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by jws 10y ago
there is a public outcry if a notebook runs only the latest version of Windows The is no public outcry for the Acer Cloudbook I bought which tolerates Linux about as well as these new MacBooks.† Acer provides no drivers or other help. I d
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…or there was a pent up demand, or there are different sorts of professionals with different needs.
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Reasons for SSL: • Security • The server you speak with requires SSL Reasons for no general purpose OS: • Limited power (battery, solar) • Extreme cost pressures (linux needs about $5 of hardware) • Security (smaller code to audit) • Extrem
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The law just needs to apply in a large enough region. Here in the US we got high efficiency switching wall warts instead of the slightly cheaper ones that idled away $4/yr because the EU demanded them, so manufacturers had to upgrade.
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Are we pretending that Apple doesn't sell USB-C to Lightning cables? For a special bonus you no longer have to carry two AC adapters, your USB-C to Lightning cable goes into the same AC adapter as your laptop if you wish.
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A physical power switch would take more volume in the computer than the camera itself and would have a failure rate at least an order of magnitude higher than the camera. Things which people physically operate need to be physically more rob
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by jws 10y ago
We will survive this. We survived having RJ45 jacks (which I just learned are not really RJ45 jacks, but 8P8C connectors) in walls. Is it a phone, a token ring, or an Ethernet? Cat 3, Cat 5, Cat 6? Did the installer unwrap the pairs too far
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by jws 10y ago
Bah, these entitled kids. I guess being old enough to remember keyboards before they had escape keys helps, but ␛ is just keyboard syntactic sugar for control left square bracket . Read your ASCII table! C-[ is even a quicker type avoidi
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Before you bury it, convert it to biochar. This keeps it from rotting into methane and escaping and improves the soil requiring less water and fertilizer to grow crops.
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Electric vehicles can be more expensive than comparable gas cars up front. The differences in monthly car payments is fixed and easy to understand. … For gas car buyers, fuel costs are familiar and expected. But how does electricity pricin
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This is not true. A pair of images recently made the rounds of the internet with that speculation, but that was not a traffic stop. Some models of police cars overheat if left running and parked on very hot days. The officers leave the cars
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Because of your eye's sensitivity to different frequencies, the "warmer" colors require more energy for the same effective lighting. Hence, highway departments choose the "daylight" option to save energy.
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A couple of years ago I shot footage of two UPS trucks exchange packages in my parking lot. They were tossing them out into a great heap on the ground, then going through them and tossing them back into the trucks. It was something like the
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Originally transcribed in 1960.
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The Photos upgrade for "moments" is quite nice, assuming you use Photos to store your photos. The storage upgrade where they can remove forgotten debris files and then migrate your unused files to the cloud is great for most peopl
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In the English language, a "pilot" has meant "one who steers a ship" for almost 500 years. In 1848 it got used for balloonists, in 1907 it got used for airplane steering people.
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Really? The autopilot on my boat will attempt (badly) to go in a straight line, care nothing about speed, and will happily run me into buoys, boats, beaches, bridges, and boulders. If you are foolish enough to attempt to provide a route wit
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There is still Brother. They make nice, inexpensive black and white laser printers.
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Lighting to 3.5mm audio: $10 Lighting EarPods: $30 MagSafe to MagSafe2 Converter: $10 (for that new laptop) So yeah, an extra adapter is going to run the cost up about 1%.
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Large UDP datagrams are much more likely to be dropped than small ones. A short datagram will fit in a single IP packet. A maximally sized datagram may take about 40. If you have a 1% packet loss rate, then the short datagrams get lost 1% o
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by jws 10y ago
Great article, small technical issue: First, cut all the 0 AWG wire. Why 0 AWG? Because I had a 1500 watt inverter, which meant I could be pulling 150 amps (1500 watts output / 120 volts output × 12 volts input = 150 amps input). Tha
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I'd display the hour for three seconds then the minute for one.
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Total USDA agricultural subsidies amount to $0.10/capita/day. It adds up to a large number, but it doesn't move food from expensive to cheap.
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As we reduce our coal use, the United States has a lot of absolutely enormous strip mining equipment going surplus. An obsolete 1960's era shovel moves 80m^3 in a scoop and that scoop is WW-1 era bomb proof for all practical purposes,
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The article doesn't seem to touch on why Getty thinks they own the rights to the images. I'll toss out a few possibilities: • Getty buys images from many people. Perhaps an unscrupulous individual bundled up a bunch of images fr
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Boat hulls and decks have specific laws which make them patentable. In 1988 Florida tried to make a law protecting boat hull designs and was shot down by the US Supreme Court. Legislators got involved and so part of the 1998 Digital Millenn
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I was thinking of remote newscast, where you might need to fit your data reliably over a cellular link, but now that I think about it, I don't think NPR does much remote newscast.
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I'm fairly certain he is speaking of data compression in the article, rather than dynamic volume compression. The problem with sending compressed signals is that they will probably be recompressed before making it to someone's ear
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But where would the market go when carbon nanotubes and fibers move from exotic and expensive materials to "cheaper than aluminum". It could displace a lot of aluminum and steel.
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This is not a photoelectric plant. It is a sunlight concentrator to heat salt which stores energy which is eventually used to drive a steam turbine and turn a generator. All one thing. You could use molten salt to store electricity on its o

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