maples37

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by maples37 2y ago
> Your car will come to a stop on it's own when there's no electrical power left. Newton's laws would disagree. "An object in motions stays in motion..." GP is asking "what happens if the alternator dies, a
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by maples37 2y ago
One consideration for aviation is that they have inspections, replacements, repairs, etc regulated like crazy. And I suspect it's regulated so tightly because it would be skipped otherwise, because that does NOT sound cheap. Then comp
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by maples37 2y ago
I remember reading one of the earlier Asahi Linux blog posts on HN a while ago: https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/ Mind you, I'm a PHP developer by day, so this Rust-vs-C debate and memo
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by maples37 2y ago
I'd agree, at least partially in my case: Container Tabs is a killer feature for me with Firefox. Especially compared with the Temporary Containers extension on automatic mode, basically each new tab is like a fresh browser profile wi
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by maples37 2y ago
I think you mean "ambient mode". Theater mode is like the halfway point between normal-size an fullscreen-size. As an aside, does anyone know of any good YouTube settings extensions? I usually open YouTube in incognito tabs to a
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by maples37 2y ago
Since fiber is non-conductive, I've heard that it's code-compliant to run optical fiber in the same conduit as your power lines. (Normally, high-voltage and low-voltage conductors are required to be in separate conduits even if g
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by maples37 2y ago
That's the key, though. The owner is not the one paying the bill most of the time, it's the tenant. If the windows leak heat like a sieve, a cheap landlord won't care, because they have no incentive to lower energy costs.
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by maples37 2y ago
For tests, when in doubt, I don't touch the original tests and just add my own separately. That way I know that the old tests still validate the originally-intended behavior, and my new tests validate what I expect them to do. If the
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by maples37 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965714 will work if you're just bookmarking for the future
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by maples37 2y ago
For what it's worth, this has been my experience as well. I've seen maybe a handful of full-page Cloudflare walls over the past year, and none have gotten me stuck in any kind of loop
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by maples37 2y ago
From my experience, if you tick off the wrong person, the threshold for them starting a DDoS is surprisingly low. A while ago, my company was hiring and conducting interviews, and after one candidate was rejected, one of our sites got hit b
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by maples37 2y ago
Let me introduce you to https://frame.work/
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by maples37 2y ago
Fellow user of a physical Garmin car navigation GPS. The one I use is my dad's old Nuvi from about 2015. In addition to several of the pros you listed, I'd add a few more: - Stupid-simple interface. I was a Google Maps user for
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by maples37 2y ago
Echoing a comment I left in a different thread: from my perspective as a Garmin watch owner, I can't find any reason why I'd want to switch to an Apple watch. (Admittedly my phone is an Android, so there's some inherent bias
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by maples37 2y ago
I'm pretty happy with the level of "smart" integration on my Garmin watch. For me, that's "shows me a preview of incoming SMS and Telegram messages" and the contact name when I receive a phone call. Plus the
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by maples37 2y ago
I recently came across a service that does this tracking and will automatically make the same trades for you. I'd be curious to see how well something like that would do in the long term. https://www.joinautopilot.com (No
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by maples37 2y ago
Even the connector (host-side) is a world of confusion. Take a random port on a random laptop, of any vintage you choose. Pretty much every port you can name is easily identifiable and you can tell what it's capable. HDMI, VGA, USB-A
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by maples37 2y ago
Does anyone even use OpenOffice anymore? Several years ago I was looking into "OpenOffice vs LibreOffice" and reached the conclusion that OpenOffice was dead/dying, and that pretty much all new features, bugfixes, etc were ha
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by maples37 2y ago
I'm curious to hear why you don't like strong types, because I can't imagine not using types. My day job involves working on a PHP app that's been around since the 5.x days. So it's a mixture of "new code&qu
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by maples37 2y ago
Fun fact: the floating tip on a measuring tape is loose by design. It's to account for the width of the tip itself when you're measuring by pushing the tip into a corner, versus measuring by hooking the tip around the edge of you
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by maples37 2y ago
What if the new rule required a company to link to their last "who's hiring" posting if it was within, say, the last 3 months? That makes it easy, within HN, to see if a company is just doing copy/paste spam, or if they&
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by maples37 2y ago
I think it depends. As an analogy, when you're having an in-person conversation, how often do you pause and think before responding, versus forming your thought and speaking it in real-time? There's definitely times to stop and th
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by maples37 2y ago
That's the problem, they won't have enough energy to transmit anymore. The Voyager probes are powered entirely from their RTGs, they have no solar panels nor batteries[1]. So if the power output from the RTGs drops below the leve
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by maples37 2y ago
I do. Like many others, it's primarily so that I don't have to bring my phone into my room. I spend way too much time on my glowing pocket rectangle as it is. It's some Sony radio clock, given to me by a relative 8-10 years a
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by maples37 2y ago
https://archive.is/0fjW1
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by maples37 2y ago
https://archive.is/TOJks
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by maples37 2y ago
I'm not too surprised. I hope they stay privately owned! It's a lot easier to focus on "make good product" when you don't have investors/accountants/management/etc badgering you about "stock pr
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by maples37 2y ago
The existing Container Tabs extension gets you most of the way there. There's a little button (near the address bar? not at my desk so I can't check) to "always open this site in this container". I just use the default c
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by maples37 2y ago
Ironic that this site, attempting to raise awareness about online privacy issues, has a cookie banner...
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by maples37 2y ago
What did you end up replacing it with? I've done no research, but I wonder what the risk tradeoff is between a tiny amount of lead in contact with my drinking water (assuming copper pipes joined together with lead-based solder, not lea

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