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by tass 4y ago
Those popovers are so distracting I couldn’t get through the article
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by tass 5y ago
Not necessarily a smart switch thing, but dimmers don’t break the circuit when off. If you remove a bulb, it will hurt if you put your finger in the socket. There’s usually a secondary way to break the circuit - pull out a bit of plastic, s
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by tass 5y ago
I know I’ve done something like this a few years back. There is now this feature: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/remote-development-start... edit: I was using the deployment feature. I can’t remember if it wa
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by tass 5y ago
A Song of Ice and Fire was written on Worstar for DOS, and I believe it’s the only editor the author uses for book writing.
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by tass 5y ago
I use Fastmail, and everything is great (for me) except one very annoying aspect with Contact sync. I’m unable to sync only manually created contacts via carddav. If I sync contacts to my phone, I get every automatically created contact al
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by tass 5y ago
Many planes, even some general aviation planes, can autonomously fly all the way to a safe landing. The trouble today is that systems can fail, weather can change, and unlike a car you can’t just stop on the side of the road until the issue
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by tass 5y ago
Yeah, we are agreeing on this point. Most of it is not surplus - more usage, more fuel used. The only true surplus is if the water needed to flow anyway, or for something like nuclear power which has to stay active at some base load. Even s
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by tass 5y ago
To add, this isn’t really “surplus” energy that’s being consumed. There are fossil burning power plants running only to produce PoW, and unless mining operations shut down to allow a generator to operate at minimum load, they are forcing sh
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by tass 5y ago
Why would adding an identity check or additional process harm poor people the most? It may harm the rich the most, in my opinion, since retailers wouldn’t as easily be able to trick you into a new credit card as part of the checkout process
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by tass 5y ago
Will this really remove cars from the road? I don’t live in Austin but generally see pizza delivered by scooter or small motorbikes. It doesn’t feel very different from just allowing scooters in the bike lane - I don’t think that would be a
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by tass 5y ago
The naked thing, sure, weird, but maybe the camera was on by accident. The swastika is used in some countries as a religious symbol, among other things. Tourist maps in Japan when I was last there still used it to represent temple locations
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by tass 5y ago
You have to choose your trade offs. Aluminium is abundant compared to lithium, and if the charging times are as good as they’re saying it might be worth the loss of capacity.
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by tass 5y ago
Pedestrians who are hit by these cars (lower bumper, lower impact, less serious injury). Additionally, drivers of smaller cars due to weight arms race for increased safety.
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by tass 5y ago
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/ucps
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by tass 5y ago
I lengthened the lengthener URL about 7 times before my browser complained it was too long
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by tass 5y ago
You can choose not to install their app unless it’s provided through the App Store. It would be a significant barrier to entry for them to completely remove it, and I imagine they would lose many users if they did so.
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by tass 6y ago
Sorry to hear that, it must be very hard for her. The daily had an episode[1] about a food critic who lost her sense of smell after a COVID infection and the effort she went to in order to get it back. Her descriptions of what it was like t
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by tass 6y ago
You just described Optus netstats from 20 years ago. It was fun trying to get a score as close to 10 without getting in trouble. https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/94kqpq53#r5005448
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by tass 6y ago
I'm going off the assumption that the capacity has been expanding as much as possible, so scrap factories wouldn't be a problem. The Pfizer vaccine seems to have a shelf life of 6 months, so realistically the earliest they could h
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by tass 6y ago
Doesn’t this raise the same problem with the current manufacturing process? There was limited capacity to manufacture back then, probably less so than there is today. Which vaccine candidate would Pfizer have manufactured? All of them?
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by tass 6y ago
The article calls out that the Signal server could be compromised. I always thought one design philosophy of Signal was to ensure the server doesn’t matter from the perspective of privacy. Would having multiple servers help here, anyway? On
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by tass 6y ago
There’s at least one home reproduction of this, and based on a review it’s horrible to drive: https://youtu.be/V1WbvwQCTvU I’d love to see a museum pick it up assuming it was used in the show’s production.
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by tass 6y ago
This is a project my uncle designed where 4 houses in a block share a common care facility, allowing the people requiring care to live in a regular house without costing a fortune. https://darrenchester.com.au/freedom-housin
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by tass 6y ago
The App Store doesn’t allow downloading apps over a certain size unless connected to wifi.
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by tass 6y ago
This wording is very hand-wavey. They can and should give a direct comparison; as consumers we don't know what the top 2% of sold laptops are, or which is the "best selling PC laptop in its class". Notice it's "best
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by tass 6y ago
KeePassium is great and supports 3rd party file sharing. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keepassium-keepass-passwords/i...
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by tass 6y ago
They can continue to use the PlayStation store, continue to have exclusive games, and need not see any difference except by choice. What is the downside?
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by tass 6y ago
I’ve had my ticket tagged a couple of times with ‘SSSS’ which means I got an additional security check. What gets me about this is it’s well known and easy to see on the ticket, and if someone was up to something that day they would surely
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by tass 6y ago
One issue with these is that they kill many more moths and other insects than they kill mosquitoes
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by tass 6y ago
There is bootstra.386 which put a smile on my face: https://kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386/

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