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I know there’s an actual product category called β€œtubeless,” but do airless tires fall into this category? Because after a run of bad luck where I was getting flats nearly every other time I rode, I put a set of Tannus on my bike and it was the best bike-related thing I think I’ve ever done.

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My #1 reason for rage quitting a movie, series, or book. In any genre, even comedies.

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DMCA is widely abused; it’s a knee-jerk corporate reaction, and by now most DMCA notices are probably being sent out by LLMs. Very likely, a substantial percentage are not even valid - either targeting content that the requester has no claim to, is falsely identified, a form of harassment, or targeting content which is justifiably and legally fair-use.

Hosting services don’t even try to validate these claims. You assume OP is asking for piracy reasons; we have no way of knowing, but I’m always going to side with the content providers against the gross abuse of DCMA by media corporations.

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Yeah, sadly, you’re probably right.

However, maybe there are partially reflective lenses that act more like mirrored sunglasses?

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I’m a little conflicted about Telon Cusk. I don’t think the EV auto industry would be as far advanced today if not for his efforts; I think we’d have gotten here eventually, but maybe a decade or two later.

Same with the space industry. I wish that, instead, NASA would have been well-funded and space would have remained a science-first (with hidden military objectives; that was unavoidable) effort, but Tusk stepping in and pushing created a new space race where governments had failed.

He created neither Tesla nor SpaceX, nor was he the technical mind behind them; but his pumping money into them and his grandstanding did a lot to motivate other players in those industries.

Does that good outweigh his fundamental evil nature? Probably not. But he has been instrumental in some good advancements.

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Nyes?

GL-iNet devices run DD-WRT, with an added (probably not open source) web interface. However, if you ssh into any of their routers, it’s BusyBox and DD-WRT. And if you click go into the admin web page and click System->Advanced you end up with a link that takes you to luci, the raw DD-WRT web UI for the device. The company’s UI is just a simpler, more pretty UI on top of DD-WRT.

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I don’t know if this is an old image originating in superbowl, but I hadn’t seen it before.

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MRAM prototype is claimed to deliver a 50 percent reduction in overall energy usage over current equivalent devices, a 30 percent boost in efficiency, and a 20 percent reduction in the current required to store data by flipping its magnetic bits

Too much mixing of units for me to interpret.

Is the 50% overall reduction supposed to be the sum of 30% efficiency plus the 20% bit-flip cost?

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