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Does this have any benefit over just using friction to convert the rotation into heat? I suppose it would suffer less wear, but it also seems way more expensive.

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Why did they put that button in such an annoying spot to press? If you're going to add a pointless button at least put it on the thumb side, like almost every other mouse in existence.

[SOLVED] Accidently damaged an MicroSD by pulling it before it had fully ejected

I accidentally removed a MicroSD card from an Android device running Android 12 while it was being ejected. This happened because it took longer than usual (less than a few seconds), and I pulled it out without looking at the notification. Now, when I insert the MicroSD card into any Android device, it tells me to format it to...

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This. The way I think of it, if data isn't backed up, that data doesn't really exist. At a bare minimum, keep important data backed up in two separate locations. Ideally you should follow the 3-2-1 backup rule (a main drive, backup drive, and cloud backup fulfill the requirements).

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Yeah I recently picked up a Pixel 6 Pro and the fingerprint reader works well. You do need to press down somewhat firmly sometimes, maybe people aren't and that's why they're having issues?

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Even better, use an AI to generate the misinformation to save you time (and get even dumber misinformation).

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According to this Stack Exchange answer, glass reflects around 4-100% of the UV in sunlight depending on the angle of incidence. So you could probably get a sunburn if the angle is low enough (like if the Sun is almost directly overhead and reflecting off a vertical window).

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Would be interesting to set up email servers on some of the more popular instances and see how much traffic they're actually getting.

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NOAA's predicting a Kp index of 8.33, hopefully we'll get some good auroras tonight!

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Go out anyways and look north, there's a good chance you'll see something.

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Yeah they can't really be seen through clouds aside from maybe the clouds looking slightly brighter.

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No need for all these new-fangled tools when good ol' dd does the job just fine. (Though they certainly reduce the chance of accidentally nuking the wrong disk).

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I've had that a few times on my accounts (I scrape content so they get suspended relatively often) and I always just grab a photo from thispersondoesnotexist.com and crop out the watermark. It hasn't failed me yet.

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I've never had them ask for a photo ID so idk.

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That's a pretty cool idea, though I think it would be a challenge to align the plans perfectly with the actual construction site.

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If one millionth of the brain is 1.4 petabytes, the whole brain would take 1.4 zettabytes of storage, roughly 4% of all the digital data on Earth.

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Interesting, according to Wikipedia it's only in an 800km orbit. I'm surprised it wasn't detected sooner as it's pretty big (66cm diameter).

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There's a big difference between being against Israel and being antisemitic, and people need to see that. Heck, I'm literally Jewish and I don't support Israel.

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The other 20% is mostly high quality however, and I'm sure they'd filter out the heavily downvoted crud.

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Could always use a nickel, they're a nickel copper alloy IIRC which should be more resilient.

Edit: I'm dumb, older nickels don't have a date on them. Quarters or dimes should work though.

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This image is from Feb 2023, over a year ago. Source

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There's always the carefully applied soldering iron.

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Who needs private variables when you can generate cryptographically secure variable names? Much better security.

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Where are you located? I'm in need of some new backup drives and would be happy to pay a reasonable price + shipping if you're interested.

Does color change how hot a laser can get something?

For convenience sake let's say you have 2 identical lasers, one is blue and one is red. And you shine it on lead (so none of the light leaks through) until the lead doesn't heat up anymore. Would the temperature change at all between the different color lasers. It doesn't have to be red or blue, it could be microwave or x ray,...

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Both "color" and "colour" are valid spellings.

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Me opening /dev/urandom as a raw video stream to watch some nice relaxing RGB static.

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It's great, just give your cloud servers public IPs and you get tons of completely free vulnerability scans! This life hack has saved me tens of thousands of dollars in pentesting.

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Gotta review the 5 line PR ten times just to make absolutely totally sure there's nothing wrong with it before submitting it.

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No compiler optimizations? How unfortunate.

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