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Your point might be better stated directly because attributing the characteristics of humanity to... humanity is the opposite of what anthropomorphizing means.

A new ping pong paddle design. My backhand is OK but my forehand sucks. Grip styles for standard handles usually end up favoring one side or the other. I'm making a handle shape th…

What I'd like is a tool that can be run on a fresh linux install to show what's not working correctly and maybe some diagnostics. Does that exist? Things like suspend to RAM/disk w…

There are safe (and unsafe) drivers contributing to both car and motorcycle statistics. Is this an argument that the skill curve for motorcycle driving is skewed towards highly uns…

The effects of deliberate small scale atmospheric aerosol injections is something I've studied extensively. The short term results are often quite noticeable even by parties not di…

Concrete foundations get stronger as the concrete cures (around a month). Framing is much more resistant to collapse once you put sheathing on it, a roof, etc. Before that it is ea…

DHL B2C shipments to the EU are generally held in customs until the duty is paid, which makes it slow but ensures DHL isn't left holding the bag when people decide they don't want …

Could be. The carriers do already have practice ramping up and down for Christmas and Chinese New Year so it seems plausible they could absorb significant extra volume in whatever …

Only if "utterly fucked" somehow means you can still pay a bit more to DHL and get packages even faster than USPS. Your fast prototypes coming by air freight likely aren't routed t…

"Better" depends on what you are after. In my world better means not being tied to using proprietary communication protocols over compromised networks with hardware I don't really …

Yes, most commercial SIP providers are required by law to support emergency services, at least in the US. If we're getting technical it is a mobile phone, just not a cellular phone…

How long ago was this? Our VoIP stack is completely custom and has taken a while to build. We've been putting significant work into it and lately it's better. We've also specifical…

It's a forever loan for whatever your average payables total to over 90 days (so $10k every month would be a $30k loan). The loan lasts forever or until you close out that line of …

As long as you are OK with destructive methods, grinding/sanding the board down gives you all layers. "PCB delayering" is the search term.

How healthy would the economy be if 100% had no desire to work? That depends on why those people don't want to work and the overall situation, but until all of our needs are served…

https://wiphone.io/ is Arduino compatible and comes with an audio jack and microphone. It's also completely enclosed, knows how to charge it's own battery, etc. Phone form factor, …

Push notifications can be cobbled together for self-hosted Zulip using self-hosted Gotify and letting users install the Gotify app. No requirement for an app store approved app. Ho…

Any phone will lose software support pretty fast, but on the hardware side a mid-low end android device will last 4-5 years of daily use (n=3). Are you speaking from experience or …

If you are advocating for "used food" as the correct term, there's another state that food enters after it's been used that you might want to be careful about disambiguating :).

I make a VoIP/WiFi phone that excludes any sort of cellular radio because that's what I want as well: https://wiphone.io

I'm working on a phone which can be configured to dump the memory if someone fails to unlock it properly, keeping only a dummy profile. There is also a way to restore the deleted i…

UHT milk hasn't caught on because it tastes only slightly better than reconstituted powdered milk. It is, however, cheap, and hasn't had trouble at all catching on in poor countrie…

We use Rainloop and the 2 biggest issues are almost nonexistent address auto-complete (it will only try to pull addresses from contacts, which nobody bothers setting up any more), …

What client do you currently use? I'm looking for a bearable web client.