northwest65

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by northwest65 2y ago
> I just wasted a day investigating something for nothing Nah not for nothing, they paid you. If they want to pay you for dumb shit, that's on them. You'll have to find a way to let go of the frustration though, that's the
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by northwest65 2y ago
I've never met anybody that shuns even VW for VW's reputational issue!
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by northwest65 2y ago
I think it's because CPUs don't run faster just because they're colder, they run faster when you overclock them. Often to get them stable at higher clock speeds you need more voltage, which at some point demands more cooling
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by northwest65 2y ago
Only nerds are dumb enough to think that adding LIDAR to every crosswalk in the world isn't a completely ridiculous idea.
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by northwest65 2y ago
They don't actually have to. The 5th and 6th fleet coupled with the various large air bases in the vicinity would have little trouble it pancaking the entire site before the Turks managed to make off with anything if it really came dow
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by northwest65 2y ago
I feel sorry for the poor bastards that had to go to Tokyo. As I understand it, clapping the other super fit athletes is a great part of the experience of competing (father was an athletics coach).
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by northwest65 2y ago
Should hurdles be made in a range of sizes to be fair on short competitors?
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by northwest65 2y ago
I'm not a professional, but I find an LCD or OLED is a lot easier to drive from a microcontroller than a 7 segment or 4. Like a hell of a lot easier.
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by northwest65 2y ago
Indeed, I too chuckled at that. Do you remember those hobbyist kits from the 80s for building your own electronic ignition unit? (i.e. points replacement)
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by northwest65 2y ago
At one of my first jobs, the workshop foreman would sidle up beside another mechanic who was working under the bonnet, casually put his arm on their shoulder or whatever, then touch a plug. It would make the other mechanic jump, but he hims
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by northwest65 2y ago
> contributing to huge risks to democratic systems all over the world Perhaps it was the weird hyperbole about democracy his comment was targeting?
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by northwest65 2y ago
Think of it as a 3m tall bulldozer the width of the country with effectively unlimited pushing power. Watch some videos of the Japan tsunami, it's basically an unstoppable force that gobbles up everything in it's path. Very uncool
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by northwest65 2y ago
As somebody who has been through more than 10 thousand quakes, it's as significant as the force itself. 7.4 @ 300km deep you just yawn and roll over. @10km deep you pray your concrete roof tiles don't come through the ceiling and
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by northwest65 3y ago
No, I don't think they do paint a wrong picture, and it is helpful for people to say it so others realise they're not the only ones thinking it.
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by northwest65 3y ago
I think the implication is, that like the Maoris in New Zealand, they're only faux indigenous, as they arrived on boats. Probably doesn't matter much as there is no grift to be had.
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by northwest65 3y ago
Then leave whatever tech backwater you live in and move to the first world.
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by northwest65 3y ago
That's great! As another rank amateur I learn quite a few little tidbits from your thread... I'd never ever heard of a resistor array till now!
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by northwest65 3y ago
You can feel it with the pad of your thumb.
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by northwest65 3y ago
Liquefaction was one of the more miserable results of the Christchurch earthquake.
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by northwest65 3y ago
Sure they can, you can absolutely use heat pumps to brute force it, been there done that.
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by northwest65 3y ago
> attempts to improve alternative public transit will come at the cost of their commute It does, every 4 lane road we have changed to a 2 land road with cycle lanes has done that here. > They see public transit as an inferior form of
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by northwest65 3y ago
Why not?
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by northwest65 3y ago
Similar situation here. I have on occasions seen all sorts of crazy looking split keyboards around the internet. They've looked interesting, but pricey, I can't touch them, and the MS ergo keyboards have served me well so I'v
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by northwest65 4y ago
I'm sure I saw on TV that they use what is basically a giant LED strip on the inside of the course, which as I understood was a 'pacer light'. Seems to strip the strategy out and reduce it to a purely physical contest, which
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by northwest65 4y ago
Maybe because they're an eye sore? Some people probably resent that if they were the ones leaving their product lying around all over common areas, such as footpaths, so they could make a buck, they would feel the weight of the local m
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by northwest65 4y ago
I low key enjoyed COVID, it gave me a week of free time to read.
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by northwest65 4y ago
Kiwi! But yes, polite way of saying my hearing is fucked. Odd phrase... if I were to use that in the context of actual fucking, I'd consider it a vulgar way to put it!
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by northwest65 4y ago
In New Zealand, during the first quarter of next year, they're putting in 4 new petrol stations in my city alone, FWIW.
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by northwest65 4y ago
As somebody with that attitude, it's because I find it quite zen just to relax and be groomed by a professional. I won't shut down conversation, but I won't initiate it either. The other thing is that decades of motorcycling
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by northwest65 4y ago
That's a polite way of putting it.

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