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by stephen_g 3mo ago
Of course there’s no actual official ‘china export’ mark and that is just what some Chinese factories were claiming when they were caught slapping a (accidentally mis-spaced) CE conformance mark on their products! The EC made a statement on
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
I doubt it’s even saving cost, it’s just incompetence. It works with the USB A to C cable, so job done. They’ve probably never plugged it into a PD charger, and probably just copied the schematic from the last (defective) product and will c
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
That’s impressive, I have managed to break a lot of micro connectors (not even from proper stress, just from prolonged normal use) but I have never managed to break a USB-C cable or connector!
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
What solution are you proposing though? As long as people can buy USB-C connectors on the open market, they're going to be able to create devices that horribly deviate from the spec in terrible ways. But it's better that they are
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
That was exactly the point of the project though - it was designed by the conservative side of politics in our country to try and crowd out investment in batteries and other renewables while taking enough time to build to keep coal plants o
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
What kind of part? I use Octopart for a lot of things, like ICs (sometimes some variants are available in low quantities but others aren't and only in thousands). For stuff like passives it's usually easier to use Digi-Key or Mous
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
Buying custom PCBs from China makes sense if you're interested in making electronics . It was more than a decade ago that the equation shifted to the point that making them at home has only made sense if you're interested in the
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
Strange response... Since when is the idea of ‘duty’ supposed to be ‘deeply American’? I’m not American but happy to agree with the OP - being an elected MP is not just a job and if they want to take leave whenever they want to and miss cri
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
Yes, in this case it's a slightly different (and much more common) strategy - EEE was a bit of a Microsoft trademark but we see what's happening here much more widely, especially by massive companies as well as with PE. I'd s
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
Noticed this with hire cars, we have 'school zones' that only operate within certain times (like 7am - 9am and 2pm - 4pm) and new cars pick up the 40 km/h from the sign but obviously aren't smart enough to read the times
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
That’s nothing to do with the OP’s comment, and ignores the second part which I pointed out too (that nobody is forcing you to use this optional feature that most people want), so swing and a miss on two points… The OP’s argument is that lo
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
That doesn’t make any sense… The comment you’re replying to is about people’s desire for a particular feature, but pretty much any car that supports CarPlay also supports the Android equivalent, as well as still having media playback and of
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
> The difference isn’t huge (I think it’s 10-20% or something) A 10-20% reduction in fuel burn is actually considered pretty huge...
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
Funny though how whenever these laws are pushed though, the legislators are more interested in strongly identifying people to gate services despite the fact that they should have plenty of advice that things like zero-knowledge proofs exist
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
Yeah, I expect it's pretty similar to how long-term, constant stress is correlated to poor longevity, but frequent bouts of short term stress of intense exercise followed by recovery is correlated with good longevity.
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
Yes for other countries, it’s a standards thing not something unique to the US!
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
I've done a lot of travelling between Australia and Europe via Dubai on the A380, and I've definitely noticed the same thing, you can really feel it. You can also see it on the interactive map thing on the ones that have the &#x27
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
Suggesting a video app is more dangerous than 13 year olds playing unsupervised with actual explosives and real guns...
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
It still does happen though, so not totally wishful thinking - but it seems to go the other way, commercial to miliary e.g. like the KC-30A tanker which are converted from standard commercial A330-200s (and as I understand the new version w
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
For the money things have actually got better. If you pay the equivalent (adjusted for inflation or compared to wages) of what they were paying back then for an international flight, you're in first class and on a good airline that&#x2
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
I’m not a TikTok fan by any means but that really does feels to me like bordering on delusion…
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
I’ve mostly seen it at Asian cuisine restaurants where you normally order several dishes and order more as the meal progresses. So it builds up a tab and then you pay at the end.
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by stephen_g 3mo ago
> 10 Gb/s Ethernet interfaces do not require 20 Gb/s USB ports for reaching maximum performance, they already reach that on 10 Gb/s USB ports, despite of what the writer of TFA believes. While this may be theoretically (al
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by stephen_g 4mo ago
The gold standard makes zero sense. Why should the amount of money the economy needs have any relation to the amount of gold a country holds? What happens in practice is that you set a conversion rate to account for this, and basically imme
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by stephen_g 4mo ago
If it’s a “well known tactic” (well known by whom?) then it’s a counter-productive one - the more the extreme is heard in the mainstream, the more rational the slightly less extreme version sounds (It’s something the right-wing tends to use
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by stephen_g 4mo ago
Neither is road infrastructure basically anywhere in the world... Here in Australia we have a fuel tax and each state has registration fees but combined those don't even cover half of what is spent by Government and local councils main
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by stephen_g 4mo ago
Not that simple. In Australia over the last 10 years, the number of dwellings increased by 19% while the population increased by a smaller 16% [1]. Yet house prices still doubled. This is the same trend that has continued for decades, growt
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by stephen_g 4mo ago
Most Aussies aren't really worried about China... China remains our largest trading partner, and polling shows less than half of Australians think the AUKUS alliance (which includes the nuclear subs) makes our region safer.
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by stephen_g 4mo ago
It depended on how long the account had been active - one or two of my cousin's kids were pretty sad they lost access to some of their accounts but had new ones the same day with an older sibling or friend's face scan to bypass th
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by stephen_g 4mo ago
It's not really anything to do with "an era where these [...] provided a pretty steady level of energy", it's just the only way that makes sense to describe it in any case. Demand is always instantaneous, and transmissio

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