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sparklysoup

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    Comment #48972643

    You're close. It's not Gmail, the product that killed it. It's the business model of "free products." That's because Gmail is not the product - it's a delivery platform that's just…

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    Comment #48877964

    > PE Name and shame.

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    Comment #47910649

    Yes, but "spit valve" is a misnomer. It is water condensation that collects inside the tubes and have to be removed. For anyone other than absolute beginners, anyway.

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    Comment #47272512

    Having a single (government ID) is bad, so instead we hand our personal details over to one of a dozen private companies, none of which has any contract with us, the user, and all …

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    Comment #46805934

    > They are designed to survive being recorded by a phone at an angle. Any idea what this looks like? I assume it's not visible to the human eye, but being able to survive this leve…

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    Comment #46666277

    > the journalists found that it's a 57-year old lady who's never been known in the scene, who was married to a French banker whose parents survived the holocaust, but in the last d…

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    Comment #46454439

    700-ish tonnes - it's in the wikipedia article: "In 2020, Buquebus originally commissioned Incat to deliver a new ship to use dual-fuel propulsion, capable of operating on liquefie…

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    Comment #46179688

    There's a python module for this: https://pypi.org/project/ffmpeg-python/ https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python >>> import ffmpeg >>> video_metadata = ffmpeg.probe('test.mp4')…