Clamchop

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by Clamchop 7d ago
This is where I've always assumed things were going. People talk about one day owning a self-driving car but I look forward to the promise of not owning a car, never needing to buy, maintain, register, insure, or drive one. Not having
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by Clamchop 21d ago
It's a fun myth but Parton and Curry already come fast on the heels of a few recent celebrity deaths: Sam Neill, Bonnie Tyler, Daveigh Chase, Hayden Panettiere, and Lindsay Graham.
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by Clamchop 26d ago
Even better, 8MiB was recommended for Windows 95 but it minimally required just 4.
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by Clamchop 1mo ago
> It asked for zero permissions. Not quite. It requested to play DRM protected content.
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by Clamchop 2mo ago
This isn't anything to do with digital time, it's just a convenience of recent microwaves. The digital microwaves of the 1990s did not have this feature, but they were still digital. If you input 1, you just got 1 second. On micro
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by Clamchop 3mo ago
They're within an order of magnitude of each other but they're not _in_ the same order of magnitude. 2 would be in the 0th order and 6 would be in the 1st. But even if it weren't so, I'm not sure what your point is. Do y
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by Clamchop 4mo ago
A major contributor to this statistic is fire sprinklers. New apartment complex construction for decades has required them but they're virtually nonexistent in single-family homes, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
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by Clamchop 4mo ago
These don't seem strange to me at all. Lifestyle marketing, romance, appeals to independence, metaphor, and humor. All timeless advertising tropes. It's cigarettes themselves that are passé.
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by Clamchop 5mo ago
I remember most installers bundling such bullshit. It may have been so normalized that no one was sincerely asking if participating would harm their reputation. I barely noticed as the practice went out of fashion but I'm so glad it di
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by Clamchop 5mo ago
It's an acquired taste. All alternative sweeteners taste differently from sugar. These days, I appreciate that such beverages don't leave a film in my mouth and have a little extra bite compared to sugar. I think it's interes
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by Clamchop 5mo ago
Redundancy in natural language isn't a big deal, and it isn't entirely useless, either.
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by Clamchop 5mo ago
I think the underlying needle this is trying to thread is teaching kids to know their audience and adjust their register for it (which is a much broader skill than just whether or not to curse), but I agree that the fucking president ;) doi
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by Clamchop 5mo ago
The rest of that same sentence, " – and that if specialised tools are required, they must be provided free of charge when the phone or tablet is purchased," seems to mitigate that concern, no? I suppose it hinges on what the test
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by Clamchop 5mo ago
La Brea tarpits
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by Clamchop 5mo ago
No more pedantic than the comment I was replying to. My advice would be not to use "eatable" at all because others will just think you're saying edible incorrectly.
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by Clamchop 5mo ago
That's backwards, eatable is the stronger claim that means fit as food while edible just means safe to eat.
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by Clamchop 5mo ago
In the US, photos of food must depict the actual product being advertised. So all the photos of burgers on the McD's menu are what is being sold, albeit with carefully selected "hero" ingredients skillfully assembled for the
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by Clamchop 5mo ago
I agree in fractions. I think land ownership should be abolished. That'll never happen for a lot of reasons, but it's highly unethical in my opinion. Ignoring who the land was stolen from to begin with, I also feel that it's
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by Clamchop 5mo ago
Demonetized videos show fewer or no ads. It's something they implemented because advertisers don't want to be associated with some kinds of content.
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by Clamchop 6mo ago
And Apple famously struggled for a long time to compete with PCs on price, beyond what their positioning as a premium brand would justify, compounding the problem. And their hardware wasn't exactly setting the world on fire on performa
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by Clamchop 6mo ago
The way I see it, self-driving cars have the potential to deliver us from the burden of ownership altogether--maintenance, insurance, liability, parking, and all the rest. This hinges on availability, quality of service, pricing, and a rath
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by Clamchop 6mo ago
I mean, yes, it is easy. No adhesive and just a couple of clips on the case. You could replace the battery in 20 minutes with little anxiety that you're going to cause damage getting to it.
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by Clamchop 7mo ago
Running uBO here and I see a chart.
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by Clamchop 7mo ago
And later pyramids. As a matter of economy, many were constructed from mudbrick and only encased in true stone. Over time, particularly after the casing stones were removed for other projects, they collapsed into the rubble piles referred t
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by Clamchop 8mo ago
In my experience, stirring within the first tens of seconds of submersion is enough and it won't stick together again for the rest of the boil. After it's strained is a different matter, but you might as well wait until then if yo
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by Clamchop 9mo ago
Minor nit, cassettes were and are mostly worse audio quality than records and they coexisted for decades with their respective compromises. Cassettes replaced 8-track in the portable space and eventually enabled the Walkman. CDs killed both
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by Clamchop 9mo ago
What cargo do the cultists think is coming?
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by Clamchop 9mo ago
You don't have to pass it through a DAC. There's no equivalent of HDCP for protecting digital audio end to end. Crudely, you could capture S/PDIF but really, skip that and just output to a virtual audio device for recording.
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by Clamchop 9mo ago
The general term for plants that set seed once is monocarp. Most famously agave and bamboo, among plants with cycles longer than two years. For plants like bamboos, they're interesting because the periods can be quite long, over a hund
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by Clamchop 9mo ago
USB C is at least one reason that will apply constant pressure.

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