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Last summer, I washed the single 220W module on the top of my campervan. It definitely improved the yield, but I suspect a vehicle can pick up a lot more dirt than a stationary ins…

I agree it's always fast and convenient! It doesn't have the buyer protection you get with a credit card (it debits from your account immediately), but for most purchases that is f…

I'm still considered at-risk to BSE b/c I spent 10 months in the UK during the 1991-92 school year.

Lufthansa still flies a 747-8 between FRA and SFO. https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/DLH454 I booked it once when I couldn’t find a direct flight from AMS to SFO.

The best mechanic I ever had kept my ‘98 Subaru going past 200k miles. Once during a repair I asked him to do an inspection and tell me if there was anything else I should replace.…

When I was quite young I attended a lecture by Bill Watterson held at the Akron Art Museum. He spoke without notes, with an easel and a large pad of paper, describing his career. H…

"Dehydration" in this article is the chemical process of separating magnesium atoms from water molecules. It is not about drinking enough water. Most of the comments here are based…

Yes, literally this. No verilog decode, just looking for signals in the image of a 1 vs. a 0. For example, a 1 may be the existence of a transistor at a particular intersection of …

Done! Thanks for coming here to read the tough hacker new comments. I really like what you're doing with Framework, and I hope you are able to keep iterating and improving. ---- Up…

Also, something weird: I looked up my purchase using my Framework account to confirm my purchase date, and it lists my mother board as System: Intel® Core™ i7-1260P. Sloppy record …

I'm also a laptop weirdo and I've had a Framework 13 with the Ryzen 7 motherboard since May of 2022. I run Ubuntu (currently 25.10) on it. Its a good laptop, but not a great laptop…

peace be with you

a funny thing happened why i added and emacs eval mcp tool to claude code https://hachyderm.io/@jdblair/115605988820465712

In the 90s my dad turned into an organic lawn grower. He was always suspicious of Chemlawn but he used the standard recommended treatment of granulated fertilizer and herbicides. T…

Some research suggests it works, some research concludes it is no better than placebo. :shrug:

When I read "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" when I was about 18, there is a mention of how in the summer they would get nettles in their gruel at the prison camp. Midwestern…

Offline credit card transactions are still supported, and Square even supports it in the US. Europe use of debit cards instead of credit cards is much higher than the US.

the point of knowing the rough conversion is to be able to do head-math to get a close number. I use 30 a lot of the time, b/c most of the time a close estimate is all I need. if y…

1 oz =~ 28 grams is a really useful conversion to remember (signed, an American living in Europe)

I had a SPARClassic at home in 1996! It was pretty underpowered, but it worked great as long as you didn't use X. I worked from my brand new PowerMac 7200 over ethernet to the SPAR…

I'm a US citizen living in The Netherlands. Am I a US Person or a Foreign Person?