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by prova_modena 4y ago
From the article: "As Schlichting speculates, “The most logical explanation [is the miners] found a major discovery, and the mine owners gave them new jeans” as a reward. Outfitted in new attire, the miners may have discarded their old
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by prova_modena 4y ago
A few thoughts, from someone who is in the business of supporting 20+ year old high end vehicles. - We are already seeing many 90s-early 2010s vehicles where we cannot repair or support certain parts. One big issue is the difficulty of boar
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Yeah absolutely. I've seen non-wiki-savvy experts do these kind of edits, get reverted, and stop editing wikipedia forever because the whole experience left a sour taste in their mouth. I recently found the essay below targeted to exac
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Sonoran desert resident here. Not to be rude, but your comment is informed by some common misconceptions about the desert and cacti that would be cleared up by reading the very good article linked here. It's a common misconception that
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by prova_modena 4y ago
I'm sorry that was your experience with EVE. I can totally see how joining certain types of corporation could yield the boring experience you describe. I also agree that the ability/incentive to multibox is a serious flaw in the g
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Nice. I like vintage tools, but if you need an oiler now, it's hard to beat a Goldenrod. Still made in USA, excellent quality and available in various styles. I paid about $24 from McMaster-Carr.
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Pre-458 F1 transmission cars have largely turned the corner on depreciation. The current macro-scale car market correction notwithstanding, even formerly undesirable models are stable. In some cases they have appreciated- looked at F355 pri
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Ferrari dealer service departments are at their best when servicing newer models, like less than 10 years old. Anything older than that, dealer expertise and factory support drops off precipitously. In that case, you are much better off goi
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by prova_modena 4y ago
I've taken old HDDs to a commercial shredding service. They have a special shredder for electronics and will let you watch your drives/tablets/etc being destroyed. I think it is a pretty common service, there are quite a few
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Anecdotally, I've noticed an increasing number of websites where basic functionality does not work on desktop Firefox. I now have to open Chrome on a daily basis whereas just a couple years ago I was 100% FF for browsing (not counting
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Appropriately enough, those sturdy metal desks are known as "tanker" desks.
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Yeah, Countaches are definitely not comfortable cars. As I mention later in the comment, the original intentions of Mr. Lamborghini were somewhat at odds with what Lamborghini the company became famous for after the success of the Miura and
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by prova_modena 4y ago
I'm not aware of any book specifically addressing the rivalry or both brands at once. My opinion is that this rivalry mostly exists in the press and in the public imagination and therefore would make poor fodder for a book. In contrast
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Small correction, the "250 GTO" was a specific racing model, while the "250 GT" was a series of models encompassing both roadgoing and racing cars. I'm assuming you are referring to the roadgoing 250 GT models, such
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Ferruccio Lamborghini was primarily interested in building comfortable, quick and stylish GT cars, not high performance sports cars or racing cars. In contrast, Enzo Ferrari was interested in producing road cars to fund the racing division
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by prova_modena 4y ago
I like learning about the latest and greatest developments in these compact, fanless router boxes. But, so many are only available through seemingly random AliExpress sellers. Maybe this is being overly cautious, but I would never trust my
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by prova_modena 4y ago
As far as I can tell, there's no way to run DOSBox or DOSBox-X within a terminal. It would be awesome if I'm mistaken as that does seem to be the most elegant solution. I've thought about trying the DOSBox in a Linux VM setu
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Ask HN: How would you virtualize a multi-user DOS application in 2022?
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by prova_modena 4y ago
TD-3 is awesome but definitely a gateway drug purchase. I got one shortly after Roland's web-based synth recreations were posted on HN. Immediately wanted some sort of drum machine to go along with it. Now I also have an Elektron model
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Again like you said, the reason not to wear is nothing specific to watches. At the high end of collectibles markets, condition grading is extremely fine and detailed. A knowledgeable person can see the difference between something that has
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by prova_modena 4y ago
1010music bluebox might work for you and is 1/2 the price.
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Record labels have been doing similar things since the 1950s, building musical acts on-demand by combining skilled, anonymous "session musicians" with an attractive, marketable image or performers that fit the current trend. The m
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by prova_modena 4y ago
Listening to various DJs has been my primary form of music discovery for the past 10 or more years. The diversity of and access to interesting DJ sets has literally never been better than now. AM/FM radio is mostly irrelevant to this p
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by prova_modena 5y ago
I have no experience with this event, but it's sort of common in amateur radio communities that events are scheduled around typical retiree hours (think "early bird special"). It can make it difficult for younger working peop
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by prova_modena 5y ago
It's been used by numerous manufacturers in addition to Audi, including BMW and seemingly every FCA/Stellantis brand. I've driven a BMW 5 series fitted with one and I can confirm it's a great transmission that is smooth
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by prova_modena 5y ago
Yes you should be able to, or with slightly more friendly software like gQRX or SDRSharp. It also looks like you can receive and decode the key signals using rtl_433[0] with option -R 64. Although it's a bit confusing looking at the so
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by prova_modena 5y ago
Carfax has effectively marketed itself as a single source of truth for vehicle history. However, Carfax reports may have omissions and errors, especially as vehicles age out of the manufacturer's warranty. It's best when used to i
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by prova_modena 5y ago
Certain situations in solidworks can cause similar behavior. For example, tangent arcs inverting themselves. My uneducated suspicion is that there are geometric conditions that cause these sorts of "gimbal lock" type problems in a
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by prova_modena 5y ago
here's the code: https://github.com/rouyng/tpms-helper so far I have only tested it with Toyota sensors, so YMMV when used with other sensor types as I'm not sure if the rtl_433 output will be the same. I als
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by prova_modena 5y ago
I wrote a tiny program to help test the tire pressure sensors on my car. You can receive signals from these sensors using a cheap SDR dongle and a program called rtl_433. However, out of the box the process is bit messy and requires tweakin

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