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Every US Electrical Outlet Explained(practical.engineering)
3 points by throw0101a 1d ago|3 comments
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by throw0101a 3d ago
See perhaps Shakespearean Insults Mug: * https://philosophersguild.com/products/shakespearean-insults... * https://www.amazon.com/Shakespearean-Insults-Coffee-Mug-Shak...
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by throw0101a 3d ago
As a MacPorts users (generally light-weight, just a few things here and there): Has anyone gone from MP to HB, or vice versa? Why did you switch from one to the other (and perhaps back again)? What did you find as the pros/cons of each
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by throw0101a 3d ago
"High-risk category" sounds like something will happen in the future , but there's already been a coup attempt: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito...
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by throw0101a 3d ago
> According to the Oxford dictionary the definition of the word "privy" in Privy Council is an obsolete one meaning "Of or pertaining exclusively to a particular person or persons; one's own",[3] insofar as the
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by throw0101a 3d ago
> The article says that she was offered specifically gendered criticism, then quotes generic criticism. Perhaps what you consider generic criticism was considered gendered criticism at the time?
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by throw0101a 4d ago
> The politicians of the past really screwed us all with the debt. Between his first term and his second term to date (2+ more years), Trump is responsible for more that one quarter (29%) of US debt (USD 11.6T / 40T): * https
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by throw0101a 4d ago
A lot of folks are/were saying that Apple has missed the boat when it comes to AI, in some (important) aspects that is correct, but I think it's worth remembering that Apple added the Neural Engine to A-series chips in 2017, befor
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by throw0101a 4d ago
> It's just the stated goal is impossible given the political RoE. People need to keep in mind tactical versus strategic success. For Iran, the military operation was a complete tactical success, it's just that the strategic
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by throw0101a 4d ago
Are they plane crashes or plane accidents ? (Replace "(air)plane" with "car".)
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We're All Going to Die(noahpinion.blog)
4 points by throw0101a 4d ago|0 comments
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Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate(e360.yale.edu)
46 points by throw0101a 4d ago|16 comments
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by throw0101a 4d ago
> maybe Internet for people on earth matters more than astronomy Maybe Starlink can design proper filters and shielding so both Internet and astronomy can happen at the same time.
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by throw0101a 4d ago
> People need light to see in cities. This light serves a function. Street lights with (full) cutoff will still provide light for people: * https://www.blancocountynightsky.org/guidelines.php * https://highw
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by throw0101a 6d ago
> There was (I believe) a Korean app for people to fake shop so they get all the dopamine of the hunt without the cost of actually buying anything. * E.g., https://foodnevercomes.com * https://www.cbc.ca/rad
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by throw0101a 6d ago
> You missed the part where they could just buy the toy for €2. The fact that the item was won as a prize imparts on it an (psychological) 'aura' that simply buying it does not. Related: * https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by throw0101a 6d ago
> You simply can't map the surface of a 3d shere (approximation of the earths globe) onto a 2d flat surface. This would be an easier problem to solve if Flat Earthers were right. (semi-/s)
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by throw0101a 6d ago
> It's €20 for 2 kids to have 2 minutes of fun […] They play with it for a day […] Seems to me it's €20 for a day (8h? 16h?) of fun. That's not bad value: how much does a movie ticket cost for 2-3 hours?
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by throw0101a 6d ago
> And every miss heightens the excitement for the eventual lolly scramble. People under-appreciate (or have forgotten) that a lot of happiness is is related to anticipating as opposed to getting . I think if more people focused on t
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by throw0101a 7d ago
> […] Set up a camera. […] That's what a bunch of researchers did in Florida and found cyclists more compliant: > According to the study, bicyclists were in compliance with traffic laws 88 percent of the time during the day an
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by throw0101a 7d ago
> This place has become Reddit […] Not reading TFA (the fine article) has been a noble Internet tradition since (at least) the earliest days of Slashdot.
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by throw0101a 7d ago
> The human brain was not designed for a task which requires hours of siting down doing mostly nothing while […] The average one-way commute time in the US is less than half an hour: * https://www.census.gov/topics&#x2F
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by throw0101a 7d ago
Fewer than drivers, given that drivers tend to ignore the rules of the road more per a Danish government study: * https://politiken.dk/danmark/art7185605/Rygterne-om-cykliste... * Via: https://archive.i
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by throw0101a 7d ago
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616239
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by throw0101a 8d ago
Also: “We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation.” (née 'Corporation') * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Skydance
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by throw0101a 8d ago
The 14.x branch has an expected end of life (EOL) of November 2028: * https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup
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by throw0101a 8d ago
> Would that be practical for weather forecasting or not really? What are the conditions at 5000 feet, 10000, etc ? What is the location of the jet stream and its strength? The reduced number of (e.g.) weather balloons is hindering fo
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by throw0101a 8d ago
> If you can solve a problem with Debian and Qemu Proxmox gives you nothing. Proxmox gives you centralized management of a fleet of clustered systems with a very handy GUI (as well as CLI and API) that's used by many thousands of
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by throw0101a 8d ago
> Static sites all the way (hugo, jekyll, mkdocs!). No one needs wordpress. Maybe. A better question may be about how many people need to have the dynamic part of Wordpress live on the Internet? How many would be served well enough wit
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by throw0101a 8d ago
> Proxmox is amateur hour. No enterprise support 24/7 support will be available starting in October: * https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-relea... The other thing perhaps worth n

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