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by Arrath 3y ago
16-year old me started a head start program so I was driving to the next town over and taking courses at the community college in addition to my high school stuff, so I was given a cell phone for eventualities. Which I naturally used to rac
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by Arrath 3y ago
SomethingAwful putters along under new ownership, with fairly decent moderation.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Same. And all the comparisons akin to "Hey what are you sad about? You don't live in a third world country struggling from meal to meal!" Very helpful, thank you.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Seems safer than having a PhD push the sample into the electron beam with a trolley.
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by Arrath 3y ago
"To get her to stop I said 'Sure, sounds good, buy it. ..anyway that's how I ended up with a Great Dane."
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by Arrath 3y ago
Ah, the good old engineer estimate.
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by Arrath 3y ago
I swear my girlfriend relishes in reading me the entire, 300 words of SEO bait product listings on Amazon. Babe, I'm begging you please, you can stop at "xl dog bed" I don't need to hear the rest that goes "fluffy f
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by Arrath 3y ago
Quite a sensible judgement, it seems. Pretty outrageous for the airline to try to claim the chatbot was its own legal entity.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Various unfriendly-to-metal compounds free in the air (such as sulfur) that can precipitate out into the rain and thus onto the vehicle.
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by Arrath 3y ago
First, 'Stainless' is not a single item and in fact a wide variety of alloys with sliiiightly differing compositions which confer more or less corrosion resistance in favor of other mechanical attributes of the finished product. I
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by Arrath 3y ago
> Sure about the 152mm? Not 155mm? I'd have to double check but its quite likely. 152mm being the popular Soviet/WP large artillery caliber which Ukraine no doubt has (or had, at the beginning) a lot of legacy Soviet-era heavy
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by Arrath 3y ago
Great, I can't wait for appliances that stuxnet themselves shortly after their warranty period. New home automation hack: have your pi-hole pull double duty by running a local, pirate NTP server that forever makes the appliances think
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by Arrath 3y ago
Curious that it was only an easily ignored piece of paper, though. Not even a short chat as to "how sure are you that you are withdrawing this lump of cash for a legitimate purpose"?
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by Arrath 3y ago
Sounds like having inputs entering left/right meeting in a balancer that turns the inputs 90 and outputs up or down.
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by Arrath 3y ago
I just have to say that I love your posts.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Dad? What are you doing on HN? /s Your breakfast is almost the exact same as his, complete with the frozen berries making a milk slush.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Makes me think of Rimworld, out here growing brice and harvesting it for steaks. Or ranching ricalo's and slaughtering them for piles of rice.
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by Arrath 3y ago
As an American with European and Australian friends, they're the ones who got me into using WhatsApp.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Okay that's ingenious. I love it.
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by Arrath 3y ago
OP has a point, fundamentally you could drive the heat pump by a little gas turbine, or bridge the gap with a gas powered generator.
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by Arrath 3y ago
What the lawyers wanted may be very different from what reddit actually keeps.
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by Arrath 3y ago
You're right that its not, but the Inspector sure has an impressive surveillance apparatus at their disposal. To me it felt like the aspirational endgame that the powers that be would like to see for the UK, basically.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Wow, I'm jealous
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by Arrath 3y ago
Perhaps it's time to reread Gnomon.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Feels like half the article is a puff piece for a nepo-baby's new book club to be honest. That said, nothing at all wrong with more people reading!
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by Arrath 3y ago
Since it's really impossible to say, we can consider the possibility that humble not-famous not-inventor alternate universe man might just live in a house with rooms painted various shades of blue because he loves the color so much. Or
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by Arrath 3y ago
> That's a valid concern that I hadn't thought of, but we don't generally ban other unnecessary head gear in cars for that reason (sunglasses?), and it would apply just as much to passengers. There is a lot less mass/
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by Arrath 3y ago
Replacement parts! That may sound flippant but yeah, replace the components/structural members subject to neutron flux before they get too compromised, basically. This is yet another reason that fusion research is expensive and time co
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by Arrath 3y ago
Then its revealed "Well the numbering schema started at QN AXX... and we looped through the alphabet a few times.."
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by Arrath 3y ago
Oh its certainly not foolproof, but better than what we usually do here in the states.

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