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ISO 8601 ftw rule
finally a correct version of this diagram
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ISO 8601 ftw rule
finally a correct version of this diagram
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Depose, deny, defend
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That's the population of Canada
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The opposite of shopaholic: shopcell
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Do all Europeans choose to purposefully misinterpret information that is actually very easy to understand based on context?
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Europe’s deepest mine to become giant gravity battery
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Or just joules per second for power. Eliminate watts entirely. Dumbass unit
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The Fairphone 5 released, is the sleekest repairable phone yet
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My impression is that burn-in isn't nearly as much of an issue on newer panels as it once was. At least, I've been using the same OLED phone for 4 years and have no sign of burn-in yet.
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We're up all night to get ____
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Y
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Why are maglev trains still rare?
Here's an interesting write-up about an attempt to develop a large-scale urban maglev system in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krauss-Maffei_Transurban
tl;dr: there were so many technical issues that when the West German company developing the tech lost funding and the Ontario government took over the project, they immediately abandoned the maglev concept and replaced it with linear-induction propulsion with steel wheels on rails (the mag, without the lev).
Even this tech, which does have a few advantages over conventional rail and is still used today in cities like Vancouver, is falling out of favour due to general logistical issues with using bespoke technology over conventional rail -- fewer people know how to build and maintain it, you're relying on usually just one company to supply your trains and infrastructure until the end of time, you can't reuse any existing infrastructure, etc. I'd imagine these issues still get in the way of maglev development today -- even more so because you can't even reuse existing rails
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Framework vs Dell laptop display comparison
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Non integer display scaling will always look like crap.
No it won't, Windows has had this figured out for at least a decade
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Rentals.ca August 2023 Rent Report
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We should decrease their property values though. That's half the problem
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A transgender woman wins Democratic primary for Florida House seat, and aims to make history
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This map keeps getting worse every time I see it
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What's your favorite note-taking application?
OneNote. Don't love being super reliant on all the Microsoft Office cloud stuff but there really isn't anything that comes close to what I use it for
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Big Sale! But not on everything...
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I'm fairly certain the text is AI generated too, just because of the questionable "creative" decisions that I don't think a human would make (why does some of the text have overlines? why is only the Canada line red? why are all the lines jarringly different font sizes?)
plus, now that I zoom in, one of the colons has different sizes for the top and bottom dots. I guess GANs can just do text now
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What's your favorite note-taking application?
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I use it for a mix of text, handwriting/drawing, PDF annotation and image annotation, and I also pretty heavily rely on realtime sync between my devices. If none of that is stuff you use then I can see why you might want something simpler
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Pretzel Rule
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not as great as his dad vomiting on the prime minister of Japan though
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5 January 1987
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Well? Did you finish it?
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Europe’s deepest mine to become giant gravity battery
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Yeah but if we all wrote "joules per second" instead of watts we'd encourage everyone to measure energy in joules instead of watt-hours. It's like speed, we don't need an entirely separate unit that just means m/s
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Behold currently!
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I assume this was translated by a human both ways, not machine translated. It's plausible in that case
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Toronto is about to get a new type of intersection unlike any it's seen before
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...at Bloor and St George? People walk here
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Wish there was an \*\*Android Studio Lite\*\* version of the IDE that is targeted to low powered devices and has only bare minimum features to develop an app.
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I do this but it's a pain in the ass. They keep making it harder to access certain features without opening Android Studio (i.e. the AVD manager, logcat, app signing functionality, etc)
Also sometimes gradlew decides to just not build your project and you have to open Android Studio to get it to work. Why? No idea
I don't even use low power hardware, Android Studio just manages to be an incredible resource hog even on normal hardware
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Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10
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That's a Markdown editor with a separate drawing tool, not a notes app focused on handwriting. You can't annotate a PDF or typed text or edit a drawing after it's been created.
Not at all comparable.