qbrass

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by qbrass 5mo ago
They don't refine crude into bunker oil so the ship's engine can use it. They do it to strip more valuable products out of the oil before using what's left to power the ship.
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by qbrass 7mo ago
Intentionally? I've only ever "used" it when trying to copy a link to an image.
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by qbrass 7mo ago
The option with the most text is always the correct choice. Both for the diagnosis and the solution. At least until problem 11, which I can't advance to because it tells me I have to solve the previous case even though it's solved
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by qbrass 7mo ago
Don't give them ideas.
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by qbrass 7mo ago
I remember when it was Romneycare.
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by qbrass 8mo ago
Relays were standardized. Other parts were sourced from outside suppliers, which also supplied the same or similar parts to other automakers. Some of them were direct replacements, some were easily modified to work, and some could be robb
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by qbrass 8mo ago
The set the limit to 85 in 1999 because people turned the state into a race track.
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by qbrass 8mo ago
If you're at the top of the buffer, guG will lowercase the whole thing. So if you open a file, go to type G to jump to a line, but accidentally hit g, then try to undo it with u out of habit, before hitting G again, you do the same thi
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by qbrass 8mo ago
Yes, you don't make that 4 percent bigger unless you get people who don't use Linux to use Linux.
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by qbrass 9mo ago
They didn't accumulate "problem" users, they drove off everyone else. Throwing their fans under the bus to try and get new users has been Mozilla's tactic for the last 15 years. Which is why they're down to 2% marke
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by qbrass 10mo ago
From the same Wikipedia page: "On July 15, 2003, Time Warner (formerly AOL Time Warner) disbanded Netscape. Most of the programmers were laid off, and the Netscape logo was removed from the building." Peak Netscape was 1996. By 20
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by qbrass 10mo ago
They make better parabolic reflectors than Faraday cages.
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by qbrass 3y ago
Imagine a disc spinning clockwise, the top edge is moving to the right, the bottom is moving to the left, and the right edge is moving down and the left edge is moving up. By mounting that disc at an angle and changing which edge makes cont
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by qbrass 3y ago
The sun contains 99.86% of the solar system's mass. Jupiter contains .2%. The other gas giants make up the rest, and everything else combined rounds down to zero. You could dump everything from Mercury to the Oort cloud into Jupiter an
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by qbrass 3y ago
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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by qbrass 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_bed
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by qbrass 3y ago
I'm not laughing because it won't end with this lawsuit.
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by qbrass 3y ago
Just as many as on Mars, but hardly any compared to Venus.
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by qbrass 3y ago
I get why they changed it, but they could have come up with something better than a horned yoga ball to replace it with.
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by qbrass 3y ago
A bunch of people who didn't watch their commercials and don't have that feeling about Burger King just got a reminder that they still exist. In spite of your hatred for them, you just provided better advertising than they did for
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by qbrass 3y ago
Oddly enough, zip files are a supported playlist format in VLC, so you can just have them open the zip file. I don't recommend it, but it's technically a solution. Making an actual playlist and having them load that instead would
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by qbrass 3y ago
1: agreed 2: they did that two and a half years ago and you apparently just noticed so maybe they had a point
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by qbrass 3y ago
They'll compromise on willingness if need be. Just like they did two centuries ago.
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by qbrass 3y ago
>They were regularly beating Lexus on quality surveys at that time. Not saying that Porsche didn't improve their quality a lot, but it was Lexus that really dropped the ball there.
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by qbrass 3y ago
They added half a ton of hybrid system.
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by qbrass 3y ago
That would be the punchline for a kids joke. As a dad joke, it subverts the expected punchline with something even cheesier.
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by qbrass 3y ago
So nothing new.
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by qbrass 3y ago
The ECU puts you in what's basically valet mode until you hit the mileage.
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by qbrass 3y ago
It's got far more than an actual penny-farthing. Not needing to pedal it means they didn't have to compromise stability to put the pedals under the rider.
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by qbrass 3y ago
They've all let me down over the years.

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