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Sam Lin

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  1. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
  2. You might even call it a sourdough boule, amirite?
  3. You mean sooner or later the US population will all be too fat to play in a World Cup.
  4. If you get baked all day, there won't be any left for them.
  5. Time it right and honk your horn, bonus points if you make the phone fly out of his hands. Minus points if the phone lands on your car and dents it.
  6. Where do you work where people actually ask "Is the sky blue?"
  7. Stayed in a hotel 2wk ago with the opposite problem, AC was full cold regardless of thermostat setting. Ended up turning it off because we were freezing.
  8. Is this wrong? Asking for a friend.
  9. Launch window opens in roughly one hour from this post. Just past 1am Eastern.
  10. Uh, look at it the other way. You normally only see 1-2 a year and you just took two out in a single day? You clearly have a coyote problem now, even if you didn't before.
  11. I-pace won a pile of world car awards when it came out, enjoy!
  12. The charge protect function on iPhone aims only to minimize time at 100%. It learns your charge/usage patterns, and will hold the phone at 80% charge for most of the charging period, and then run it to 100 only when it expects you to unplug it.
  13. He sat near to me on a flight from Inchon to Bangkok a few years ago. But he looked Indian, not Iranian.
  14. Battery swell failures are not trivial and make me absolutely enraged. Charge logic is completely controlled by the mfg, yet they cannot keep batteries from getting into conditions where they swell? It's not a Dell thing, I've swelled more batteries than I can count across all sorts of devices. Without fail, my devices get retired/unusable due to battery swell. Not due to other hardware failure, not due to performance getting outdated, just due to fucking battery failure. At least many newer devices allow you to limit battery charge. Aggravating that most of them don't allow you to set your own desired charge threshold, only allowing you to use their preset (Samsung is 85%, Lenovo tablet is 60%, Surface is 50%). But much better than being stuck with 100%. Recently I learned of Chargie, an inline USB charge limiter that works with an app on the device to allow any device to limit charge. It also works with 'dumb' devices that can't run the app, by sensing charge current and cutting off at some user-settable threshold of charge. I bought a few of them to try, and am pleasantly surprised with how easy they are to set up and use, and yet how much micro-control you can do in detail if you want to nerd out as a power user. I use one for my iPhone as iPhone does not provide a built-in way to limit charge at all. Chargie.org Note that with modern battery tech, the longest battery lifespan will come at 50% charge. Warning, lots of pics in spoiler. These are all my own photos of my own failed devices. Fuck this stupidity.
  15. HAHAHAHAHAHA no. As Captainant mentioned, NASA would be burning even more money while achieving results in roughly 5x the time that China takes. There is zero chance that the US would be leading upmass if it was only NASA payloads.
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