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by nabilhat 5y ago
Either way they're doors. I'm guessing that increasing the frequency of door openings is an intended outcome of whatever they were thinking. A vending machine could be more energy efficient while providing exactly the same old con
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by nabilhat 5y ago
Absolutely, Jan isn't the only one running some numbers, nor the most objective / consistent. Here are two sets of better measurements on a range of sizes of a single tire model, on the same wheel, over a range of pressures, wit
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by nabilhat 5y ago
EOL for Windows 7 meant end of support. It's not like they could force your OS to update whether you liked it or not, and Microsoft was charging money for the update as well. The importance of license revenue has changed; Windows 10 wa
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by nabilhat 5y ago
It's been a long time since the big news about psychological experiments performed on users without their consent [0]. However, intentional emotional manipulation unquestionably remains a core goal for the mainstays of Facebook - marke
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Hackers stole $650k and got away, showing limits to law enforcement’s reach(wsj.com)
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How Neil Gaiman kept control of the Sandman characters(davidallengreen.com)
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by nabilhat 5y ago
The photos in the article are irrelevant to both subject of the title - city streets, and turning left away from controlled intersections: The intersections are large, arterial-scale, rather than typical surface streets in a city. Both have
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by nabilhat 5y ago
Eagle populations have recovered enough to become a problem for colony-nesting species. Murres on the North American west coast are one example [0]. Walking, dog, and bicycle restrictions are normal in wildlife refuges that prioritize being
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Kinesis “Advantage 360” split keyboard(twitter.com)
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by nabilhat 5y ago
> At that point you're basically expelling the student. Worse than expelled. An expelled student can pick back up at another school far more easily than a student who remains enrolled, who would now have to waste time stepping thr
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by nabilhat 5y ago
That depends a lot on your availability to participate in preparation. Other commenters have mentioned yaupon. I'd bet you have camellias growing locally as well. Commercial tea comes from camellia sinensis, but can also be made from o
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by nabilhat 5y ago
It's changed, and recently. In the last 10-20 years the utility of pickups has changed substantially, as well as the fortunes of the people who used them in their jobs. Construction, lumber, and similar are familiar as part of the mark
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by nabilhat 5y ago
We already know that missing or incompetently configured encryption exists, we see IoT stories about this all the time, and we already see news stories when the occasional internet creep gets caught peering into the encryption-unencumbered
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by nabilhat 5y ago
The WaPo article itself is much more detailed. The bits about the age and fragility of Colonial's pipelines are far more significant than ransomware. Colonial's continued neglect is more disruptive than any single attack on the pi
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by nabilhat 5y ago
Indeed, and the one change to keyboard design that would provide substantial ergonomic opportunities hasn't been seriously approached. The key switches are too large to provide layouts that fit hands that are narrower or shorter than s
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by nabilhat 5y ago
It's painfully gimmicky if it's just a product ad. Potentially very interesting as a way to find out how many IoT cameras in an entire region automatically and insecurely decode qr codes and have line of sight in a specific direct
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by nabilhat 6y ago
> the plan is to run an experiment (including defaulting Compact mode) and see which combinations are actually retained by users Moving the compact mode setting into the same space as the telemetry switches not included in about:prefer
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by nabilhat 6y ago
It's still too early for the general public to draw conclusions from the data provided. Derek Lowe had some early observations on these numbers and their significance in regards to the critical missing data needed to make decisions: h
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by nabilhat 6y ago
North of about 45 degrees latitude, the winter time change centers daylight perfectly so that for part of the year students leave home in the dark, go home in the dark, and sit in class through all of the daylight. When the days finally sta
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by nabilhat 6y ago
I recently read and can recommend Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years as a deep perspective on the practices and participants in the making of textiles, and their societal and practical reasons. It's fascinating that historical
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by nabilhat 6y ago
I confess I'm more excited for the hobby market getting access to hobbyist-friendlier secondhand batteries with tons of life left. Handling the electricity's just as risky as any other high capacity pack (electrocution and dropped
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by nabilhat 6y ago
That's great news! Lithium iron is a much safer chemistry, can handle high discharge rates very well, and has a much greater cycle life. Hopefully, the higher demand will bring the same benefits as with lithium cobalt batteries, improv
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by nabilhat 6y ago
All employers are making their case at all times, throughout hiring, with pay rate consistency or discrepancy, communication, management, and culture. Union votes are an outcome of the case an employer has already made for themselves. Once
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by nabilhat 6y ago
Bitwarden is more reliable at importing data exported from Lastpass than Lastpass is at exporting your data. Export bugs happen, but their forum and /r/lastpass are always quick to come up with workarounds for Lastpass bugs. Share
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by nabilhat 6y ago
I do a lot of manufacturing adjacent and overlapping work. The primary justification for cans (by a long shot) is going to be process steps and cycle time. Very roughly counting manufacturing operations, while surely overlooking tons of oth
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by nabilhat 6y ago
One factor missed in other answers, mentioned in the letter, is that the ends are made from thicker stock than the cylinder, and increase in thickness as diameter increases. The scrap ratio of the ends doesn't change in area, but the v
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by nabilhat 6y ago
It's terrifying. From your comment I was thinking negative stagger like has been done for a few designs in the past, not a lower wing that sweeps the entire length of the aircraft, with the upper wing at the tail . The angle where the
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by nabilhat 6y ago
It's only www.reddit - change the 'www' to 'old' in the url: https://old.reddit.com
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by nabilhat 6y ago
I agree that going cold turkey on every trace of these orgs would be unrealistic. There's a lot to be said for locking down phones and shopping locally, but taking control of the assets those orgs hold is where it really pays off no ma
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by nabilhat 6y ago
The $30k price is interesting, given that it's multiples of what established manufacturers are charging for electric dirtbikes with multiples of power, kWh, performance, and design maturity. The time in the electric motorcycle market w

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