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  • We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird.

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  • Really the most you can hope for these days is to encounter two broken TVs of the same model, with different faults.

    Luck holding, this lets you wind up with a single working unit.

  • I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.

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  • Any introduced species becomes classified as a pest here in NZ if it either directly harms, or competes with for food any native animal.

    On the subject of magpies specifically, some regional councils take a more aggressive stance than others.

    The shit-list contains a few that are frequently a surprise to non-NZers, like hedgehogs.

  • Home canned chili

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  • A British quart is larger than a litre (≈1.14l), US quart is smaller (≈0.95l).

  • Nepal to scrap 'failed' Mount Everest waste deposit scheme

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  • From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

    The fabulously beautiful planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt.

    Published in 1979, so nearly a half century old idea 😉

  • 2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf]

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  • The other 1/3 realise it already has?

  • scr(ul)ew [new even worse version]

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  • Even just counting metric there are far too many sizes of hex bits. Adding inch sizes further complicates things, and as you say, the similarly of some of them to their metric counterparts isn't helping; is 5/32 close enough to 4mm to not break things? Who knows!

    With that said, torx is really no picnic either. T6, 8, 10, 15, 20, 25, 27, 30, and 40 all seem to be in relatively common use, and I'm not sure they all need to be. Not to mention the (relatively common) security variants of at least the 10 through 40.

    I think #1 - #4 square are the only ones I've ever seen in the wild, though I'm informed security versions of at least #2 - #4 exist too.

  • Vince Gilligan says ‘Pluribus' season 2 isn’t happening for a while: “We’re working on it…I would love to go faster if I could.”

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  • Link contains spoilers for season 1, if you've not seen it.

    You can view the history of the cul-de-sac they built in the historical aerial photos (click the icon with the globe and anticlockwise arrow): https://earth.google.com/web/@35.16545569,-106.74621795,1675.42242618a,303.69425338d,35y,0h,0t,0r/, which gives a nice insight into how long it took to make season 1.

    They broke ground somewhere between 2023-05-30 (area completely undisturbed) and 2023-08-30 (only first level of houses finished construction).

    The next images, a year later on 2024-08-30 is from the filming of episode 7.

    There are two more from 2025-05-30 and 2025-09-30, which don't show much of anything.

    Obviously they don't need to build the houses again, but clearly a heck of a lot of time went into the rest of season 1, so a similar wait for season 2 doesn't seem unexpected.

  • Intel fails to get EU antitrust ruling overturned in longstanding 16-year AMD competition case — chipmaker sees $1.2 billion fine reduced to $278 million

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  • If they'd actually had to pay the $1.24B back in 2009, it could have been quite meaningful.

    Maybe having to pay less than a quarter of that, more than a decade later, just pathetic.

  • Trump says America should change football's name so soccer can have it: 'It really doesn't make sense'

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  • Also far too many clock stoppages.

    Rugby: an 80-minute game that completes in around 100 minutes, inclusive of the 15 minute break between halves.

    Gridiron: a 60-minute game that inexplicably takes 3.5 hours.

    Very little fucking about in rugby, they just get on with it.

  • Why do modern monitor controls suck?

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  • U3219Q reporting in. The new U4025QW is looking pretty tasty though, 5120x2160, 120Hz, Thunderbolt hub, more ports than you can shake a stick at.

    All of the U and S series Dells I've used have been great, and they're by and large remarkably reasonably priced too.

  • New Zealand man accused of eating Faberge pendant inspired by Bond movie as police wait for evidence

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  • Double-bagged, with any luck.

  • Air travel disrupted over Airbus A320 software switch

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  • You have to dig reasonably hard, but a few articles have linked to the original EASA directive, which is allowing up to three non-passenger flights to relocate the plane to a service location.

    I'm not sure if that rule would just apply in Europe where they have authority.

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • Money. Money is where it comes from.

    "I am rich, therefore my opinion is valid and you should listen to me"

    EXTREMELY LOUD 'INCORRECT' BUZZER

  • Do you think standard batteries like A, AA, AAA, C, and D, 9V etc will eventually become obsolete?

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  • And if those specific ones aren't available where you live, there's a very similar range from a brand called "Pale Blue".

    Theirs are available in AAA, AA, C, D, 9V, and CR123.

  • Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production

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  • First game I ever bought.

    Mailed a freaking cheque internationally, and got a box of 3.5" floppy disks back about 6 weeks later.

    Wild times.

  • Casual sex

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  • Knee and elbow pads.

  • Usha Vance Speaks Out After Being Spotted Without Wedding Ring

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  • Clock but the PM quit and was replaced halfway through the project. Handover instructions: "Make the clock hands show the current time"

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  • I keep trying, but the clock only displays 4:29.

    What do?

  • Firefox is adding support for custom keyboard shortcuts, requested by users since 2004

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  • Back in the XUL days (pre Firefox 57) it was possible for an extension to muck with keyboard bindings. So only 90 versions later :)

    I'm looking forward to being able to disable the ^q quit shortcut, at the very least.