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by freetime2 2mo ago
Being able to pick light and travel with minimal belongings is a great skill to have. But on the other hand, if your itinerary looks like home -> car -> plane -> car -> hotel, then you can pretty much go nuts bringing big checke
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by freetime2 2mo ago
I love this. I feel like there’s a business and/or product line here if it doesn’t already exist (hamster habitats with integrated cameras).
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by freetime2 2mo ago
I don’t know anything about fashion. I suppose it’s possible that with the right wristband, matching outfit, and on the correct occasion - it could be a fashion statement, I don’t know. But I’ve just always worn watches anyway for telling t
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by freetime2 2mo ago
I just checked and it looks like Cross Country Skiing is an option now. But yeah I think Garmin and other smart watches are definitely preferred by serious athletes (and people who don't like charging their watch daily). Whereas I most
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by freetime2 2mo ago
Also in that thread: > amazingly I can find no way to turn this behavior off at all, never mind a more fine-grained control like, say, "ignore this event while the app I use to time my runs is in the foreground" > (there is
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by freetime2 2mo ago
In a somewhat similar vein, I find that when I use my Apple Watch to track a hike, it will frequently auto pause or ask me if I've finished when I'm climbing slowly up a steep ascent. It annoys the heck out of me because that&#x27
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by freetime2 2mo ago
As someone who isn't a type nerd, I think a more apt title would be "The Title Cards in Blade Runner are Thoughtfully Executed."
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by freetime2 2mo ago
Yeah I think lawn mowing is not the best way to get people thinking about efficient pathfinding. I was initially more focused on creating clean lines, and I didn't even realize the goal was to minimize the number of moves until I was h
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by freetime2 3mo ago
The change to $750 just took effect July 1st. I suspect we're going to see some big discounts down to $400 or less around Black Friday and periodically at other times of the year. pCloud, a cloud storage provider who offers lifetime pl
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by freetime2 3mo ago
According to this Forbes article [1], Plex earns the majority of their revenue from selling ads in their streaming platform: > Valory said that Plex, which currently does not disclose financial information, generates roughly 20 percent o
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by freetime2 3mo ago
Recently Plex increased the cost of a new Lifetime Plex Pass to $750 [1]. It seems like they really want to get most users paying recurring monthly or annual fees. But to me at least that kind of goes against the whole purpose of hosting my
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by freetime2 3mo ago
Unfortunately that title is already reserved in the US for Homer Simpson.
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by freetime2 3mo ago
¥13/kWh is a very good rate. Does that include fuel adjustment and renewable energy surcharge? My current overnight rate is about ¥21/kWh after factoring in those adjustments - so yes if I could charge at ¥13/kWh that would b
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by freetime2 3mo ago
First, I'll point out that EV sales in Japan have doubled in the first half of 2026 due to increased government subsidies which took effect in January. [1] This has greatly reduced the cost difference between EVs and gasoline cars, whi
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by freetime2 3mo ago
EV sales have doubled in Japan in the first half of 2026. [1] This has been spurred by some pretty large subsidies: > In January this year, the government raised the maximum subsidy for EVs by ¥400,000 to ¥1.3 million. While the maximum
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by freetime2 3mo ago
> I remember BYD actually had to design models specifically tailored to the Japanese market (k-car)—their preferences are honestly so bizarre. You say this in past tense, but BYD's kei car won't be released until later this mon
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by freetime2 3mo ago
In Japan it's quite reasonable to ride local trains. I've been meaning to do a trip along the recently re-opened Tadami Line [1], for example. The one way cost for the full 4-hour, 135km trip is only ¥2,750 ($17). Though when you
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by freetime2 3mo ago
Looks beautiful and I am filled with an instant sense of nostalgia looking at the screenshots. Personally if I were going to adopt a nerdy train hobby, I would tend more toward train photography. Recently train photographers have been in th
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by freetime2 3mo ago
One thing that always bugs me at work is when I get a slack message from someone I don't know along the lines of: "Hello John, are you available to chat later today about Foo Product?" Or sometimes just: "Hello John&quot
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by freetime2 3mo ago
For anyone looking to try this - while they sell pre-bottled mugicha [1], I highly recommend making your own from tea bags [2]. It's incredibly easy to make - just add cold water and let it sit in the fridge for a couple hours. It al
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by freetime2 3mo ago
And "takeoff and landing were imperceptible to the senses" is quite an exaggeration for both the 747 and A380. They are nice to fly, but takeoff and landings are definitely perceptible. Unless the author was black-out drunk for bo
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by freetime2 4mo ago
IMO the author kind of opened themselves up to it when they said: > And still, in my life here in the United States, words are still needed to convey meaning. As if the US doesn’t have easily identifiable police and firefighters. Or hand
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by freetime2 4mo ago
The Massachusetts handbook [1] says: > Use your rearview mirror, check your blind spots, and use your directional signals when changing lanes. Remember these three steps: (1) look, (2) signal, (3) move To me this means you don't sig
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by freetime2 4mo ago
I think if you're waiting for them to actually start to change langes before responding, then you're leaving too much up to chance. Because if you go to pass them they might start to merge when you no longer have any safe options
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by freetime2 4mo ago
> Suppose the car in lane 1 is going slower because they just merged from a left-side entrance ramp. Just to clarify, my original post was more about merging from a faster lane of travel into a slower lane, or where both lanes are travel
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by freetime2 4mo ago
Also really strange to me to be prioritizing fuel economy over safety. And anyway, it's more fuel efficient to leave a big enough buffer with the car in front of you so that if they slow down, you can just take your foot off the accele
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by freetime2 4mo ago
> However I get the impression that other drivers are less considerate around a car displaying the [L] sign. On a related theme - I have found when driving in the North Eastern US, when people put on their turn signal, other drivers will
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by freetime2 4mo ago
I understood the article to mean, for example, that the help mark allows people on a train to signal "though I may not outwardly appear like I am disabled, I do have a need for priority seating". And thus people would (hopefully)
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by freetime2 4mo ago
I think Duolingo has a music course. No idea how good it is though or how deep it goes into theory.
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by freetime2 4mo ago
I think that was actually Mr. Beast who said that [1]. The quote is also brought up in an interview with Rene Ritchie back when he was working for YouTube [2], and explaining what the algorithm does. [1] https://www.youtube.com&#

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