia is stored as a liquid under pressure. When released to the environment, though, it becomes a toxic gas. Liquid anhydrous ammonia expands 850 times when released
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by e44858 3y ago
I hope they come with a warning sticker so I can make sure to stay a mile away from them: "Anhydrous ammonia is stored as a liquid under pressure. When released to the environment, though, it becomes a toxic gas. Liquid anhydrous ammon
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by e44858 3y ago
A countercurrent heat exchanger could transfer up to 99% of the heat from the steam to the ocean water: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countercurrent_exchange
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by e44858 3y ago
Android allows sideloading, yet most apps are still available in the Google play store.
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by e44858 3y ago
Which is why thieves will sometimes ask you to unlock your phone.
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by e44858 3y ago
You also have an LTE modem transmitting the GPS coordinates to the cell tower.
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by e44858 3y ago
I've had several lightning cables fail from moisture getting from my fingers onto the exposed contacts and causing galvanic corrosion. The tube from USB-C seems to prevent that.
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by e44858 3y ago
A few people recorded it on camera, and there's even published studies: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24886-natural-ball-li...
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by e44858 3y ago
Did you try new cables? With USB-C the retaining spring is in the cable, so if it gets loose you just need to replace the cable. With Lightning the spring is inside the charge port in the device, so it's a lot more expensive to replace
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by e44858 3y ago
The Islamic world just replaces alcohol with khat and opium, which aren’t much better. I wouldn’t call that an example of successful prohibition.
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by e44858 3y ago
Not true, you can implement a custom VPN protocol on iOS: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension
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by e44858 3y ago
Thunderstorms can actually push water into the stratosphere: https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-powerful-thunderstorm...

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