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by hadlock 5y ago
Buy a really nice early 2000s road bike with a big squishy seat and a new helmet and go for a 1 hour ride every day. You'll see way more of your community than walking an hour every day. That gets you within a 6-9 mile radius from your
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by hadlock 5y ago
Here's my experience (and future plans): My wife took a 6 month unpaid sabbatical about a year after we moved in together. She had been with the same company for 10 years at that point. She saved up about four months worth of rent and
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by hadlock 5y ago
This looks like an ideal use-case for a 3D printer
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by hadlock 5y ago
Boeing Surplus Store felt like.... wandering into Doctor Who's garage. Yeah we came home with some plate titanium, giant sheets of memory foam that got repurposed on our boat, we bought a trailer designed to haul bar steel, then conver
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by hadlock 5y ago
Our sailboat is our earthquake kit. It only holds* 15 gallons of freshwater, but has a functional kitchen and bathroom, and we can go 1000 miles north or south of here in a week, regardless of fuel or road conditions. If covid had gotten In
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by hadlock 5y ago
Tokyo got nearly 30 seconds warning for the Fukushima earthquake. I have no idea how well Washington's system works, but I would imagine that someday it'll be as good as Japan's was in 2011
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by hadlock 5y ago
The P in Pakistan (a majority Muslim country) arguably stands for Punjab, From wikipedia: > using it as an acronym .., and referring to the names of the five northern regions of the British Raj: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Bal
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by hadlock 5y ago
> Instead, people break ground knowing they do not yet have the funds to finish. This is pretty common actually. You build one room, make it livable, and then build the next room, then the next, and when you run out of land, start on the
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by hadlock 5y ago
> delivering a boatload of breakfast tacos from the Austin airport Ah yes, the lesser-known cousin of the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel, the Austin-Bergstrom Breakfast Taco Canal
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by hadlock 6y ago
This looks great, but for a new form-factor, why put the USB-C PD power port on another side than the other USB/Ethernet side? The Raspberry Pi is a great device at any price point, but the biggest fault, in my opinion, is that there a
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by hadlock 6y ago
Boeing "is the largest U.S. goods exporter" and represents, pre 737-MAX fallout, about 5% of the US GDP. This might come as a surprise to east-coasters as for most of their existence they were based out of Seattle, and only recent
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by hadlock 6y ago
Most of France is Nuclear powered, and they haven't outlawed breeder reactors (which recycles spent fuel) for regan-esque cold war reasons, so with electric cars on the horizon soon and electric trains now, they're well positioned
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by hadlock 6y ago
This was an informative, if amusing look at the Cassini Map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTyX_EJQOIU
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by hadlock 6y ago
To add to this, "coral reef bleaching" is not a coral reef die-off event, it means that the colorful symbiotic alge that coexist with the coral (many corals are a lot like flamingos, they are themselves generally colorless, but ot
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by hadlock 6y ago
Current pricing for mRNA vaccines is something in the $4-7 dollars (that's $7.00 dollars, not $7,000.00 dollars) range. Compare that to one of the Hepatitis C treatments, which costs north of $350,000 by several accounts. Even remdesiv
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by hadlock 6y ago
I always wondered why my friend's dad's computer had a TURBO button on it, thanks!
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by hadlock 6y ago
In America, car dealerships typically sit on 5-20 acre lots, carry an inventory of tens, if not over a thousand cars, in some of the largest dealerships. In many suburban markets "car dealership" is synonymous with "new car s
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by hadlock 6y ago
I learned something today, and ours is about to turn 4 months. None of this was communicated to us, probably because it's expected that you pick up most of this tribal knowledge via, pre-covid, other parents in your socio-age group. We
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by hadlock 6y ago
A tomahawk cruise missile isn't too far off from a one-shot fighter jet when it comes to attacking fixed, or very slow-moving targets. They also don't need a human pilot, which cost an extraordinary amount of money to train, way m
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by hadlock 6y ago
Buying weapons from your global security partners is part of a larger geopolitical picture/strategy. The cost is almost secondary. Look at who the US sells weapons to, what countries are banned by us weapons export ban laws. Look at wh
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by hadlock 6y ago
Do you have a link, or some sort of corroborating evidence to support this statement
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by hadlock 6y ago
Or confused with merely Lua Lang http://www.lua.org/
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by hadlock 6y ago
You should watch the movie Brazil, if you haven't. All the computers have tiny 2" displays, with a Fresnel lens attached in front of it
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by hadlock 6y ago
It's interesting that he calls out Fuji explicitly not allowing webcams, as Fuji did add webcam features for both their X-T3 and X-T4 models for both windows and mac back in September of 2020: https://fujifilm-x.com/en-
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by hadlock 6y ago
With mirrorless, you can put the back of the lens closer to the sensor (don't need to flip a mirror out of the way at high speed) which reduces the glass needed for the same effective focal length. Less length = less glass. Less glass
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by hadlock 6y ago
I think of Reddit as a 21st century forum, whereas Facebook is a true 'Social Media' website. Forums have different usage patterns and allegiances compared to social media websites. They can be roughly compared, but it's a po
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by hadlock 6y ago
My issue is that I found out the special incantations two years ago, and then they changed (I presume) something about the core language processing logic, and now none of that works. For example I have Philips Hue lights behind the TV/
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by hadlock 6y ago
$100/hour is for engine time, to which you can roughly estimate maintenance for other parts of the device. You can expect to get 10,000 hours on a diesel engine before it needs at least a partial rebuild. The article talks about gettin
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by hadlock 6y ago
Can the mezzanine be used to divert foot traffic during multi-day repairs
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by hadlock 6y ago
Have you used TTS in VR yet? I wonder if that alleviates some of your concerns.

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