Steve44

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by Steve44 2y ago
> Finding it also odd that biodegradable plastics and safer alternatives are going quiet. They tend not to be a good solution to anything. There are a couple of ways of making degradable plastic. One is to add something to their manufac
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by Steve44 2y ago
I believe the issue with straws is they were hard to recycle because they were lightweight and often mingled with other materials, such as cups, napkins, and food waste. They were generally made from PP which is widely recycled as a materia
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by Steve44 2y ago
> Why we allow making packages (especially for take-away food from pseudo-paper (which is a paper with plastic coating), which is not recyclable at all and, in fact, I agree that plastic is in most cases a better solution, however you a
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by Steve44 2y ago
> I've also heard that unscrewed bottle-caps, or other small plastics also fall in the common waste dump at the facility. The EU, and UK, recently brought in legislation where the bottle caps are tethered to the bottle. The main r
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by Steve44 2y ago
> that recycling facilities throw out black plastic utensils just because the infrared light in sorting machines can't sort it That is very true. The sorting used near-infrared which struggle to detect these black plastics because
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by Steve44 2y ago
I've an arm cuff monitor but recently bought a wrist one, both Omron, because my wife didn't like the arm cuff. What I found was the wrist cuff was incredibly sensitive to both positioning and to any movement, it was harder to get
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by Steve44 2y ago
I've a FitBit Sense 2 and as I understand it that measures variations in SpO2. I'm not convinced how accurate nor how quickly it responds, it derives an estimate rather than directly measuring. I think it's also sensitive t
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by Steve44 2y ago
The National Memorial Arboretum in the UK has a memorial dedicated to the Merchant Navy. When visiting the scale of it is thought provoking, each tree represents a lost UK ship. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item&#x
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by Steve44 2y ago
That looks exactly like what's happening, even down to "In fact, with both eyes open, they may not be able to tell which eye is set for distance and which is set for near." Quick edit to add I didn't expect that to happe
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by Steve44 2y ago
A friend and I wrote to him with a question when we were about 10 and got a lovely personal letter back explaining why stars flicker & pulse. Lovely man.
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by Steve44 2y ago
I started wearing a monocle about 5 years ago and it's and absolutely fantastic addition to my glasses. For about 20 years I've needed glasses for reading and close work, anything more that about five ft. away is clear and in focu
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by Steve44 2y ago
> I have extracted this (and other) nerves from cadavers One of the most incredible exhibits I've seen are the anatomical tables on display in the Royal College of Physicians museum in London. When I walked into the room there were
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by Steve44 2y ago
Yes I think Northern Europe has been quite a mixing pot for a while hence so many common links. The Vikings first settled in Ireland in about 800 AD so presumably the languages were mixing and evolving. Your list would be interesting, go fo
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by Steve44 2y ago
I've posted a fuller reply, but they year on the M stamp is about certification of the tooling used to make the glass. This can be updated annually and so does give a decent indication of year of manufacture, but it is there as part o
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by Steve44 2y ago
> In the UK, and I suspect elsewhere, pub glasses are manufactured to indicate their age I think that is a TikTok 'story' which sounds reasonable and is spreading despite it being not true. Yes perhaps the year can be an indic
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by Steve44 2y ago
I was going to add that when my father, from Fife on the east coast to Scotland, went to Iceland he was very interested to find out that he could understand many of the place names. He didn't speak a different language, but had quite a
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by Steve44 2y ago
Slightly off topic and not sure if this is allowed but I've a copy of MVS JCL by Doug Lowe and rather than dump it I'd be more than happy to send it free of charge to anyone in the UK. It's in excellent condition other than a
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by Steve44 2y ago
There is one very important caveat about the population of the City though. Whilst there are only 8,600 residents, there are apparently over 600,000 commuters working there every day. https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us
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by Steve44 2y ago
One aspect I've not seen mentioned is there may well be things such as comments & labels in the source which haven't aged well. Not only profanities, but they could be littered with labels indicating different attitudes to rac
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by Steve44 2y ago
> I think the Rabbit name was chosen more because rabbit can be used as slang for talk and chatter There was a 1981 song in the UK by Chas & Dave called Rabbit which was about people endlessly rabbiting on. https://www.you
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by Steve44 3y ago
On a related note the Museum of Berkshire Aviation near Reading, one hour west of London, has some examples of lacing on display. They have quite a few parts from a Chevaline / Polaris missile and what struck me the most was the qualit
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by Steve44 3y ago
There was a TV programme in the UK last year about a bottling plant in Bristol. It's now a contract packer which packs many of the top 20 wine brands in the UK and seems to have capacity for 40 million cases a year. https:/&#x2F
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by Steve44 3y ago
We've still got the original Wii and use it with WiiFit and the Balance Board. Some of the games are fairly active too, they get you standing up, jigging around, stretching, and generally moving. It's great to get feedback on thi
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by Steve44 3y ago
I suspect it could be pretty tough as it relies on very tight CPU timing. I'm sure it's doable though.
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by Steve44 3y ago
From what I remember there were two major challenges with tricks like that. The frame timing was based on one single interrupt at the top of each frame and you had to count down using CPU cycles to trigger the change. This meant no variabl
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by Steve44 3y ago
Below is a link to one I did. It loads in various patters, including writing, and from what I remember was spread out over the time it took to load the game so there was always something going on. It wasn't the best game around, hopefu
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by Steve44 3y ago
> a sailor who couldn’t swim had better chance of surviving I don't know about the statistics, but I'm descended from a small Scottish fishing village and remember being told that sailors didn't lean to swim. The logic wa
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by Steve44 3y ago
That reminds me of the 2011 film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy where they had a number of secure Portacabins inside a warehouse. Sorry for random deep links, there don't seem to be many images around. https://i.pinimg.com&#x2
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by Steve44 3y ago
My mother-in-law was taught shorthand in the 1960s UK and still uses it regularly. We work together in a family business and any meetings we go to she'll jot notes down using it, the amazing thing [to me anyway] is that she can read i
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by Steve44 3y ago
> Most of them are far more subtle that a Harrier like vectoring of exhaust gas. The Harrier has a number of bleed air reaction nozzles dotted around the aircraft so it can be controlled whilst hovering. The vectored thrust is just for

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