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by Psychlist 3y ago
The flip side s that you don't have to use Chrome+Google for everything. I buy ebooks and watch youtube on it, plus my phone (so I buy android apps via the same google account). And Gmail is my fallback email account so that doesn&#x
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by Psychlist 3y ago
Isn't Linus Tech Tips an ad, though? The only times I've looked at it all I've seen is sponsored content with breaks to talk about sponsors and maybe buy some merch. Oh, and exhortations to use their affiliate links. And that
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by Psychlist 3y ago
People can have absolute/exception memory for other things too. I dated a woman who could look at a bit of cloth and say "that's the same colour as..." and be right every time. Even when she hadn't seen the other it
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by Psychlist 3y ago
>the "real" perfect pitch people are always anchored, no matter how much noise anyone throws at them. Which is also a source of discomfort and difficulty Not least because the argument about "what note is this" and &q
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by Psychlist 3y ago
If you have a fast design/architecture, you may never need to optimise the code at all. But the flip side is that with a bad design or bad architecture optimising the implementation won't save you. With a sufficiently bad architec
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by Psychlist 3y ago
My expectation is that one combustion car owners have to pay more of the cost of that fuel choice they'll change over. Lots of people already drive 20 minutes to save $10 on a tank full, or queue at the gas station ditto. What we'
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by Psychlist 3y ago
https://www.vehiclesuggest.com/what-happened-tesla-battery-s... Tesla tried it. There was no point Tesla building more swap stations because so few people paid the premium to get a swappable battery. It turns out that peopl
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by Psychlist 3y ago
nothing interesting, just repairs and tweaks. I'm building a granny flat instead :)
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by Psychlist 3y ago
https://ibb.co/0sJx4SN (new cog on the left, old on the right) I'm not saying you should do this. And Rohloff strongly suggest you don't do this I'm just saying that you can do this.
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by Psychlist 3y ago
My limited experience is that it's easier to recruit more muscles on an upright, so your peak power can be higher. In my 30's I would hit double for a 30s trial on an upright vs a recumbent (last time I had a decent power meter wa
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by Psychlist 3y ago
A missing top tube is much easier to deal with than a missing down tube. Lots of bikes have pushed that a very long way. But the main forces there are twisting the pedals against the handlebars and using the front brake, which the downtube
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by Psychlist 3y ago
https://moz.geek.nz/mozbike/ride/carry/index.html I didn't collect photos of the real experiments, those were mostly "grab a scrap bike, hack it about, (try to) ride it, bin it and try again. But if
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by Psychlist 3y ago
There's a reason that horses were the fancy sports car/military tool of the animal transport world. They eat a lot, break easily, and don't last long. People used oxen, donkeys, llama etc way more than horses. And the Chinese
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by Psychlist 3y ago
Nope, with single speed/hub gears chain wear is still a problem, it's just that they're less sensitive to it and there's fewer parts to replace. When the chain gets longer it gets loose, but it has to be very loose indee
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by Psychlist 3y ago
> I vaguely recall that people did state that rowing is what you should use to get the most energy out of a human body The limit for athletes is normally cardiovascular, commonly oxygen - VO2max the the measurement there. For less fit pe
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by Psychlist 3y ago
The trouble with the very first render is that the author is wrong about why the bike wouldn't work. The head tube isn't braced well enough to allow the front brake to be used, and would twist when cornering to a degree that would
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by Psychlist 3y ago
Two things: college is supposed to be an opportunity to learn from mistakes so making the normal consequence of any mistake the end of your career goes against that. Historically the decent young men of Stanford were able to get drunk, pull
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by Psychlist 3y ago
I mean supportive parents, and very likely also a supportive school and supportive community. "led a youth group" on the application doesn't arise in isolation, any more than high grades in external exams come from homeschool
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by Psychlist 3y ago
Having a white tile and a blue tile would be fine, though. I'm really tempted by this, but I think I should start by tiling the garage floor or something rather than my whole living area.
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by Psychlist 3y ago
I think the core bit you've missed is: Stanford explicitly selects for perfectionists by requiring extremely high standards of (most) students. Those students have spend several years working very hard to get in, aware that even the sl
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by Psychlist 4y ago
Sorry, I can't remember, this was several years ago and I've since sold the truck. But loosely my requirements were 24V input to match the truck, battery life of at least a week, external antenna and ability to work without user i
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by Psychlist 4y ago
There's a lot that can be done by disintegrated systems, too. I put cameras onto a box truck so I had reversing etc, but I used an 8-camera wired security system with video recorder and eSIM for that. The screen was optional but I fou
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by Psychlist 4y ago
> skip owning an actual thermometer Doesn't that rely on you living next to someone else's thermometer that's published? My not very accurate setup gives me more than a degree just down my property line (~30m) largely bec
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by Psychlist 4y ago
In Australia they technically need a direct debit authority, but PayPal is above the law in Australia so our dispute process is through our local bank. It works, but it's very tedious and the bank will try to push you towards the Pay
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by Psychlist 4y ago
I have an old-ish paypal account with no phone number attached and while they prompt me every time I have not supplied one. There was a period of a month or two a couple of years ago when I couldn't use paypal at all without providing
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by Psychlist 4y ago
The key thing IMO is that the paper book was 0.9 lux but they cranked the ebook up to 30 lux. I missed that the first time. They also had the ebook set to "harsh blue", which my ebook reader can do but it also has a "warm&quo
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by Psychlist 4y ago
The ebook reader part is kind of disturbing, I have a warm mode on mine that I always use, and the brightness set as low as it'll go (I find it too bright, but they seem to use a linear scale so there's not much range of adjustmen
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by Psychlist 4y ago
The cost of diverting plastic from the waste stream is high, the cost of recovering it once it becomes litter is higher, and the cost of getting it out of the ocean is dollars per kilogramme. And once we have it the best option we have is e
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by Psychlist 4y ago
Some places have gone back to milk in glass bottles: https://www.oaklandsfarm.co.nz/home-delivery It's expensive but it's doable. Or you could say that the plastic milk people have successfully externalised enough
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by Psychlist 4y ago
Because people will find another use for the reusable containers, then just take as many as you let them. What works more often is an explicit deposit, or a pay-for-return. I buy cleaning stuff from a local wholesaler who will pay a few dol

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