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🇨🇦 tunetardis

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  • Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

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  • I was thinking about face ID the other day. What if you trained it while making a funny face? So then you would have to make that face to unlock the phone and how could someone compel you to do so? It's sort of a 2-factor authentication in a way.

  • At this climate fair, heat pumps, e-bikes and induction stoves take center stage

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  • I had an induction hot plate before I had an induction stove.

    It's the gateway drug, isn't it…

  • At this climate fair, heat pumps, e-bikes and induction stoves take center stage

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  • Oh what fun! I'm walking around the kitchen sticking fridge magnets to pots as my wife is looks on in puzzlement. Most have passed the test! I think there will indeed be an induction hot plate in our near future. Thanks for the advice and positive testimonials!

  • At this climate fair, heat pumps, e-bikes and induction stoves take center stage

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  • Dang, I'd never heard of induction stoves but now I'm thinking about getting an induction hot plate for the kitchen.

  • EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

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  • Here's the thing though. I arrived at the conclusion that buying both a car and an ebike is cheaper than buying a car alone, provided the bike replaces the car for the bulk of your trips. You save enormous amounts in fuel and maintenance. The amount of electricity you consume is a rounding error on your monthly bill while you need to budget for fuel when driving, and automobile maintenance costs are easily 10x higher than for a bike. And last but not least, you can go for a long time without replacing your car since you put so little mileage on it, and when you do go looking for a replacement, you can lower the bar in looking for a bargain. Since it's something you will only drive sporadically, it doesn't have to be great.

  • EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

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  • More than 95% of the two-wheelers are located in China, according to the IEA.

    Wow! What is the situation over there? Is it that fewer people can afford a car and opt for ebikes, that the infrastructure is more bike-oriented, or are there some other factors at play?

  • How many people listened to audiobooks (or anything non-music) on cassette tape? On a Walkman?

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  • I had a few comedy albums. Some of them like Monty Python had a mix of music and skits. I wasn't super into audiobooks. Probably the longest thing I ever listened to was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in its (original?) BBC Radio rendition.

  • What food experiences from your country would you recommend to tourists?

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  • Oh yeah, that is the best! They have one at the conservation area near me. You go there around March and slap on some cross-country skis to get to the shack. Then just as the cold is starting to set in a bit, you walk in there where they're boiling the sap and take in the aroma. Then you sit down at a long table and gorge yourself on pancakes with the syrup still hot and mixing with the butter. And then on the way back, if you have any bird seed in your pocket, you can just hold it out and chickadees will land on your hand. It's magical!

  • People that lived in the USSR, what was it like?

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  • You have to understand that religion was banned by the communist regime of the day. Admitting to it could get you locked up.

    But my dad, as a tourist making this casual observation about flagrant rule-breaking going on in plain sight even as he spoke, broke the tension completely and made the locals admit there is a lot of rule-breaking going on everywhere.

  • People that lived in the USSR, what was it like?

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  • Yeah that was my read of it. I remember actually seeing people hopping onto the train even as it was starting to move out. It took those locomotives a long time to build up any significant speed, so I don't think anyone was freaking out about getting cut in half or anything.

  • People that lived in the USSR, what was it like?

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  • Never lived in the USSR but travelled through the country on the Trans-Siberian Railway with my dad years ago when just a kid. He spoke fluent Russian and struck up conversations with locals wherever we stopped. At one point, they broke out into gales of laughter before we reboarded the train. I asked him what that was all about.

    He said he had asked if anyone practiced religion in the USSR? At first, they were reluctant to answer. Who wants to know? Why do you ask? And he said well, I notice there are signs all over the train station that it is forbidden to walk over the tracks. Yet I see people going so far as to crawl under one train to reach another. After a moment of awkward silence, that's when the laughter broke out. "Ah shit man, you got us. Religion is alive and well here!"

  • ‘It’s got nasty’: the battle to build the US’s biggest solar power farm

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  • Maybe with a solar concentrating array, but these are photovoltaics are they not? So shouldn't be a problem. I suspect this is just your typical nimby backlash to any large project. There's plenty of that where I live too, alas.

  • Code quality can be measured in fucks per minute

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  • This was a struggle for me going from hobbyist programmer to working at a company. I tried to tone it down. Really. But eventually I got "promoted" to having my own office with a suspiciously thick door. Hmm…

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    Geoengineering Test Quietly Launches Salt Crystals into Atmosphere

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  • Was curious what their test rig looks like and found some pics here.

  • Residents Beg Michigan Mayor to Stop Solar Eclipse - He Scientifically Can't

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  • I live in the path of totality and the local tourism office is projecting anywhere from 70K to half a million visitors. It's insane! Also, I read Niagara Falls, which is obviously used to seeing a lot of tourists, has nevertheless declared a preemptive state of emergency. And there are advisories to be very careful if you're driving on highways at the time of totality, as there will inevitably be idiots who stop suddenly to gawk and burn out their eyeballs.

    Mind you, it could all be a bust given the current weather forecast is for Monday to be cloudy across the whole region. I guess it'll still be cool to see everything go dark for a few minutes though.

  • Hate it when that happens

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  • True story. I was looking for an answer to an obscure problem and found it in a 10-year-old stackoverflow post. Then I looked more closely at the author…

    Hey! Me from 10 years ago, stop being such a smart ass! It's obnoxious.

  • Low tech DHCP

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  • 1st reaction: lmao

    2nd reaction: hey wait, this is pure genius!

  • What was your first experience using the Internet?

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  • Oh yeah, I remember CompuServe. I believe it was its own separate network from the Internet, though they had an email gateway at least. Maybe towards the end they became an ISP like AOL did? My memory is fuzzy on that.

    I do remember they invented gif files which then of course spread to the Internet. But it was a mess because the compression they use was patent-protected. CompuServe had paid royalties on it, but the Internet was, well, the Internet…

  • What was your first experience using the Internet?

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  • Can't remember the exact year but I imagine it was sometime in the mid-90s?

    I used to play MUDs on a community BBS and one day the admins said they were testing out an Internet portal. Before long, they became the first ISP in town. It was weird because until they eventually upgraded to DSL, they had this quirky dialup script you had to use that navigated past the BBS part to get you on the Internet. For all I know, the BBS may still lurking around somewhere to this day?