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by function_seven 3y ago
> while other content creators get a click automatically. A number of times now Youtube has shown me a video recommendation that I ignored for days. The thumbnail with that stupid "gobsmacked" expression of the creator (:-O)
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by function_seven 3y ago
> Roland Piquepaille Wow! I haven't heard that name in nearly 20 years, but the instant I saw it I had a negative reaction. I didn't even know why at first until I read the rest of your sentence.
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by function_seven 3y ago
+5, Funny
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by function_seven 3y ago
Yeah I feel the same. I have an LG inverter and it’s absolutely fine. Definitely better than the 70s microwave I grew up with. I sympathize a bit with those who would like to have physical knobs and simplicity. I’m not a fan of the capaciti
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by function_seven 3y ago
I nominate your comment as the start of the leaderboard. :) I got 91% overall with 3 perfect splits.
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by function_seven 3y ago
You're not wrong. But for this to work, the therapists' notes must be forever sealed regardless of circumstance. The first time a pilot darts their plane into a mountainside, and the investigation reveals that they told their ther
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by function_seven 3y ago
n=33 ain't bad. That means you will have data on 33 Calibri participants, and you get 33 more Arial participants as well.
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by function_seven 3y ago
It's not obvious that he needs to be in the cockpit, rather it's obvious that there is no security threat to allowing a pilot to occupy the jump seat. The trust they're given to fly the plane is a superset of the trust requ
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by function_seven 3y ago
When I was a kid, we called it "multimedia". Encarta being the example that comes to mind. My school library had some other interactive encyclopedia that came on a 6–CD-ROM magazine changer (the Pioneer style, if you remember musi
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by function_seven 3y ago
Designer: "Ok, boss. All dimensions in CAD have been updated with a tolerance < 10 micron." Tool and Die Maker: "Just finished honing all the stamps and dies to < 10 micron accuracy." Industrial Engineer: "Got
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by function_seven 3y ago
I'm in Southern California.
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by function_seven 3y ago
The city I live in is just about perfect with the light-controlled intersections. Seriously, I love this place. A few reasons: 1. At night, many of the intersections here go red for all directions, and will immediately turn green for a car
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by function_seven 3y ago
And tellingly, you didn't call it a two-passenger vehicle, either :) It's a "2-seater" because it would be confusing to count the driver's seat as a passenger seat. If I tell you I left my sunglasses "on the
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by function_seven 3y ago
Those who live in Kerrville, TX are really lucky! They are smack dab in the middle of this year's eclipse as well as next year's total eclipse.
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by function_seven 3y ago
Haha, yup. No matter what method I choose, I give something up. I agree switches are usually the best, but it gets more complicated when I want to have configurable color temp and dimmability in the same fixture. Can't use a dimmer s
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by function_seven 3y ago
I have, yeah. A couple years ago I got a bunch of Tasmota-flashable ones, and I use them for the coffeemaker, a couple stereos, and one table lamp. Oh yeah, and the christmas lights. :) My issue with those is that they fail the "normal
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by function_seven 3y ago
80% of my lights are smart bulbs rather than switches, and I agree with your take here. In my house I have the smarts in the switch itself wherever possible, but so much of my lighting is from floor and table lamps (that aren't plugged
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by function_seven 3y ago
The threat of mantle-cooling from geothermal energy is about as likely as stopping the wind with too many windmills. Or stopping the rotation of the earth by everyone running east. Total energy contained in the mantle is about 12 million mi
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by function_seven 3y ago
> Comedy is about the unexpected -- leading a reader down a path and then changing directions in a way that provokes laughter, not confusion. Yup. My favorite line was "Frankly, I think this all goes back to my childhood, when I w
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by function_seven 3y ago
I'm describing what I think is a predictable second-order effect of this explicit enumeration. Prop 65 seemed like a fine idea. Let's make sure people know about the carcinogens in their daily lives! Oops, now that stupid sticker
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by function_seven 3y ago
> The law would literally prohibit everyone from discriminating on the basis of caste. There's nothing arguable or debatable about that. I'm not debating the literal law, I'm debating the effects of the law. Harsher sent
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by function_seven 3y ago
They would be the only group “exposed” to this law. The vast majority of non-Indian people in California have very little idea how caste works, and how to identify membership, etc. So now there’s this new law that de facto only applies to
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by function_seven 3y ago
I can see hiring managers avoiding Indian candidates if they think it would add risk of future lawsuits from that candidate’s subordinates in the future. (“Don’t hire him, he might use caste-ist decision-making when building his team.”) In
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by function_seven 3y ago
On the contrary, you want your fund to cover unlucky situations. By linking the size of the insurance to a random number, you cancel out unlucky external events with a lucky internal event, thereby ensuring proper coverage. So long as the r
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by function_seven 3y ago
Wow. I have no idea how I confused that. Yeah, the WiFi is improved. The Bluetooth is the same as it ever was. I pardon your confusion.
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by function_seven 3y ago
I have an inverter microwave. Before I went crazy with APs around my house, that microwave would win the war; no zero-crossings to sneak a packet by it. Now my bluetooth only drops when I'm fairly close to the microwave as it runs. (ED
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by function_seven 3y ago
> It's the axis intercept that's most bothersome. Real quote from my grandmother: "I'm not afraid of flying or anything. I just wish they didn't have to get so close to the ground before landing!"
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by function_seven 3y ago
He's describing a particular kind of hybrid, where the ICE acts purely as a power generator. Most hybrids don't work this way. They tie the output shaft of the ICE into the powertrain directly, so it can operate the wheels by itse
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by function_seven 3y ago
With all due respect to Mr. Lewis, this quote is crap. I have no reason to believe that the robber baron's cruelty may sleep, nor that his cupidity might be satiated, nor that conscience enters into it for that robber baron. A private
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by function_seven 3y ago
The timing changes everything. In a wash sale I immediately churn the asset with successively higher “selling” prices. In a buyback, the sale was many years ago, to someone else in the market. That’s makes all the difference. Just like if I

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