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by shmeeed 1y ago
>no-one used street directories anymore I disagree! Out in the woods, a few pages ripped out of an old street directory found in the trunk once saved my ass... quite literally. Couldn't have used a smartphone or GPS for that! >Id
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Such jokes are a luxury as well
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Had to read that twice. I feel you! It's been nearly 20 years and I can still see the scar.
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by shmeeed 1y ago
On Pixel and Samsung: Long press home button for "circle to search", draw line across text, see conversion.
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by shmeeed 1y ago
The quip against Windows users is besides the point of the article: >Even installing Linux, only to find the problem persists. [...] >The problem is far deeper, embedded in the machine's firmware, the BIOS. Anyway it's not a
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by shmeeed 1y ago
In many parts of the world, that's absolutely a thing grandpas do :)
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Crucible of the Cascade: The crash of Gazpromavia flight 9608(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
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by shmeeed 1y ago
I had to think of 3D printing immediately when you mentioned the human heart model: such things used to be incredibly expensive, but today any makerspace would be able to produce a respectable replica for pocket change or might even donate
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Do you assume that a stalker would be deterred by the lack of a knife emoji? I can't seem to follow the logic here.
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Great idea! Thinkpads (used to?) have an Active Protection System that used a Free Fall Sensor IMU to park the HDD read/write head in the event of a fall. Don't know if there's an API, though.
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by shmeeed 1y ago
$6.9M to the CEO, to be precise, which is roughly the same amount as the total of all private donations, grants and government funding they receive. It's bizarre. Meanwhile they're cutting down on devs, killing products like Pocke
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Ah, thank you for reminding me of that trick, indeed it works for Slate. Unfortunately that's not the case on many other paywalled sites.
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Google Search, Chrome, Android each are market leaders in their domain. You seriously consider that "tiny pieces"?
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by shmeeed 1y ago
That's an interesting observation. If they don't even use it for advertising, what _IS_ Mozilla doing with all those Google millions? JK, we all know what they're doing with them...
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Yeah, the left guy's pretty bad. I admire his persistence, though! They seem to play with a made-up rule set with a handicap: every time the left guy lands a goal, the other guy's score is reset... So left usually starts in the le
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Could you elaborate on that browser?
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by shmeeed 1y ago
https://skybrary.aero/sites/default/files/bookshelf/1258.pdf
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by shmeeed 1y ago
And app load times and page render times. Man, this could be the one chart that sums it all up.
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by shmeeed 1y ago
>Soft skills are important for an engineer. Personally, I'm a bit nitpicky about capitalization and punctuation. I guess everybody's got their hobby-horse to ride.
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by shmeeed 1y ago
That's true, but a foldable ebike also costs several times more.
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Scooters can also be transported in a car trunk. A similar convenience in a foldable ebike sets you down a few thousand quid more.
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by shmeeed 1y ago
I've always loved that description in particular from the book. Thank you for quoting it! I should go and read it again, but I think I remember I've pushed it on somebody to borrow years ago, "you gotta read this!". Just
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Sensiblee*ection used a similar voting system. They probably borrowed it from Slashdot, but added more qualifiers.
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by shmeeed 1y ago
"Private parties" are _not_ me and you. _I_ can't begin to fathom how you come to believe you are, unless you consider yourself a temporarily embarrassed billionaire, held back from success only by all this legislative overre
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Just to let you know, I fell for that
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Most if not all legislation originated in morality at some point. We've just collectively forgotten that's still an option today.
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Damn you for making my eyes well up
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Go Curiosity!
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by shmeeed 1y ago
I've been wondering when the inevitable My Summer Car reference would pop up :)
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by shmeeed 1y ago
Hate to say it, but... username checks out, I guess

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