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by fencepost 2y ago
They aren't/weren't all going to be EVs. Originally the USPS was looking at 10% EVs and 90% internal combustion but there were a bunch of challenges to that (including that ratio being based on incorrect environmental impact
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by fencepost 2y ago
How could they not love them in comparison to the 30+ year old vehicles they've been driving?
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by fencepost 2y ago
Drought in Africa is probably the most obvious, but other climate change-related migrations are basically guaranteed over the next 50-100 years. Sea level rise will severely impact low-lying regions like most of Florida - not by putting the
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by fencepost 2y ago
If they aren't already using a password manager with an emergency access feature, get them set up with one. As an example, if you use Bitwarden then get a family plan and add them to it - that allows setting an emergency contact who ca
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by fencepost 2y ago
Bitwarden's password generation is actually a little weak - it's great at generating random gibberish passwords, but it seems to be randomized at the character level so you'll get things like "Cq$ypWocG6Byp#" - hard
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by fencepost 2y ago
I still have fond memories of "Xyzzy" which was specifically listed as a "pronounceable password generator." That and YAPS on Palm (Yet Another Password Safe) were a great combination - and migrations through the years m
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by fencepost 2y ago
A few decades ago an office worker would prize a desk by a big window with lots of natural light to read paperwork by, but in the age of PCs nobody wants direct sunlight on their screen. A couple decades ago I managed to wrangle a nice ea
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by fencepost 2y ago
My wife is a pretty voracious reader and has 3 active Kindles that I believe are mostly segregated out by genre/collection. I wouldn't be surprised if this is as much for convenience as anything else, I don't use it much but
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by fencepost 2y ago
Latency's not going to stop being a problem for geostationary orbits, which is why lower altitudes get used.
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by fencepost 2y ago
From all the alternatives linked to the listing it seems like it may be pretty generic hardware under a bunch of names. Would be interesting to see if the accelerometer in it could be used for gesture detection, and if the rings could be us
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by fencepost 2y ago
You can get perfectly viable inexpensive bicycles as well - but if you were expecting to replace ALL of your other vehicle transport with a bike would you start by looking at ones with welded steel frames? The classic 80s Schwinn 10-speed t
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by fencepost 2y ago
For people fleeing the rise of extremist content on Xitter, that seems an oddly appropriate analogy.
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by fencepost 2y ago
It's a migration for the future, not a migration of your past content - understandable because that past content likely has references from other instances and pushing those changes across would be a heavy operation, unreliable, and pr
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by fencepost 2y ago
IIRC the Home editions of Windows now do have drive encryption at least if signed into with a Microsoft account, but they have almost no features for managing that encryption beyond turning it off or getting the recovery key from the MS a
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by fencepost 2y ago
IIRC there were a lot more options by the time of the Truecrypt-Veracrypt shift. Truecrypt was around when drive encryption was otherwise an expensive enterprise software thing, but I think Bitlocker was included with Pro versions of Window
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by fencepost 2y ago
Archived a couple hours ago: https://archive.is/Kw0Pg 95g, USB-C rechargeable up to 85 days of operation, separate control and charging boards, multiple replaceable components for easy maintenance. Probably lots of ways to
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by fencepost 2y ago
Thinner (less durable, but who cares?) plastic shell to free up space for explosives, but would likely be obvious if someone opened it - which might be a common thing if these were being used as remote triggering devices. If they were using
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by fencepost 2y ago
Thanks, the hazard of glancing at HN then reading the article from a phone. Autocorrect does not love me.
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by fencepost 2y ago
Sorry that I didn't jump back on to respond sooner. Re: consumer electronics, the obvious big example is cell phones, and notably major manufacturers have started adding features to extend battery lifespan by capping charge levels. Sam
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by fencepost 2y ago
TL;DR the high current causes a layer on the negative electron to form a bit differently (and obviously faster), previously it was thought that a slower initial charge led to better formation. This is a process tweak incremental improvement
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by fencepost 2y ago
Yep, and probably back when I was on Usenet.
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by fencepost 2y ago
This takes me back to the days of ordering a custom injection molded 4 pin connector for a Garmin III+ or IV, back in the days when you wouldn't just 3D print one and throw in a few pin connectors.
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by fencepost 2y ago
I suspect that this pattern for sentencing is so that even if some charges/convictions are reversed the remaining sentence makes that reversal not really significant in real-world terms.
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by fencepost 2y ago
I was on jury duty recently that seemed the epitome of "you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride," along with a terrible job done by the prosecutors. I explicitly told the defense attorneys on the way out that they di
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by fencepost 2y ago
There are a bunch of cleaning and separating steps that happen for removal of organics, metals, plastics, different colors of glass, etc. Pretty sure the chemical reaction to actually dissolve glass is not particularly fast and I have no id
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by fencepost 2y ago
It's absolutely routinely done and there's a lot of PCR glass used, but there's also a significant amount of cleaning needed. I'm not involved in the industry beyond past interest in glasswork, but I wouldn't be sur
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by fencepost 2y ago
For people talking about glass recycling, it's not NEARLY as simple as you might think because of input issues. Along with CoE (Coefficient of Expansion) concerns that may arise depending on the exact input materials, recycling ends up
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by fencepost 2y ago
I think you misspelled "Visual SourceSafe" - and depending on when this VB was written it might actually predate VSS as a Microsoft product. Source code management back in the days of VB (long before VB.Net) was not the same as wh
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by fencepost 2y ago
Oh dear god no. The solution is not throw VS at it and run from the code, the next step is some combination of excessive logging (which to be fair may resolve the issue all by itself) and/or throwing in a ton of DoEvents because Visual
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by fencepost 2y ago
If you're depending on the continued existence of any Google product beyond GMail, Google Cloud and advertising you should really consider fallback positions. The existence of Youtube is also guaranteed, but the existence of any partic

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