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Comment · 2 years ago
cloth hockey tape, great for adding soft grip to tools
Comment · 2 years ago
zooming with mousewheel is a bit slow, takes ~10 scrolls to get to ~2x zoom (max)
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Comment · 2 years ago
where's the chimney?
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
the wit's soul wears briefs or something
Comment · 3 years ago
this is a pr/lobbying/marketing expense to delay train investment and sell cars, silly .. the purpose of these is to sell cars over trains
Comment · 3 years ago
Yep confirming/restating, for kitchenware, lowercase pyrex == tempered, capital PYREX == borosilicate.
Comment · 3 years ago
My Brother laser printer counts toner consumption (i.e. page count) with a keyed gear on the toner cartridge, different cartridge capacities have different shaped gears, resetting the gear orientation resets the counter.
Comment · 4 years ago
http push, baby!

alternatively, trust the client timer, ship a full 86400 frame gif, and figure out a start-frame hack.

Comment · 4 years ago
it's instantaneous, but the -T (transfer buffer % full display) is sometimes useful for that. (0% full -> source limited, 100% full -> sink limited)
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Comment · 4 years ago
You preempted a question about the lineage from/comparison with acoustic delay lines in footnote 2.

Thanks for the posts :-)

Comment · 4 years ago
don't trash it, put it in a closet for a while until you want to (or find someone who wants to) learn electronics troubleshooting.

You'll regret trashing it in a few years.

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