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Re:France needs to read my paper on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:51PM (#50217330)
At the same time, it's a tax policy that would improve the housing supply in desirable locations.
Re:France needs to read my paper on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:50AM (#50206979)
Tax policy was never about "freedom and liberty", it's about collecting revenue for government and guiding economic development.
Re:RepRapMicron on Sunday October 18, 2026 @10:20AM (#50141336)
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvV2CH5il3Q

And the channel's preceding few videos covering the development of the prerequisite technologies.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:59PM (#50124602)
> kept all the pieces 0.2mm apart

You can add glass microspheres to adhesives to guarantee bondline thickness. It's often done nowadays whenever you have different metals meeting with a glue bond because it keeps them electrically isolated, preventing galvanic corrosion.

It's compressed air.
It used pairs of holes in a very different way than I did.
They do have a backup camera.
Re:Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test on Sunday September 20, 2026 @11:47AM (#49777007)
Polygonal aperture openings are not the cause of soap-bubble bokeh, it's the cause of polygonal stopped-down bokeh.

Heavily ringed bokeh just comes from the optics.

Re:It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:33PM (#49591190)
PoW was originally anti-spam technology.
Re:I Think the Military Commissary's Freezers Were Hacked on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:10AM (#49508687)
The bold text use make me think it was largely LLM-written. Maybe even LLM-researched.
Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Monday August 31, 2026 @12:26AM (#49505564)
Row/col works but width/height doesn't, alas.
Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Sunday August 30, 2026 @08:18PM (#49504232)
My dad told a story of a classmate in high school going through the effort of manually justifying text in a paper he wrote and being rewarded with a plagiarism accusation.

That was done by typing the whole paper twice, with added spaces the second time.

Re:Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard? on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:27PM (#49404041)
Mitosis Anaphase, a handwired sandwich design based on the Mitosis keyboard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/8wip5j...

I type with the keyboard on my lap so a split design didn't work for me, hence creating this handwired contraption.

I use the Dvorak layout and have two alternate layers. In the number layer, the top row is punctuation, home row is numbers, and bottom row spilling into the thumb cluster is F keys). The other utility layer has mouse keys and media control.

Keyswitches: Box Navy

Caps: Polycarbonate DCS alphas R1-R3-R4, DSA R3 for the tall thumb caps, G20 for the low thumb caps.

Button layout: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/50a4b3510bdfe5e8c93...

Re:Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone on Thursday August 20, 2026 @07:19AM (#49373091)
They tried too hard after the success of Hardy Heron and its awesome wallpaper.
I think there's a distinction between creating generic info-gathering technology that helps them gather their own data from their own users, and you gathering data that the government can then ask (force) you to hand over.
As soon as I saw bold text, I knew. Humans never bold things.
Re:Gakutensoku on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:36AM (#49332752)
I've mostly seen it on the right side of vehicle livery.
Re:What Happened to Talenti? on Thursday August 06, 2026 @03:12PM (#49200992)
They mention Jeni's. Now that is premium ice cream. Their "darkest chocolate" and "milkiest chocolate" flavors are the only chocolate ice creams I like, because they actually taste liko eating chocolate.
Printed teeth are weaker than the belt's own teeth.

Conversely, with this design the center pin could break loose and the belt would still hold, because the pin just has to stop the loop from fitting through the slot.

Re:The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @06:28AM (#49180829)
Today I learned that diabetes is the greek word for siphon.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

At my past place Fios was excellent but I've had mixed results recently, with ping spikes and a lot of suspected traffic shaping of things like Youtube.

Service is pretty good though.

Re:My Favorite Keyboards on Thursday July 02, 2026 @07:57AM (#48760040)
Mitosis is the layout that I like, it doesn't require a huge thumb stretch.
I consume copious amounts of cold mugicha. It's amazingly refreshing and very cheap.
We can collect income tax from children of tourists who happen to be born in the US on vacation? Great!
The fastest drag racing cars still are internal combustion. When raw speed is the goal, the torque doesn't have to be efficient, you can get it from an engine spinning away in its power band with a controlled amount of clutch or torque converter slipping.

This is still crazy from a road car though.

Re:Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths on Saturday June 13, 2026 @09:14AM (#48517010)
> Besides being cheaper, the induction motors have the advantage that if they are used only as auxiliary motors, you can cut the power supply to them at any time, in which case they will consume nothing.

EESMs have this advantage too, you can simply cut power to the field winding.

Re:Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths on Saturday June 13, 2026 @09:13AM (#48516996)
Efficiency varies according to the load and RPM.

Permanent magnet motors have higher peak efficiency but EESMs are better in non ideal conditions, particularly low torque high RPM i.e. highway cruising where efficiency is more critical than at low speeds.

Sometimes limitations can have benefits.
Regardless, for me the CD is actually painful to listen to even at low volumes, while the vinyl is excellent.

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