jammi

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by jammi 4y ago
Thanks, I converted it into a Tampermonkey userscript to use on all the sites. // ==UserScript== // @name Underline links // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ //
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by jammi 7y ago
> Are knobs and plastic moldings that expensive though? Yeah, the molding for any typical single component is tens of thousands of dollars per iteration. A car has a lot of those components, so the fewer the better.
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by jammi 7y ago
The main issue with it is that it's too good and successful, therefore it's too easy to publish whatever crap as your library or its dependencies. That's not really a fault in the tool managing installation and publishing the
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by jammi 7y ago
I don't believe yet another package manager is going to fix anything, more likely it'll take years to reach maturity, will be riddled with bugs until then, and have some serious fundamental issues on its own that will be revealed
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by jammi 8y ago
Probably worth it, since he got a MacBook Pro a year earlier than everyone else. For the rest of us, the MacBook Pros (started as the short-lived Core Duo models) weren't available until spring 2006. The Core 2 Duo models didn't e
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by jammi 8y ago
That’s just because rubber balloons are extremely porous, especially when stretched. They don’t hold other gases well either.
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by jammi 8y ago
I feel like it's similar to the skeumorphism of the past coming back with a revenge.
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by jammi 8y ago
So how about the plurals of some words ending with "us", like fungus-fungi, but virus-viruses-not-virii and how about dingus-dingii-or-dinguses, doofus-doofii-or-doofuses and so forth?
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by jammi 8y ago
Chickens can perform short flights, but from my limited observations it seems like the stamina is the main limiting factor for them. They've however clearly evolved from fully flight-capable birds, but the now-extinct Moa however might
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by jammi 8y ago
Not only does materials overall matter little, but Lithium is also super cheap compared to the other materials in the batteries. There's a lot more of Nickel in a Li-Ion battery and it's much more expensive per volume and weight a
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by jammi 8y ago
I'd also say a large part of its issue is lack of internal consistency of the format itself. Firstly there are the various official RSS versions, then there are all those Atom things and probably others as well, and then there's t
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by jammi 8y ago
The copyright compensation on electronic books is different from paper based ones. The super greedy licensing deals (where even available) is one of the things that hold back electronic books; they're simply much more expensive than pa
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by jammi 8y ago
Seems like an article from a paper romanticist, and they aren't extinct yet. Anyhow, here in Finland the libraries are not just for paper-based information storage/dispersion, but common places for all kinds of public information&
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by jammi 8y ago
Of course, never said it's not. Are people reflecting from themselves, or what is this about?
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by jammi 8y ago
The problem is that the average salesperson is pretty ignorant, even about the probuct he's supposed to sell and the target audience to sell to. Encountering a great salesperson is a rare occurrence in life, encountering a more or
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by jammi 8y ago
Oh right, the mobile app auto-corrected EU to Eau and didn't reply to the context I clicked in. So, any iOS apps to recommend? The "Hacker News" one apparently sucks for commenting.
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by jammi 8y ago
In EU countries they should be classified as light electric vehicle or something like that, along with things like skateboards, rollerblades and “hoverboards”. Hence, allowed basically wherever pedestrians are allowed, unlike the bigger and
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by jammi 8y ago
OTOH, aren't farts just unreleased burps that passed into the intestines.
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by jammi 8y ago
Experience first-hand or via experts who repair them daily, the former can be done by owning the same car or brand for a longer while and spotting the pattern. Prefer makes that have excellent rust protection and models with relatively low
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by jammi 8y ago
Happens with the better ones as well, it's just a matter of setting the torque limiter of your screwdriver/coordless drill to match the job. Sometimes takes a few mistakes, but it's safer to start with a low setting and adjus
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by jammi 8y ago
Yes, if maintained properly, which means swapping out these engineered to fail parts every so often, which becomes uneconomical at least in the resale sense at some point in time, because the repaired car resale value is less than the cos
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by jammi 8y ago
Usually the screw snaps in two at over-torquing before either the head or tool strips.
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by jammi 8y ago
The only real reason for Phillips screw heads were the old electromechanical industry robots that would rely on auto-centering and spring tension to pop the driver out of the screw against a switch at the set torque. Modern (since 1980s or
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by jammi 8y ago
Robertson in Canada is just appeal to tradition at this point. They have no technical merit over Torx except maybe ease of ad-hoc construction of a driver.
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by jammi 8y ago
They do. Cars are engineered to fail and some models are sold even at loss to get the profit from OEM parts and service. This is also often the reason why seemingly similar parts are incompatible from one model to the next; the manufacturer
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by jammi 8y ago
As an entrepreneur and software consultant, it's more of a "make the good people pay". Here any improvements made must be obviously useful to be worth the money. I'd redefine it like this, where usefulness is the prime m
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by jammi 8y ago
How about this? There are also plenty of DOS PC-speaker-savvy demos from the 90s on pouet.net and scene.org, but there are apparently no recordings of them on youtube without sound card configurations. Some of the late DOS games also had aw
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by jammi 8y ago
Just like in combustion engines, it seems like the best things are held to the last generations of hardware. I expect both to lose market share down to nil during the 2020s. BEVs replacing internal combustion engines and solid state storage
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by jammi 8y ago
I don't know for a fact about the pressure, but I assume it's at atmospheric pressure, to make sealing and such less of an issue than making the HDD a pressure vessel.
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by jammi 8y ago
A PC beeper can sound just as good, when used on a fast enough PC and the beeper output is connected to something better than the built-in piezo speaker. Even on the original IBM PC, you could make it sound almost as good by very careful op

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