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by Zenst 5y ago
Agreed and a lighter humoristic approach would of been word-play and one example would be: Perhaps they should rename the Palaeolithic era too the Israeolithic era and bring it more in-line with current naming conventions.
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by Zenst 5y ago
Real sticking point for many who use public transport is that most pricing geared towards a 7 day, monthly, quarterly or yearly ticket. Which see's a small saving/break even by getting a 7 day travel pass over 4 single day's
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by Zenst 5y ago
Interesting thought, but once we find Aliens, then we ourselves also become Aliens...too the other species. Indeed if you look up the definition in dictionaries for the word "Alien" you get definitions all routed in `fear of the u
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by Zenst 5y ago
That's one heck of a tracking cookie just to make a comment. Makes you wonder about the internet requirements of CAPATCHA's in the future.
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by Zenst 5y ago
I find the term Hybrid a bit off in usage (maybe me) but this is just one set of full cores and another set of lesser lower power cores - alas Big/Little ARM style. For me the term Hybrid CPU means a CPU that has more than one core des
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by Zenst 5y ago
They alternate between the two sections, so they do one stack every 2 hours and you can see how much labour, 2 man less than 5 mins. Remember, this isn't how they run it all the time and it is the backup system. With that in mind, mo
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by Zenst 5y ago
If you want too see one in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Ud6mHdhlQ around 10:19 onwards shows the candle being put into action.
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by Zenst 5y ago
Ah yes, was referring to the excess drinking water aspect knowing electrolysis upon sea water will produce chlorine due to the salt, which really would be an emergency in itself. Glad to hear you didn't have a situation to use one and
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by Zenst 5y ago
Handy, also for oxygen production. Did you ever have to light the candle?
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by Zenst 5y ago
It is somewhat comforting to see a court of a entity show it is fair and honest when they don't always agree with the entity they serve. For me that is a good metric of fairness.
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by Zenst 5y ago
Ah the F6 has dual ADC and it uses that to cover a larger recording range - best explained here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTuJ1fk3PsY Also nicely explained by Sound Devices here for their offerings: https:/&#x2F
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'Miraculous' mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%(bbc.co.uk)
296 points by Zenst 5y ago|70 comments
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by Zenst 5y ago
Yip - not looked into any IC's, though kit with that functionality been trickling past couple of years and slowly picking up pace. https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/field-recorders/field-recorders/z... o
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by Zenst 5y ago
I was messing about with contact microphones last year and very much akin area to guitar amps as high-impedance, so very much the same issues. If you run on batteries you will find it works best, as with anything mains, you will want a good
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by Zenst 5y ago
True, and been over safty concerns/reduction in safty staff. Though: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19741282 Nicely sums up how the whole driveless tube/train aspect has been rumbling on for a w
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by Zenst 5y ago
That was my take as well and very much disenfranchises what happens with title's like that. If you have a design flaw, you don't hint at onus upon the first person to fall foul of it - and we all know how quick many are reading ne
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by Zenst 5y ago
> Won't be popular opinion but, one benefit of driverless subway is: decreased risk of industrial action disruptions. Very true, though equally the increased risk of automated safety system stopping the train in the middle of a long
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by Zenst 5y ago
Good point and down to cost, which is ironic as you have a system built and used mostly from people going to and from work and they are focusing upon reducing the wrong job in that equation is a very fair perspective. Does make you wonder,
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by Zenst 5y ago
Interesting that they are doing the "Waterloo and City line" first and for background, that is a isolated line/train that just goes from Waterloo station to the City central. I used that many times in the past and out of all
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G7: 'Mount Recyclemore' of leaders made from electronic waste in Cornwall(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by Zenst 5y ago|0 comments
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by Zenst 5y ago
Oh that's even more delicious - it's like a modern version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes story or the drug dealers new phone in this instance - That the dealer was sold on the a
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by Zenst 5y ago
Alcohol and tobacco are legal in many countries and yet you still get counterfeits and illegal production. Also drug use is often not down to that user having a fair happy reality and oh so often the product of bigger issues that go untackl
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by Zenst 5y ago
>The lesson here is complete trust in modern computing platforms is misplaced and impossible For me the lesson here is the same old lesson - Your security is only as good as the humans that interact with it.
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by Zenst 5y ago
You have to respect this type of policing approach, the ironey is just delicious when you consider: 1) They socialy engineered their target just like scammers would 2) They got the target to install and trust some 3rd party app they supplie
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by Zenst 5y ago
Be nice if they offered some fancy laptop like keyboard you could dock this into and it could boot into MacOS and then those who have the M1 Laptop who lament it has no touch screen would be happy and those who want best of both worlds, wou
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by Zenst 5y ago
Yes, just linked that in another thread, then scrolled down a few more and can only concur it's the best of the offerings having a quick dig about. Nicely explains things.
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by Zenst 5y ago
Maybe a better explanation of this here: http://www.wa1mba.org/10grain.htm
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by Zenst 5y ago
If the email was that important - then why include the email only to render it unreadable.
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by Zenst 5y ago
> fresh water produced along Oh, if they are producing fresh water as well then isn't this good as desalination is already needed in some area's. So the studies upon the brine they output would be useful to measure any impact
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by Zenst 5y ago
No as they can already get that from drug sales figures via the distribution suppliers like https://www.alliance-healthcare.co.uk/pharmacy-solutions/who... and few other players in the market who do all the logistics o

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