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xkcd #2977: Three Kinds of Research
  • Aka "we applied a standard theory to standard circumstances and got the expected result" - one can argue it does help in a way by providing another dataset although it didn't really accomplish anything it can be useful for student research projects in that field.

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    Drivers Hate The Tech In Their Cars
  • See if your car is on the website niftycity you might be able to get a piggyback adapter from them to run Android Auto & Apple Carplay through your OEM setup.

    They no doubt sell rebranded versions of the same stuff you can find on AliExpress but they do the hard parts of working out all the bits to make it all nicely integrated with the OEM setup rather than having to research which obscure cables you need to buy.

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    Autocorrect Rule
  • Women are the best and I don't know what to do with it but I don't know if you want to go to the store or something else but I can do it for you if you want to come over and get me a new one for you and I will be there is it okay to be there in the morning or something but I will be there.

    True poetry.

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    Yt-dlp is the best way to download videos and audio
  • No you have to edit the file for CD metadata and convert it to flac so you can pretend it was ripped from a CD, as is P2P file sharing tradition. Bonus pts if you put it through some filter to introduce a bunch of noise into the audio. Then ask in chat how you can convert a 128kbps mp3 to flac to increase the quality. Priceless.

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    TIL the US Government once released its own video game to inform, educate, and recruit prospective soldiers.
  • It was pretty easy to find lists of half-life CD keys to play team fortress and counter strike for free.

    Quake world & the quake fortress addon were fun and predates any CD key system so they could be easily found for free too.

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    It seems like the logical way to work
  • For now you can use vpns to certain countries that don't have ads at all, I expect that will still work to avoid server side ads.

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    It seems like the logical way to work
  • It's called DASH protocol and it's designed to only have a small adaptive bandwidth buffer. The whole video will never buffer, only a small percentage of it.

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