euroderf

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by euroderf 6mo ago
And the associated grinding noises were kinda scary but damn if the thing didn't hold up.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
IMHO the big winner is gonna be the toilet/tub/shower-bot.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
It has electrolytes!
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by euroderf 6mo ago
The art of putting wavy lines across an axis to denote a range skip has atrophied, probably because few charting software packages support it ?
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by euroderf 6mo ago
It works even down to -60°C.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
At the bottom end we have the Planck length. How many cubic Planck lengths in the visible universe ? Anyone ? To paraphrase Bill Gates (allegedly), "(PlanckLengths/widthOfUniverse)*3 ought to be enough for anybody."
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by euroderf 6mo ago
This is where I thought Cyc might contribute.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
Quick quiz! Who remembers off the top o'their head what Yahoo is an acronym for ?
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by euroderf 6mo ago
Handmaids, assemble! Gilead is in your device.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
When I'd quit coffee in my 20s and 30s I'd get serious headaches. In my 60s, no headaches at all.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
As an aside, I read somewhere that when a Venus probe hits the atmosphere there it gets 22 G.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
So then, all that heat that should've been swept counterclockwise northward towards Europe, where does it go instead ?
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by euroderf 6mo ago
This reminds me of an old Andy Warhol quote that I can't find now, to the effect that if you find yourself in a truly lousy situation, just pretend that you are in a movie.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
There is also the film Zardoz.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
How is this (or not) a suitable thang for the homeless folks ?
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by euroderf 6mo ago
> the work machine is the company's property and there shouldn't be any expectation of privacy. A bogus argument, methinks. Consider that the company also owns the phones, but can or do they listen to every phone call ?
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by euroderf 6mo ago
Pragmatism for the win.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
Hypothesis: If you can assign different fingers to different accounts, you could use (for example) your middle finger to switch to a "panic account" whose automatic login procedure includes disabling Touch ID. Or, to avoid arousin
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by euroderf 6mo ago
Well, but if there's a chance of random attackers walking around your house then the autolocking kinda makes sense (assuming a realistic timeout on it).
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by euroderf 6mo ago
Does it make sense to sell panels that plug only directly into the fusebox ? To avoid overloading in-wall wiring.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
> IEEE 1547, UL 1741 And the EU ?
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by euroderf 6mo ago
These are not yet approved in Finland, one reason being that older houses might use thinner conductors to wall outlets that cannot handle higher wattages being fed from solar. Maybe fuses and circuit breakers can prevent problems, maybe not
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by euroderf 6mo ago
There's nothing new under the sun. Back in the 1970s (IIRC) the Mother Earth News sold me plans for just this: a car propelled by an electric motor, connected to a generator connected to a small gasoline engine that ran (when needed) a
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by euroderf 6mo ago
I visited Soviet Estonia in 1987, on an overnight from Helsinki. A treasured purchase was a simple stamped metal bottle opener. Even the price was stamped: 15 kopecks. This told me that for the very simplest consumer items, they might easil
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by euroderf 6mo ago
yt-dlp is essential for gathering what you really value. Even under stable URLs, videos can be changed.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
> the record industry does everything it can to consolidate everything. Financialization ? Productize, promote, push ?
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by euroderf 6mo ago
Once in a while I see a stat for "life expectancy at age 5". It should be some kind of normative usage.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
Then you would have the United States Senate.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
Two would be toxic. Malta and Cyprus, or whatever. Three might be viable.
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by euroderf 6mo ago
Hurled backward in time ?

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