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Thanks, I converted it into a Tampermonkey userscript to use on all the sites. // ==UserScript== // @name Underline links // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 0.1 // …

> Are knobs and plastic moldings that expensive though? Yeah, the molding for any typical single component is tens of thousands of dollars per iteration. A car has a lot of those c…

The main issue with it is that it's too good and successful, therefore it's too easy to publish whatever crap as your library or its dependencies. That's not really a fault in the …

I don't believe yet another package manager is going to fix anything, more likely it'll take years to reach maturity, will be riddled with bugs until then, and have some serious fu…

Probably worth it, since he got a MacBook Pro a year earlier than everyone else. For the rest of us, the MacBook Pros (started as the short-lived Core Duo models) weren't available…

That’s just because rubber balloons are extremely porous, especially when stretched. They don’t hold other gases well either.

I feel like it's similar to the skeumorphism of the past coming back with a revenge.

So how about the plurals of some words ending with "us", like fungus-fungi, but virus-viruses-not-virii and how about dingus-dingii-or-dinguses, doofus-doofii-or-doofuses and so fo…

Chickens can perform short flights, but from my limited observations it seems like the stamina is the main limiting factor for them. They've however clearly evolved from fully flig…

Not only does materials overall matter little, but Lithium is also super cheap compared to the other materials in the batteries. There's a lot more of Nickel in a Li-Ion battery an…

I'd also say a large part of its issue is lack of internal consistency of the format itself. Firstly there are the various official RSS versions, then there are all those Atom thin…

The copyright compensation on electronic books is different from paper based ones. The super greedy licensing deals (where even available) is one of the things that hold back elect…

Seems like an article from a paper romanticist, and they aren't extinct yet. Anyhow, here in Finland the libraries are not just for paper-based information storage/dispersion, but …

Of course, never said it's not. Are people reflecting from themselves, or what is this about?

The problem is that the average salesperson is pretty ignorant, even about the probuct he's supposed to sell and the target audience to sell to. Encountering a great salesperson is…

Oh right, the mobile app auto-corrected EU to Eau and didn't reply to the context I clicked in. So, any iOS apps to recommend? The "Hacker News" one apparently sucks for commenting…

In EU countries they should be classified as light electric vehicle or something like that, along with things like skateboards, rollerblades and “hoverboards”. Hence, allowed basic…

OTOH, aren't farts just unreleased burps that passed into the intestines.

Experience first-hand or via experts who repair them daily, the former can be done by owning the same car or brand for a longer while and spotting the pattern. Prefer makes that ha…

Happens with the better ones as well, it's just a matter of setting the torque limiter of your screwdriver/coordless drill to match the job. Sometimes takes a few mistakes, but it'…

Yes, if maintained properly, which means swapping out these engineered to fail parts every so often, which becomes uneconomical at least in the resale sense at some point in time, …

Usually the screw snaps in two at over-torquing before either the head or tool strips.

The only real reason for Phillips screw heads were the old electromechanical industry robots that would rely on auto-centering and spring tension to pop the driver out of the screw…

Robertson in Canada is just appeal to tradition at this point. They have no technical merit over Torx except maybe ease of ad-hoc construction of a driver.