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by wolrah 3y ago
> What about if an mp3 is at the end of a URL? Is that an implementation detail that doesn't make sense? Just take of the .mp3 extension? Yes, why not? Just because file extensions matter to certain systems doesn't mean they d
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> At the same time, I worry about a "chilling" effect on anyone who questions "the science". In what way? This has nothing to do with disagreement, it's about defamation. Claiming that a researcher was intentio
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Are manufacturers of IOT devices using Linux whose devices have a lifespan of 15 years thinking about this yet? I doubt it. Considering how many of the IoT devices I tinker with have kernels and major userspace tools that are so out of
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Imagine what that does a person's lungs That goo is propylene glycol, the main liquid component of most vape juices. It's also used in theatrical fog machines, which are generally considered safe to fill a room with and then
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by wolrah 3y ago
> ...provided it doesn't have an attractive label with pretty colors. ...or flavors that someone arbitrarily decides are "marketed at children". I used to occasionally enjoy a clove cigarette until US regulators decided th
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Fair enough; I didn't go hunting around for my discs to check the order of "video" and "CD" in the moniker. Yeah, sorry, I forget how to people sometimes. Just a nerd who burned a LOT of VCDs back when DVD bur
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by wolrah 3y ago
> How about this, why don't SK, UK, French and US regulators get together and agree on a common set of regulations for reactor design. Then they can focus on the site specific regulations unique to each installation. How does that b
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Another historical curiosity: I have a couple of "video CDs," which were regular-sized (5-inch) CDs with a digital section containing the song (playable on any CD player) and then an analog video section with the video for th
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by wolrah 3y ago
> I gotta wonder what the Venn diagram overlap of Mac users and Android users is. I bet it's pretty small. raises hand Four of the six laptops I've carried in my adult life have been Apple products, from my college TiBook thr
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by wolrah 3y ago
> I'm not sure if you've ever used modern software. It's sometimes amazing just how unreliable it is. Web browsers crash every few weeks, windows is known for regularly needing a reboot I'm not sure if you remember ol
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by wolrah 3y ago
That was kinda my thought as well, especially when the "problem" seemed to actually be "my PC is hooked up to these speakers and I want to control Spotify while using my laptop". I love the pure hack value and I'm s
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by wolrah 3y ago
Chris Harris did it back in 2013 with two ICE vehicles (G63 AMG pulling a Fiesta ST) when the modern EV era was just getting started and none were officially rated to tow: https://youtu.be/5Ea7k3VAdi8
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by wolrah 3y ago
I could have sworn it had gone up somewhat recently as well, but I checked my Google payment history while making that post and it's still showing $7.99 as of this month's billing cycle. Either way, even the current new user rate
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by wolrah 3y ago
I've had Youtube Premium since it was Google Play Music All Access, so I'm happily paying the $7.99 grandfathered rate to not even have ads to block, plus I get music along with it. Multiple creators I follow have confirmed that Y
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by wolrah 3y ago
> there's no way I'm setting up a tether on a 8 minute Uber. I swipe down my quick settings bar and tap the button labeled "Hotspot". I don't even have to unlock my phone. If I have time to get my laptop out I
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by wolrah 3y ago
To both of your points, I think there are two different scenarios for which there are two very different answers. For the those who are concerned about mass surveillance, tracking, etc, the fact that those of us who can view activity or blo
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by wolrah 3y ago
For what it's worth my experience has been the opposite. I bought one of their multiple tool bags back in the mid-00s and I'm still using all the original tools as well as a few more I've purchased since. The original NiMH
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Yikes. Well, I feel better now. Guess that's why they discontinued it. My understanding is that the discontinuation was actually over patent issues or something in that general area.
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I have one of those and trust me, you do not want it. I was excited about it when we bought the house, but: 1. The remote control range is terrible. Both of our remotes regularly fail to operate the door from less than a car length in to t
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Seems like a plausible test but it's easy to poke holes in it. What if I get some shoe laces with a pattern of the Louis Vuitton logo and put them in generic shoes? Since the specific example was explicitly marked third party scre
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by wolrah 3y ago
> We're already all used to running ad/script block on our clients so accept a certain level of breakage. The "we" reading this post? Yeah, probably. The internet population as a whole? Absolutely not, nowhere close
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by wolrah 3y ago
It probably wouldn't be practical for small companies, but what I'd really love would be a rotating third day off that moved between Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I don't think it'd make sense to rotate through all day
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by wolrah 3y ago
> I think the nature of the broad scope of Home Assistant is such that different users may have very different experiences depending on what integrations they use. I think this is a common problem with "hub" projects that inten
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by wolrah 3y ago
> For example, the MOS6581 doesn't seem to be emulated here. https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/soun... The MAME and MESS trees have been reorganized a few times so
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Certified pre-owned is really a brand new car for a lower price for all intents and purposes. Not even close. CPOs are usually lease turn-ins or another trade-in with relatively low mileage for its age, but we're still usually ta
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> I remember presenting this in a project as an undergraduate and I was challenged by the lecturer that it would be highly unusual for a consumer device to ship without RS232 and I could only say “yeah” It's kinda funny that this ma
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Unless you eccentrically expect to use your telephone line to make telephone calls. In which case you are rather tied to their router to power their propietary VoIP landline service. If you're the kind of person who cares about yo
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by wolrah 3y ago
That explains why ARM mainline Linux is more of a mess than other platforms, but it doesn't explain why ARM SoC vendors are seemingly entirely uninterested in doing things the right way. They could develop in a mainline-compatible way
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> I blocked all emergency alerts until they finally gave you the ability to block just amber alerts. Likewise. I still have a tendency to forget whenever I reset my phone or get a new one until inevitably the next amber alert will be at
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> I have never seen a Unity TOS that specified versions as seen in the screenshot of the link you shared. You mean this screenshot, right? https://gameworldobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uni..

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