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by throw0101b 4y ago
> […] or seating capacity. I'm a Gen-Xer who used to borrow my parents' Chrysler Voyager minivan to regularly haul around 5-7 friends on weekends. Most of the monstrosities on the road today are as big (or bigger) and don&#x
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by throw0101b 4y ago
The video points to this article ("Pickup Trucks: From Workhorse to Joyride") that was discussed a little while ago: > But during those 40 years, pickups have changed significantly. They’ve become bigger, heavier and more tric
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by throw0101b 4y ago
Do people follow GC research at all 'for fun'? Any places/sites/people to pay attention to for the latest and greatest goings-on that may show up in production x years from now?
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Internet Computers: The Third Browser War(notboring.co)
1 points by throw0101b 4y ago|1 comments
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The Origins of the American Wire Gauge System (2022)(boathowto.com)
3 points by throw0101b 4y ago|0 comments
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by throw0101b 4y ago
> What are people printing that doesn't require color? Documents and forms. I had a colour-laser printer for a few years, and dealing with all the different toner (CMYK) cartridges was annoying. At some point went with a B&W B
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by throw0101b 4y ago
> That's how you end up with "March 2023 Report (Final) (Edited) (3).docx". People having been doing that with Word and other local word processors using (SMB) file shares for decades. There's nothing special about
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by throw0101b 4y ago
> X-mas -> "christ" Technically: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_(letter) > The 'X' comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Christós (Greek: Χρισ
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by throw0101b 4y ago
Another system is Cistercian numerals (developed by the monastic order): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals Proposed for, but not in, Unicode: * https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020&#x
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by throw0101b 4y ago
Today, March 15, is the 23rd anniversary of the release of RSS 0.90: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
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by throw0101b 4y ago
> and "all executive staff were let go this morning, I saw no reason to keep those jokers around". Or you can do the opposite, like Boeing did: import all the managers of the firm you acquired (McDonnell-Douglas) into your ow
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by throw0101b 4y ago
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY This is Tom Scott's 'original' 2019 video called "This Video Is Sponsored By [redacted] VPN" where he explains most of the reasons listed to use VPN
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by throw0101b 4y ago
This reminds me of the 'original' 2019 video by Tom Scott called "This Video Is Sponsored By [redacted] VPN" where he explains most of the reasons listed to use VPN by ads is useless: * https://www.youtube.com
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by throw0101b 4y ago
> Various assembler optimisations to a number of different algorithms (e.g. AES-GCM, ChaCha20, SM3, SM4, SM4-GCM) across multiple processor architectures With modern compilers, how often (or in what circumstances) is it worth "han