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by creeble 14d ago
Explosive Technology, wow: https://www.dailyrepublic.com/lifestyle/local-lifestyle-colu...
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by creeble 3mo ago
Source needed: .com domains never cost more than $100/2 years, IIRC.
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by creeble 7mo ago
The movement isn't part of the brand. It's not part of the signal. The case/dial/sometimes band are the brand. And if you couldn't tell them apart, they wouldn't be any good at signaling, the entire point of
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by creeble 7mo ago
> So the only thing distinguishing one top brand from another was the name printed on the dial Respectfully disagree. Since the 60's (and one could argue, even long before that), watches are 1) fashion, and 2) male wealth-signaling
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by creeble 7mo ago
I doubt your 450w gpu runs at that wattage 24 hrs, unless you're mining with it. My (admittedly old) gpu+CPU idles around 50-75w.
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by creeble 7mo ago
For US-made dishwashers, this series (totaling almost two hours!) is educational: https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04
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by creeble 8mo ago
Which reminds me of another "there, problem solved!" pet peeve of mine. I call it the Default Trap. In many cases (Norman Doors are an example), there are two or more equally valid ways to do something. By "equally valid&quot
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by creeble 8mo ago
Almost all of the reports from people I know who have done ayahuasca have reported seeing "elves". It's not only common, they say it's not a "valid" trip unless you do, and even converse with them. Though I don
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by creeble 8mo ago
It's funny. one of the most significant UI axioms I ever learned came from Bill Atkinson: "Always make the 'click zone' a little larger than the visual indication of the affordance." This becomes tricky or impossibl
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by creeble 8mo ago
I've been getting them for weeks and never noticed they were phishing. I only used a SendGrid account briefly, as a potential backup to my current outgoing transaction mail provider. Sent exactly 5 test emails I think. The ICE one this
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by creeble 9mo ago
Looks just like mine. But for $30, you can't beat this: https://www.amazon.com/Cassette-Converter-Portable-Recorder-...
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by creeble 10mo ago
I watched Sal's video yesterday, great summary. So much complexity, plenty of redundancy, but not enough adherence to important rules.
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by creeble 10mo ago
If I understand them correctly, Ebers-Moll equations are based on the exponential relationship between voltage and current in a BJT. But tubes aren't current amplifiers, they're voltage amplifiers, like FETs. You can look at the &
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by creeble 10mo ago
Rob Robinette is a great guitar-amp resource; knows just about everything about Fender amps in particular. He has many mods to many common/not-so-common Fenders. Just his list of 5E3 mods (Fender Deluxe) is awesome: https:/&#x2F
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by creeble 10mo ago
Agreed! There are probably broad categories that I might find myself using, but for my own core collection of music (deeper than it is wide, mostly), it barely matters.
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by creeble 1y ago
I think he has it backwards: Easy for a small vendor, very hard for a large one.
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by creeble 1y ago
I had the opposite experience with my 10-year-old Model S. Most parts could only come from Tesla, including the Bilstein struts (a part number Bilstein refuses to sell to anyone but Tesla). $900 per corner. USB port between the console? $40
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by creeble 1y ago
Elderly neighbor for me. Quite insipid; it took me a few minutes to realize that they were browser-based when I first got to the computer.
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by creeble 1y ago
For music, they hear about 10dB is half/twice as loud.
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by creeble 1y ago
The BBC used to teach +6dB for twice as loud for music sources, but they've always been a bit conservative.
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by creeble 1y ago
Some of these fees are, indeed, paid to the government. That does not mean they are a tax, in the same sense that (as mentioned elsewhere) a building permit is not a tax, but is still required by, and paid to, the government. I'm not t
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by creeble 1y ago
There's also a full documentary movie "The Cover Story" by Eric Christensen that is pretty interesting, if long and redundant in parts.
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by creeble 1y ago
It depends. I argued on the phone with Verizon for a long time (over an hour, going up and up the chain) about why a certain “Recovery Fee” was not in their per-line costs. The answer (eventually) was that they do indeed pay the fee to gove
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by creeble 1y ago
The beauty is you don’t have to.
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by creeble 1y ago
The 'point' of Alvy's article is that pixels should be treated as point sources when manipulating them, not when displaying them. Obviously, when a pile of pixels is shown on a screen (or for that matter, collected from a cam
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by creeble 1y ago
Well, there's speed and then there's _speed_. As the OP says, very fast designs today are like the Sail Gran Prix [1] boats, 15m long foiling catamarans that go 3x the speed of the wind, up to around 50 knots. They bear nothing i
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by creeble 1y ago
Racing isn’t what used to be, but sailing very much is. There are roughly two kinds of sailors: those who care about speed, and those who care about comfort. They have almost antipodal design requirements, but both kinds are very much sailo
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by creeble 1y ago
VersaCAD was the only commercial program I can remember for p-System. It ran from floppies, or a hard drive that could be set to boot it. It was a great CAD program, I many ways ahead of AutoCAD in its time. But AutoCAD was written in C, wh
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by creeble 1y ago
Probably, it's a cover of a Four Lads song written by Simon & Kennedy in the 50's.
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by creeble 1y ago
For the sake of Ubuntu users, it’s ‘apt install fd-find’. You’ll need an alias fd=fdfind too.

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