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the resdesigned USB-C magic mouse has the charge port in the same spot.

it's almost like western society, particularly in the united states, has spent the last 70 years intentionally stripping away community and easy access to a third place.

I have a Symmetricom ExacTime ET6000 that had a Motorola Oncore M12+ mounted to an ACE-III interposer made by Synergy systems that hadn't suffered from a rollover yet, but instead …

it's likely not the dimmer's fault; phase angle triac dimmers were designed when resistive loads (incandescent light bulbs) were king. except for the super-low-wattage-per-lumen ty…

Use something like an Aube RC840T-240; it generates an isolated 24vac supply and has an isolated normally-open 24vac input for closing the contactor. Using anything else is liable …

I had a similar experience with a common, cheap medication, where my insurance started denying the prescription out of the blue. it took several weeks of back and forth with my doc…

wait until you learn about 'engineered beams' I shudder thinking about all the structures built with those things that're one undetected bathtub drain leak away from serious struct…

the Sheevaplug, Guruplug, and Dreamplug are what really got me into embedded computing and linux. I still have my Sheevaplug in storage, and a Dreamplug in service as my internal D…

That would, unfortunately, require actual infrastructure investment into trackage and electrification, and the nationalization of all the Class I freight companies. I'm not going t…

the Tipo Quattro platform deal with Fiat, Lancia, and Alfa Romeo had no GM involvement and it was finalized over five years before GM ever bought controlling interest in SAAB-Scani…

if you like Carpenter Brut, I recommend Perturbator, especially the album The Uncanny Valley.

Hm, rack mounted fiberchannel drive enclosures exist (~$100 used on fleabay, usually sans disk trays), but that'd require a fiberchannel card in your server, direct attach copper (…

yeah, this reads as more of an attempt against the torrent tracker site, rather than the tracker software itself.

I used a USB AC-wifi dongle on my Odroid-Go Advance, and the performance/latency was about the same as my genuine SteamLink on a gigabit wired connection. The main problem with the…

Steamlink, however, does work on ARM. :)

Wegmans is a no-go where I live, thanks to an old 'handshake agreement' between the Wegman and Golub families, in that there would be no overlap between Wegmans and Price Chopper t…

The key to the salvage effort not involving refloating is probably related to the loose tangled masses of vehicles it's carrying; the ones that already caused the ship to fall over…

Every Guitar Center I've visited in the last year or two had that 'going out of business' feel. Not surprised to find out Bain Capital was involved.

yes, actually: https://gamejolt.com/games/luigi-floating-on-an-egg-over-the...

So what if we eliminate some of the hard problems, like steering, traffic, pedestrians, and setup guided routes specifically for automated vehicles? All you would need to control i…

have you ever heard of... trains?

The Fits sold in North America were assembled in Suzuka, Mie, Japan, up until 2014. Parent commenter is probably referring to the Tōhoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami in 2011.

Ah yes, like anthrax bombing an island?