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by housemusicfan 3y ago
I assume the temptation to use the electric tea kettle whilst having a bath is too great...
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> The standard US plug is _begging_ for people to stuff things in it like say, knives, rarely if ever has an earth pin, has no shutters, is massively unsafe, the cable gauge is laughable, GFCI outlets are a miracle to find, and the buil
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Thinking that having dedicated independent circuits is madness sounds like Stockholm syndrome. The point being a single faulty appliance won't knock out the lights and sockets to half the house simultaneously (a common occurrence durin
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Anker/Eufy 11S is a fully-offline robovac. Internet-connected vacuums could represent peak Silicon Valley extravagance. There is no shortage of new dumb ideas every day but they don't get anywhere close to this. Get your cloud-pow
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
UK electrics are mad - with the ring main and what not requiring fuses in the enormous plugs. All vestiges of post-WWII design. By code a modern American kitchen must have: - dedicated 50A 240V for an electric stove or oven (unless gas ser
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Yes. Some cars (notably Hondas) do not let you self-program keys; rather it must be done with a scan tool. The era of push-button start has ushered in crazy-expensive key fobs. As the other poster pointed out, vehicles that do allow self-pr
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Toyota sounds like the kind of place that still runs Solaris on SPARC and has no immediate plans to change.
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Cruise testing self-driving cars in Seattle to learn from hilly, wet environment(geekwire.com)
2 points by housemusicfan 3y ago|0 comments
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Is this what major news wires have devolved into? Copy/pasting a few blurbs from DownDetector? "Thousands of users" on a system of hundreds of millions of users....AWS would still be reporting all systems green in such an out
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> Kia and Hyundai are not doing their due diligence and being both incredibly lazy and incredibly cheap here And if they had, people would be on here complaining about evil corporate greed because it costs $300 to duplicate and program a
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Don’t believe the hype, AGPL open source licensing is toxic and unpopular(techrepublic.com)
4 points by housemusicfan 3y ago|1 comments
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Sometimes people color outside the lines. Though I'm certain the hall monitors of HN have already reported this egregious violation, demanding swift action on a Sunday morning. The rest of us just keep reading. Live and let live.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Are we supposed to be upset by this? That we're all slaves to Big Font? It happens that many of the free fonts are crap, and part of the reason Linux on the desktop never took hold was lack of good bundled fonts. As it turns out, good
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> Second, I don’t think it’s related to the carrier or cellular provider Well you thought wrong. iPhone is very much a closed system with a lot of back end secret sauce to make the whole experience "just work". Carriers that of
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> I just don’t think the UX is good enough for their standards. MacOS is poorly suited for touch interactions, and iPadOS is poorly suited for mouse cursor oriented interactions. "They've developed utter shite over two decades
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
That's literally two omelettes destroyed.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
People on this website struggle with having mature discussions about difficult or controversial topics. Insisting no one engage is frankly bizarre. It's like hiding under the bed during a thunderstorm, which is something dogs do becaus
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
In the early part of the last century, people said Tesla was a charlatan, an insane madman whose claims weren't viable at all.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
No one said they eradicated every crab on planet Earth. They lost a few crabs. There's plenty more of them. And there are many restaurants in SF that serve them up every which way. Is it an environmental disaster every time you step on
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Sad to see a once great company fail. BlackBerry in 2003 still did email better than iPhone in 2023; that is a fact. The fictionalized movie[1] was entertaining. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21867434/
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Losing a few crabs is part of the opportunity cost for space exploration. Do you not eat seafood? Crab legs are delicious! I'm surprised they didn't count the number of anthills that were knocked over during the launch and include
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
I once had a single drop of water, condensation on the outside of a glass - think the drop of sweat scene in Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise, fall into the gap between the trackpad and the palm rest on a MacBook Pro. Instantly fried the
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Can someone well-versed in UK politics discern if this is FUD or not?
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Can you point me to Apple's business or rugged laptop line?
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
This sounds like a terrible idea, along the lines of "How to perform your own knee surgery"
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Here's some terrible, unholy advice along the lines of violating "don't cross the streams": Setup a WINS server. WINS, ancient and depreciated, and "they" say it should never be needed anymore, will act as a &q
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Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do(nbcnews.com)
128 points by housemusicfan 3y ago|92 comments
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> Finally, the built-in integrity hashing that 7-zip adds to the right-click context menu in Windows is crazy useful. Ironic, isn't 7-Zip the program where the developer has famously refused to provide download hashes or digital sig
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Tell HN: The lock icon is back in Google Chrome
11 points by housemusicfan 3y ago|1 comments
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> The blue check-mark saga - destroying a lot of it's hard-earned value Hard-earned value? Please tell us this is satire. Are you referring to the creation of the segregated online society of haves and have-nots? Where many of the c

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