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LTT has a video where they tried to see how many PCIe riser cables they could string together before it stopped working.[1] They got to several meters. Maybe you could argue that i…

It might have to do with the USB buffer on the Ender. If the buffer is too small (e.g. 4 gcode commands or so) then when the buffer is filled with commands that execute very quickl…

Just to clarify, that means that I would need to 1.) purchase some packs of Kong, which are unloaded, and then 2.) participate in a lockdrop to gain the tokens with which to load t…

Question: since bills can be either loaded or unloaded (either because they haven't been put in circulation yet, or because they're counterfeit), doesn't that mean that e.g. a vend…

Is it riffing off ranch dressing? I've heard that ranch is associated with the US, outside of the US. Edit: looks like "american sauce" can refer to a multitude of things. Typicall…

It's probably the fiber content, if I had to guess. Fiber is really good at making you feel full, which is why psyllium husk is sold as a dietary supplement.

When I first read your comment, I thought that there was no way that solar panels could be heavy enough to affect your mileage. So I did some quick calculations. Estimates of solar…

That's fine, because when something breaks the day after you've pushed, it's Friday and everyone's in the office. People are still going to rush the deadline, but putting the deadl…

> Never heard of it, never thought about it, not sure why proving/disproving this is in the author's interest. It is in Huawei's interest to not be labelled as a state-owned or sta…

From the original 2015 article about the hack: "Miller and Valasek’s full arsenal includes functions that at lower speeds fully kill the engine, abruptly engage the brakes, or disa…

> Long containers that are towed onto a tilt-bed truck are something else, usually debris boxes. But they now tend to be called "roll-on dumpsters". Isn't that also called a skip? …

The lacing isn't plastic, it's (as the article mentions) typically waxed linen or some other type of fiber/rope. Zip ties have to be made of a more solid material like plastic, sin…

Personally, I just remapped capslock to esc, since I never use capslock. The touchbar does seem to hang more often nowadays, though. Especially when I'm trying to adjust the volume…

It can at least bias your priors ahead of time. When you (as a human) are using Waze or Google maps and you see a speed trap ahead of you, or a traffic jam, or construction or what…

Gravity is not uniform everywhere on earth, because the Earth's density is not uniform. (This is ignoring the other consideration that the earth is not spherical. Because the Earth…

Steam has a pretty robust messaging system including multi-user rooms and voice chat, etc. They're directly competing with Discord on that front now. There's groups and communities…

In addition to Gpetrium's comment, there is this report by Oxford Economics that has been linked to elsewhere in the comments: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google…

There's nothing preventing drivers from driving for multiple apps, though. Most Lyft/Uber drivers I see these days have both stickers in their windshield.

For the first year or so of my job, I actually used a chromebook to SSH into my work desktop to do work remotely. (I'm a Googler and they were pushing new hires to try the chromebo…

> Wine is probably the most extreme example as there's a heavy push to equate fancy (expensive) with tasty but very often the 2 don't correlate. I would say the poster you're reply…

Other commenters have posted good links, but in very large fish such as tuna, you can see macroscopic effects of this muscle degradation.[1] It's not so much an effect of the "stre…

I've had the same problem any time I get glasses that don't have nose pads (i.e. the frame just sticks out a bit to touch the nose, rather than there being two plastic pads attache…

Some of the post's salad examples (spaghetti, poutine) could be interpreted as starch surrounded by non-starch. Thus I believe the rule would still consider turkey with stuffing to…

Also echoing mabbo, I did a sleep study in the comfort of my own home about a year ago. I'm told it's not as precise as a "proper" sleep study in a lab since the instrumentation is…

You have to set your particular console as your PSN account's "primary" console. When a console is set as your primary console, any other accounts on that console can use software …