manicpolymath

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by manicpolymath 4y ago
If the market weren’t in decline, maybe. But to pipedream a little: A standardized control board (imagine if it were something like an RPi), with modular carriage (available in several sizes, including capable of 11x17” or A3), with changea
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by manicpolymath 4y ago
Funny you use the word “shortsighted” - for screen readers to work right your web page had better be a bunch of text.
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by manicpolymath 4y ago
I detect a pun. _trombine_ is, according to Wiktionary anyway, a colloquial French word for _face_.
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by manicpolymath 4y ago
I think the bigger problem isn’t so much the traffic type as it is traffic destination. As long as there are only a few hosts or domains providing speed test services (and there always will be: upload speeds are expensive) ISPs will be able
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by manicpolymath 5y ago
Just needs a bit of creativity. There are plenty of “bedpost caps” and “espresso tampers”.
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by manicpolymath 5y ago
This might be slow, but what about using the lift gas in a fuel cell with atmospheric O2 for extra efficiency? You reduce the lift gas in the bags, and if you store the water aboard then you get extra ballast. You could even “unload” the ex
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by manicpolymath 5y ago
Let’s start with 3 and start suing stoplight manufacturers.
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by manicpolymath 5y ago
Oh it does come from the network region/cells. In fact in the old days when the phones were the size of an actual brick they were probably powered by a proper multi-cell battery. (Did I miss a joke?)
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by manicpolymath 6y ago
The Optimus Maximus keyboard showed why OLED was a bad choice for the keyboard. Chyrosran22 did a review of a used one that had severe burn in on all the keys. It would be interesting if someone could make a screen key cap that was compatib
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by manicpolymath 6y ago
I’m curious what the new name will be. I want it to be International Cloud Business Machines (ICBM).
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by manicpolymath 6y ago
AIUI a single tunnel doesn’t scale, sure, but part of the Boring Company’s mission is to make the tunnels super cheap, so scaling up the system consists of adding additional parallel tunnels. I guess it’s like adding lanes to a highway, but
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by manicpolymath 6y ago
April 10, 2025 is when the penny should cease, so we can commemorate it on nickel/dime/quarter day 05/10/25. And yes, it should be April 10 and not October 05 because this will be an American holiday dang it.
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by manicpolymath 6y ago
I haven’t looked much at Gemini, but what if Markdown was the format? The raw text is decent and renders to PDF/HTML nicely. More importantly, it’s a well-established format with plenty of libraries available.
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by manicpolymath 6y ago
Given the levels of hubbub I’m seeing about Unilever getting off Facebook/Twitter for the year, this is striking me as an absolutely brilliant PR and marketing coup. Before today I didn’t know they were even a thing. Now I do. This is
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by manicpolymath 7y ago
Wasn’t the phone charger convergence driven by an EU mandate though?
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by manicpolymath 7y ago
> I remember using some car’s built-in GPS once and it wanted me to take every freeway exit and get right back on after. Because it decided that saves time/distance. It feels like cheating to the other drivers who didn’t take the “s
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by manicpolymath 7y ago
Here’s the link in the linked tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21803859
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by manicpolymath 7y ago
Sure, but if starting with DC you can pulse on the order of hundreds if not thousands of Hz instead of 50/60Hz, which shouldn’t be noticeable.