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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
If you want juicy space gossip there's a great report[1], with lots of complaints from space station residents, from food to schedule to cross-cultural friction. I always thought it would make a good Friends-meets-For All Mankind TV se
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Well... That assumes willingness to build new things rather than miserably put up with the decaying things left to us by previous generations. They're re/building about 50 a year, and there are 32000 schools, so about 0.15% of the
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Sound good to me. Where is it? Deep in "DURF".
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
They did blow up 2 Shuttles out of 5, both crewed, so maybe they didn't get the all the kinks worked out in the first place. Plenty of rockets did blow up on the launchpad or at various stages. For example, the Titan I failed 17 launch
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Well I mean, you still have to engage your brain and do some design at some point. PortaKabins are modular yet no one specifies to stack them 100 high, even though in theory you could just keep on stacking (infinite floor area hack, real
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Admittedly not much gain up front, if anything it might be more expensive than a really efficient custom design (though I think most recent UK hospitals are not cheap, one near me cost something like £200 million and has 500 beds and took q
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
> The hospital construction industry is huge and wouldn't want that. Sounds very much like a them problem (assuming a government since 1948 could show such intestinal fortitude). > hospitals have become luxury Only if you allow t
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I've always thought it strange that countries like the UK with the NHS haven't standardised a modular hospital design where you can slot prefab modules into some framework. Need a CT suite on floor C? Labs on floor F? Need a new f
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
No, the Reed Solomon codes used in the CD have one EC byte for every 3 data bytes. But there's a interleaving system where the data is encoded with error correction (adding 4 bytes to every 24) interleaved so that burst errors (that af
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
The general idea is that in a functional society, rich people's wealth is in some non-zero part enabled by that same well-functioning society. Roads, electricity, telecoms, educated workforces, rule of law, etc etc. Amazon doesn't
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
The UK governments' alternating fetishisms for ID cards and porn permits are kinkier than anything.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I don't know about Norway, but the UK Telephone Preference Service does issue a number of fines for the line marketing calls they are responsible for, with enforcement via the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO, the GDPR peopl
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Considering the astounding cost of building anything now, I guess being in the mitigation industry (retrofits, shoring-up and general can-kicking) will be rather profitable. But I can see at least some buildings being profitable even then.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
In the UK, you just forward the text to "7726" which is SPAM on a keypad. It's a requirement from the regulator. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice...
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I for one am here for techoGaudi-ism.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Meanwhile Reddit gave their new icon a neckbeard! Talk about embracing community history!
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I love that I can't tell if the Adobe sponsored content a couple of paragraphs in is an exhibit, or just coincidence, because it's a perfect example of the phenomenon.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
In modern GTK you also have to string-substitute or otherwise construct CSS, pass in as a string and have it reparsed to change element styles. But at least it is native!
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Anything to satisfy whichever law it is that says "lagginess remains constant".
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Excuse me, a properly sized MOSFET is nearly 5p more and a TVS diode is nearly a penny for 4. Why do you hate profits? Jokes aside, I think it's more likely that the undersized parts are the revised design, the original being "w
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Fortinet do the same, you need their own app to generate the codes. Infuriating.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Or a blown MOSFET that's exactly the right size to work on paper but no more (or is missing ESD protection and blew up a gate).
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Just down the road was the Imperial Institute [1], built in the 1880s. It was demolished in 1957 and now it looks like this [2] and this [3]. [1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperial_Institute.j... [2]: h
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
A recent example I noticed: Nikon's Small World microphotography contest: https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrogra... We've become so accustomed to amazing things, some real, some synthe
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It absolutely does. I've made do, even when feeling I've left a theoretically achievable ideal-to-me outcome on the table, plenty of times with what's easy to do with the tool, in MCAD tools, ECAD tools, drawing tools, as wel
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It's not as if cathedral designers did it themselves manually. They'd farm it out to legions of "biorobots", not all of whom did it solely for the love of God (not only did stonemasons like to feed their families, occa
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
The "fun" thing about this sentence is about the same number of people will vehemently agree with it as it is and if you swap "left" and "right".
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Indeed. Being granted exclusive powers that would otherwise be illegal must always be given the respect it deserves: use of powers only when and as far absolutely necessary and reporting of and punishment of transgressions, intentional or n
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It's exactly plastic. It's probably thermal insulation. Certainly my house has thick sheets of expanded polystyrene in the floor, and in the roof. I think in the walls is glass fibre, but you can use plastic foam too.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I know where you're coming from, but I'm not sure I agree. Traditional medieval cathedrals were built right on the limits of the materials, skills and labour available and still took generations and sometimes still collapsed due t

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