LeChuck

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by LeChuck 13y ago
I would like to see some redundancy in navigational equipment before this becomes a reality. Currently ships only have traditional navigation methods to fall back on if satellite navigation fails. While there are some projects underway to f
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by LeChuck 13y ago
It's powered by two Rolls-Royce gas turbines, actually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Marine_Trent
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by LeChuck 13y ago
This is great. I especially like the cabin noise. I work on ships and for the first week or so after I get home I need some background noise to help me sleep. This one sounds quite close to what one might hear on a ship.
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by LeChuck 15y ago
Ships engine rooms are required to have to separate CO2 release controls for exactly that reason. One releases the CO2 into a protected space and the other releases it into the protected space.
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by LeChuck 16y ago
It did work for met but the tabs don't match. http://i.imgur.com/qcQS1.png
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by LeChuck 16y ago
>The usual rule of thumb is the cheapest car costs you _at least_ 300 €/month (taxes, depreciation, not counting gas money)! These prices are hardly uniform across all of Europe. I live in a smallish city in the Netherlands and you can
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by LeChuck 16y ago
People using vimperator can access the dialog with :dialog searchangines
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by LeChuck 16y ago
"Our intent is to encourage innovation, discussion, and design with the right of the window title bar. We have some ideas, and others are already springing up in the community." https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/.
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by LeChuck 17y ago
Yeah. I've read a lot of articles lately that try to divide the entire computer-using world in to two groups. The geeks (us) and the rest (mom). That doesn't jive with reality. There are a lot of people with different levels of computer sav
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by LeChuck 17y ago
I knew that it was Budweiser even though the commercial never aired where I live. Heck, I'm not even sure you can buy Budweiser here.
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by LeChuck 17y ago
If you're using Firefox try App Tabs. It pins a favicon sized tab to the left of the tab bar. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/47734
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Connecting The Opportunistic Dots(jonobacon.org)
2 points by LeChuck 17y ago|0 comments
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by LeChuck 17y ago
Shipping containers are used for student housing where I live. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38...
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by LeChuck 17y ago
>Just pretend it's not configurable. Now it's like all the other window managers. Currently my xmonad.hs looks like this: import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Gnome main = xmonad gnomeConfig { modMask = mod4Mask
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Huge collection of letters written by van Gogh.(vangoghletters.org)
1 points by LeChuck 17y ago|0 comments
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by LeChuck 17y ago
Did you know of defenestration ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration
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by LeChuck 17y ago
On a side note (and totally off topic), the statues of two peeing guys are really cool. You can find them in Prague in front of the Kafka museum. http://www.davidcerny.cz/EN/piss.html David Cerny is a very cool artist overall. http://en.
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by LeChuck 17y ago
I think compiz has a plugin that does this. Haven't used it though.
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by LeChuck 17y ago
Why not just "ivinkirigin, 10 points" or something. I think it's fairly obvious that the first word is a username.
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by LeChuck 17y ago
I love http://isitgoingtoraintoday.com/ . All the weather info I need.
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Stack overflow flash mobs(blog.stackoverflow.com)
7 points by LeChuck 17y ago|0 comments
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by LeChuck 17y ago
"The copyright holders seem to think that we still travel the Atlantic in a ocean liners run on coal. So they operate with licences that ignore the fact that people don’t care about countries and borders anymore." I like to watch TV shows.
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by LeChuck 18y ago
I don't get Groningen either, but I'm not complaining. I can see my house! The city of Groningen tends to lobby for these things quite a bit though I can't see Google being influenced by these things. As an aside, the pictures are from Sept
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by LeChuck 18y ago
Exactly. The dialog is based on the assumption that both options are equally likely to be used. That's simply not true. A user might click no but will almost always click yes. A dialog that almost always receives the same answer should be
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by LeChuck 18y ago
One thing I've never understood is the confirmation dialogue you get when closing an application. Of course I want to save the document! The only time wouldn't want to save my changes is when I want to revert all the changes I made this se
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by LeChuck 18y ago
That and lots of Amserdam's inner city predates motorized traffic. It's much, much easier to bike through Amsterdam than to ride a car.