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> I just wasted a day investigating something for nothing Nah not for nothing, they paid you. If they want to pay you for dumb shit, that's on them. You'll have to find a way to le…

I've never met anybody that shuns even VW for VW's reputational issue!

I think it's because CPUs don't run faster just because they're colder, they run faster when you overclock them. Often to get them stable at higher clock speeds you need more volta…

Only nerds are dumb enough to think that adding LIDAR to every crosswalk in the world isn't a completely ridiculous idea.

They don't actually have to. The 5th and 6th fleet coupled with the various large air bases in the vicinity would have little trouble it pancaking the entire site before the Turks …

I feel sorry for the poor bastards that had to go to Tokyo. As I understand it, clapping the other super fit athletes is a great part of the experience of competing (father was an …

Should hurdles be made in a range of sizes to be fair on short competitors?

I'm not a professional, but I find an LCD or OLED is a lot easier to drive from a microcontroller than a 7 segment or 4. Like a hell of a lot easier.

Indeed, I too chuckled at that. Do you remember those hobbyist kits from the 80s for building your own electronic ignition unit? (i.e. points replacement)

At one of my first jobs, the workshop foreman would sidle up beside another mechanic who was working under the bonnet, casually put his arm on their shoulder or whatever, then touc…

> contributing to huge risks to democratic systems all over the world Perhaps it was the weird hyperbole about democracy his comment was targeting?

Think of it as a 3m tall bulldozer the width of the country with effectively unlimited pushing power. Watch some videos of the Japan tsunami, it's basically an unstoppable force th…

As somebody who has been through more than 10 thousand quakes, it's as significant as the force itself. 7.4 @ 300km deep you just yawn and roll over. @10km deep you pray your concr…

No, I don't think they do paint a wrong picture, and it is helpful for people to say it so others realise they're not the only ones thinking it.

I think the implication is, that like the Maoris in New Zealand, they're only faux indigenous, as they arrived on boats. Probably doesn't matter much as there is no grift to be had…

Then leave whatever tech backwater you live in and move to the first world.

That's great! As another rank amateur I learn quite a few little tidbits from your thread... I'd never ever heard of a resistor array till now!

You can feel it with the pad of your thumb.

Liquefaction was one of the more miserable results of the Christchurch earthquake.

Sure they can, you can absolutely use heat pumps to brute force it, been there done that.

> attempts to improve alternative public transit will come at the cost of their commute It does, every 4 lane road we have changed to a 2 land road with cycle lanes has done that h…

Why not?

Similar situation here. I have on occasions seen all sorts of crazy looking split keyboards around the internet. They've looked interesting, but pricey, I can't touch them, and the…

I'm sure I saw on TV that they use what is basically a giant LED strip on the inside of the course, which as I understood was a 'pacer light'. Seems to strip the strategy out and r…

Maybe because they're an eye sore? Some people probably resent that if they were the ones leaving their product lying around all over common areas, such as footpaths, so they could…