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leecb

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About leecb

leecbaker.com

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Flight simulator projects: planecommand.com datareftool.com

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    Comment #45568420

    > The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) (Japanese: 準天頂衛星システム, Hepburn: juntenchō eisei shisutemu), also known as Michibiki (みちびき, "guidance"), is a regional navigation satellite…

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    Comment #41762961

    I wonder how much of this increase is solely enabled by TSMC process upgrades, either through higher clock speeds or increased number of transistors per core? It's kind of interest…

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    Comment #38615290

    AT&T ran fiber to my house (and everybody else on my street). 15 months later, the highest speed option we have is still 50/10 Mbps DSL from AT&T. I wonder why they put it in if th…

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    Comment #38464300

    What operating system would be run by PCs using this chip? Are there existing operating systems that support LoongArch?

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    Comment #38220161

    Very excited that this unique game continues. It's too bad they aren't supporting the Mac, like the old game did.

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    Comment #37239703

    > taking over 500ms and a complete page reload For me this is 45ms to transfer the 2 kB (compressed) of HTML; the whole process takes under 60ms total, which is pretty darn close t…

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    Comment #37189697

    This was not paid with a check, but a cashier's check, and so the money would have already been gone from their account: From the post: > The car was paid for with a combination of…

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    Comment #35995432

    > MicroLEDs are still just LCDs with a better backlight but LCD Tech has evolved quite a lot and pixel refresh time ( You're thinking of MiniLED, which is just better LEDs behind a…

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    Comment #35267729

    Weasyprint is an excellent tool for converting HTML to PDF. It has supported CSS Paged Media Module for a while; this has been very useful for making printable PDFs from web pages.…

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    Comment #35196545

    What is an FF car? Do you mean the Ferrari FF? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_FF

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    Comment #32758663

    This is a great idea; unfortunately now I have dozens of voicemails a week from these numbers instead of just calls. Any option to prevent them leaving voicemail?

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    Comment #29891989

    The improvements seem to be in which thread WebRTC does work: moving more work to workers and off the main thread. The release notes for alpha builds (e.g. [1]) link to this bug [2…

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    Comment #29322162

    > those inane licenses no one reads, do we really want them to legally binding? What all would be possible if software EULAs weren't legally binding? One thing that EULAs typically…

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    Comment #29310001

    > The element is cobalt, Kobalt is a brand of tools Kobalt is the name of the element in German; @jillesvangurp's profile says he is based in Berlin, perhaps he also speaks German.…

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    Comment #29309892

    Skyhook started doing this in 2003; their technology was used in earlier iPhone models to determine location without using GPS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless EDIT:…

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    Comment #29298920

    Tesla has demonstrated that their batteries can be removed and replaced in a matter of a minute or two, given the right equipment. https://www.tesla.com/videos/battery-swap-event S…

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    Comment #28686726

    Is the end Goal to make conversation only accessible via the telephone and kill off in-person conversation?

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    Comment #28631681

    Several Pacific island nations adopted DST so they could be the first into the year 2000 for tourist purposes. As a result, some countries are only in DST for a month or two out of…

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    Comment #28425876

    > accumulated rubber from those landings Rubber accumulation on runways is a normal and expected situation. Part of runway maintenance at airports serving larger aircraft includes …

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    Comment #28381119

    Othram | Senior Software Engineer | The Woodlands (Houston), TX | Onsite | https://othram.com We are on a mission to digitize the world's DNA evidence so that we can identify victi…

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    Comment #27924911

    Very happy to see a "mac-assed" app! My only complaint so far is that I can only see about 12 items in the app on one screen, vs the whole front page in a browser. Adds a lot more …

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    Comment #27915944

    > My vision of the future has all power lines buried. Singapore already has already achieved this. It's actually quite pleasant to not have any overhead lines. They are currently r…

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    Comment #27428443

    More than quality, Facetime seems to have much lower latency for me than other options, and this leads to much more natural-feeling conversations.

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    Comment #27058164

    Can we ban sites that intentionally break the back button?