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by jerlam 3mo ago
People who are happy with their keyboard over a long period of time don't bother to test their WPM and tell other people on the internet about it. Nor do they regularly buy new keyboards and screw up their muscle memory. I've been
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by jerlam 3mo ago
I was hoping for this to happen with Framework. Alas, it did not.
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by jerlam 3mo ago
My Kinesis Advantage is only a little bit younger at 32 years old.
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by jerlam 3mo ago
BMW doesn't seem to use that specific X anywhere else for any of their EV lineup. Even the back of the car uses a normal "X" character. I think it's some mandate to give their car models some kind of "signature&quot
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by jerlam 3mo ago
It's still lighter than the average American BMI, which is around 29. On average, Americans are classified as overweight.
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by jerlam 3mo ago
100 years ago, we built apartment heaters so strong that they worked with the windows open, because we believed that fresh air would fight against the flu: How Spanish Flu Pandemic Changed Home Heat Radiators: https://www.npr.org
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by jerlam 4mo ago
> the area becomes an enclave for the wealthy with a high unhoused population, where most youth have to move away. Yeah, that's already happened. SF is the US city with the least amount of children, where schools have to close due t
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by jerlam 4mo ago
Answering texts seems to be the only specific function that I must do with my phone and no other device. Otherwise, practically every other device is better to use than a phone. And if you put those time-wasting apps on a tablet that stays
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by jerlam 4mo ago
Interesting, reminds me of Really Bad Chess where the pieces change whether you win or lose. If you're really bad the game might give you all queens or rooks.
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by jerlam 4mo ago
We need these foreign companies here so that we can learn from them to modernize our manufacturing. Not just cars either. That's how China got started - foreign companies were allowed to partner with and invest in domestic companies. O
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by jerlam 4mo ago
Also, Apple probably wants the increases to happen while Cook is still CEO, rather than having new CEO Ternus announce the bad news.
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by jerlam 4mo ago
Except that people do "think of the children" when buying larger vehicles, since they believe children should be in the big safe vehicles and never outside as a pedestrian.
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by jerlam 4mo ago
I think as late as last year, AT&T Prepaid was still using the "paygoonline.com" domain which was an acquisition in 1995.
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by jerlam 4mo ago
California (and many other states) also charges you an additional annual EV registration fee of $121 in lieu of gas taxes. There was some noise earlier this year about a federal EV tax too.
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by jerlam 4mo ago
I believe the smaller wheels accelerate better because they are lighter, but corner worse. The smaller wheels also get better efficiency.
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by jerlam 4mo ago
You're describing a siesta, which is from Southern Europe (among other places).
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by jerlam 4mo ago
The US is generally much closer to the equator and warmer than Europe, hence air conditioning has been a requirement for much longer. https://vividmaps.com/comparing-latitude-of-europe-and-ameri... US states like Texas and
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by jerlam 4mo ago
There are many nuances and people seem bad at understanding those. Too many are getting their information from "health influencers" and 30 second videos, which is why we seem to bounce between the two extremes of "everyone sh
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by jerlam 4mo ago
Although confusingly, the battery/motor on a Hyundai EV is covered under a different 10-year/100K warranty which does transfer to used car buyers. Important because of their unfixed ICCU problems.
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by jerlam 4mo ago
Pretty much any app that's been around a while will have all kinds of advanced features that the average user will never use, and eventually becomes detrimental. Hence there's always a group of users and product managers asking to
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by jerlam 4mo ago
I think Waymo was approved to operate in Walnut Creek and a lot of northern California in November 2025, but hasn't really expanded outside the peninsula. Since then, Waymo has actually regressed and stopped driving on freeways, which
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by jerlam 4mo ago
Yeah, probably could have phrased that better. They are using completely different approaches. Apple seems to be mostly using the accelerometer, to draw dots and visualize inertia. The Android apps are using the gyroscope, to draw a horizon
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by jerlam 4mo ago
It's been rumored that Google would build it into Android for years: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-motion-cues-pixels-n... I've tried some of those Android equivalents and they seemed to work on any moti
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by jerlam 4mo ago
One of the draws of mechanical watches compared to digital is that they, in theory, can always be repaired and will last a lifetime. In reality, not so much since the cost to do maintenance or repair is astronomical compared to buying a new
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by jerlam 4mo ago
The governments of Germany and Japan were completely destroyed, their nations were then occupied and then rebuilt to be friendly to the US and other Western nations to fight against communism. But here, Iran's government has not been o
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by jerlam 4mo ago
Often the titles/headlines are not written by the article author. The disconnects between them seem to be getting worse.
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by jerlam 4mo ago
Gas prices nationwide have been dropping for a month, despite no peace treaty being signed. I don't understand it.
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by jerlam 4mo ago
This was reported in 2024: https://apnews.com/article/gabbard-trump-putin-intelligence-...
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by jerlam 4mo ago
Autosteer is disabled on all new vehicles too, part of forcing people to buy FSD.
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by jerlam 4mo ago
Sunscreens that use zinc/titanium dioxide as active ingredients are often so unpleasant to use that people don't apply enough of them or refuse to use them. The "nicer" sunscreens that use these ingredients often sneak i

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