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Another difference, though, is that Windows 8 was atrocious. Windows 10 was pretty good, certainly better than 8 or 11 (and I'd argue better than 7).
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No, there's a pipe from Samoa Peninsula out to the ocean. (Fun fact, they're now using that pipe for the fiber optic cable that's landing here.)
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Here's a list of AI slop reports: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s... I've read all of them. It's interesting how over the last 2 years badger moved from being
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Just because it's inert doesn't mean it's harmless. I'm pretty sure that if you shove a wad of it in your windpipe, you won't last very long. Also go check out water poisoning.
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1y ago
A competent telephone technician with a toner would easily figure out what's going on.
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1y ago
One of the fascinating things about solar panels is that they continue to produce electricity for many years. Unlike a gallon of gas, once you burn it, it's gone.
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1y ago
I read it as "race condition". I was then trying to figure out what salt has to do with a race condition.
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1y ago
Makes it easier to deport anyone that isn't white.
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It's a good thing Shockley gave up on the transistor, it never would've been able to switch as much current as a relay, or switch as quickly as a vacuum tube. It's a good thing Benjamin Franklin gave up on electricity, we wou
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Different foods are going to affect your insulin levels differently, which directly controls whether your body is storing fat or burning fat. I don't eat sugar and keep my insulin levels low, so my body is always in fat burning mode. A
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What's wrong with Skia? Chrome, Firefox, and OpenOffice all use it, and it works on Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Android.
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Penn & Teller, although someone else might've said that before them.
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Can't say I blame them, I wouldn't want to go up against Oracle's lawyers either.
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1y ago
How would people be able to "express their personality" by removing their muffler or putting a two foot lift on their truck?
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> The Biden Administration created multiple, massive programs without any long-term way to finance them. I'm really bothered by the lack of decorum. This presidency is spending $18 billion to round up gardeners with brown skin. To c
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Tim Cook was at Trump's inauguration, and donated $1 million to it. While I don't know what his private views are, his public ones are to cozy up Trump.
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Yeah, but WTF is bluematrix.com? If I see a bank name as a subdomain of a domain I don't recognize, alarm bells go off.
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1y ago
Fourth option: a cyber company that could potentially sell weather forecast data is loosing it's financial security because NOAA gives it away for free.
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> What's startling is those 1,400 snakes didn't come from a statewide culling. They came from a 200-square-mile area in southwestern Florida Or, 0.3% of Florida. One more example of why this planet is fucked.
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Maybe he did, he was an executive...
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This was in the desert in Nevada. It was just him and one other person.
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I like to get my news at sites more reputable than The Onion or The Daily Mail.
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I dunno. Framing lumber is organic, yet we have systems to grade it and charts to show how strong it is (taking into account random imperfections).
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OEM's are still worried about emissions, aftermarket tunes are not. For example, enabling power enrichment at less throttle opening will improve performance and allow you to run a little bit more timing, but also increase hydrocarbon e
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Goatse has been around long enough that the teenagers are now in their thirties.
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Until the kernel kills you for being OOM.
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You're struggling to understand why someone is being pedantic on this site?
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> The giant birds will be unfastened from the airport ceiling to make way for a new mystery exhibit Glad to see the BBC is producing their quota of click bait.
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I knew someone was going to be pedantic when I wrote that.
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Normally, in semi active suspension, the failure mode is an overdamped vehicle, which is safer but also harsh and uncomfortable.
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