Luc

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   by Luc 11y ago

   Its casual users too. I suppose there's no point in me explaining why, since it's such a common thing. This morning I clicked a downloaded MP3 file expecting it to simply play, but nooooh...
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   by Luc 11y ago

   But, but... they're an apocalyptic cult establishing a caliphate... Never mind.
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   by Luc 11y ago

   > Besides, the hits were driven by politics, religion is just a facade. I wonder how can you call the main motivation of these jihadists 'just a facade'?
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   by Luc 11y ago

   It's simply not needed in my judgement (in my place, time, circumstances, biking speed, traffic, road layout, route, car drivers are used to it, weather, quality of bikes, etc. etc.). Millions of others, bicycling day in day out, think
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   by Luc 11y ago

   I feel sad for the people on this thread advocating unconditionally for wearing a bike helmet. They must have to deal with terrible circumstances to have come to that conclusion. Apparently they can't even imagine how one could bicycle
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   by Luc 11y ago

   Are you talking about anaesthesia in the sense of general anaesthesia (loss of consciousness and all that)? Because that's really not needed for a root canal. I've had many and generally the dentist will make an injection to numb
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   by Luc 11y ago

   Not quite, though? You don't get double the quality by spending an extra $1000.
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   by Luc 11y ago

   I've thought about getting a used H2S detector on eBay, but ideally you'd want to test and calibrate them, and there's the rub.
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   by Luc 11y ago

   That's a lot of text to say nothing of interest. I really love how they question the trade offs made in the PCB design, as if these things didn't occur to the designers.
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    by Luc 11y ago

    I don't know about cleaning but the desert sand seems to have little effect on the mirrors: "Regarding the irreversible degradation on relative specular reflectivity of exposed mirrors on natural aging site, relative low loss of a
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    by Luc 11y ago

    Is this... a Pentagon submarine article? http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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    by Luc 11y ago

    They are in all aspects proper brakes, in practice better in many ways than rim brakes. They do take some getting used to, but then so does everything else about bicycling.
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    by Luc 11y ago

    Quite so, though that's not the case I had in mind.
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    by Luc 11y ago

    My theory is that people are learning this stuff at Liberal Arts colleges. They're operating within an intellectual framework (perhaps applying it badly) that allows them to feel justified and rational. It happens on Metafilter quite o
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    by Luc 11y ago

    It's common, and I like them a lot.
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    by Luc 11y ago

    John Karl's book is very good. My favourite is 'Self-contained Celestial Navigation with HO 208' by John Letcher. It's out of print but used copies show up on abebooks for a reasonable price at times. It's often rec
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    by Luc 11y ago

    > Most of the sextants you can get on eBay these days are just for decoration, however. Ugh, these things are a plague. There's a factory in India pumping out most of these. They do a whole bunch of variations, boxes, antiquing, etc
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    by Luc 11y ago

    Aw, I'm so jealous of the amount of grand nature in North America. It seems out of the question for me on a EU passport to live long term in Canada. You're lucky!
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    by Luc 11y ago

    I wonder if the person who wrote this article understand patents, at all. I don't see any indication of that. He seems to be implying something untoward happened. EDIT: I didn't see the comments before (they take a while to load)
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    by Luc 11y ago

    That was a different Florin, though perhaps it would be possible to find the exchange rate in 1825: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_gulden
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    by Luc 11y ago

    I suppose this would be fair use of the Volkswagen trademark for parody, were it not for the fact that the VW brand is so well known that that would outweigh the parody exemption? (I'm not a lawyer, but I need to protect some IP rights
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    by Luc 11y ago

    They are used. These images are real in the same way a fashion shoot is real.
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    by Luc 11y ago

    I disagree. Many of these look great despite the 'post-apocalyptic crumbling architecture' framing, with large terraces, big windows, views on the water, good location, etc. You can't live in the Louvre, and even if you could
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    by Luc 11y ago

    Sure, but I just don't think a sub would show up as a black, signal-free shape on a fishing boat's sonar, except under contrived conditions. Though I may be judging it wrong based on only having used crappy sonar equipment.
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    by Luc 11y ago

    That smells fishy, as it would be something exploited immediately by any anti-submarine vessel.
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    by Luc 11y ago

    Edward Snowden's just created a Twitter account. I've never seen the follower count go up that quickly: https://twitter.com/Snowden
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    by Luc 11y ago

    I'm not quite sure but I think the bond is for repairs to a 32km long dike. E.g. (in Dutch) http://shhv.info/projectgroep-harmelen/geschiedenis/gedenkst... "Aan de noordzijde van de Lek was een dijk aang
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    by Luc 11y ago

    "Qwerkywriter's Return Bar functions as an ENTER key by default. But it's also programmable, remembering up to 5 characters."
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    by Luc 11y ago

    Not my cup of tea but it seems nicely done, and Stephen Fry likes it so there's that: https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/643785572419506176
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    by Luc 11y ago

    Thanks very much for this, these are great articles. It seems one would need some way of synchronizing clocks (or measuring the lag between server and client). Do you know if there is a standard way of accomplishing this?