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Re:Shell Quietly Shelves a Radical Plan to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint
on Thursday August 31, 2023 @10:17AM (#37337515)
Possibly this article? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/shell-climate-change...
My first thought as well.
Re:Show HN: Google Maps Shadow Calculator
on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:49AM (#30640560)
Ah this is perfectly timed--many of the old garden-focused azimuth / altitude / persephone day calculators are defunct and never handled the problem of cast shadows very well in the first place. Nice work!
Re:3.5mm audio vs. USB Type-C: the good, bad and the future
on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @10:54AM (#12086601)
My experience with 3.5mm jacks has been the opposite: every failure has either left the tip, ring, and/or sleeve in the jack, or broke solder joints on a multi-layered and typically unrepairable board. Or in the case of laptops, a failed microswitch for optical output failing and rendering it likewise unusable.
Granted, Lightning and USB-C have their own failure modes, but the physical construction and durability of 3.5mm plugs and jacks are a good reason to abandon TRS connectors.