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kinttach

@ kinttach @lemm.ee

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  • Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous?

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  • You live in a city, but most of the store chain’s customers live in the suburbs where gas is a major expense and fuel perks are a big incentive to shop at a particular store.

    The store isn’t trying to promote fossil fuels. They only care about customer loyalty. Besides (they might rationalize), their customers have to buy gas somewhere so why not from us?

  • Dial Tone

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  • Are you sure about that? Dial tone is a sound you hear before dialing, not the sound you hear when you press a key.

  • Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?

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  • The Fisker Ocean has solar panels on its roof. It can add 4 or 5 miles a day if fully exposed to the sun.

    Not enough to matter. It’s a gimmick.

    If you don’t have an EV, you may think that EV owners are worried about range, and they’d welcome any increase. I have not found this to be true.

    It’s more like having a car that starts every day with a full tank. You’re never going to burn through that in a single day. Pretty soon you don’t care about range, efficiency, or pay much attention to the battery meter. It only matters if you’re on a road trip, which for me is a couple times a year.

    I would not want to give up a nice full-roof sunroof for a few extra miles a day.

  • Side of bed debate - Which side is left?

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  • Imagine the bed is a clock. The 12 o’clock position is at the head — I don’t think anything else makes sense. That makes it unambiguous.

    The positions are 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock.

  • What is your country's "coals to Newcastle"?

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  • Did you mean White Castle?

  • The Flaws that Allow Hackers to Remotely Access Cars

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  • This report is from 2016. It’s mainly of historical interest.

  • What are your best intrusive ads ideas?

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  • Ad-based apps on your phone.

    It’s been done already, you say? Not like this: the front-facing camera is used to detect eye gaze. A counter on the screen starts at 30 seconds and only counts down while you are looking at the screen. If you look away, the counter, and the ad, pauses. The app doesn’t continue until you’ve watched the entire ad.

  • In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber

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  • All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why?

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  • All Mac laptops do. And my work Windows PC looks like it has one but the company was too cheap to pay for it, so all it has is a spot that looks like a fingerprint sensor.

  • With great power comes great responsibility - What happened between 1993 and 2004 and sudo ?

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  • The first few lines of Owl City, Fireflies

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  • There’s a great community called The Lyrics Game - [email protected] - where people post AI art of song lyrics and others try to guess the song.

    This would have worked great! I bet it would have been guessed quickly as “Fireflies” is frequently guessed (but to my knowledge hasn’t been one of the songs yet).

  • Junior Dev VS Senior Dev

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  • Another senior dev here, one of those weirdos who likes light mode. Sometimes. VS Code’s light mode is blinding to me, and I never use it. But Nova’s is beautiful and I prefer it. It depends how well the app renders fonts and colors. The oversaturated colors used in most apps are a big problem.

  • The Divine Trinity of JavaScript

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  • The ?? operator?

  • "Ugh why is there pee on the bathroom floor?"

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  • Good joke, Dad! Here, have a brownie.

  • I Love Rock And Roll by Joan Jett

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  • That is some unusual hair. He looks like a delighted DJ. Rapper’s Delight?

  • Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”

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  • This doesn’t sound like a serious problem for a company like Google. They can afford to solve it by brute force — just put a Wi-Fi hotspot in every single room.

  • why don't people say mega meters

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  • On Earth it’s just not needed. In nearby space it could make sense — distance to the Moon is 369 Mm. Distance to the Sun 149 Gm. But people aren’t good at visualizing the difference between kilo-, mega-, and giga-. It isn’t obvious from those numbers just how much further away the Sun is.

  • Locomotive Breath By Jethro Tull

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  • A classic!

  • Locomotive Breath By Jethro Tull

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  • Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull?