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moebrowne

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    A small bolt could easily replace the pin, this would also allow a washer to be added preventing any chance that it working loose.

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    Comment #49171065

    Standard NiMH AAA battery is ~1Wh so 12 Trillion (12,000,000,000,000)

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    Comment #49114708

    What if the plants were algae?

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    Comment #49107771

    They also often have a small magnet embedded in the rotor which can be picked up with a reed switch or hall-effect sensor

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    Comment #49098362

    https://archive.is/ZuKV6

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    Comment #49040069

    I don't buy this. I think people find it easier to make excuses about lacking some magical, unobtainable, abstract property like "the drive" than to actually put in the effort to i…

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    Comment #49036366

    It seems to me that lots of people consider the ability to focus as some kind of innate ability which we are all born with, it's not. It's a learned skill which requires practice. …

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    Comment #49007326

    > It seems what people like about Kagi is the customization and surrounding tooling, but the actual search quality is about the same For me the quality of results is improved exact…

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    Comment #49007265

    AI slop is actively down-ranked based on community feedback: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html

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    Comment #49007129

    Kagi Assistant + customised search/lenses is super powerful. It gives you control over what context from the internet the AI can use/you trust

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    Comment #48979546

    Here's the Bugzilla link which was closed last month: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2021722

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    Comment #48977505

    > Is Airbus still using Google workspaces for mail? Nice vector for industrial espionage. Whatever email provider they use, people will always be the ultimate vector, clicking link…

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    Comment #48976972

    They are placeholders, their meanings are spelled out in the post: O: publish/oembed_cache, empty content, stale timestamp with parent C C: future/customize_changeset, changeset JS…

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    Comment #48975945

    > swap is used when you run out of ram This is not correct. Swap is not a RAM overflow. > Swap is not generally about getting emergency memory, it's about making memory reclamation…

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    Comment #48925919

    TIL server side image maps: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageEl... Supported since forever.

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    Comment #48842588

    > Plus all current treatments render the honey inedible Formic acid is one of the few treatments which is acceptable to use while honey is present.

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    Comment #48762672

    > If I work until I'm exhausted and find three bugs, someone might still complain later that I missed a fourth and I should have tried harder. This is a weird take. Less bugs is le…

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