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by plorg 5y ago
Brownouts is probably the most proximate concern - a sudden increase in demand will draw down the system frequency in the vicinity, and if there aren't generation units close enough or with enough dispatchable capacity there's a s
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by plorg 5y ago
I can't speak to the intentions of the person operating the jammer - if a person were using a jammer believing it to be prophylactic of the effects of radiation by 5G radios it may not be useful to ask what frequencies they were trying
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by plorg 5y ago
* Oil, at minimum, gets much more expensive, more quickly. * Renewable energy develops more quickly because see the first bullet point * Nuclear doesn't die
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by plorg 5y ago
I absolutely don't think it's a strawman. Nearly to a person, the people in my life who have not gotten vaccinated and have not yet gotten Covid-19, if asked, have been making this argument: it's not that bad, it's not w
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by plorg 5y ago
This is a familiar frustration. I've entered a number of recreational cycling events, and every time I do they'll give you another cheap drawstring bag, water bottle, and t-shirt that I will almost certainly never wear or use. I a
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by plorg 5y ago
If what we are talking about is energy use, then we are probably wasting our time talking about bags, because the goods the bags are carrying probably take an order of magnitude more energy to generate. Refuse and energy consumption are sep
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by plorg 5y ago
Perhaps if bags are made from new material, but it's not difficult to sew a bag out of old clothes, say, or other fabric that would otherwise end up in a landfill. In any case, the bag you already have is almost certainly better than a
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by plorg 5y ago
Put slightly differently, electric bikes (and scooters for that matter) make those transportation forms accessible to a much larger number of people.
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by plorg 5y ago
I read both Ellul and OP in engineering ethics class in my underground. But fair point, most of my colleagues were pretty disinterested in the material.
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by plorg 5y ago
I have a self-written set of userscripts that does this, as well as unsetting javascript link rewrites and including bitly link expansion and Amazon URL decluttering. I would love to be able to use it on Firefox for Android again, but I don
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by plorg 5y ago
Audible does not allow you to cancel through the app, and cancelling via the web takes you through two extra pages of customer retention, "Continue Cancelling", or similar. I haven't used the Scribd app, but cancelling the se
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by plorg 6y ago
I can't speak to undersea cables, but back-to-back AC/DC inter-connections certainly are used between grid sections, as they allow for easier control of both frequency and phase. One languishing project called Tres Amigas original
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by plorg 6y ago
There seems to be a bug where in Firefox for Android the page scrolls even when you're drawing in the canvas. This makes it annoying to try and draw relined figures, which often result in horizontal lines. I don't have that proble
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by plorg 6y ago
I keep a pretty tidy inbox by studiously unsubscribing from advertorial mail as soon as I receive it. I make no exceptions. Consequentially, it's fairly easy to notice when an unsubscribe action didn't work. I've noticed a fe
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by plorg 6y ago
I still received mail sent before I cancelled, I received a piece of mail acknowledging a cancellation and offering a new, discounted subscription. I believe I received at least one more piece of mail. To be clear, I do not think any of my
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by plorg 6y ago
I want them to stop sending me nuisance mail whether or not the contract is enforceable.
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by plorg 6y ago
In the car of Sirius it's pretty amazing the lengths they'll go. They send out a Customer Agreement with a welcome packet when they activate a trial subscription for a particular unit (usually when you buy a car, new or used, but
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by plorg 6y ago
Maybe it's because I'm cynical, but I assume that's how lots of American industry is run.
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by plorg 6y ago
Is it not obvious that "look for the helpers" is intended for those without power, with the implication that those who can should "be the helpers"? The value of Mr. Rogers was in both caring for others intentionally and
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by plorg 6y ago
From the article: "Most damningly, the cloud database included whole phone books from users. Whenever a person joins the Communities social network, the app asks if it can invite friends to join. If a user says yes, the app uploads the
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by plorg 6y ago
It appears that it's locked to the device you're using, so I would guess you're limited to "high quality". That's a real problem for, say, people taking photospheres, which generally clock in at around 40MP, an
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by plorg 6y ago
If you click through the blog post to the support page listing for Pixels they do suggest that Pixel 1s will continue to get unlimited uploads, and Pixel 3s will get them until the original expiration of Jan 31, 2022. The expiration for Pix
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by plorg 6y ago
It may just be cleaner to write it this way because the guarantee was different between generations, but the choice of "High quality" looks intentional. Pixel 1-3 (I don't remember 4, but definitely not 4a) were guaranteed un
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by plorg 6y ago
I'm not surprised that any of these fringe identities would be lucrative for a scam artist, but where is the line on identity if you can take it off and put on something else with such apartment ease? If nothing else I really feel for
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by plorg 6y ago
I think this story takes on a particular valence because it involves a libertarian-inflected business in supposedly left-leaning SV. Certainly most of the HN commentary has jumped to the assumption that this is the result of pushy SJWs etc.
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by plorg 6y ago
Black as adjective, sure. Black as a noun, I should think not.
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by plorg 6y ago
Certainly Epic is in a place that other Apple customers are not, in having the user base to profitably run a competing App Store. But I haven't heard any where that Epic wants an exception and fuck everyone else. Apple might do that if
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by plorg 6y ago
Often it's also for regulatory reasons, particularly around emissions. Larger engines require more complex emission controls, so often an engine (including e.g. a JD) will be sold with a nameplate of say 74hp and chip-limited. It could
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by plorg 6y ago
"I personally recommend blacking out (add a black rectangle) instead of blurring, and if it is a PDF, convert to an image afterwards because too many PDF editors use non-destructive operations to add a new object instead of changing wh
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by plorg 6y ago
This article would be way more interesting if they were treating 7B outstanding tickets as debt and were seeking a deal with the ticketholders.

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