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by bentpins 2y ago
I live in New Zealand - until 2019 things used to work this way for us too. A law was introduced to require overseas sellers selling more than $60,000 NZD/year into New Zealand to collect pay our Goods and Services Tax. Now Amazon&#x2
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by bentpins 2y ago
Before it was a settlement it was a military base. It did have walls protecting until 1940, where under WW2 Japanese occupation they were demolished. The name stuck even after. The south gate of the wall remains as part of Kowloon Walled Ci
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by bentpins 2y ago
https://earthtoveg.com/chinese-hawthorn-candy-haw-leather/ The Chinese Hawthorn is used in a few snacks. I really like the fruit leather you can buy in Asian supermarkets. My math teacher from High School got me intere
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by bentpins 2y ago
I was curious whether handling them directly is a good idea. There's some guidance here: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/how-to-handle-mete... Try not to handle any freshly fallen meteorites with your ba
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by bentpins 3y ago
You're not wrong - they do that. Have a look at https://thekitepower.com/products/ There's a diagram of the flight path and power generation over the cycles. The flight path on the way out is much much longer
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by bentpins 3y ago
I have fond memories of Dick Smith. My dad bought my first soldering iron, along with some soldering projects (I remember the FM Wireless Microphone from here https://ia801002.us.archive.org/3/items/dicksmithsfunwa
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by bentpins 5y ago
HIAKAI in New Zealand has done really well taking indigenous (traditionally foraged) Māori ingredients and turning them into a fine dining experience. I'd love to see what a similar take could look like with Native Indian cuisine. htt
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by bentpins 5y ago
Can confirm. Went on a trip NZ->UK and was fascinated. They're so twitchy, fast and inquisitive, and so furry. They are legitimately as interesting to watch to me as almost any zoo animal.
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by bentpins 5y ago
You can add the CSS rule "filter: grayscale(100)" to the body if it helps. I have no idea how black and white monitors worked though, I would guess they'd have less than 8 bits of brightness info?
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by bentpins 5y ago
Oh absolutely. So many dead links scattered around the net. It's gotten so bad an independent group Archive Team are brute forcing URL shortners so these links aren't lost to time. Just look at how long the list of dead shortener
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by bentpins 5y ago
How huge is the latency? It's using Elk Audio OS, claiming 1ms roundtrip. I doubt this usage gets that low but I wouldn't be surprised if it was doing alright
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by bentpins 5y ago
If you're curious what categories they fit into here's Wikipedia's list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Me...
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by bentpins 6y ago
Xiaomi has hit 480hz touch sampling with the Mi 11. It looks possible in hardware and in software, someone just has to manage to perfect both in the same phone
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by bentpins 6y ago
One nice thing is that in brewing it can be used to generate heat for boiling during brewing rather than converting to electricity first. They mention a furnace but not a generator. 81% of Dutch power is fossil fuel based, if you have an en
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by bentpins 6y ago
Hm right. I am fairly sure it was on the homepage. It's still inside the app and I managed to do a transfer out no worries. I would guess they are in the process of removing it? https://soundiiz.com/tutorial/spotif
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by bentpins 6y ago
Another playlist migration service is https://soundiiz.com/ I've been really happy with it. They haven't implemented any restrictions around exporting from Spotify yet. Might be helpful if you'd like to jump
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by bentpins 6y ago
Some rainbow diffraction I guess. It has been a long time since I've used a CD https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=cd
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by bentpins 6y ago
Didn't mean to come across as a troll, this is how I remember CDs, with rainbow diffraction. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=cd
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by bentpins 6y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but how is the image so clear? CDs don't have a mirror like surface, they reflect light in unusual ways
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by bentpins 6y ago
Nintendo back in 2001 came out with the e-Reader that would plug into a Gameboy Advance and read cards with data printed on them. You'd have to scan a few "stripes" of data, but it there were several NES games that you could
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by bentpins 6y ago
Reminds me of Chef Watson, the recipes and directions that generated were supposed to be plausible https://www.welcome.ai/tech/food/ibm-chef-watson
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by bentpins 6y ago
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/chickens-depopulated-d... It's not really doable from what I've been seeing. The animals grow to big and living conditions worsen
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by bentpins 6y ago
It's a little bit of an ordeal - you have to request a bootloader unlock and then wait two weeks. But doable.
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by bentpins 7y ago
It does minify when using the --optomize flag https://www.snowpack.dev/#optimizing-for-production I am curious about SASS and other loaders too.
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by bentpins 7y ago
That or it could be sending only a fingerprint (still a privacy issue, but less severe)
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by bentpins 7y ago
Maybe if you had the wood half be encased in a tungsten shell?
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by bentpins 7y ago
Is it possible to identify a laptop that has had the replacement?
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by bentpins 7y ago
$64 on AliExpress. Pandacheck is a good tool for price comparison although it doesn't help deal with listings with multiple prices https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32970668564.html https://en.pandacheck.
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by bentpins 7y ago
I think this holiday would be an excellent candidate for Mondayization - it's unfortunate it lands on a Saturday next year https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mondayize#English
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by bentpins 7y ago
A fair amount of phones the charging port as a modular component or on a replaceable charging board. Makes fixing this issue cheap/easy

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