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by jerlam 6mo ago
I'm glad to see Jovovich identified from "Resident Evil" and not "The Fifth Element", as the latter came out almost 30 years ago.
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by jerlam 6mo ago
Probably meant the war between EVs and gasoline cars, not the one between all the brands in China.
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by jerlam 6mo ago
The data seems a bit odd for Lenovo. The study was based on only six Lenovo devices, while half the other companies had ten devices and the rest had either eight or nine. I can't even name ten distinct Apple laptops - Neo, Air, Pro? Le
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by jerlam 6mo ago
Millenials (and some Gen X) have the highest participation rate since 2001: > By contrast, participation among “prime-age” workers (25–54) has held relatively steady, averaging 83.6% since January 2024 and registering 83.8% in March 2026
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by jerlam 6mo ago
I've shifted in the opposite direction. It's hard to judge the quality or fit of items online, especially when major platforms have been easily gamed. "Anything goes" marketplaces shift the burden of choosing good produc
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by jerlam 6mo ago
This isn't limited to far-away places. There are plenty of influencers and social media shills that specifically parrot how bad cities are - to people who live in those cities. Hyper-local news outlets that no one outside of the city w
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by jerlam 6mo ago
The people these videos are targeting are not swayed by facts.
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by jerlam 6mo ago
House Flipper, in the same vein, is free on Steam right for the next half day: https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/ These are just clicker games without the manipulative timer. Progress ba
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by jerlam 6mo ago
Reminds me of Norway's Matpakke, the "Most boring lunch in the world": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlNmeVK_zLg
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by jerlam 6mo ago
Gift link: https://www.theverge.com/column/906391/apple-watch-optimizer...
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by jerlam 7mo ago
A majority of states already have an "EV" annual fee: https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/electric-vehicle-ev...
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by jerlam 7mo ago
That's sad, because one of Swappa's main selling points (and the reason they got popular) is that they started out as a marketplace for Android phones, and should specifically know about rooted / bootloader unlocked / et
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Samsung's new app claims to alleviate motion sickness using sound(theverge.com)
1 points by jerlam 7mo ago|1 comments
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by jerlam 7mo ago
Here's the discussion around the original research: A unique sound alleviates motion sickness https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740021 (95 comments)
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by jerlam 7mo ago
Retirees increasingly don't want to live in the empty desert. They want to live in the convenient and familiar places. Except that's where everyone else wants to live too, but since the retirees have the money, the existing land,
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by jerlam 7mo ago
You may have a sensor that estimates CO2 based on measured total volatile organic components. These are called eCO2 sensors, and were used instead of the gold standard NDIR sensors due to cost. There are better cheap sensors available now,
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by jerlam 7mo ago
I've got an Aranet4 and started tracking CO2 and submitting it to IndoorCO2Map (via https://whn.global/indoor-co2-map-co2-monitoring-and-data-co... ), but after a short period of time, there aren't really any surpr
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by jerlam 7mo ago
> Detects nearby microphones, logs them, and provides you with this data. How can it detect nearby microphones? Also, seems like your voice would easily project farther than 2 meters, the "protection zone" of this device. That&
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by jerlam 7mo ago
School-type long essays only seem to exist in academia. I took a "business communication" class in college and we didn't write essays. My life experience since then has supported the "no essays" conclusion. A long c
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by jerlam 7mo ago
That technology is way too new and unproven. I'm thinking more like a hole-punch front facing camera, or an "invisible dynamic island".
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by jerlam 7mo ago
I typed in my graphics card (1060) and it wasn't even in the list, so this tool actually proves that I need a GPU upgrade.
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by jerlam 7mo ago
It's not reliable if it's not grid tied. Your car might be fully charged. It also might not get any charge at all.
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by jerlam 7mo ago
A non-grid tied charger cannot be depended on. You might get 40km worth of charge. You might also get zero if it's cloudy or the sun is behind a building. You might say, oh this is fine, anything is better than nothing. But someone che
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by jerlam 7mo ago
People would be unhappy with a charger that only worked slowly and during the day, even if it was free.
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by jerlam 7mo ago
I don't think many people are spending $1k on an iPad Pro, the only iPad with OLED, to use as a picture frame.
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by jerlam 7mo ago
When has the US not been in a housing crisis? Might be 20 years now. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=h...
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by jerlam 7mo ago
"Things happen" is a interesting way to say "houses burn down and kill everyone inside". And I don't believe that electrical standards were developed with the idea that houses could both consume and generate electri
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by jerlam 7mo ago
There are free TVs now that are completely subsidized by ads: https://www.telly.com/ But don't think people who can afford the more expensive TV are also more tech-savvy. Some just want a nicer TV. Also, they are a muc
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by jerlam 7mo ago
Clay shooting is fun. What happens when all the clays are released at the same time, not one at a time as you shoot? And if you miss one, you die.
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Drone attack on parked U.S. Army BlackHawk in Iraq(twz.com)
65 points by jerlam 7mo ago|92 comments

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