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by agurk 6y ago
A pump moves a fluid and a compressor reduces the volume of a fluid. If your fluid is compressible, such as air, then moving it will entail some compression. This was the GP's point about a fan. This means there are not two distinct bi
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by agurk 6y ago
You're right I did misspeak about the definition of a impeller/turbine. Never is a strong word though and there are such things as turbine pumps which are not true turbines[0]. As far as I can tell they've never been used for
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by agurk 6y ago
What we call a turbocharger today has two turbines in it - one that is spun by the exhaust gasses and a second one that compresses the incoming air. These two turbines are directly connected. If you look at super chargers they're all s
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by agurk 6y ago
I was about to reply a little snarkily that I was doing this with zip archives on floppy disks back in the 90s. I thought I might as well check my facts before posting, and it looks like that was a part of WinZip that was not part of the st
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by agurk 6y ago
There has to be some sub-clause of Cunningham's law referring to the perilous activity about generalising Italian cuisine :) Does Piemonte cusine also include garlic in common sauces? Is it cooked into a soffrito or included as part of
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by agurk 6y ago
Not knowing where you are from, I'd take a guess at American as there is a sharp divide in garlic use between Italian and Italian-American cusine. Italian food typically has a lot less garlic in it and if you had it in any of the class
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by agurk 6y ago
I've seen this a few times recently here - a comment being copy/pasted exactly for the same article. Is this something that's common but I've only just noticed, a coincidence or something else that's going on? Perha
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by agurk 6y ago
Particularly when there's a case of a single downvote, it's worth remembering that it's easy to click the wrong button here - especially on mobile. I make a habit of checking the command has changed to "unvote" or &
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by agurk 6y ago
I did some more research into this yesterday, and still am not convinced that people sleeping over a rope was a thing. There are a large number of sites repeating the exact same story / wording - complete with the rope cutting and ofte
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by agurk 6y ago
I saw this when it was doing the rounds as a meme a while back and wasn't convinced then - it seems very improbable that people could sleep like that. AFP claims that this is false [0] and interestingly they link to a copy of the origi
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by agurk 6y ago
I've seen the phrase "Anger is a good servant but a terrible master" used to encapsulate some of this. The idea being that if you control it but get energy from it then it can be used positively, but if you become angry and l
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by agurk 6y ago
What is, or is not, an Assault Rifle is clearly defined, whereas a lot of the confusion comes from the use of the similar term Assault Weapon which is less well defined/defined by cosmetic characteristics. Perhaps using something like
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by agurk 6y ago
> of all of the battle rifles designed (The big three being the AR, AK and FAL/SCAR) To be pedantic about terminology the Kalashnikov family of rifles are generally not Battle Rifles. Of your listed examples only the FN FAL and some
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by agurk 6y ago
This list is potentially out of date. Looking at the bottom of the page is the tag: > Modified 2019-04-17 by Anon This is nearly two years ago, and checking archive.org for the same page (earliest copy is Jan 2020) [0], it seems not to h
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by agurk 6y ago
If volts were there only limitation on the design that would be correct, however amps are also important in this case. A 240V UK wall socket can be up to 13 amps whilst a US 110V line is 12 amps. With power (watts) being volts * amps that g
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by agurk 6y ago
The screenshot from the article is very low resolution, so it's quite hard to see if you don't know what you're looking for, but it does have a unique thumbnail against each filename. The underlying complaint is that people w
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by agurk 6y ago
If you read the article more closely than I did originally there is an example of what I see in their original article [0]. The thumbnail is part of the list view and they want to see a thumbnail without the other file details. [0] https:&
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by agurk 6y ago
After a downvote encouraged me to re-read the article more carefully it seems the OP wants to be able to see only the thumbnail (and maybe the filename) - not a thumbnail that is part of the list view with further details. Older builds of G
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by agurk 6y ago
So I just checked on my install (Gnome 3.38.2, Debian testing) and all the GTKFileChooser windows I could find had the thumbnails representing the underlying images. Interestingly I checked a few apps I have installed through Flatpak, and t
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by agurk 6y ago
> current generation MacBooks only support one external monitor My monitor supports Thunderbolt 3 daisy chaining - Connecting a thunderbolt 3 upstream port to the input of the 2nd monitor. Do you know if two monitors setup this way would
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by agurk 6y ago
One monitor missing from his list is the Benq PD3220U that hits all of his main criteria although it is fixed at 60Hz so doesn't match all his secondary ones (and isn't cheap). I have similar requirements to the OP and got this mo
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by agurk 6y ago
I'm not sure if there is a deeper meaning in your comment I'm missing, but octopi, whilst being a word that people use, is strictly speaking wrong (in a prescriptive sense). Octopus is a 3rd declension noun in Latin coming from Gr
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by agurk 6y ago
> Um. The exports exceed the imports. As per the GP's comment, in 2020 that is not the case and have been a net importer.
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by agurk 6y ago
The GP described Tasmania as _importing_ more energy in 2020 that it exported, so by definition it can't be "net 100% renewables". In a longer time frame they normally export more energy, but they are just announcing that all
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by agurk 6y ago
We can also work back from first principles here. According to [0] we can see in 2019 the UK consumed 20.8bn litres of diesel and 16.2bn litres of petrol for non-commercial use. Taking the energy consumption of 10 KWh and 8.9 KWh of a litre
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by agurk 6y ago
I've never understood this logic as typical usage of the word accident means something wasn't _deliberately_ caused, not that no-one was at fault. I'm sure you could find some collisions that were caused deliberately (insuran
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by agurk 6y ago
From your article, the tax contribution amount for Germany, Denmark and France are 53.6%, 67.8% and 35.5%. If we take those numbers to get the pre-tax price it becomes 13.7, 12.8 and 11.4 cents per KWh respectively. So while France generate
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by agurk 6y ago
The outdated wikipedia page for WiMAX[0] has been updated with the uncited statement: The latest version of WiMAX, WiMAX release 2.1, popularly branded as/known as WiMAX 2+, is a backwards-compatible transition from previous WiMAX gene
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by agurk 6y ago
One important point to note in these discussions is that X.Org is a specific implementation of the X11 protocol (the canonical implementation as it happens). Wayland is the protocol and compared to X11 in this context. There are multiple im
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by agurk 6y ago
The Copenhagen metro is fully driverless (no staff in any role onboard) and consequently runs 24/7.

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