sparklysoup

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by sparklysoup 1mo ago
Pretty much all new cars incorporate touch screens - that's the wrong thing to look at. What's important is if they retain physical/tactile controls for the things that matter (or matter to you). There are a number of cars ou
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by sparklysoup 2mo ago
You're close. It's not Gmail, the product that killed it. It's the business model of "free products." That's because Gmail is not the product - it's a delivery platform that's just useful enough to yo
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by sparklysoup 2mo ago
> PE Name and shame.
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by sparklysoup 5mo ago
Yes, but "spit valve" is a misnomer. It is water condensation that collects inside the tubes and have to be removed. For anyone other than absolute beginners, anyway.
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by sparklysoup 7mo ago
Having a single (government ID) is bad, so instead we hand our personal details over to one of a dozen private companies, none of which has any contract with us, the user, and all of whom happily share it with the (20 or so, in Persona&#x27
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by sparklysoup 8mo ago
> They are designed to survive being recorded by a phone at an angle. Any idea what this looks like? I assume it's not visible to the human eye, but being able to survive this level of degradation is quite impressive.
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by sparklysoup 8mo ago
> the journalists found that it's a 57-year old lady who's never been known in the scene, who was married to a French banker whose parents survived the holocaust, but in the last decade fell into the rabbit hole of white-victim
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by sparklysoup 9mo ago
700-ish tonnes - it's in the wikipedia article: "In 2020, Buquebus originally commissioned Incat to deliver a new ship to use dual-fuel propulsion, capable of operating on liquefied natural gas and diesel, with around 400 tonne of
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by sparklysoup 9mo ago
There's a python module for this: https://pypi.org/project/ffmpeg-python/ https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python >>> import ffmpeg >>> video_metadata = ffmpeg