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by x0054 11y ago
OP Here: I think there are different definitions of off the grid. When I said that the HOUSE is completely off the grid, I meant that the house is not connected to a water utility, power utility, or gas utility directly. When I used to visi
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by x0054 11y ago
OP here: I tested this system with a IR thermometer. Unplugging 2 out of 3 cables does make the remaining cable get warm after an hour of operation, but it doesn't burn, melt, or smoke. Running with just 2 cables, the system remains ni
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by x0054 11y ago
OP here: Hi there. Yes, I agree, I am not sure why the house wasn't built for collecting rainwater. It is something we have considered doing right away when we moved here, but at that moment we couldn't afford the investment. Long
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Living Off the Grid Under the Sun(sdbr.net)
43 points by x0054 11y ago|33 comments
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by x0054 11y ago
Wow, that's some good spin! Not sure what you are doing now, but I am sure Chrysler can use you in their PR department!
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by x0054 11y ago
How do I get me some HTC stock? I never purchased international stock before, but if it's really trading for below cash, it might be a good buy. Something to research tomorrow.
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by x0054 11y ago
It's beyond me why they made the choice to move out Messages to a different app. Not only is it incredibly frustrating when I accidentally click the messages tab bar, and the entire FB app closes and another app opens, with no easy way
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by x0054 11y ago
> ed: for a more specific example, look at Firefox or Chrome, try really hard to imagine that you are a first time user of that web browser, but you've used IE before, and then figure out how to do one of the most common things that
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by x0054 11y ago
I am not super familiar with the Android App, but the iOS App does have a Dialer that allows you to make phone calls. Are you talking about something else?
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by x0054 11y ago
> (iOS users recently got many of the same updates). How is it that Google is still "iOS first." I mean, I love my iPhone and am happy that Google feels the need to update iOS apps before Android. But why? That's like Micr
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by x0054 11y ago
I think reading this story some people might think, well, who cares, this guy is guilty. And in this particular case, the actual guy on trial does happen to be very guilty in deed. He did confess, and I think they had a pretty strong case a
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by x0054 11y ago
I think this article in several places equates actively deleting your browser history with using an incognito mode in chrome, or another method of automatically deleting, or even preventing the creation of history all together. This is not
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by x0054 11y ago
It looks like a good talk, but without the presentation part of it, the slides are useless. Is there a transcript of the presentation some place?
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by x0054 11y ago
Oh :( That sucks. I was looking foreword to having multiple full speed Thunderbolts.
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by x0054 11y ago
I am not an expert, but from what I know, Xeon based chips have a lot more PCI and other IO lanes. So you can for instance have a dedicated lane for each thunderbolt and USB 3 port on the laptop. With i7, you may have 2 thunderbolt ports, f
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Location Based CLI Samba Mounting Tool for OS X(sdbr.net)
2 points by x0054 11y ago|0 comments
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That's a really sad state of affairs. Instead of promoting security, which is what the law claims to do, the law is actually promoting insecurity. Which is probably the true end goal of the law any way, if that's the way it's
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Show HN: A Simple Project Management App with Partial Progress for Tasks(thesimplifiapp.com)
2 points by x0054 11y ago|0 comments
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by x0054 11y ago
Could you explain the dual-use export issue. I read a little about it here [1], but I don't understand. So, if Esser was to contact Apple and provide them with the vulnerability info for free, but with out first registering it as a dua
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by x0054 11y ago
Ah, interesting. Never mind then, stupid idea on my part :)
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by x0054 11y ago
Hmm, I am no expert in guns. Is it not possible to use blanks in a standard automatic pistol? I have seen people use blanks in revolvers. Is it because a blank cartridge would be missing the bullet part, so it would be shorter? Just curious
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by x0054 11y ago
More important, when they do miss, the bullet will keep going, possibly actually killing a bystander.
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by x0054 11y ago
How about loading the first round with blanks. Some times just the sound of the shot is enough to startle and stop a suspect. Shooting in the air would be an option too, but it could be a little problematic, as what goes up, must come down.
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by x0054 11y ago
Hmm, well in that case it's beyond me why they have to take the car, drive it into the service station, connect it to the laptop, and have it sit there for 40min thinking. I'll show him that page, maybe they could do it with USB s
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by x0054 11y ago
I hope when Swift becomes open source, MS will add a bridge for Swift as well. I am really looking foreword to making Swift my go to language for web app and utility development. It's a very neat language.
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by x0054 11y ago
Oh, that's really cool, I had no idea. My friend works at a Chrysler dealer, and they have to connect a laptop to the car and update it like that. If it's available via a USB stick, why aren't they told to do that. I guess bu
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by x0054 11y ago
You mean to say: No one want's to leave someone else's house, especially if they get to stay there for way, way, below market rate, just because the actual owner of that house wants to sell that house or fully utilize their inves
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by x0054 11y ago
There isn't at the moment, but I don't see why you couldn't have an update procedure that tells you that you have an OTA update as you start the car and asks you to apply it. For that matter, I do not see why in todays day an
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by x0054 11y ago
Now, come on, this is just downright idiotic. I have a friend in Chicago who works 40 hours a week as a lube tech, makes about $28k a year, and is able to support his mother, own a modest house and 2 cars. Is this guy entitled to live in NY
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by x0054 11y ago
Understandably, people would be upset if they had random articles from the new page inserted into the main feed on the front page. However, if the articles are in a separate box on top, and there are just 3-5 of them, they would have correc

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