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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
Anyone who tried to pay for anything in Canada on 8 July 2022 knows that it's not that simple. The entire Interac network was shut down for over 15 hours, which meant that debit and credit payments through POS terminals were halted nat
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
They are always pressurised during normal use. When they are depressurised because of a water main break or for maintenance (and they try to do this as little as possible), orders are given to flush the lines before drinking any of the wate
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
Lead solder hasn't been used in the US since 1986, when it was banned by the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
It's not the width of the roads. It's about - parking mandates that push everything very far apart because parking takes up a lot of space - zoning restrictions that necessitate distant travel because your home is in a different s
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
The 3DS family of devices used standard SD and micro SD cards.
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
Oh it's definitely real, because I recognize the product I bought, and it all matches up perfectly to my records. It even has an old phone number on the letter (but current at the time), which is probably why they haven't called m
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
Any Logitech device that supported both Bluetooth and Unifying, such as the MX Master, allowed you to cycle through up to stored 3 connections of either type. The older, cheap devices generally only had a single connection. Logitech also ma
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
FedEx recently started sending me mail to my parent's address saying I owe them $65 for a product I bought from the US a while ago... in 2014. I wonder if this is related to the whole Trump tariff thing? I haven't paid it, and I w
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
Yes we do. https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_marquee The marquee element is deprecated but is supported by all major Web browsers.
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
HD has really good self checkouts though. They don't require any interaction with the touch screen except hitting "Done", nor do they have over-sensitive anti-theft scale systems. It's just a wireless barcode scanner on
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
"The red one is gorgeous" would be the idiomatic way of saying that. Adding the word "colour" is redundant. "Colourway" is just marketing-speak that is not common outside of tech reviewers.
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
For Apollo, the backup crew became the main crew two missions later (politics intervened on the last couple of missions, but this generally held true for all the manned Apollo missions).
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
> According to state law, all the money collected by local governments through paid fines can only be used for public safety initiatives like crossing guards and police training. Should the broken flashing lights be fixed? Of course, and
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
I have a set of bike lights from Topeak that will flash the main headlight into the eyes of oncoming drivers when the battery is low, even though it has a battery indicator on the top. It gives me a heart attack every time.
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
Some Bosch dishwashers do this, to let the steam escape quickly. Also, the controls are hidden at the top of the door, so it projects a red dot onto the floor when it's running, because it's so quiet that you would have no idea ot
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
The specific use is to light the way when reversing. They are not intended for use as "reverse" indicators, even if that's what they're used for in practice. Trailers usually don't have reverse lights, for example.
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
I'm not sure how common the term is (I heard it in a YT video), but a "Dutch hill" is wind, because the Netherlands is very windy, and anyone who's ridden a bike in heavy wind knows that it can be just as much an obstacl
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
I sure that Amsterdam has plenty of Dutch hills.
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
Good design is just that: de-sign . US roads have so. many. signs. Instead of just designing the roads and streets to not need signs in the first place.
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
In Ontario a new speed zone is always signed with "BEGINS" below it, which is very helpful if you missed the last sign. I wish this was standard practice across Canada. In much of Europe, including the UK, they have the concept of
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
If you look closely, you can see the springy retention clips in the plug. Below is a Stack Overflow answer with more details, it includes a link to the USB-C spec where you can also see the corresponding notches in the male part of the rece
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
USB-C uses an identical spring mechanism, actually, except the cord is the female side, and the port is male.
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
That depends on the cable. Apple's USB-C cables in particular have a very tactile non-squidgy click.
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
I did, and by many accounts CV is just as bad as Mozaik, although significantly more capable. Mozaik is bad because it tries to do everything itself, badly, instead of adding functionality to established CAD software. That's the approa
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
Do pedestrians need automatic detection? Not necessarily, although a beg button adds unnecessary friction. Do cyclists need automatic detection? Yes, absolutely. If you think otherwise, would you want to park and exit your car every time yo
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
The bit about Mozaik hits home. I use that software every day. It's terrible and I hate it and it's so bad that you have to quadruple check everything before cutting anything... but it does work, and it's cheap. The custom ca
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
That's what turning around a train means. The point is that a train at a terminal station is "occupying" a disproportionately long section of track, and as a result you need a multi-tracking and a ridiculous number of platfor
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
You can't? Refrigerators have always made a noticeable background noise as they cycle on and off. The advantage of the newer variable speed scroll compressors in some high end fridges is that they can run continuously at a slower speed
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
Are there are metro systems that run trains 30 seconds apart? I think the fastest is around 90 seconds. Rarely used freight lines (aka branch lines) would never be automated, that wouldn't make sense. And some mainlines (I live near on
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by frosted-flakes 1y ago
Many service stations in Canada still operate this way.

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