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by stordoff 5y ago
I'm not overly familiar with the mechanics of codeine in overdose, but the toxicity of paracetamol (acetaminophen) can be estimated based on the mg/kg ingested, albeit with a cap at 110kg: > To avoid underestimating the potenti
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by stordoff 5y ago
They list a Monero donation address on the About page ("I’ll happily take any Monero you’d like to throw my way"). It's a reasonable presumption that they do hold Monero, at least intermittently when they receive donations.
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by stordoff 5y ago
> cool color temperatures in their living rooms. It would drive me crazy but it's possible some people don't notice these things That's a deliberate choice for me. I have colour temperature adjustable lighting, and prefer
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by stordoff 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. The RPC's sovereignty over the region is enabling them to take these actions, but that doesn't mean we must like, enable, or respect these actions, or let them pass without comment.
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by stordoff 5y ago
I assume they're referring to LE Audio. From Wikipedia: > Announced in January 2020, LE Audio will allow the protocol to carry sound and add features such as one set of headphones connecting to multiple audio sources or multiple hea
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by stordoff 5y ago
Big Clive does this sort of thing on his YouTube channel fairly often. A few examples: * Adjusting a current regulator to drop a 10W lamp to ~2W - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeWnHnZ-ojw * Adjusting a capacitive dropper
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by stordoff 5y ago
They're already doing that with Xbox Cloud Gaming[1]. You can use the Xbox app or a browser. [1] https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/play
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by stordoff 5y ago
Do you mean invoking Task Manager with ctrl-alt-del or ctrl-shift-esc? I don't believe OP was saying either of those is typically a harmless no-op, but was referring to: > If Task Manager ever becomes internally corrupted, kill&#x2F
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by stordoff 5y ago
It's using console-ban: https://github.com/fz6m/console-ban It's easy enough to work round in uBlock - just add: ||cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fz6m/console-ban@3.2/dist/console-ban.min.
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by stordoff 5y ago
Amazon UK: "Buy now" Amazon US: "Buy now with 1-Click®" Amazon DE set to English: "Buy now with 1-Click®" (German: "Jetzt kaufen mit 1-Click®") Amazon FR: "Acheter en 1-Click®" [Buy with 1-C
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by stordoff 5y ago
Does YouTube show the dislike count anymore?
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by stordoff 5y ago
That stood out to me as well - "We Are Not A Monolith [...] and we will read your coverage accordingly" just seems odd. FWIW, I have some disabilities (OCD, some physical difficulties), and I just don't care about "perso
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by stordoff 5y ago
AIUI, these (or similar) tools were used by some of the piracy groups, but never made public to avoid the keys being revoked.
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by stordoff 5y ago
I'm not a huge football fan, but I'd argue part of the excitement of the sport comes from the fact that it is low soring - individual goals matter a lot, rather than just being a minor tick towards the overall score. Higher scorin
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by stordoff 5y ago
> England is a country of a new accent every 40 miles or so If not less. There's been a fairly large of degree of flattening over recent years, but my grandparents could quite often differentiate between the accents of people who gr
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by stordoff 5y ago
The main issue for me has been forced updates, which can fire off at inopportune times. They have been very stable though.
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by stordoff 5y ago
> A "warming sensation" is not what the OP has experienced. A warming sensation is the first thing OP noticed: "I took them off of my charger, put them on my head, and noticed they were suddenly getting very warm". Ta
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by stordoff 5y ago
It appears to be Germany: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/09/fall-on-walk-f... There are a couple of things worth noting here. Firstly, the accident was covered as the walk was deemed to const
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by stordoff 5y ago
Limiting a phone's usable life to about five years feels somewhat arbitrary, and there are iPhones older than the (original) SE that are still getting security updates (5S/6).
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by stordoff 5y ago
AIUI, Sony did the same with the PS4: > If you query the GPU information, you actually get that it has an HDMI port and a DisplayPort port. [...] If you ask the GPU, it tells you that HDMI is not connected, DisplayPort is connected. OK.
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by stordoff 5y ago
The intro scenes are capped at 24fps. The interactive segments run at 30fps with dips. Digital Foundry discussed it here - https://youtu.be/ib6_c6uliLg?t=1985
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by stordoff 5y ago
I recently ordered directly from a company's website (it was listed on the product's packaging, so I'm fairly confident it wasn't a third party seller), as it was a little cheaper than ordering from Amazon. It still ende
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by stordoff 5y ago
Assuming it's a built-in iOS/Android feature, hopefully app review would catch apps trying to circumvent the fake permissions, and the risk of blocking real users would probably discourage them (I almost never use SMS unless it&#x
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by stordoff 5y ago
They're not even standardised within the UK, as a lot of newer installations seem to use Edison screws (both B27 and E14). I've encountered many houses that use a mix of ES and bayonet fittings (and GU10s) or exclusively use ES.
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by stordoff 5y ago
This is what it looks like for me (Chrome/Windows 10): https://i.ibb.co/LgDwp8x/redstar.png Readable, but looks odd - things like the crossbars on ts look too heavy. Zooming in slightly clears it up: https:/
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by stordoff 5y ago
It's often done for binning, but you also get working hardware that has been disabled. Many AMD CPUs have been unlockable with a reasonable success rate[1], and IIRC all of certain models of X800 GPUs could be upgraded from 12 to 16 pi
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by stordoff 5y ago
Many dictionaries aim to be descriptive, not prescriptive, as doctor_eval said. That definition doesn't change that: OED: "The Oxford English Dictionary is not an arbiter of proper usage, despite its widespread reputation to the c
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by stordoff 5y ago
CGIProxy was the start of a prolonged cat-and-mouse game between the IT staff and a group of students at my school. It started with finding public hosts ("inurl:nph-proxy.cgi"), and quickly evolved to self-hosting CGIProxy on cust
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by stordoff 5y ago
Spacer GIFs which are resized for narrow screens (300-750px) using CSS depending on the tag's width attribute. That's not a technique I've seen before: > img[src='s.gif'][width='40'] {width: 12px;} (fro
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by stordoff 5y ago
They get a brief mention: > [88x31 pixel buttons] told the tale of all the battles the individual had fought in order to get to where they were today. In other words, which editor (FrontPage ‘98, obviously), which web server (GeoCities,

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