_n_b_

14 ms·

91.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
Related (but sadly sold out) plans for a home rocket engine for your bicycle or go-kart: http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=28_...
92.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
Related, the standard pitch for an orchestra has also changed over time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch#History_of_pitch...
93.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
I've been to plants with the P&ID schematics on some of the boards. I worked at a new build where we had to adjust some of them after design changes, which was done with racing stripes and squirrel hair paint brushes from Amazon.
94.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
Not necessarily the control boards, but look at the consoles and tables around--they don't look like they're ready to survive an earthquake.
95.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
The ones I can see that are clearly nuclear power plant control rooms really don't look all that different than the Western designs of the same era. They don't even look that different now in those plants, except for more computer
96.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
I guess this varies by location. Prime Now for me (in Paris) comes from one location in the city in a delivery van.
97.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
OK, now you've prompted me to do proper research: Not a symlink (or even a hard link) on my OS X laptop, but the same executable. On my OpenBSD systems, they're hard links. On my Ubuntu system, they're separate.
98.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
On most systems these days, 'less' is more: % cksum `which less` `which more` 2677110273 146976 /usr/bin/less 2677110273 146976 /usr/bin/more
99.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
Please look at this chart, showing deaths on a per-capita basis of Sweden and her neighbors: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-mi... I guess "doing fine" is in the eye of the beholder,
100.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
"Mainland" China excludes Hong Kong and Macao.
101.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
Baguette vending machines are one of my favorite parts of visiting remote places in France.
102.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
Interestingly, though, it seems that in France, people place a lot of weight on which university you went to long after it becomes irrelevant... especially for the people who went to grandes écoles. I still don't understand how it matt
103.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
Businesses exist to make money. There is a constant demand for oil in the market; the world as we know it needs some level of oil to continue to function. If you can't ban the extraction oil, and you believe in the continued existence
104.
by _n_b_ 6y ago
This isn’t even remotely close to true. 0.67% on legal[1] versus 17% on R&D[2]. [1] https://ccbjournal.com/articles/benchmark-metrics-pharma-com... [2] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers&
105.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
Very on-topic username, FreshFruitGuy. Here are a couple more citations that have more data behind them, if somebody wants to dig into it (and has the journal access): * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article&#x2
106.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
Totally OT but where did you order the oranges from? I am in need of a few kg for juicing and it's expensive from the local grocery delivery folks around me...
107.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
I am not an expert on manufacturing biomedical devices, but I do know quite a bit about manufacturing safety-grade nuclear components. So take this with a grain of salt. However, from what I do know, fundamentally the requirements are prett
108.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
> Quinine is one of the most bitter substances in the world. It is even used as the normalizing reference index for a common bitterness index, at least according to Wikipedia.[1] > In capsule form it's not used much any more for
109.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
This article also led me to this very cool summary of how the PURPLE code actually worked: https://cryptocellar.org/pubs/PurpleRevealed.pdf
110.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
I have spent a lot of time on contract negotiation and management for engineering and EPC contracts. I can confirm that more or less, excel, SharePoint, and email fits with my experience of how things are done in the wild. (I do have some h
111.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
N26 is also very successful in France, whose banking industry is--I can confirm--very much slow, difficult, and _very_ manually run. They can charge fees for accounts because their fees are still so much lower than the incumbents they'
112.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
Two Samuel Johnson-based dictionaries from 1828 give 'mariner' basically the modern pronunciation. See https://books.google.com/books?id=z3kKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA451#v=on... and https://books.google.com&#x
113.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
I make my living off of the splitting of atoms, so the opinions I hear are not reflective of the broader population. It's always interesting to hear what people in the wider-world think. A big part of the perception problem, I think, i
114.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
This seems nearly unachievable--and will punishingly expensive--if they don't reverse their nuclear phase-out.
115.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
At least in France, the low cost trains ("OUIGO") do charge for baggage larger than a carry-on. But I think the OP was comparing a train to flying, you don't pay for baggage on a train but you would if taking a flight.
116.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
[citation needed] I've never seen this, or heard of it happening. (Except chocolate or strawberry milk.)
117.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
Living in Paris, where the people that run the trains have threatened to strike from December 5 "indefinitely" (we'll see what that means), that was also my first thought when reading the article.
118.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
If you're in the US, you can decide to do that. The law restricts your business with foreign entities that might engage in a boycott. The nuances of what might trigger these regulations are not always straightforward (look at https:&#
119.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
> I wonder what the situation of these 35% is. Easy. Live in Paris, work in the Banlieue somewhere inconvenient to an RER station...
120.
by _n_b_ 7y ago
> Paris has now public piss boxes on every major cross-roads I live in Paris. I can confidently say, no, that's absolutely not true.

More ›