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by jws 5y ago
I’ve moved mine off to Gandi.net where I had the domains. It is either included for free with your domain, or something like 1.5 EU/mo if you store a lot of email. Easy on the Gandi.net side and on Macs. A complete pain on the iOS side
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by jws 5y ago
Honestly I’ve been interrupted by relentless pleas so many times for YouTube premium that I just don’t consider it a “positive” thing. I could cancel my Patreon payments to the content creators and redirect that money to Google, who would
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by jws 5y ago
…a limit to how user-hostile a tech giant can be before it really starts to hurt their bottom line… Reading that line I just realized that google lost me as a YouTube viewer in the past two weeks. I used to follow a bunch of ~100k subscri
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by jws 5y ago
Voice from experience: See the model you are looking at will beep annoyingly every time you pick up a pan to flip something. My mid range portable and expensive built in both do this. I get they want to let you know you've nudge a pan
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by jws 5y ago
I agree with a lot of this, but some of the boogey men in the these arguments when stated simply over inflate themselves. …They take 30% (wtf!)… On 93% of the applications, Apple takes 0%. They vet your app for the users and handle distri
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by jws 5y ago
ATT's product along this line was a complete failure for me. I didn't have a street address at the fixed (albeit remote) location, and there were no street addresses I could pretend to have within its tolerable radius. They had no
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by jws 5y ago
If you write your operating system to use the paravirtual devices and run inside a hypervisor then you don’t need to worry about drivers for all the physical devices you might find. By the time you have attracted enough users that those few
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by jws 5y ago
I wrote an OS that used TAI as it’s time. All in all I was pleased with the outcome. UTC conversion happened at parsing and formatting, but those are relatively uncommon compared to comparison and interval addition so it works well performa
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by jws 5y ago
Nit, but 550km up. You can visualize the Earth as a basketball with the Starlink satellites crawling around an inch above the surface. (Now, with my local folk out of the way, the rest of you can visualize a football with the satellites 2cm
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by jws 5y ago
My copper sulfate crystal, about the size of a half a banana and grown from information on the article’s site, is doing well submerged in mineral oil in a sealed glass jar. If you do this, get it fairly dry first because surface moisture wi
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by jws 5y ago
Without having read the data sheet… It is probably to keep the devices synchronized. Reading data from an unsynchronized input takes, um, waving hands here, 2 to 10 times the effort and resources. If you are old enough to remember serial po
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by jws 5y ago
I find it interesting that QOI avoids any kind of Huffman style coding. Huffman encoding lets you store frequently used values in fewer bits than rarely occurring values, but the cost of a naïve implementation is a branch on every encoded b
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by jws 5y ago
MRI is much lower resolution than X-ray. Dental researchers are speculating about using MRI for some uses, like implant planning, but the laws of physics are not in favor of reducing the voxel size to match the small features identified wit
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by jws 5y ago
I have a huge Osage orange tree. Generally nothing eats them, but when the snow stays on the ground for weeks, and forms a crust of ice… eventually the squirrels will tear apart the fruit and eat a few of the hundreds of oranges. It might b
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by jws 5y ago
”It was a real pain getting the cable to push through [the conduit], so I used whatever lube I had on hand.” FWIW, pulling can be easier. Put a cotton ball on the end of a light string and grab a vacuum cleaner onto the other end of the c
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by jws 5y ago
Just a note about rule #5… in an effort to not use an offensive term for asian immigrants the author has possibly inverted the meaning of the rule: 5. No racial stereotypes. – to a 21st century reader implies that an author will not use r
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by jws 5y ago
I wonder why they want the capital? They are wholly owned by the charity, so it’s not like they are enriching early stakeholders. I’ll hope it’s so they can drive a more open SoC and peripherals. I suppose it’s also possible the charity see
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by jws 5y ago
But maybe redesign it so the coils can’t be live even when it is off. Because you can’t stop humans from using forks. I grew up with one of these and was going to get an old one and refurbish it, but I live with too many hairless apes that
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by jws 5y ago
Back when Amazon sold West Systems powdered aluminum (for making epoxy wear resistant) the “bought with” was always powdered iron oxide. I wonder if that’s why they don’t carry it any more?
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by jws 5y ago
My office is adjacent to a fire station. The policy has changed over the years. They used to use the sirens all the time. Now they almost never use the sirens when they leave. In a way that makes it more disturbing when they do, you know th
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by jws 5y ago
When added, fluoride is generally adjusted to 0.5-1.5ppm, a bit less than ocean water. Depending where you live, your water supply probably has plenty of fluoride. (Perhaps you can consider it "pre-medicated"). Natural water sourc
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by jws 5y ago
There are people with fear of unexpected strangers walking up behind them, frequently from PTSD. This can be crippling in outdoor walking situations. A bag/fanny-pack sized device which can tap the wearer to let them know it really is
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by jws 5y ago
Nitrile gloves have better puncture resistance and better tactile sensing than vinyl gloves. This makes them preferred for patient interaction. I suppose new vinyl is better than covertly recycled, contaminated, and leaking nitrile though.
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by jws 5y ago
In the US avgas (which has similar lead content to pre-phaseout automotive gasoline) is 0.14% of gasoline usage and declining at about 5%/year. Fuel supplied lead is a 99.86% solved problem which is solving itself. Congress has been fu
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by jws 5y ago
It might be reasonable to say the state stimulus money must be used to import nurses, but using the federal stimulus money to raid nurses from the other states seems morally dubious.
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by jws 5y ago
They lose their ability to hold their "shape" and become less efficient. This is primarily a concern for people that want to go as fast as possible. I've been perfectly happy with sails after 20 years of light use. I mean, I
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by jws 5y ago
…cause a boat to tilt to the side… This is a net positive. The alternative is to roll back and forth with the waves. It’s much nicer with the sail up and ata bit of a heel. Also, just to throw this in, one of the world cruising sailing co
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by jws 5y ago
2kWHr/day is about 500 watts of solar panels (just for starlink, similar math for the rest of the stuff). So that's about $750 plus brackets, wires and stuff. You'll need a battery bank and you will trade off the size of the
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by jws 5y ago
Rent a gasoline powered demolition saw with a diamond blade for $55 at Home Depot. Solve problem. Explain later.
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by jws 5y ago
The revolutionary aspect of the M1 is that the processor for a computer is once again under control of the computer designers. For thirty years it has been outsourced as a commodity and been optimized for the interests of the CPU producers.

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