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by proggy 3y ago
I don’t have an answer to your question. But I had quite a bit of trouble finding a affordable, drop-in replacement Raspberry Pi for a recent project, so I went looking for alternatives. There are a number of companies that make comparable
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by proggy 3y ago
“First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?” - S.R. Hadden, Contact
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by proggy 3y ago
As I recall, the average electric leaf blower emits around 70 dB, while the average gas blower puts out 80-90 dB (although some advertise themselves as quieter, I am dubious but have not verified by running these tests myself). The electric
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by proggy 3y ago
The primary challenge with office tower conversions are the floor plates. Most are big, sprawling rectangles with yawning amounts of interior space intended for cubicles, interior offices/conference rooms, and other windowless uses. Na
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by proggy 4y ago
It’s uncommon worldwide, but the majority of Japanese companies pay for employees’ regular daily commuting expenses in full [1]. Typically this is in the form of a commuter ticket that is good for journeys anywhere on the route between your
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by proggy 4y ago
Implementation matters. The automatic braking on my compact SUV has falsely triggered hundreds of times over the course of 3 years, usually when transitioning from a moderately-pitched-down driveway into a roadway. The result of this scenar
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by proggy 4y ago
I have similar thoughts. Surface parking lots are often targets for infill development of residential / commercial structures, which if built intelligently can increase density and therefore walkability / bikeability. I’d imagine
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by proggy 4y ago
I like this creator’s style. The videos are calm, relaxed, and quite funny in an understated sort of way. The lack of audio narration or piece to camera cutaways makes you feel like you’re there in their shoes, which is awesome. As for the
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by proggy 4y ago
While I agree that access to medically assisted suicide is a human right, I also think the author is making a salient point about economic injustice. Generally speaking, those with generational wealth and connections fare better in life tha
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by proggy 4y ago
Technology Connections is a true gem of a channel.
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by proggy 5y ago
Concerns about cost per flight aside, how would one go about locating spaceports near enough to urban centers for this concept to be viable? If a fully fueled airliner crashes in an urban area, it’s devastating. Now consider a fully fueled
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by proggy 5y ago
And, like clockwork, just a few weeks after this article’s publication in mid-2020, a floppy diskette of SimRefinery was found and the game was provided to Ars Technica for further discussion [1]. [1] https://arstechnica.com&#x2F
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by proggy 5y ago
I think the missing one is Tuck and Roll’s Drive Em Buggies (Disney California Adventure) Also, It’s Tough To Be A Bug was cloned, so I guess you can count it twice. It’s still playing at Animal Kingdom (1998), and opened with Disney Califo
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by proggy 5y ago
The amount of detail in this map is absolutely incredible. Pretty much every conceivable rail service is present. I especially like the route planning feature. It’s no Hyperdia [1], that thing is a monster, but it’s super duper cool for loc
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by proggy 5y ago
The major downside is total inundation of all of the valleys filled in by the reservoir. The 20th century is littered with dams whose headwaters have completely destroyed unique natural environments, eg Hetch Hetchy [1]. They are technicall
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by proggy 5y ago
You’re not alone. Even the car insurance companies predicted that lower traffic volume would result in fewer incidents and therefore fewer claims overall, to the point of refunding premiums in 2020. Now, I could get in to how state insuranc
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by proggy 5y ago
Not to mention that if the charger is on-premise, there is no longer a personnel need to drive gas-depleted cars to an offsite refueling station. That may add up to significant labor savings.
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by proggy 5y ago
While I understand the purpose of neutrality when administering health care — surgeons must operate on wounded saints and murderers alike — I believe the author fails to make an important distinction. There are choices that have an impact o
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by proggy 5y ago
So, let’s set aside the commercial applications and just focus on general aviation for a second. Avgas, which fuels over 160,000 small planes in the US alone, contains lead [1]. Even if electric flight is only practical in the general aviat
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by proggy 5y ago
As someone who’s spent time between California and Japan recently (2019-2020), I honestly think the differences between a Daiso in the US (Los Angeles) and a Daiso in Japan (central Tokyo) are very slight. I bought a lot of little gifts for
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by proggy 5y ago
All of the features mentioned (background blurring, live text, etc.) are “gee whiz” stuff. Yes, it would be possible to implement those features for x86_64 processors, but this article feels more like a writer trying to jump in early and pr
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by proggy 5y ago
The loose industry term for this is “plot armor” [1]. There is no explicitly stated reason for the hero(es) being nigh invincible (be it person, spaceship, car, etc.). The only reason why the character survives is that it has a reason to co
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by proggy 5y ago
I only have experience with one particular model during a long-term relocation, but I found that combination washer-dryer unit to be incredibly slow and small. It made sense for a small apartment, but given the choice I’ll take a full size
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by proggy 5y ago
I disagree. While I concede that, if there is credible information that an adversary is developing AI weapons that need to be counterbalanced to reach some sort of Nash equilibrium, simply putting time and effort into the development of any
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by proggy 5y ago
It is absolutely real [1][2], and was quite the scandal at the time. If the reporting is to be believed, PepsiCo paid about $1 million for the branding strategy. All to arrive at a blob that looks like a fat person with a red shirt and blue
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by proggy 6y ago
True. That said, LED lighting has a directionality advantage as well. So it turns out you need less of them to get the same basic coverage as the sodium lamps. Here’s an account of how Tucson, with its many observatories, managed to keep wi
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by proggy 6y ago
I’m not sure what kind of conversation you’re trying to start with this comment, but the article is pretty clear in its case: > Platforms also want to appear politically neutral. Inconveniently for them, our research found that although
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by proggy 6y ago
If it’s being used for certain mayonnaise packaging in Europe (where mayonnaise is the “ketchup” of the continent), I can’t imagine lack of ketchup market penetration is for cost reasons alone.
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by proggy 6y ago
It wasn’t just “tapes going back to the 80s.” Those were just the media Universal initially admitted to losing. No, that building was the mother lode. It had film archives going back over 50 years, and worst of all — unreleased audio tape m
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by proggy 6y ago
I, apparently unlike many others here, think this case has standing. Yes, Griddy provides transparency into its pricing, but is it even reasonable to sell something so volatile to everyday people? Something that requires constant vigilanc

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