mrexroad

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by mrexroad 3d ago
Technically, they’re both part of the Mitsubishi Group, the former zaibatsu; there are number of other Mitsubishi companies in this conglomerate as well. However, the Mitsubishi Pencil company is entirely unrelated to the Mitsubishi Group.
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by mrexroad 7d ago
I’ve been holding on to my 12 mini for a bit too long probably. I loved the thing before iOS 26, but sadly since then, even basic tasks cause it to overheat and just hang for several minutes until it cools off. The battery is a joke of cour
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by mrexroad 7d ago
Evasive? They literally discussed the layers of materials, with the outer being a polymer.
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by mrexroad 11d ago
And where does that end? Public stonings, where you can bid on the rocks? Cut a thief’s hand off?
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by mrexroad 18d ago
I read the comment as an overview of their utility costs—natural gas, not gasoline.
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by mrexroad 1mo ago
Citation?
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by mrexroad 1mo ago
Looks like the paid/pro version does this. > Cable history > Add a cable, give it a name, and WhatCable records how it performs over time, with a verdict per cable.
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by mrexroad 1mo ago
Yeah, I took a shortcut by just grabbing the copyright on page, but Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5 has a slightly more storied history than being a www site. It started on Usenet before the pilot even aired iirc. I assume the ‘92 date encompas
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by mrexroad 1mo ago
‘09-‘14 is hilariously not the “old web.” With that said, those of us who participated in what I consider the “old web” are likely “old” now, so… shrug ? Two of my favorite sites [0][1] still online—Lurkers Guide to Babylon 5 and ex-astris
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by mrexroad 1mo ago
I was about to make the same comment. Squeak and Scheme were mind expanding points of curriculum for me. I still remember writing a Ga Tech themed version of The Sims in Squeak. I felt omnipotent being able to inspect or modify any object w
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by mrexroad 1mo ago
My city has a contract with Flock, but the rest of their tech “stack” is Axon based. I’ll be surprised if they don’t change ALPR to Axon at first chance.
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by mrexroad 1mo ago
Been a minute since I’ve commuted daily in DC, but I always found the waffle stations rather lovely as well as iconic; they’re among my favorites from my travels.
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by mrexroad 2mo ago
I always cut diagonal and lean the halves against each other, balanced on edge, with the diagonal facing up. No soggy side, center cools faster, and contents don’t leak as much before picking up.
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by mrexroad 2mo ago
> folding laundry robot This is my dream for a house chore robot. If I could dump hampers of clothes into a receptacle and get stacks of folded clothes out, I’d happily pay $1k. Household of 5; my kids each produce 3-4 sets of clothes a
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by mrexroad 2mo ago
… says a post from a 25min old bot account? Snark aside, I’m curious: what about the comment you replied to is a “Reddit lie?” Pretty much everything act mentioned is well documented. Do you disagree with the assumptions made about motivat
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by mrexroad 2mo ago
I was visiting a friend’s lab at NASA Ames the other day. I smiled seeing this on the wall there. I sometimes daydream about what it’d be like if our primary education system devoted an hour a week to reading / discussing comics (well,
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by mrexroad 2mo ago
Better make sure the pizza gets delivered on time, else you’ll have to pull your sword.
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by mrexroad 2mo ago
Re-reading it atm, for first time in ~25years, and I’m struck with how much of historical context my kids don’t have that I’d want them to before recommending it to them. I feel I had more of that context when I first read it, but maybe I’m
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by mrexroad 3mo ago
And the Bay Area as well :)
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by mrexroad 3mo ago
Fr. There was that small window back in the early ‘10s where data was slow and expensive in India and 4g wasn’t yet pervasive in China. Execs were still receptive to my pitches that we needed to spend some engineering cycles on rework to im
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by mrexroad 3mo ago
Similar, read Crime and Punishment earlier this year and it took me a few pages to realize two different names were the same character. Felt silly when I realized lol. Also just started Brothers Karamazov, but decided to switch translation
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by mrexroad 3mo ago
Just picked up an x3 from prime day sale (yeah, Amazon, sigh, I know). Super stoked to see how it is in practice. I’ve always espoused to my kids to be mindful about what they do during the “between” moments, but I increasingly find myself
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by mrexroad 3mo ago
Sometimes more, sometimes less. Either way, those days are the most precious time you will have. If you’re lucky, sometimes you get a few bonus days sprinkled in later on as well. My oldest just came back from college for summer. I got to
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by mrexroad 3mo ago
> Something has to give. Just so I’m not misunderstanding, you felt that science funding should be the first thing to give? And that other recent controversial expenditures should take priority?
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by mrexroad 3mo ago
Huh? DARPA created something to help retain communication and coordination capabilities for our government in event of nuclear attack.
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by mrexroad 3mo ago
> Curse of money Sure, but I think it’s also b/c the target audience for these keynotes has shifted. Given their immense market cap, now there’s an increased fiduciary responsibility to control how presentation lands, such as earnin
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by mrexroad 3mo ago
lol, I have a few other memories of Steve for when there were technical issues during the keynote. WiFi congestion and dead digital camera still pop up in my memory every now and then.
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by mrexroad 4mo ago
You don’t have to but in hotter climates, especially those with higher energy costs (ca), it’s a lot cheaper to cool evaporatively.
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by mrexroad 4mo ago
> Creating false narratives like they use huge amounts of water, when in fact the cooling is a closed loop system and use less water than a single busy restaurant My understanding was that often multiple cooling methods are employed and
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by mrexroad 4mo ago
Do you have a link to your paid content that will put me ahead of the curve so my career will be bulletproof? /s

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