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by toast0 3mo ago
> And I'm sure someone somewhere has some labor saving hacks for tackling Himalayan blackberry. Goats. It's not labor eliminating, you've got to set up and maintain temporary fencing, and you've got to remove plants t
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by toast0 3mo ago
I'm well aware of the washington state highway system. I live on the other side. This is what my options screen looks like: https://what.pictures/route_options.jpeg But, I usually plan my route in segments... I'll
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by toast0 3mo ago
I'm convinced the people working on google maps have also mostly never driven.
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by toast0 3mo ago
At least on Android google maps, there's an option to avoid ferries. But if you don't set the option before you get started, it's a pita to change options.
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by toast0 3mo ago
If you're gonna smash everything onto a single channel, you may as well turn the whole thing off. Gonna look like absolute trash. Might be almost acceptable with atsc 3, except for the diaster of DRM and new proprietary audio codecs th
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by toast0 3mo ago
RF Channels 38-83 have all been taken from (US) TV since the 80s. Mostly used for mobile phones. rf 70+ is 800 Mhz rf 52+ is 700 Mhz rf 38+ is 600 Mhz Lots of phones support these frequencies. Kind of annoying for tv, because cell towers on
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by toast0 3mo ago
> Realistically - this spectrum should simply be reassigned for IP based services, with perhaps some set aside for non profit / educational uses, some for commercial, etc. They did this in the US already, three times. In 1983, chann
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by toast0 3mo ago
> I get the impression that CPU designers in the 80s and early 90s massively underestimated just how beneficial even a small predictor can be. It's got a lot to do with how cpu clock speeds were getting way faster, but ram wasn&#x27
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by toast0 3mo ago
In older films and lower budget films into the 90s, you could expect the titles to wobble up and down and left and right from frame to frame, too.
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by toast0 3mo ago
Accessibility ramps and accessible doorknobs are easy to empathize with. Most everybody is going to be in a situation where those are necessary or at least helpful at some point in their life. Exoskeletons and climbing wheelchairs can hel
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by toast0 3mo ago
> Initiating a long deep ongoing offensive campaign is a whole other thing the US never planned for. I don't know that that's the case. There are almost certainly plans for a long deep ongoing offensive campaign. But you can&#x
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by toast0 3mo ago
> But it would have required boats in the water and boots on the ground. But that puts many more lives at risk, would have been very unpopular (much moreso then the current war situation), etc. Boats in the water and boots on the ground
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by toast0 3mo ago
If you let the magic smoke out, you can't put it back in! You can only put the magic smoke in at a fab, in a cleanroom!
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by toast0 3mo ago
> But they laid off their QA team a year or two ago because "AI will change everything!" They gutted QA in 2014, ending their software development engineer in test positions, and suggesting the developers should test their own
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by toast0 3mo ago
> The quintessential example of this is Broadway, where the cost of living in New York City increases, leading wages to rise, but there remains a fixed set of theaters for Broadway shows to be staged, thereby limiting revenue growth. The
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by toast0 3mo ago
I don't know how 'only authentication' from PPPoE would work... If you do PPPoE auth, then you can DHCP? That would be a pretty weird config to setup. I know some CenturyLink fiber defaults to PPPoE, but you can ask for IPoE
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by toast0 3mo ago
Depends on jurisdiction, I'm sure. In the US, kids taxes can be separate, but after a small exemption, they pay the parents rate on unearned income (investments, interest, etc). You have to have a pretty big balance before 3% apy gets
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by toast0 3mo ago
UK has ring mains, so appliances have fused plugs to protect the mains wires from being overloaded.
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by toast0 3mo ago
> Every US household has at least some big circuits across both lives. Not really. My parents have all natural gas for the furnance, oven, stove, clothes dryer, and water heater; no air conditioner. Everything else is lights and outlets.
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by toast0 3mo ago
> Maybe you're just buying cheap poor quality bulbs? All of my led bulbs that failed were either cheap poor quality bulbs or expensive poor quality bulbs. I have a hard time determining the quality of a bulb without running it for 2
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by toast0 3mo ago
22 hours is a very long time to be in a plane. But, being able to skip a stop in a 3rd nation is likely worthwhile for many. Depending on the routes, it will likely reduce the overall travel time significantly and a meaningful amount of tim
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by toast0 3mo ago
Lots of McDonalds locations have signs indicating lingering past 30 minutes is loitering.
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by toast0 3mo ago
> But seeing the job market, I'm a little scared. Today's job market sucks, yes. But, you'll be entering the job market in 4ish years, and it will be different, hopefully better. Hard work, investigation, and problem solvi
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by toast0 3mo ago
Underseat subs should get you pretty close, if that's a priority. My home theater seats came with them, but you have to pay extra for the driver(s). Maybe eventually, the single big sub seems fine so far.
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by toast0 3mo ago
The topic is banning certain types of sponsors from soccer teams. Someone said it's unamerican, but tobacco is an example of a banned sponsor for soccer teams. Gambling could just as easily be banned from sponsoring sports.
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by toast0 3mo ago
> Except that it isn't Your link includes bans on tv, transit, billboards, sponsorships, tobacco branding on non-tobacco items, etc. Yes, there are a few venues where tobacco advertising is still permitted, but they can't spons
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by toast0 3mo ago
JIRA is from 2002, Bugzilla is from 1998, GNATS is from 1992.
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by toast0 3mo ago
NASCAR no longer pursues the Winston cup, because tobacco advertising is banned. The Bud Bowl was discontinued becsause alcohol advertising is regulated. World Poker Tour was sponsored by (poker site).net instead of .com because advertising
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by toast0 3mo ago
Reminds me of the pokersite .net ads on poker coverage. The .net site was no money play gambling, the .com site they wouldn't mention was real money gambling, probably not legal in your jurisdiction.
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by toast0 3mo ago
> What are the drawbacks to reverting to this type web publishing? It's nearly impossible to get overlapping text without css...

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