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by hadlock 5y ago
Yep, the reason why the OG iPod was shaped/sized the way it was, is due to the form factor of commodity laptop hard drives. I forget, but I think the OG iPod had a firewire connector (sort of the equivalent of today's Thunderbolt
842.
by hadlock 5y ago
It's unlikely that antique/classic cars will ever be banned, although getting gas may start becoming harder to come by in 2050.
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by hadlock 5y ago
Jet fuel is kerosene, a close relative to rocket fuel (RP-1) and would probably run in a diesel engine for quite a while if you tried (don't try this). Avgas is.... automotive gasoline with some additives, specifically lead based octan
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by hadlock 5y ago
This is specific to the reid-hillview county airport, north of san jose. It was in the news last fall. I can't/won't look for the exact broadcast, but the spokesperson for the airport was quick to point out that there's
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by hadlock 5y ago
Yeah in the US I recall in 1991 or 92 the pumps had "UNLEADED" in great big letters running up the side of them. My dad's '77 chevy had a gas gauge near the center console that said "UNLEADED FUEL ONLY". There&
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by hadlock 5y ago
The same could be said for buying door and window locks vs the responsibility of local police to guard your home.
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by hadlock 5y ago
Twitter's market share has only shrunk, and their user base has been flat since about 2015. It is "popular" with a very specific group of people but I don't think they've ever topped 350 million human users at any p
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by hadlock 5y ago
The last time I printed something written on google docs was probably 2012 or so, a printed copy of my resume Limiting my docs to a IRL format doesn't make much sense to me, page breaks make no sense, with H1/H2/H3 etc you ca
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by hadlock 5y ago
Re: entirely numeric, as long as the attacker assumes that the victim may use letters in their password, all numbers is fine, it increases the total number of possible combinations an attacker needs to work through
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by hadlock 5y ago
A lot of post soviet bloc countries have lost double-digit percentages of their population to emigration over the last thirty years, so it's hard to draw any conclusions here, is my guess.
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by hadlock 5y ago
Russia's globalized economy has been snubbed, but russia is perfectly capable of deeding prime farmland to existing successful russian farmers. When it comes to tractors and fuel, russia has these in spades
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by hadlock 5y ago
It's an awfully effective way to distract people from focusing on defending the perimeter of whatever city they're trying to defend
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by hadlock 5y ago
Japan is about halfway through this process in the Fukashima area
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by hadlock 5y ago
Most airlines won't let you order adult beverages in economy, certain United flights (SFO to IAD (D.C.)) appear to be an exception. But yes. And you need to re-fill in, manually your flight info and seat number. It's a whole proce
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by hadlock 5y ago
Also the only way to order adult beverages
856.
by hadlock 5y ago
When it comes to magazine subscriptions, I just cancel payment via credit card dispute, it auto-resolves itself. Generally I frown upon this kind of thing but yeah it's so hard to cancel that you sort of have to pick the nuclear option
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by hadlock 5y ago
But before that, they need to survive until sexual maturity, which is well north of one year for most fish. They're not like mice which can reproduce inside of a month or three.
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by hadlock 5y ago
The sleep issue is in firmware, was introduced in 2017, and any time the ability to use the correct sleep mode is introduced in firmware, it's quietly removed. The 2015 XPS is a great laptop, the 2017 and forward have significant, ongo
859.
by hadlock 5y ago
The wake from sleep issue only started in 2017 and going forward, might be why you are not having issues.
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by hadlock 5y ago
The wake from sleep issue on the XPS 15 is what killed Dell for me as a brand. I do not have this problem with any other brand. I chat with a lot of Dell XPS 15 owners and they all report the same issue.
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by hadlock 5y ago
A lot of us work for tech companies we may own shares in, or have options to buy. Knowing where the leaders in the market are going (up, down, flat) is, at worst, a weak signal of how tangential markets will trend in the coming months. Mayb
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by hadlock 5y ago
I'm curious where the tipping point is, where the military response exceeds the financial cost of a political response. It's one thing to have tensions simmering on both sides of a border, it's another that one side feels wro
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by hadlock 5y ago
Electric kettles are finally starting to get traction here, we use ours for tea and instant coffee, and pre-boiling water for making noodles on the stove since it's so much more efficient.
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by hadlock 5y ago
> was recently “promoted” to an assistant manager position) works another job as a hairdresser. She once told me she recently worked 12 days straight between the two gigs. Texas has another interesting labor rule, movie theaters are cons
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by hadlock 5y ago
JPEG was patent encumbered up until 2009
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by hadlock 5y ago
Based on the current sample size of one life bearing planet, DNA/RNA is the most durable example we have that produces results at this time. As soon as a second nucleotide is discovered as functional, this will be up for discussion.
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by hadlock 5y ago
John Deer has many more competitors than Boeing; farm equipment runs at slow speeds using off the shelf industrial diesel engines, and never (intentionally) leaves the ground or exceeds 30mph. Most medium sized countries have tractor factor
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by hadlock 5y ago
I think some of the time for this, is they have X of common standard sized box, and Y of less common smaller/differently shaped box, and eventually they run out of Y sized box, so they go down the list of close matches until they find
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by hadlock 5y ago
Yep this is important; Polio presented a lot like the flu, it wasn't until years or decades later that symptoms showed up. They didn't call it "long polio" though, they called it "post-polio syndrome". Famous a
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by hadlock 5y ago
Market south to Bryant, and 10th st north to the waterfront (i.e. SOMA) is a pretty prolific area, I frequently see the city deploying porta-potties to keep it under control due to the campsites that pop up. Also yeah Tenderloin, Lower Nob

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