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by tridentlead 6y ago
The KN95 specification is comparable to the N95 specification. But KN95 masks as a class of real things are often not comparable to N95 masks.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
While Boeing totally screwed the pooch on this one, and I won't be choosing to fly on one if I can, the public having more confidence in a system than its creators/domain experts isn't exactly uncommon. Would you trust your m
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Don’t do this, use a plastic toothpick or you might damage the contacts.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
It could use an AVR but you don’t save much and the world is on ARM. You would “need” an ATMega 32u4 anyways for hardware USB support. A purposed KB IC probably wouldn’t handle split halves.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Well if the goal is to fund everyone, the pressures that ensure it “ requires years of post-secondary education, has long, shitty hours, and pays peanuts” will likely reduce.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Not true. It is much, much more energy intensive to run an RF link up to a tower or WiFi than to sum 2000 rows of 10 column wide data. RF works by emitting energy into free space, and there is absolutely no way it is cheaper for this type o
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Yes, generally if you over-complicate something it becomes over-complicated.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Ben Franklin once said that the best argument against democracy was a discussion with the average voter. But I think there is an equal risk there of members of a society being unwilling to read what experts put out, and evaluate it themselv
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Regardless, using Pozidrive, JIS, Torx or similar is better for your soul.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
To add to this, Phillips screws are designed to cause the screwdriver to cam out. This is done so you can’t over torque the screw hole. This also makes them really annoying sometimes.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Well I would call that about 0% of the impact of the COVID lockdowns so I think we will adapt and overcome.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Freedom of speech has to do with freedom from government control over speech. However, what people who only talk about enshrined rights forget about is the American spirit. It is not in the spirit of America to destroy a life because of the
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by tridentlead 6y ago
My herring is deeply offended.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Other way around, droplets are bigger and more effectively filtered usually.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Call it whatever you want, but it is deeply immoral.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
The rate of insect decline on land is less than the rate of growth in/on bodies of water. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6489/417.full?ijk...
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by tridentlead 6y ago
I suppose that’s pretty reasonable, but from what I have seen causing trouble from people, I really don’t believe that your view is shared by the majority of people causing the outlast against these symbols. I think either already, or in th
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by tridentlead 6y ago
No, they really don't because no-one can hold a list of millions of advertisers and who boycotted and who didn't in there head. There is no way most people will check a list before making a purchase either if that was going to be
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by tridentlead 6y ago
It's not the administration. It's just the general ineptitude of many government processes. The current crisis has just laid inadequacies bare.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
The other thing to realize is that android phones are tied to a kernel version and that is never updated except minor revisions. Apple products get regular kernel updates.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Only if you don't drive for fun. If you do, it's a lot more useful to know how far you can get on a tank.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Except for all the people that die when it falls down...
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Actually this is not whistleblowing. Technically, you need to have legal access to the data to whistleblow. If you have to acquire access to the data illegally to then release it its just illegal.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
There it is
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by tridentlead 6y ago
There are quite a few of both those things.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
This is materially false. Throughout history capital has been used to stop competitors. Capital is not necessarily money in a practical sense. Regardless, money has decided these things for hundreds of years as well. Whether nation states r
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by tridentlead 6y ago
You can just download a Windows 10 Dev environment VM direct from Microsoft. Also, Windows home will work just fine for any sort of development not requiring Hyper-V.
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by tridentlead 6y ago
Keys have value, they are not yours, you take them, you stole them.
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Heparin therapy improving hypoxia in Covid-19 patients(medrxiv.org)
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by tridentlead 6y ago
The idea is that as long as the downloaded source file matches the hash all inputs are deterministic and so is the build overall.

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