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The KN95 specification is comparable to the N95 specification. But KN95 masks as a class of real things are often not comparable to N95 masks.

While Boeing totally screwed the pooch on this one, and I won't be choosing to fly on one if I can, the public having more confidence in a system than its creators/domain experts i…

Don’t do this, use a plastic toothpick or you might damage the contacts.

It could use an AVR but you don’t save much and the world is on ARM. You would “need” an ATMega 32u4 anyways for hardware USB support. A purposed KB IC probably wouldn’t handle spl…

Well if the goal is to fund everyone, the pressures that ensure it “ requires years of post-secondary education, has long, shitty hours, and pays peanuts” will likely reduce.

Not true. It is much, much more energy intensive to run an RF link up to a tower or WiFi than to sum 2000 rows of 10 column wide data. RF works by emitting energy into free space, …

Yes, generally if you over-complicate something it becomes over-complicated.

Ben Franklin once said that the best argument against democracy was a discussion with the average voter. But I think there is an equal risk there of members of a society being unwi…

Regardless, using Pozidrive, JIS, Torx or similar is better for your soul.

To add to this, Phillips screws are designed to cause the screwdriver to cam out. This is done so you can’t over torque the screw hole. This also makes them really annoying sometim…

Because the original parent comment is using an analogy to aviation terms, and depending on a more than cursory understanding of the limits of an aircraft autopilot. I am willing t…

Its nice to make semantic distinctions, but thats not how most of the population (people buying the car) think of it.

Well I would call that about 0% of the impact of the COVID lockdowns so I think we will adapt and overcome.

Freedom of speech has to do with freedom from government control over speech. However, what people who only talk about enshrined rights forget about is the American spirit. It is n…

My herring is deeply offended.

Other way around, droplets are bigger and more effectively filtered usually.

Call it whatever you want, but it is deeply immoral.

The rate of insect decline on land is less than the rate of growth in/on bodies of water. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6489/417.full?ijk...

I suppose that’s pretty reasonable, but from what I have seen causing trouble from people, I really don’t believe that your view is shared by the majority of people causing the out…

No, they really don't because no-one can hold a list of millions of advertisers and who boycotted and who didn't in there head. There is no way most people will check a list before…

It's not the administration. It's just the general ineptitude of many government processes. The current crisis has just laid inadequacies bare.