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by sowbug 3y ago
This might not qualify because it was never really in the zeitgeist, but I remember around 2000 that flywheels were going to be an amazing mobile energy storage mechanism. Your car would rev up a massive disk inside a vacuum, and use its mo
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by sowbug 3y ago
Beware: I got the perfect under-desk shelf for a NUC-style computer, and it kept shutting down. The fit was too perfect, and the computer's cooling vents couldn't get the job done.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I don't do anything sketchy online, but I use a VPN for the same reason I use HTTPS rather than HTTP, ssh rather than telnet, BTC/XMR rather than my credit card (when possible), and LUKS FDE rather than nothing. I value my privacy
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by sowbug 3y ago
Blue Pills and Black Pills are popular with the DIY mechanical keyboard crowd as the brains of a keyboard circuit. The Arduino Pro Micro is also popular. I imagine that nowadays people also use the Raspberry Pi RP2040. The common feature am
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by sowbug 3y ago
Good place to put a time capsule.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I stand by my statement. Are banks required to scrutinize $10K+ transactions? Yes. Are banks required to scrutinize <$10K transactions to determine whether they're really $10K+ transactions? Yes. Compare: in the US, you can be detai
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by sowbug 3y ago
In the US banking system, that's called structuring. Which means that transactions of $10,000 or more are legally suspicious, and transactions under $10,000 are legally suspicious. Logicians, please simplify the previous statement.
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by sowbug 3y ago
See the ghoti swimming in the pond. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
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by sowbug 3y ago
Crazy thought: if they'd apologized, maybe they wouldn't end up in court.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Either extreme works. There's a sour spot (opposite of sweet spot?) in between, where the platform breaks compatibility, but not so predictably that customers remember how to reach their suppliers, and suppliers remember how to update
851.
by sowbug 3y ago
In mice.
852.
by sowbug 3y ago
I once heard a parable during a lecture about famed process expert W.E. Deming. A bank's management was concerned that its tellers' cash drawer balances were often slightly off the expected counts. During spot checks, one drawer m
853.
by sowbug 3y ago
Does anyone remember killerapp.com? It had parametric search for tech products along the dimensions you actually cared about, and then a ranking of sellers by total price, including shipping and any applicable tax. Exactly what you wanted.
854.
by sowbug 3y ago
Sorry about your bad experience, but what does this story have to do with misleading monitor pricing?
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by sowbug 3y ago
https://archive.is/wwB4A
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by sowbug 3y ago
Neither. Each part -- Thesis, Culture, Processes, Tools, etc. -- has its own heading. The formatting of the table of contents does not convey it well.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Learning Mandarin does make me yearn for the simplicity of English "yes" and "no." But I have to admit, each word in Mandarin works a lot harder than it does in English, so you can often say a heck of a lot in just one o
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by sowbug 3y ago
I've studied three foreign languages (four if you count a failed Toki Pona attempt a while ago), and I find it neat to discover a new grammatical concept, such as subjunctive in Spanish, which exists but only barely in English, or to r
859.
by sowbug 3y ago
That is more detail of the same earlier position, which is that someone who "generally avoid[s]" Google products actually "hate[s] Google things," and that anyone who "generally avoid[s]" Google products is a s
860.
by sowbug 3y ago
Polarization plays better than nuance.
861.
by sowbug 3y ago
I don't have any experience with FCC false-advertising actions, but most deception laws require proof of actual deception, or at least damages based on reasonable reliance on a statement. If someone read a landing page, reasonably thou
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by sowbug 3y ago
You seem to have a bone to pick with the idea that artists who sample can be colloquially credited as the songwriters of the songs they wrote. It's a surprising position to take; most people get by just fine saying that MC Hammer wrote
863.
by sowbug 3y ago
I'm not sure survivorship bias applies when the topic of discussion is, literally, all people who have survived beyond a certain age. How else are we to make age-based observations?
864.
by sowbug 3y ago
Correct! Current editions include a foreword written by William. Wolfgang is much better known for Stick And Rudder , which is about technical aspects of aviation.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Read Wolfgang Langewiesche's America from the Air: An Aviator's Story if you want to read some of the best writing about the romance of flying.
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by sowbug 3y ago
A kickback -- maybe getting a $5,000 vacation in exchange for voting for a superfluous service contract -- can easily offset an extra $50/month fee... for the one board member who cast the corrupt vote. Same as all politics: it's
867.
by sowbug 3y ago
Similar here. A couple big bins for bulky things that are still useful, like my previous router that I sometimes need to unbork the current router during bad firmware updates. Small Sterilite boxes that are well-labeled so that anyone in my
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by sowbug 3y ago
Also, "jump to recipe" could be a simple anchor tag that truly skips the drivel. But for some reason it executes ridiculous JavaScript that animates the scroll just slowly enough to trigger every ad's intersection observer
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by sowbug 3y ago
There is no single codebase for "crypto," so that would be an extraordinary assurance for someone to make. Even Bitcoin has many different compatible implementations of varying quality.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Also generating a BIP39 seed from https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ and using as many words from the output as you want for your purposes.

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