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by vel0city 5mo ago
Fully agreed. Plus, CueCat used some dumb proprietary encrypted tag format that needed to go to their servers to look up the code as they thought the marketers would want to pay for their codes. Too early. Too proprietary. Too greedy.
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by vel0city 5mo ago
CueCat was just ahead of its time. These days scanning graphics to load links is quite common. I see QR codes and similar all the time.
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by vel0city 5mo ago
That animation of the Power Split Device really helped me understand how the thing actually worked, even more than some of the physical models people show do.
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by vel0city 5mo ago
Koenigsegg has an engine design that has a camless valve system based on their "Freevalve" technology. Its pretty cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigsegg_TFG
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by vel0city 5mo ago
> That's 3-7 orders of magnitude less than what the current resident of the white house has achieved, depending on how you count. I agree with this. However, the standard was: > No organization (government or otherwise) should be
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by vel0city 5mo ago
Easily half of the numebrs I still remember are numbers which are totally unimportant to me now. A Pizza Hut in a city I haven't lived in for well over a decade. A friend's home phone number that was disconnected when they moved m
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by vel0city 5mo ago
> Is there some way of knowing a truck is set up to "roll coal"? The vehicle is modified considerably from its stock configurations. Its plainly evident to see based on the very public improper function of the emissions of th
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by vel0city 5mo ago
But one or two people and petty cash can be enough to infringe on the rights of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people.
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by vel0city 5mo ago
I see people rolling coal every day of my life here in North Texas. Often multiple different people on a 20+ minute drive.
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by vel0city 5mo ago
I've had a few cars fail emissions over the years and it was never because of the vapor. It was normally P0420 codes that weren't resolved from O2 sensors and other attempted fixes on 20 year old Hondas. Or fouled EGR airflow spac
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by vel0city 5mo ago
> Handbrake works only on one side, normal brakes don't work properly on one of the wheels, there's play in one of the joints or tie rods, etc. Do any of these states even actually check for these things? Texas used to have req
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Let me start off by mentioning I'm generally for spending on space science programs and think the US should generally be doing more of it not less. But I'd once again push back against the idea that GPS wasn't "Earth-b
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Yes. I can't remember which cars (some base-model Hyundais I think) but I know I've rented a few that did have Android Auto but did not have any navigation included.
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Dodge City is at ~1,500ft ASL. If the ocean is anywhere near there, Tulsa OK would be under some 800 feet of ocean. The Great Lakes will have also been flooded by the oceans, as they top out at ~600ft ASL.
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Desalination isn't really much of an option for deeper inland and much higher than sea level areas. Tell me, which ocean is Dodge City KS going to pull from?
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> The iPhone is not a status symbol I already said I largely agreed with this. > major carriers can and do give them away in various schemes and did so in the past and will continue to do so in the future They only do if you're f
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> Who cares? People who prefer truth in advertising. > Why be so argumentative over something so stupid? I don't want people to believe untrue marketing statements and make poor financial decisions without actually bothering to r
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by vel0city 6mo ago
I'm not the one arguing iPhones are only status symbols. If anything, if I only had the money to spend on a single computing device there's a good chance I'd go for an iPhone due to excellent durability, typically long supp
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Verizon's "free" iPhone deal is you pay for the phone up front and then receive a bill credit. Here's the fine print from one of those deals: $729.99 purchase on device payment or at retail price required. New line req&#
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> If we hadn't gone to space at all and focused on Earth first we wouldn't have GPS I'm not sure if you're actually suggesting it or not with this statement, but we didn't need manned space flight to have GPS. We
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Most email platforms support some form of forwarding. Its not quite the same as your suggestion that's similar to an HTTP redirect but still the ability to configure your email user to just pass along those emails to another address is
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Personally I'd rather have a manageable stream of little bad things consistently over time rather than suddenly having a mountain of bad things one day.
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Given the government trying incredibly hard to ban abortion and the Supreme Court musing they should overturn Griswold I don't their ideas are "do not reproduce".
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Its not really just superficially similar, its incredibly similar. Its their servers, its their domain. If they want to stop hosting email services on their domain and delete gmail.com IN MX records they should be allowed to do so in line w
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by vel0city 6mo ago
I'm not able to continue to receive mail at the apartment I lived at a decade ago. It turns out after I stopped paying for the apartment I lost the ability to control that mailbox. This is a normal thing to happen in the physical world
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by vel0city 6mo ago
No. It will do things when shuffling the email through its various scanner platforms that will make their systems think the original sender is outlook's systems. So then when their later downstream service looks at the email it's
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Note they said "workspace". This has some level of support baked in, as this is the paid enterprise product. https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/support/contact...
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by vel0city 6mo ago
I've self-hosted email systems for businesses for nearly 20 years. I've actually had far easier times delivering to Gmail/Workspace clients than Outlook. Outlook constantly breaks strict DKIM with some of their protection s
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Isn't putting in a different query string "including a different url that goes to the same place"? Isn't this functionally the exact same?
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> they're a lot more likely to lose their market power in five years It doesn't take users five years to install a different browser. It takes maybe two to five minutes. If they really do things to piss off their users they&#x2

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