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Source needed: .com domains never cost more than $100/2 years, IIRC.

The movement isn't part of the brand. It's not part of the signal. The case/dial/sometimes band are the brand. And if you couldn't tell them apart, they wouldn't be any good at sig…

> So the only thing distinguishing one top brand from another was the name printed on the dial Respectfully disagree. Since the 60's (and one could argue, even long before that), w…

I doubt your 450w gpu runs at that wattage 24 hrs, unless you're mining with it. My (admittedly old) gpu+CPU idles around 50-75w.

For US-made dishwashers, this series (totaling almost two hours!) is educational: https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04

Which reminds me of another "there, problem solved!" pet peeve of mine. I call it the Default Trap. In many cases (Norman Doors are an example), there are two or more equally valid…

Almost all of the reports from people I know who have done ayahuasca have reported seeing "elves". It's not only common, they say it's not a "valid" trip unless you do, and even co…

It's funny. one of the most significant UI axioms I ever learned came from Bill Atkinson: "Always make the 'click zone' a little larger than the visual indication of the affordance…

I've been getting them for weeks and never noticed they were phishing. I only used a SendGrid account briefly, as a potential backup to my current outgoing transaction mail provide…

Looks just like mine. But for $30, you can't beat this: https://www.amazon.com/Cassette-Converter-Portable-Recorder-...

I watched Sal's video yesterday, great summary. So much complexity, plenty of redundancy, but not enough adherence to important rules.

If I understand them correctly, Ebers-Moll equations are based on the exponential relationship between voltage and current in a BJT. But tubes aren't current amplifiers, they're vo…

Rob Robinette is a great guitar-amp resource; knows just about everything about Fender amps in particular. He has many mods to many common/not-so-common Fenders. Just his list of 5…

Agreed! There are probably broad categories that I might find myself using, but for my own core collection of music (deeper than it is wide, mostly), it barely matters.

I think he has it backwards: Easy for a small vendor, very hard for a large one.

I had the opposite experience with my 10-year-old Model S. Most parts could only come from Tesla, including the Bilstein struts (a part number Bilstein refuses to sell to anyone bu…

Elderly neighbor for me. Quite insipid; it took me a few minutes to realize that they were browser-based when I first got to the computer.

For music, they hear about 10dB is half/twice as loud.

The BBC used to teach +6dB for twice as loud for music sources, but they've always been a bit conservative.

Some of these fees are, indeed, paid to the government. That does not mean they are a tax, in the same sense that (as mentioned elsewhere) a building permit is not a tax, but is st…

There's also a full documentary movie "The Cover Story" by Eric Christensen that is pretty interesting, if long and redundant in parts.

It depends. I argued on the phone with Verizon for a long time (over an hour, going up and up the chain) about why a certain “Recovery Fee” was not in their per-line costs. The ans…

The beauty is you don’t have to.

The 'point' of Alvy's article is that pixels should be treated as point sources when manipulating them, not when displaying them. Obviously, when a pile of pixels is shown on a scr…

Well, there's speed and then there's _speed_. As the OP says, very fast designs today are like the Sail Gran Prix [1] boats, 15m long foiling catamarans that go 3x the speed of the…