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by pwg 11mo ago
> In the old times where we had sodium vapour lamps I was always under the impression that the orange wavelengths were specifically picked because our visual system is keenest under dusklike lighting conditions. The yellow from sodium v
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by pwg 11mo ago
> How else would you have any control of the forward motion of the vehicle otherwise, especially when starting on an uphill slope? That only applies for manual/stick shift vehicles. Most of the US drives automatic transmissions, an
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by pwg 11mo ago
> Nothing is really repairable, of course, so replacing these parts is out of the question As regards the cloudy/micro-scratched headlamps, if one is willing to do so there are numerous polish kits that can restore that "new fr
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by pwg 11mo ago
> Out in the country, you still don't really need brighter headlights. Other cars' headlights will always be visible and they have reflectors, so it's not as if you'll struggle to spot other cars. The road lines are a
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by pwg 11mo ago
> When I was younger you could stare at the yellowish glow of a car with headlights on and just not be blinded. The older incandescent bulbs were a different color temperature (more on the yellow side of the color spectrum) and were not
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by pwg 11mo ago
For a small network and low "follower" counts, yes. But the moment you start scaling to potentially millions of posters each with a disjoint set of millions of followers the M:M connections for broadcast become problematic. The r
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by pwg 11mo ago
> How can you even sue without any legal identity? The images of the various messages on the adguard page are not lawsuits. They are threatening messages that threaten to create legal issues, but until and unless they carry through on th
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by pwg 11mo ago
> Is running late really unavoidable? Given the full breadth of "unavoidable", yes. As there can always be something completely out of your control that will make you late, despite your best efforts to be prepared. But, for
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by pwg 11mo ago
Your friend is remarkably prescient. I [1] can mostly "tune out and ignore" those "irritating" sounds that so many others complain, gripe, and stress about, and I have noticed the identical aspect your friend noticed, a
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by pwg 11mo ago
> I can’t use a google product without being harassed to the point of not being able to work by offers to “help me write” or whatever. Sounds like a return to "Clippy the paperclip" or the dog from the ill fated Microsoft Bob [
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by pwg 11mo ago
The business world is cyclic, and with that "programmer jobs" are also cyclic with the business cycle. So even though things look 'down' now, that does not mean that the down cycle will last forever. However, surviving
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by pwg 11mo ago
That is... unless the predicted "AI Robots" come to pass, then many plumbing jobs could be done by the "plumber robot" [1] instead. [1] it is doubtful we will see one anytime soon, but the possibility is there.
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by pwg 11mo ago
> I don't want a computer that requires liquid helium cooling. True, but I /can/ see someone, such as Sandia National Labs, very much willing to install a liquid helium cooled computer if it provides a significant performa
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by pwg 11mo ago
> Then what's the practical difference between that and MIT/BSD licensing? Very simplified differences: GPL: you shared the code with others, those others, if they modify your code, must continue to share their changes with oth
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by pwg 11mo ago
Part of the point of the split when the US Congress was designed was to intentionally make it difficult for bills to pass, because they had to pass votes in two independent houses, that (presumably) were focused on differing agendas. This i
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by pwg 11mo ago
> What mechanism causes the senate to be more resilient to those issues than a unified Congress? The Senate is limited to two seats per state. With the current 50 states, that makes 100 members. So only 51 seats need vote against a bil
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by pwg 11mo ago
You have essentially described the current US Senate/House as it was originally set out in the constitution. One group of limited seats, with equal seats per state (the Senate). This is the "guarantee of at least X seats" to
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by pwg 11mo ago
> make them tax-inclusive while you're at it. Often not a choice the retailer has. Local laws often require the shelf price be "not tax-inclusive". Reasons why vary, one common one is that in some instances different cust
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by pwg 11mo ago
> and making sure others who have based their code on my project have done the same. I do not believe the GPL requires that you make sure others who fork your code follow the GPL's rules. It places restrictions on those others, but
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by pwg 11mo ago
Sadly, less evil is still evil.
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by pwg 11mo ago
> Likely, it's just more of the media, talking heads, and youtube personalities trying to turn a nothing into something, story. It's not. Some US states have laws on the books that make it illegal for retailers to round up. T
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by pwg 11mo ago
It sounds like they are well on their way down the "Enshittification" [1] path. Eventually they will enshittify sufficiently that the illusion will shatter. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
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by pwg 1y ago
In reality, any 'vehicle' which does not meet both passenger car safety and passenger car fuel economy standards [1] should only be allowed to be licensed as a "commercial" vehicle and should pay "commercial"
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by pwg 1y ago
The portion you've overlooked is there is an entire population of users out there who have never seen, nor used, a command line, and telling them to "just type this out" ignores all the background command line knowledge neces
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by pwg 1y ago
> No idea why a mattress would need a server and an app... The server and app are not for your benefit. They are for the companies benefit in then being able to justify extracting $17/month rent from you for what previously would h
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by pwg 1y ago
There is now a 2025.10.22 version out. You may want to give it a try.
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by pwg 1y ago
Just retried a download on a YT vid I downloaded last night, it downloaded again. Using version 2025.10.14 on Linux, but with this 'tweak' in ~/.config/yt-dlp/config (which was to fix a prior 'no-download'
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by pwg 1y ago
Update to latest version. Search for the response error you get -- often the yt-dlp forums will show the latest workaround.
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by pwg 1y ago
With UblockOrigin in default deny all javascript mode there was no overlay ad.
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by pwg 1y ago
The fourth, and last, photo of zippers in the article shows the old and new versions side by side, making it easy to see what is different.

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