PietdeVries

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by PietdeVries 2y ago
I stared at Google Earth for a while, using the 41:30 and 73 as a guide, but wasn't able to pinpoint the location of the site. With these huge vents, it shouldn't be too hard to find where this site was located. Anyone an idea?
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by PietdeVries 3y ago
Can you check if things improve if you turn off 5G and move to 4G/LTE instead?
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by PietdeVries 3y ago
Why would a power meter allow an unauthenticated client to turn the thing on and off wireless?!? Sure, if you flip a switch handling a large current often enough, something will break (and I am impressed it's not the AC in this case).
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by PietdeVries 3y ago
Right!?! NSFW features like the Oral-B brush has, where you can order a special brush that helps you relieve certain stress in the bedroom. With the modified Sonicare firmware, the brush won't stop after 2 minutes but keeps "brush
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by PietdeVries 3y ago
I might have misinterpreted the article, but I imagine that if the NFC tag on the brush locks out, the handset is no longer able to write new data to it (no 'brush seconds' can be added to the counter). This suggests to me that th
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by PietdeVries 4y ago
I think fusion-plants have always been "15 years away", and most likely will be so for quite a few years... Edit: I was wrong, fusion is always 30 years away: https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/why-nu
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by PietdeVries 4y ago
While we're on the "wartime economy" topic - is your country currently at war? Is any EU country currently formally at war? Is the US? How would that justify a "war time economy decision"?!? You can't just thro
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by PietdeVries 4y ago
Not sure how this would work outside the Netherlands where I live, but there seems to be a relation between the housing market and the interest rates... We currently see the interest rates go up rather quickly. This has a great effect on yo
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by PietdeVries 4y ago
This is just technological progress, right..? With the centrally heated house rising, so we forgot the skill (and pleasure) to heat your house with a fire (coal, wood). We buy fully-prepared meals in the supermarket - no longer willing to g
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by PietdeVries 4y ago
If more taxes is the reason for this rule, then why try to justify it with references to terrorism?
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by PietdeVries 4y ago
Well... The US Defense budget for 2021 alone is 7 times the money needed to build a new LHC (705 billion [1] for the US defense in 2021). Germany will spend a similar 100 billion dollars on weapons in the coming years. So while 100 billion
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by PietdeVries 4y ago
Right - but that puts the 'solution' to this problem on your end, and not on the plate of the organisation sending it to you in the first place. Sure, this is the easiest way of dealing with it, but it's not how it should be.
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by PietdeVries 5y ago
"Regardless that’s what insurance is for." Wot?!? It appears you've never experienced the feeling that someone was in your house, your bedroom and went through your stuff - perhaps even while you were home... Money cannot fix
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by PietdeVries 5y ago
I would assume they would just raise their prices. Like with shipping containers from China to the rest of the world - prices increased tenfold...
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by PietdeVries 5y ago
No - the use of gasoline does not impact the cost of the road. But it can be used to persuade people to use the bike lane next to it. People are amazingly sensitive to costs - check for instance tax benefits. As soon as a product is subsidi
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by PietdeVries 5y ago
For the (north) Europeans here, there is a German project Luftdaten (also available in English) that does more or less the same [1]. Provides guides for air quality measurement devices [2], firmware and a 'worldwide' map that show
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by PietdeVries 5y ago
I don't think the IoT devices will care that their download speed is somewhat reduced and that they'd have to wait a few ms to get access. These devices will hardly transmit or received any data. Likely a lot of switches, wall out
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by PietdeVries 5y ago
I can't imagine it's the high number of (IoT) clients that is the problem - it is the high power that the AP's use that causes the issue. WiFi goes two ways - the AP talks to the client, and the client has to talk back. Clien
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by PietdeVries 6y ago
Good question! Why would a company rather invest 1.5B$ in something volatile like bitcoin instead of investing it in the well being of their employees?
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by PietdeVries 6y ago
I think you over-estimate the CO2 emissions for solar panels and under-estimate the complexity of nuclear installations. A quick google search [1] learns that the CO2 emissions of the solar panel are marginally higher than for a nuclear pow
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by PietdeVries 6y ago
Can't speak for the UK, but in the Netherlands the tax deduction laws have changed (already 4 years ago) to no longer give lease-car drivers a tax advantage when driving a hybrid. Only full electric cars were eligible for a lower tax r
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by PietdeVries 6y ago
In the Netherlands there are two levels of sales tax (BTW); the high one for "luxury" goods - 21%, and a low (9%) one for necessary stuff. A lot of goods are necessary, and there is no need for the country to profit from (after al
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by PietdeVries 6y ago
How are ads "not the same thing"?!? The idea is that Apple takes 30% of whatever you sell via an app available in the App Store. Some sell games, Facebook sells ads. It is actually their core business. Likely, the real reason why
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by PietdeVries 6y ago
You'd need more than a regular 787, given that the circumference of the earth is 40.000 km so you'd have to fly roughly 1600 km/h or more than mach-1... Then again, that is when flying at the equator. Taking off further north
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by PietdeVries 6y ago
How cycnical - an article further down (Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater) links to Forbes.com that indeed allows me to set my tracking preferences.However, anything other than 'accept'
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by PietdeVries 7y ago
True! If it would, then male baldness would have been "natural de-selected" a long time ago. But since men are getting bald mostly after they had their offspring, partners (nature) cannot select on this...
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by PietdeVries 7y ago
Also in today's world it is cheaper for one machine to produce 1.000 identical parts than for the same machine produce 10 times 100 different parts. You need stock of each, tests of each. Imagine how efficient car maintenance would be
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by PietdeVries 7y ago
For me it redirects to a page from https://guce.advertising.com , telling me my browser is out of date and that I have to go to browsehappy.com to get a new one...
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by PietdeVries 7y ago
But still - there are Tesla's driving everywhere, including ones with autopilot enabled, and I have yet to see the first Waymo car on the road... The technology might be/seem superior, commercially Tesla has cleary won the race..
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by PietdeVries 7y ago
From the article: However, under the laws of the People's Republic, government agencies can more or less search any machine at any time in the Middle Kingdom, meaning profiles on 56.5 million American residents appear to be at the fin

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