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roryisok
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Touché
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We use a slow cooker which pretty much automates a lot of the process of making dinner. Just chop ingredients and throw them in. Now I just need to build a robot to chop veg
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Now that's clever. But I'd really love if someone would invent a kind of roomba that puts away toys
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Measuring the weight of the tub doesn't sound simple. A camera or ultrasonic level meter would be easier to set up
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8y ago
Nice, I was working on one to scrape remote job sites and send me relevant results to my inbox but I successfully got a new job before I finished it
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8y ago
I've never heard the shorthand cbf before but I can guess what it means :)
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My machine has a time remaining feature which is great in theory but it's completely inaccurate. It might tell you there's 45 minutes left in a cycle, you'll come back an hour later and it'll say 17 minutes. I guess I kn
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You missed a big obvious one there, you've automated your grocery shopping. I'm still driving, parking, grabbing, paying, packing, and driving like a sucker.
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8y ago
Autohotkey?
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> to make a SPA, you are talking about pulling in at least: npm, webpack, react, react-router, lodash, redux, bootstrap NPM and Webpack are developer tools, and Bootstrap is a CSS framework. Correct me if I'm wrong but WASM still ne
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I don't think you're relearning your friend's name so much as reminding yourself. You haven't lost the memory, you just can't bring it up in that moment. And given time you might remember. But it's a bad exampl
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Ok, your point was not at all what I expected and I have to concede it makes sense. But its also worth pointing out the that the best places for solar are usually hot deserts, not arable land. Regarding Chernobyl and Fukushima, the radiatio
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And you still don't remember that friends name?
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> solar may be more harmful to the environment than nuclear. Wow. What?
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I have an app in the windows store with a few thousand users. When anyone emails me with feedback or an issue, I usually ask if they want to try the beta version (after I've resolved their issue of course). I've gotten about 15-20
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Yes, it requires oxygen, which happens to be all around and inside a vehicle typically. I'm not sure what your point is. If a fuel tank is ruptured it can lead to fire and/or explosion. If a battery is ruptured the risk of fire is
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And that they use Adventure Time puns to name things. I guess the NSA techs are just a bunch of nerds with government contracts
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Petrol is fairly flammable and explosive too, but we still drive around with big tanks of it under the back seat
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> with all the Samsungs and Teslas catching fire, it rings true. Are there really a lot of Samsungs catching fire though, in the grand scheme of things?
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That would be fine, but the issue is not that the form won't submit, but that the checkbox can't be checked.
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Really interesting to learn the Dyson sphere is just a misunderstanding!
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So I can't view the article because they're asking me to agree to cookies, which I'm happy to do, only some tool has decided that a plain checkbox needs JavaScript to work, and I can't check it on IE mobile. It literally
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> The biggest problem I have is I can buy a chromebook with a decent screen for roughly the price of a decent windows laptop Why would anyone choose the former in that situation? I thought the whole argument for chromebooks was that they
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> I'd be surprised if GitHub doesn't follow in tow And since Microsoft now own Github this will most likely be VSCode in the browser just like azure already uses. A lot of people will be happy with that
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> If you browse without JS it still works! Also true of html
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So much for "learn once, write anywhere".
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The amount of energy sent our way from the sun every day is more than enough (I half recall a fact that one day of sunshine has the same energy as all the fossil fuels left on earth, someone correct me). I think with solar getting cheaper a
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It's a beautiful dream and I hope it happens
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Not sure why that got downvoted but ok. Just expressing my opinion that apple are moving toward exactly this
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> The best thing that Apple does is that they don't try to merge desktop and tablet UX With all the IOS apps they keep bringing to macOS, the merging of the IOS and macOS dev teams, and the imminent release of ARM macbooks I wouldn&
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