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The flip side s that you don't have to use Chrome+Google for everything. I buy ebooks and watch youtube on it, plus my phone (so I buy android apps via the same google account). An…

Isn't Linus Tech Tips an ad, though? The only times I've looked at it all I've seen is sponsored content with breaks to talk about sponsors and maybe buy some merch. Oh, and exhort…

People can have absolute/exception memory for other things too. I dated a woman who could look at a bit of cloth and say "that's the same colour as..." and be right every time. Eve…

>the "real" perfect pitch people are always anchored, no matter how much noise anyone throws at them. Which is also a source of discomfort and difficulty Not least because the argu…

If you have a fast design/architecture, you may never need to optimise the code at all. But the flip side is that with a bad design or bad architecture optimising the implementatio…

My expectation is that one combustion car owners have to pay more of the cost of that fuel choice they'll change over. Lots of people already drive 20 minutes to save $10 on a tank…

https://www.vehiclesuggest.com/what-happened-tesla-battery-s... Tesla tried it. There was no point Tesla building more swap stations because so few people paid the premium to get a…

nothing interesting, just repairs and tweaks. I'm building a granny flat instead :)

https://ibb.co/0sJx4SN (new cog on the left, old on the right) I'm not saying you should do this. And Rohloff strongly suggest you don't do this I'm just saying that you can do thi…

My limited experience is that it's easier to recruit more muscles on an upright, so your peak power can be higher. In my 30's I would hit double for a 30s trial on an upright vs a …

A missing top tube is much easier to deal with than a missing down tube. Lots of bikes have pushed that a very long way. But the main forces there are twisting the pedals against t…

https://moz.geek.nz/mozbike/ride/carry/index.html I didn't collect photos of the real experiments, those were mostly "grab a scrap bike, hack it about, (try to) ride it, bin it and…

There's a reason that horses were the fancy sports car/military tool of the animal transport world. They eat a lot, break easily, and don't last long. People used oxen, donkeys, ll…

Nope, with single speed/hub gears chain wear is still a problem, it's just that they're less sensitive to it and there's fewer parts to replace. When the chain gets longer it gets …

> I vaguely recall that people did state that rowing is what you should use to get the most energy out of a human body The limit for athletes is normally cardiovascular, commonly o…

The trouble with the very first render is that the author is wrong about why the bike wouldn't work. The head tube isn't braced well enough to allow the front brake to be used, and…

Two things: college is supposed to be an opportunity to learn from mistakes so making the normal consequence of any mistake the end of your career goes against that. Historically t…

I mean supportive parents, and very likely also a supportive school and supportive community. "led a youth group" on the application doesn't arise in isolation, any more than high …

Having a white tile and a blue tile would be fine, though. I'm really tempted by this, but I think I should start by tiling the garage floor or something rather than my whole livin…

I think the core bit you've missed is: Stanford explicitly selects for perfectionists by requiring extremely high standards of (most) students. Those students have spend several ye…

Sorry, I can't remember, this was several years ago and I've since sold the truck. But loosely my requirements were 24V input to match the truck, battery life of at least a week, e…

There's a lot that can be done by disintegrated systems, too. I put cameras onto a box truck so I had reversing etc, but I used an 8-camera wired security system with video recorde…

> skip owning an actual thermometer Doesn't that rely on you living next to someone else's thermometer that's published? My not very accurate setup gives me more than a degree just…