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nikau
3y ago
Replace 10 with the highest floor your muscles can go to before they are exhausted
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Seems this is very cultural, eg in Japan there is an expectation that you must always work back late, so people don't give 100% for 8 hrs as they know regardless of performance they will need to put in more hours of overtime.
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3y ago
Most phones charge higher than 5 volts these days
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3y ago
Yes it's nice to see bucking of the boring trend for efficiency and pedestrian safety
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3y ago
Concorde was very cramped, a longer flight in a first class suite with bed is more appealing, more so now in flight WiFi is a thing so you can work if needed.
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3y ago
"kubernetes"
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3y ago
That's apples playbook even today, they don't invent new technology, rather time it perfectly to start using it.
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3y ago
This is brushing over the layered lookback filesystem mount overhead
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3y ago
At least 1/2 hour of teams call
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3y ago
I cant wait for the new range of Aocia phones
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3y ago
>It's super easy to lock up a wheel with rim brakes. Yes, that's one of the benefits of disc brakes, the "better modulation" you hear about equates to finer control and not locking up the brakes.
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3y ago
> Disc brakes are high maintenance: oil (leaks and water content), pads, and springs. Wow your rim brakes don't use pads? I've found disc brakes to be so much less hassle than rim brakes - you just remove the retaining pin, spr
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3y ago
> once you get used to servicing hydraulic In my experience with over 40,000km on Shimano hydraulics, the only servicing is swapping pads when the pad wear spring starts screeching against the rotor. My early 2000 era Magura hyrdros were
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How did race cars stop before disc brakes were available? A better thought is: since disc brakes were made legal 5 years ago, how many teams remained on rim brakes? the answer is almost none. And this doesn't get into things that matte
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The samsung s8 was the best compromise for this - it didn't have a physical home button, but had an area on screen where the home button would normally be that acted like the home button with a firm press of the finger. Not sure if it
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> I'd want to remind you that there are countless complex OSS projects that are pushed ahead by remote teams. ... remote teams comprised of top 1% talent because they love their job so much they do it for free in their spare time. I
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3y ago
or they are monitoring for the name of the city where they live
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3y ago
yeah the stupid "crackle pop" tunes are just deliberately running rich. There's also "DSG farts" which actually have a performance benefit, but sound truly awful with aftermarket exhaust systems.
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3y ago
injector antilag systems were around in the 80s, they are very hard on the turbos and manifolds however.
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3y ago
Man I wish they would do that here for all the "offroad use only" aftermarket LED bulbs that idiots stuff into non projector lenses.
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3y ago
Wasn't fukushima down to this exact scenario, backup generators were unavailable to keep coolant pumping?
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3y ago
... now
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3y ago
> We're not able to run any piece of gear without the occasional failure Seems like they could easily pressurize the pipes when idle to detect leaks
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3y ago
I think it's to distract you from the vapid stupidity of the article
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3y ago
In that case the secret is blown so you rotate it and leaving in the repo isn't an issue.
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3y ago
With cloud you can have less staff, but you need to pay more per headcount as they need to know how to manage tens if not hundreds of different services. Traditional on-prem has silos where the DBA just knows databases and their salary is c
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3y ago
> Sometimes you need uninterrupted time for deep thinking, but that's in my experience a smaller part of the work. In such cases I either go to meeting rooms or home. That's great until you are forced to come in on "anchor
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> Why not put weight on Well they are drinking diet soda...
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As cool as this is, I cant see it being the same experience as using a real Royal McBee jukebox style console with built in oscilloscope https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/LGP-30_G...
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3y ago
Answer is "it depends". USB-C always has a usb2 channel available, then 4 lanes that can be display port or thunderbolt or usb2/3 or whatever else. This is why most android phones have options for USB including "charge o
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