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by janitor61 3y ago
Would it be possible for someone to make some "night-time driving glasses" that are shutter LCD-type (3d TV glasses) and which synchronize to the duty cycle of any bright LED lights in the FOV and minimize the brightness to a cert
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by janitor61 3y ago
This is tangentially Rivian related, but does anyone else see the inherent danger of stylized tail lights that are just a single red bar across the back of the car? Travelling on the freeway at night I can't really gauge the distance
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by janitor61 3y ago
One of the cool things I saw on BBSes back in the day - that I have yet to see replicated - was 'real time chat' in telechat, or being able to see what the other person is typing out as they enter it on their keyboard. It was capt
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by janitor61 3y ago
How long do we need to wait until whatever patent encumberance that's keeping e-ink displays at these ridiculous prices expires and we can start to see affordable e-ink displays?
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by janitor61 3y ago
one variable to take into consideration that I hardly see mentioned, ever - legalization of marijuana in California and other states: there's been a few times on my commute to work where I drive through distinct smell cloud of someone&
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by janitor61 3y ago
There's one thing about this I don't see brought up - if someone says "add me, I'm janitor#0832" people usually know they're talking about Discord since that format is ubiquitous, and that's a very valuabl
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by janitor61 4y ago
This might date me but I'd love to see a resurgence of the Gopher protocol - maybe a touch more modernized, but still just plain text files with hyperlinks. Some sort of public-commons version of the overcommercialized web where advert
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by janitor61 4y ago
I think a 3D version of scrabble would be fun, where you build the words using cubes in 3 dimensions instead of two. You could probably even do it non-digitally if you had magnetic cubes
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by janitor61 4y ago
font-size: [fit-width|fit-height|fit-container]; would be nice
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by janitor61 4y ago
I'd say they should avoid bloating CSS, keep Sass style and just use type='text/sass' or type='text/css-nested' in the style tag, but it seems that attribute is depreciated... why is that?
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by janitor61 4y ago
Not an expert on this, but I get the feeling they're trying to dissuade people from discovering videos with lower view counts in search results, since these videos are less likely to be cached at the CDN nodes and are more expensive to
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by janitor61 4y ago
"Groceries are 8% higher than last year. Dollar stores: now dollar-and-a-quarter stores." - so, is it 8% or 25% ?
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by janitor61 5y ago
Newer microwaves don't use bulky HV transformers + voltage doublers for the magnetron anymore and instead use high frequency power supplies + step up transformers, and are noticably lighter
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by janitor61 5y ago
Pretty fascinating stuff, seems like it's time to implement some quantum CAPTCHAs
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by janitor61 5y ago
Firefox, like most modern software, is suffering from Winchester house syndrome. Hiring full-time UX designers and making them perpetually justify their salary will eventually turn any software into an unusable, unlearnable amorphous blob t
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by janitor61 5y ago
The problem I have with touch screens in cars is lining up your finger so that it presses the right area of the screen, which is difficult when driving (and dangerous). Why can't they integrate some sort of capacitive proximity sensor
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by janitor61 5y ago
If they were going to change anything, it would be likely to get rid of both the penny and nickel and use 1 decimal place for prices; the current US nickel already has a melt price/ face value of 124% currently ( https://www.
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by janitor61 5y ago
what is up with those weird recipes in the third section? That's not vanilla
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by janitor61 5y ago
Is that reported-to-insurance billions of dollars or actual billions of dollars?
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by janitor61 5y ago
Humanoid robots won't be feasible while we're still tethered to existing Li-ion battery technology. The two advancements in robotics in recent years, Boston Dynamics' Atlas and Spot, have battery lives of 60 minutes and 90 mi
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by janitor61 5y ago
If you're going to freeze your credit reports with the agencies, disable your adblocker - a few of the sites are javascript-fragile. https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html https://www.transunion.co
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by janitor61 5y ago
If I were to play devil's advocate: Barring alchemy, I don't believe we've ever had a period of exceptional technological supremacy in the history of mankind that subsequently reverted so completely. In the span of 50 years,
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by janitor61 5y ago
pragmatically, the mandatory vaccinations seem to be predicated on the following assumptions: 1. Asymptomatic transmission is the primary vector and just as dangerous as being in proximity to a sick individual - has this been confirmed or r
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by janitor61 5y ago
I don't know if it's just me, but the increased height of these large cars greatly increases their headlight glare and causes me to feel less safe around them at night. If one is directly behind me, it's usually blinding.
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by janitor61 5y ago
Why not bring back the Automat to take the increasingly-rude public out of the equation?
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by janitor61 5y ago
AFAIK the free speech that the United States enshrines applies to public venues, e.g. the street corner, radio waves, etc. As the current venue has shifted from public streets to private social media, the government should be required to cr
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by janitor61 6y ago
Nationalize it and get taxpayer money
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by janitor61 6y ago
Is this a uniquely US issue, and if so, why? Other countries have enacted similar lockdowns, wouldn't a coin shortage show up elsewhere given similar circumstances?
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by janitor61 6y ago
That's already the case with sites like Twitter. In order to remove the trending pane in uBO, I had to rely on a11y attributes: ##div[aria-label="Timeline: Trending now"]
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by janitor61 6y ago
Meanwhile, jQuery is still used on 74% of all websites [1] despite being part of the 'first wave' obsoleted in 2009. If all this Javascript evolution is failing to gain traction across the whole of the web, is it really transforma

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