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by emptybits 11mo ago
And thank you for this tidbit, down there at the bottom of the Marianas Trench: "MYSTERIOUS DOOR WHICH JAMES CAMERON BUILT HIS SUB TO REACH AND OPEN. HE WILL NOT SAY WHAT HE FOUND WITHIN." o_O
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by emptybits 11mo ago
Yes. Also at the above link: "All AiryString® part sales and leasing of dedicated sewing machines are conducted between YKK and the customer. YKK will also coordinate the installation and startup of sewing machines at garment manufactu
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by emptybits 11mo ago
"Major Upgrade" for the fast, disposable fashion crowd. Major downgrade for maintainability and ability to repair. This "upgraded" zipper will be impossible to replace if broken at home, by hand or with a machine, or eve
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by emptybits 11mo ago
"- this mechanism cannot be required to handshake in order to start the car (not everywhere has cell service!)" In 2025, this is true. At some point in the future, I predict this will be false. Maddening. It's the We Must See
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by emptybits 1y ago
Hell hath no fury like an engineer angered! This was such a good read and epitomizes hacking: "Was it worth it? To read one book? No. To prove a point? Absolutely. To learn about SVG rendering, perceptual hashing, and font metrics? Pro
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by emptybits 1y ago
> "the console features a built-in 5-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600, delivering sharp and bright vector graphics" So ... NOT vector graphics. Rasterized bitmap versions of vector graphics. EDIT: Sorry, I'
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by emptybits 1y ago
Agreed. Related: the widely held belief that a corporation's singular goal is to maximize shareholder value.
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by emptybits 1y ago
Shameless plug for a good organization that helps fight social isolation and loneliness among elderly: Cycling Without Age. https://cyclingwithoutage.org/ We're an international movement whereby volunteer cyclists peda
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by emptybits 1y ago
I second the garlic recommendation here. It is more tolerant to nutrient and water variability than most crops. Slugs and many other pests won’t bother it. If you do give it regular fertilizer and water then you can plant it extremely dense
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Trump Calls on Intel CEO to Resign over China Ties(msn.com)
4 points by emptybits 1y ago|1 comments
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Enhanced Games (no drug testing) signs world champion swimmer Megan Romano(cbc.ca)
2 points by emptybits 1y ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 1y ago
Wow. Sincerely enjoyed this. Will re-read for the tire model alone. On the other end of the spectrum, playing purely for fun with no regard for simulation or realistic anything ... I'll take a 1980s spinner wheel Super Sprint arcade ca
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by emptybits 1y ago
I agree. Risks are often given too much weight in our imaginations. We psych ourselves out. Just do it. :-) Risks that are imaginary can be real psychological barriers, fear-inducing, and life-limiting. So making those leaps is important, d
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by emptybits 1y ago
Fortis fortuna adiuvat. Fortune favours the bold. Just do it. Take those risky leaps but I'd add that "luck" also favours the well-prepared.
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by emptybits 1y ago
I've seen Chinook words used in California, both in place names and businesses. Skookum, Siwash, Tyee, etc. Definitely less common than in BC/WA/OR though. Klahowya tillicum!
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by emptybits 1y ago
In a feeble attempt to rationalize the Canadianism "pencil crayon"... Pencils have cores based on graphite or charcoal. Pencil crayons have cores based on wax or oil, with pigments added. This is basically the composition of crayo
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by emptybits 1y ago
I agree. And if you copy and paste the ASCII moon they have there, it does already have a perfectly good circular shape to it. Well done. It's ASCII art. Drop the bitmap mask.
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Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group(arstechnica.com)
5 points by emptybits 1y ago|0 comments
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Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say(theguardian.com)
5 points by emptybits 1y ago|1 comments
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Ford Pulls Mustang Mach-E from Sale over Dangerous Door Lock Flaw(carscoops.com)
3 points by emptybits 1y ago|0 comments
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World Curling tightens sweeping rules, bans firmer broom foams ahead of Olympics(cbc.ca)
44 points by emptybits 1y ago|22 comments
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by emptybits 1y ago
This recent episode of the Secular Buddhism podcast may be worth a listen. It gets into the enduring value and joy we can find in the good fortune of others. https://secularbuddhism.com/blog/204-beyond-happiness/
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by emptybits 1y ago
Another fact you may find interesting because it's unique, I think, for a North American city of its size: Vancouver has no freeways. Within city limits, there are no roads with speed limits over 50 km/h (30 mi/h), lots of tr
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Border agents are going to photograph everyone leaving the US by car(theverge.com)
9 points by emptybits 1y ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 1y ago
This feels like the trend of Americans having to start GoFundMe campaigns for surgeries and health care. (!) I mean, do what you feel you have to do in the urgent moment. But come on. What's the plan? This is not civilized.
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by emptybits 1y ago
"BASIC Computer Games" by David H. Ahl
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Shingles vaccine tied to fewer dementia diagnoses, study in Wales suggests(cbc.ca)
3 points by emptybits 1y ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 2y ago
Fair comment about BMW. So another data point ... Ford also supplied their F150 trucks with plastic oil pans for a number of years. Not sure if that's still the case. But an F150 material decision is going to factor in hard use and rel
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by emptybits 2y ago
> The moment they created a plastic oil pan, it's game over. Nobody cares about engineering anymore at Nissan. BMW has put plastic oil pans on a variety of their models for over a decade. N20 motors. The G90 M5. Others, maybe. I&#x2
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by emptybits 2y ago
For this Canadian user, both maps.google.ca and Apple Maps labels the body of water this way: "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" TBH, that parenthetical label outside jurisdiction or common usage seems like noise.

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