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squilliam
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Comment #42991594
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Comment #42472505
Teflon is biologically inert. It's the stuff they use to make it stick to the knife/pan that you need to worry about.
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Comment #42234102
Great fanfic material
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Comment #42058796
> Blue areas aren’t states. They are cities. Democratic voting counties account for over 70% of the nations gdp. Conservative counties quite literally cannot support themselves. Bu…
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Comment #41837530
OBS has had the ability to do this for quite some time
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Comment #41832161
No there isn't. This is just unsubstantiated democratic fan fiction. Please stop spamming this link.
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Comment #40714483
I was able to completely disable it in a new Ford vehicle with an OBD2 cable and since software on my laptop that can modify PCM values
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Comment #23167214
In that case, I'm not sure I want to be evacuated.
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Comment #22039905
USB-C is overkill for just being a dumb power connector. I can buy average barrel-jacked PSUs for cheaper than a single USB-C PD cable! and then you have you pay for all the expens…
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Comment #21941357
"appropriate cause" sounds ripe for abuse. Cops will be able to disable this "feature" in their personal cars, naturally. without consequence.
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Comment #21895034
German engineers during WWII seems to refute this claim. History shows that talented engineers drafted machines of mass murder with smile, as long as it would fund their department…
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Comment #21766060
A modern jet engine is just a shrouded propeller that happens to be powered by a jet turbine. An electric ducted fan would be the battery-powered equivalent.
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Comment #21349442
Less than a year according to the US Army and Microsoft. >The IVAS Prototype Project seeks to provide a HUD 3.0 and integrated STE Squad capability within the Squad Architecture in…
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Comment #21347078
Ruggedized keyboards for self-service kiosks don't typically have a windows key or ctrl, alt, and ESC (and if they do there is usually a hardware switch that disables them)
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Comment #21285303
Optical sensors will drift over short timescales so you will never have a repeatable "zero" point. it would probably work for small organic shapes but anything more geometric would…
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Comment #21276802
>We also have a bunch of reasons (protected classes) that a company cannot refuse to do business. Colorado specifically includes sexual orientation in their definition of protected…
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Comment #21050692
I'm pretty sure that it's referring to the requirements to state that a product is "Made in the USA". Typically it means that atleast 51% of the components are USA-sourced. I think…
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Comment #20934362
>So, from my perspective, everyone except a few high level corporate people would be better off if we never got people addicted to smoking tobacco. The tobacco trade was hugely inf…
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Comment #13221403
LinusTechTips on YouTube just uploaded a review of this machine and was extremely negative towards the keyboard.
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Comment #11152522
It works great for lighter unmanned missions, but becomes less useful as you increase in mass. NASA has had to come up with some interesting solutions in order to land their rovers…
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Comment #11150398
'feature phone' is already an industry term for (mainly) bottom-tier Android phones that lack the hardware to be considered among 'smart phones' but have the basic abilities to acc…
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Comment #11142632
I design and manufacture an electronic cigarette device that uses a 555 to PWM a MOSFET for variable power output. Super simple and robust but will be switching to MCUs soon for mo…
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Comment #11142631
I design and manufacture an electronic cigarette device that uses a 555 to PWM a MOSFET for variable power output. Super simple and robust but will be switching to MCUs soon for mo…