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Do you want your bank to see everything you've purchased?

Brother laser printers.

Stop wasting money on inkjet printers if you don't print regularly

It's also completely undetectable to a reproductively abusive partner (clinical term for baby trapping). This allows the person to get their ducks in a row to leave the abusive relationship safely and for good, without alerting the abusive partner OR being trapped into being in some kind of contact for 18 years. By contrast, the closest women have is the depo-provera shot which only lasts 3 months and is arguably the harshest of all hormonal birth control options. RISUG is one of if not the best birth control method we've invented to-date, and we're sleeping on it.

Thanks, i never heard of this. Now ill never get to play my favorite boardgame:

Cost-benefit is not there. You can buy fancy ones that do some such things, but they are expensive.

If you don't want multiple magnetrons (which would work too as a standard antenna in the wireless model of MIMO) you could use a electromechanical system, ie point magnetrons at reflective plates and move and adjust them to least direct the waves to a given point. Multi antennas I think would give a better granularity (because you can control the wave as well as direction and be able to time the peaks to hit inside a target vs just aiming the beams to a given spot). You may be able to get that with an electromechanical system, but it's not something I know of a lot of public info on, but if you could get a time division demux device for high power microwave that directs the different peaks to specific reflectors, you'd be good too.

Any openhard ware folks, please take this if you are interested!!!

You have a point! Did you know about inverter microwaves? now you have 2 options, full blast, and less full blast! https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/85575 this cool person found out about this in 1991, and now my microwave has it. Welcome to the future :D

Why don't we have microwave coolers yet?!?

Due to the nature of bikes there’s probably a ton of weight saving that’s going on, which is why stuff breaks so easy. With cars they’re so over engineered that they weigh a (few) ton(s) and are generally over built for their expected stress levels.

Because bikes are so small they’re harder to add in that element of over building.

Oh, and the manufacturers are greedy and want the largest profit margin

My e-bike (Onyx RCR, basically a motorcycle) hasn't needed anything of the sort. So it might be either a specific manufacturer thing and/or a cargo bike thing. I can imagine them using regular bike parts even though it's taking way more weight/stress.

For pedal bikes, they can be that reliable if you want to pay for it:

• hub gearbox (a rohloff gets 100,000km minimum)
• decent belt drive (30,000km)
• solid tires get 5,000km. Not as good as car tires but there's a reason; any additional durability will add noticeable drag/weight. Super thick e-bike tires could probably get 70,000km like a car

I'll add on to this a feature that lets you know when multiple quick directions are coming up. I don't like being told to exit, then told to get to the right lane within 500ft, and then make sure to take the left ramp 100ft after that. Just let me know there's a complicated maneuver coming up.

Or stop zooming in to the max, leaving me with zero information! The only choice left is to blindly drive into the river when instructed to do so.

Would you settle for ill tempered sea bass?

I didn’t know that was even still a thing. For years now on my iPhone I’ve just looked at the text transcriptions of my voicemail in my phone app.

I've had my google voice account handle voicemails for like 15 years and it did that for me. Well, now I don't have to, but it's been great.

This would require a way of judging the distance you're speaking from. Calling out from another room might get a whispered response, and vice versa.

LLMs would do all of those incorrectly with 100% confidence.

Do you actually need someone to help with that?

I just apply ear drops myself, are you sure they didn’t involve you in some kind of ear drop kink 🤔

Audinell ear spray. It will change your friends life. And only $15 a bottle.