thesmok

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by thesmok 5y ago
Oh yes, it's totally possible, and happened in Ukraine as well. Generally, a person is not inclined to think what they're doing is wrong, if their paycheck depends on it.
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by thesmok 5y ago
Watching the SpaceX Crew Dragon launch, I've seen iPads on board both Dragon and ISS. They're used for checklists at least.
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by thesmok 5y ago
A lot of websites do that, the Kill Sticky button always saves me https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
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by thesmok 5y ago
A stolen apple watch is pretty much useless. A stolen iPhone can be sold for parts, as there's a big market for original screens, but apple watch parts are in not as big a demand (I think).
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by thesmok 6y ago
You can FaceTime call a person using their email as identifier, or use voice call button in whatever IM they're using. If all these internet communications were interconnected, we would not need phone numbers anymore.
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by thesmok 6y ago
BMW i3 has a carbon body, and it's only a little (twice?) more expensive than a normal car. A lot of inexpensive carbon fiber bicycles are available now, while previously you could only get them for big money from big brands. Carbo
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by thesmok 6y ago
> But of course manual transmission won't go away until bike are electric. See multiple Honda bikes with DCT (dual clutch transmission). This is what I'm planning to get as my first bike.
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by thesmok 6y ago
That would mean the servers don't give you more than 100, but your provider does honestly provide you a 400 Mbps channel.
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by thesmok 6y ago
Honda makes series hybrid now: CR-V, Accord, Jazz. Accoring to reviews, they are more efficient than Toyotas.
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by thesmok 6y ago
From the comments on this post, it seems to me there's a big difference between US and EU car thieves. At least in Eastern Europe and Russia thieves are not just opportunists. They are organized gangs and they've got lots of 007-s
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by thesmok 6y ago
Some Citroëns do.
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by thesmok 6y ago
It sounded great, so I opened a demo page to try it out. Copied the contents of my personal savings note, and wanted to paste it into the NoteCalc to see what magic it would do. Pressed Cmd+V but it didn't paste. It just typed v intste
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by thesmok 6y ago
I'm self-hosting a VPN server on Digital Ocean, and whenever I'm using it, some websites notice that my IP address belongs to a hosting provider, so I start to get lots of CAPTCHAs. So yes, at least Google and Cloudflare detect th
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by thesmok 6y ago
A wooden toothpick is perfect for cleaning lightning ports.
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by thesmok 6y ago
Yes. Toyota hybrid engines are not turbocharged, as that's more efficient.
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by thesmok 6y ago
Or instead, use multiple tiny crappy cameras plus software to interpolate a good picture out of them.
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by thesmok 6y ago
Every gif on the web should be a video. It would weigh less and still be supported by all browsers.
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by thesmok 6y ago
I'm a dev, and I only watch videos for entertainment. Any programming video tutorial could be a webpage, and I get professional information in text form exclusively.
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by thesmok 6y ago
Recycling aluminum is more energy efficient than making new aluminum. At this scale, I can imagine recycling this metal into new bicycles could be more efficient than fixing and distributing old bicycles.
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by thesmok 6y ago
Generic batteries are often much worse quality than brand ones, but you can get adapters on eBay that convert between almost any tool brand battery connectors. Just have to match voltage. That removes battery vendor lock-in.
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by thesmok 6y ago
You can also get Topre switches in Leopold keyboards, models ending with letter C (for capacitive).
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by thesmok 6y ago
In my limited experience, counterfeit iPhone chargers do not have a serial number printed inside the USB connector. Real ones do have it. I've found this picture that shows they've started printing a "serial number" on t
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by thesmok 7y ago
The iPad touchscreen is very reliable until you splash water on it. I don't think splashing a cup of water onto 1995 car dashboard would trigger any of the buttons.
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by thesmok 7y ago
My bathroom mirror is LED-backlit. Old halogen-backlit mirrors do not fog because they get warm. When ordering my LED mirror I had an option to get it with a heating element built in. They just glued a heating film on the back of the mirror
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by thesmok 7y ago
My country's driving rules say that explicitly.
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by thesmok 7y ago
I take my jeans to the nearest clothes repair booth, they stitch on a patch from inside. Here doing one patch costs $4, that's much better that >$100 for a new pair of Levi's.
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by thesmok 7y ago
It's becoming more popular in Eastern Europe, because cheap and fast. Architects say that typical age of their client is 40 to 50, and these people started to realize that their children wouldn't want this house. So the house only
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by thesmok 7y ago
I must point out that username ilyich is a transliterated name likely referring to Lenin – real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. So ilyich seems to be a fan of USSR.
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by thesmok 7y ago
Shielding would not be effective because the device could just use mains wiring as antenna.
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by thesmok 7y ago
From my observations, people tend to buy the cheapest possible charger, if buying separately. And cheap chargers are often dangerous.

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