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  1. Re:Wow.... crazy! on Google Fiber To Pay Nearly $4 Million To Louisville In Exit Deal (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    The code is usually based on the frost line so that heaving won't occur.

    https://diy.stackexchange.com/...

  2. Re:Here in Sweden we have airbag helmets... on Science and Bicycling Meet In a New Helmet Design (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    https://helmets.org/airbag.htm

    A neat idea, but I don't know if they're ready for prime time.

  3. Re:Air Launch has no economic advantage on Paul Allen's Stratolaunch Finally Flies The World's Biggest Plane (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not what I heard.

    https://vimeo.com/13497928

  4. Re:kind of gimmicky on Startup Sells Pot 'Grow Fridges' That Are Tended By Robots (nj.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know the l what TF the summary is on about, but the website says it's $2400 not $100k. Still not great for low value crops, but a heck of a lot cheaper than a half-hight growth chamber from Percival with NO hydroponic stuff in it.

    I may look at a couple of these for my work... they're make inoculation experiments perfectly repeatable

  5. What is the advantage to these companies of limiting the size (and therefore the car's range) of these urea tanks?

    I get what their "advantage" is from not adding an extra filter would be, but not in limiting the range of their cars.

    Sam

  6. Re: Well actually that is correct on The US Just Had the Most Q1 Layoffs in a Decade (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you point out to me how the way employment is counted has been changed since then?

  7. Re:Not sure what this really means on Elon Musk Continues To Amuse Himself On Twitter, Sharing Song, Duck Emoji (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    Except they make 100k cars/year that are not Model 3's, so...

    "will make around 500K" cars in 2019

  8. Isaac Asimov's Fault Intolerant on Gmail Turns 15, Gets Smart Compose Improvements and Email Scheduling (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like we're getting to the point in that short story by Isaac Asimov: "Fault Intolerant."

    https://aparthibo.wordpress.co...

    I always liked his stuff about automation. The Reeks and Wrecks from "Player Piano" always seemed pretty predictive.

  9. I'd wondered when this was coming for cell phone cameras. I had a Minolta DiMAGE X back in the day, it had a periscope lens with not just a fixed 5x telephoto, but a 3x zoom that moved inside the body sideways.

    https://www.dpreview.com/artic...

    I await the day they don't use 3 separate lenses/sensors and do something like this in a cell phone.

    Sam

  10. It may not be as popular as GMail, but Hangouts has an absolutely massive user base.

    They're killing it with no direct replacement in a year or so.

    So even lots of users won't save you if Google doesn't feel they can monetize it.

  11. Just flag as spam.

  12. https://www.newegg.com/Product...

    From the first google result for "amd ryzen motherboard ecc."

  13. Re:This IS the GOP on Texas Lawmakers Want To Stop Tesla From Fixing Its Own Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Ahhhh whataboutism at its finest.

  14. Re:Mobile repair seems like an awesome service to on Texas Lawmakers Want To Stop Tesla From Fixing Its Own Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    What, you think Tesla isn't bonded/insured or something?

    LOL

  15. Re:Neither Google Drive nor OneDrive runs on Linux on Dropbox Now Limits Free Users To 3 Devices (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the Dolphin KIO downloads a file to the cache directory and launches whatever process... for instance, LibreOffice Calc. Then when you save that cached file, that triggers the KIOslave to upload the updated copy.

    If you go to file->open, you'll get LibreOffice's picker and you would have to navigate to the cache directory yourself.

  16. Re:Toyota's plug-in electric range is just too low on Toyota Is Losing the Electric Car Race, So It Pretends Hybrids Are Better · · Score: 1

    Because everyone wants those silly CUVs nowadays and no one wants Sedans anymore.

  17. Re:Neither Google Drive nor OneDrive runs on Linux on Dropbox Now Limits Free Users To 3 Devices (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Of the three of those, Dropbox is the only one you won't be able to use on any filesystem except ext4.

    Why, Dropbox???

  18. Re:Neither Google Drive nor OneDrive runs on Linux on Dropbox Now Limits Free Users To 3 Devices (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It works for any application launchable as a GUI. CLI is a little... different.

    When you right click->open any file with a non-KDE app, it's downloaded into /home/username/.cache/kioexec then the program opens that file. When you save, the file is monitored for changes and the changed file is auto reuploaded.

    You can hackishly make this work with say... plain text and the CLI by just telling it to open with some arbitrary executable, which will leave the file cached and you can do whatever with it, and Dolphin will ask you to resync automagically with changes, but it's a kludge.

  19. Re:Neither Google Drive nor OneDrive runs on Linux on Dropbox Now Limits Free Users To 3 Devices (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet on the system I'm typing this from, I can open a terminal and type "dnf install onedrive" and a nice, simple open source client will download and install.

    https://www.maketecheasier.com...

    Fedora 29, file comes from the base distro repo, not even an add on.

  20. Re:Bye bye on Dropbox Now Limits Free Users To 3 Devices (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Hilariously, Onedrive seems to be easier to use with Linux as the client than Google Drive, too.

    That's... funny?

  21. Re:Can't innovate on Toyota Is Losing the Electric Car Race, So It Pretends Hybrids Are Better · · Score: 1

    No it wasn't.

    Porsche may have designed the most famous boxer engine, but he had absolutely nothing to do with Subaru's engines.

    And Porsche didn't even invent the boxer. That was Karl Benz. And Tatra used 4 cylinder boxers in its cars well before Porsche ever did, and in fact Porsche ended up paying Tatra a chunk of money in a court settlement over cribbing from their designs.

    Porsche and Subaru boxers: Not related at all.

  22. Re:Toyota's plug-in electric range is just too low on Toyota Is Losing the Electric Car Race, So It Pretends Hybrids Are Better · · Score: 1

    People keep trotting out the Volt as the ideal in these responses...

    Which is ironic, considering GM has announced the Volt is being discontinued.

    https://electrek.co/2018/11/26...

  23. Re:15% Better Than 1060 on NVIDIA Launches New $219 Turing-Powered GeForce GTX 1660 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD is eating nVidias lunch on the low end with the integrated Vega CPUs. A 2400g is about equivalent to a gt 1030 in performance.

    You get a quad core, 8-thread CPU and it comes with the equivalent of a free 1030 built in for $135? Makes a hard case for buying anything from nVidia's low end.

  24. Re:Redundant Systems? on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    My ground school instructor used that exact example and called it the "three idiot rule" that you couldn't have everybody trying to troubleshoot a problem at once.

    He likened it to 3 points of contact in free climbing. Of your four limbs, you can lift one from the surface at once.

  25. Re:I don't see a problem. I see the opposite on Intel CPU Shortages To Worsen in Q2 2019: Research (digitimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Ryzen 5 2400g integrated graphics are about on par with a GT1030, which should be a chunk faster than that GT720.

    Like you said, the shared memory bus is a bottleneck, so I just built one with 2933, which seems to hit the sweet spot with price/performance for RAM:
    https://www.pcper.com/reviews/...

    It's a heck of a step up in games from the system I was running before (an elderly GTX260 with a quad core FX processor) and the whole thing draws about 1/3 what the old system did running all out (and almost nothing at idle).

    Nice upgrade for the price, and you can throw in a discreet card later as the integrated graphics get long in the tooth.