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by tesseract 4y ago
For a long time the US has more or less treated Taiwan and mainland China as separate countries for all practical purposes, including trade regulations, while employing careful diplomatic language to avoid officially stating as much. It i
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by tesseract 4y ago
For what it's worth, `1 mm/inch in 1` seems to work as expected.
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by tesseract 4y ago
And of course what users generally really care about is "does this app upload my location to somewhere? continuously or only when I take a specific action?" but permissions of that type are basically impossible to enforce by techn
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by tesseract 4y ago
And so there is a way to get a reasonable approximation of land value: Subtract the insured value of the improvements (which should be accurate by virtue of being determined by a profitable insurance company in a competitive market) from
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by tesseract 4y ago
Pulling off minimalist design well in the physical realm is surprisingly difficult and expensive and fragile and can be at least as demanding a display of wealth and craftsmanship as more intricate styles. If your materials aren't to
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by tesseract 4y ago
I think the point is that someone else cares about the structure and sets its rules - which may change without warning or have complexity you are unaware of - and therefore if you are not the telephone company or the post office you are l
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by tesseract 4y ago
Here's one then (in German): https://www.c64-wiki.de/wiki/Aufzeichnungsformat_der_Datasse...
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by tesseract 4y ago
Given a relatively high and sufficiently uniform clamping pressure on the entire o-ring. Which then requires high-stiffness parts (bulky, heavy, high material usage) or a lot of fasteners (take up space, potentially add to the oh-so-hated
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by tesseract 4y ago
I have very little interest in becoming a manager, and when I have been pressed into team-leadership roles in the past I've found it uncomfortable and stressful. That said, I have come around to the view that because of the simple fact
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by tesseract 4y ago
The Fed[eral Reserve] specifically? I'm simultaneously surprised and not.
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by tesseract 5y ago
> It doesn't pass the smell test either: what car accelerates faster than it can stop? A dragster? But more seriously, modern high-performance electric cars (such as some Tesla models) are capable of both acceleration and braking pr
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by tesseract 5y ago
I assumed it to be poking fun at the use of that term in business (especially logistics) jargon.
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by tesseract 5y ago
Even on typical 16:9 screens it's rare that I would maximize a browser window. And on my ultrawide, usually I'll have browser windows at 30%-50% of the screen width. So websites look normal - I'm not looking for any special &
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by tesseract 5y ago
"Turn after the Dunkin Donuts on the right onto Maple Street"
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by tesseract 5y ago
A&W Canada has been unrelated to A&W in the US since the 70s, and seems to be the more successful of the two by far.
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by tesseract 5y ago
Probably even more information of that nature is hidden in Facebook Groups where it was never searchable in the first place.
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by tesseract 5y ago
I've been misled a number of times by Google Maps driving directions to places that can only be ultimately reached on foot, because in general it tends to route to the nearest drivable location by straight line distance and not necessa
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by tesseract 5y ago
You can take SF Muni anywhere you want to go... as long as you want to go to the financial district/Market St. corridor. Seemingly more than other cities, the transit system is built around that particular commute which makes it frustr
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by tesseract 5y ago
Horizontal lines (or sometimes an array of dots) are sometimes used as a "grip" icon to represent reorderable list rows.
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by tesseract 5y ago
The Hackaday comment section has long been one of my least favorite places on the internet, which is not exactly confidence-inspiring in terms of the site's prospects if reimagined as a community-driven aggregator. I always thought the
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by tesseract 5y ago
Yeah I think this is common. Where I grew up I could easily bike to some other kids' houses or to school, or a mile or two around the neighborhood for exercise, but other destinations I would have been interested in (the library, the l
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by tesseract 5y ago
And "fancy" still retains some links to "fantastic" and "fantasy", as in "fancy dress" or "flight of fancy".
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by tesseract 5y ago
It is. Poolside renamed itself to Poolsuite sometime in the past few weeks. They said something about a trademark infringement claim. (Whether that's real or just part of their cultivated image/backstory, I don't know.)
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by tesseract 5y ago
This may come down to whether you consider marketing email from legitimate businesses to be "spam" or if you reserve the term for the more scammy/seedy type of mail.
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by tesseract 5y ago
There are some websites that are both super aggressive about timing out your session and also make you play hide and seek for the login button. Of the sites I use frequently UPS used to be about the worst offender but the most recent versio
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by tesseract 5y ago
The oldest known recorded joke, from ancient Sumeria, is a fart joke.
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by tesseract 5y ago
A lack of liquidity (a.k.a. shallow order book) will likely make itself apparent at some point. Just because you have 10 million shares and people bidding $10 for a marginal share, doesn't necessarily mean you would be able to find a w
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by tesseract 5y ago
How common was thread milling on manual milling machines? I don't doubt that it's possible through some sort of attachment but it sounds kind of exotic.
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by tesseract 5y ago
Dropping a pointer to _Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy_ (Wayne Moore) for further reading in this vein...
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by tesseract 5y ago
Treadmills in general are potentially dangerous. This one sits relatively high off the floor, doesn't have a guard over the rear roller, and doesn't appear to automatically shut down when tilted. The latter two are relatively comm

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