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Bonavita 1L Electric Kettle Repair

it worked for years and years... started getting harder and harder to power it on; I would have to press the power button down for longer... Eventually it simply wouldn't turn on anymore at all.…
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Cross-Platform Statically Compiled Way to Read HEIC Images

There are tons of excellent peices of software out there for handling images -- Krita, ImageMagick, and others. However, as far as I can tell, none of them natively support HEIC images. Frankly, it's a very bad vibes situation.…
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Words in a base64-encoded string... Which decodes to the same words in ascii

... so if you imagine f is the computation you want to remain the same regardless of whether it's operating on a base64'd input or not, and g is the base64 function, and x is a not-base64'd input, then f(g(x)) = g(f(x)) ... Oooooohhhhh yes so f = user reads the word 'example', g = base64…