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by sowbug 3y ago
s/whom/who/
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by sowbug 3y ago
If you try it with long division, you'll notice that the process never terminates, regardless of the digits you put as the answer. It's hardly a rigorous proof, but it's a good hint that something strange is happening.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I might be misunderstanding the idea, but I don't think it addresses the original problem that wires can't connect the two parts of something that rotates in a single direction.
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by sowbug 3y ago
A couple ideas for improvement. If you have extra identical motors and disassemble two, you can fashion a rotating power transmission system from the brushes in two assemblies. You sacrifice two motors for each unit, but it's a perfect
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by sowbug 3y ago
Not free. Just subtracted from income for purposes of calculating tax.
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Microdosing psychedelics could benefit people with ADHD(djmag.com)
3 points by sowbug 3y ago|1 comments
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by sowbug 3y ago
Understood. This won't help you much, but I don't think I've ever had to change a remote's battery in the three years since I switched over to Zigbee. I assume their radios wake up only when the button is pressed, which
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by sowbug 3y ago
What exactly do you mean by a "dimmer"? Everything I have in my home that dims lights is mains-powered, so battery isn't a concern. I have 45 Zigbee devices in my home, 33 of which are battery-powered. Those are door contact
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by sowbug 3y ago
You don't have to display ones with the tag. But you can make it a checkbox on whatever intake form you use. It's a bucketing mechanism. At a minimum, it makes it faster for you to reject some submissions outright. But it also for
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by sowbug 3y ago
Or prices for the other 60% of costs would rise to offset the reduction, meaning that the tax/fee/charge revenue instead becomes profit for private businesses. Don't ask me to prove it, but that seems to be what has happened
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by sowbug 3y ago
> North [America] is more than 3x the size of Australia. A generously loose interpretation of the original claim is that the continental US, rather than North America, is about the same size as Australia. Which is true.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I wonder whether it's a client-side sync bug that's reporting old state as new, causing newer data to get overwritten. In that case, the data should be recoverable by rolling back history. I use only the web interface, so I don&#x
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by sowbug 3y ago
https://archive.is/nzu39
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Why Americans Can't Buy Cheap Chinese Electric Vehicles(wsj.com)
9 points by sowbug 3y ago|4 comments
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by sowbug 3y ago
The article mentions bats, and it mentions philosopher Thomas Nagel, but it doesn't mention Nagel's famous 1974 paper, What Is It Like To Be A Bat? . I assume the article title is a riff on that. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by sowbug 3y ago
https://www.seeedstudio.com/Coral-USB-Accelerator-p-2899.htm...
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by sowbug 3y ago
Not the person you are replying to. It's not unusual to find a working RJ45 in a hotel room, and as a bonus they often don't have a captive portal. Otherwise you can usually set up a router to bridge one WiFi network to another. S
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by sowbug 3y ago
I've never used an ad blocker. I accept that today's web largely depends on advertising, so it feels like the right thing to do. I also think that using an ad blocker is like wanting to attend a concert, deciding the price is too
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by sowbug 3y ago
Many foreign-currency ETFs exist. Euros, or yen, or dollars can function as currencies even though some people also view them as investments. Commodities are similar. People might invest in pork bellies even if they don't personally ea
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by sowbug 3y ago
Setting aside the technical point you're making, the pull-based architecture is the main disadvantage from the content-producer side. Suppose there is a hierarchy of customer acquisition: 1. You have the customer's billing informa
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by sowbug 3y ago
Chrome uses a local bloom filter of bad URLs for precisely that reason.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I used to ask this same question in interviews: should C code always check for NULL? My favorite answer was that the code should have a notion of boundaries, runtime checks should happen at the boundaries, and debug-only assertions are nice
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by sowbug 3y ago
If the money earmarked for upkeep goes to upkeep, that sounds like a nice plan. Unfortunately, PG&E has a history of collecting upkeep fees and paying them out as shareholder dividends.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Related reading: https://begthequestion.info/
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by sowbug 3y ago
My comment was slightly tongue in cheek. Most violent acts are already crimes. I haven't looked it up, but I imagine that loitering and defecating in public are as well.
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by sowbug 3y ago
SMS has become a kind of real-world PoW (proof of work) mechanism. A phone number typically has a recurring fee to keep it working. So a live number indicates that someone is spending money (a proxy for effort) to maintain it.* It still see
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by sowbug 3y ago
Back to your original point: please don't support an organization that doesn't share important values of yours! That is absolutely your choice! You've named several products that share your values. Perhaps those would be a be
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by sowbug 3y ago
Duplicate Google, but put a minus sign in front of the ranking formula.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Why not criminalize violent acts instead? I don't care if the guy who attacks me is high or not, same as I don't care if the guy who didn't attack or bother me was high or not.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Roe is less common, but not unusual. Most memorably, "Roe" in Roe v. Wade was a pseudonym for the plaintiff who was called "Jane Roe" to protect her privacy. I don't know the mechanism, but I assume the judge in s

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