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by alricb 11y ago
re: Throat mic, they have their use! Specifically, being able to properly do the "Ah-ah" in "Da da da": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtMThVUpc-U
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by alricb 11y ago
IIRC the dust is from red clay that accumulated under the car, not rust.
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by alricb 11y ago
It doesn't seem that the case is relying on the "universal jurisdiction" the Pinochet case was based on (trying the dictator in Spain for crimes committed in Chile, without Chile's consent), but on money laundering that
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by alricb 11y ago
Ah, Agincourt-fetish, one of the few fetishes you can display in public without looking too ridiculous (in the English-speaking world). Longbows are great in open battle, yes. But the hundred years war was a war of sieges and raids (by the
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by alricb 11y ago
A paper about the hundred years war that doesn't cite a single French-language source except Froissard? Not very serious.
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by alricb 11y ago
Probably not, because most house locks are really crappy, so they're easily picked. Except they're almost never picked, because it's easier to just kick the door in. I'm really not sure getting the bitting on a bunch of
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by alricb 11y ago
Possibly a really big utilitarian van with a super expensive diesel, like a Mercedes Sprinter? (but ooooh that headroom)
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by alricb 11y ago
Also, I was thinking that the article would be about Gerald Bull [1], of Project Babylon [2] (Saddam's supergun) fame. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by alricb 11y ago
Isn't that lack of knowledge caused in part by the CDC funding ban [1]? Studying gun control in the US also requires some care: because of the population configuration, you need to take into account the fact that people can bring guns
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by alricb 11y ago
If we weren't afraid to confuse our Greek readers, we could just use greek letters: ω (=0) α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ, with ' to indicate a number: 15 would be written 'αγ. But see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by alricb 11y ago
How good are IPv6 implementations nowadays? A few years ago there were quite a few bugs in them, no?
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IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment(arstechnica.com)
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by alricb 11y ago
Hitler owed a lot to Ludendorff, who created the stab-in-the-back legend just as soon as he asked for the armistice. He was also taking power in a somewhat democratic way, adding to his legitimacy, and he was able to keep the Army as an all
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by alricb 11y ago
The US isn't very concerned that its literate, educated NCOs will get together and overthrow the government (although with the current political situation I'd say the risk is higher than it used to be). In Vietnam, they tried to a
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by alricb 11y ago
It's a bit silly that the author doesn't make a link to an obvious parallel: South Vietnam's completely dysfunctional military. Mistrust at all levels? Check. Lack of consideration for the lives of conscripts? Check. Lack of
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by alricb 11y ago
One advantage of not using {} for blocks is that they are available for other purposes, like generics or templates, instead of the terrible <>, combinations like (::) or unicode characters.
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by alricb 11y ago
But I would note that the plaintiffs are suing the "Board of Commissioners of the County of Johnson County, Kansas et al." [1], not officers Joe Blow and Bob Smith. [1]: https://ecf.ksd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/sh
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by alricb 11y ago
It's just four ships on the West Coast, though. In total, Dole owns 19 vessels: http://www.doleoceancargo.com/vessels.html
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by alricb 11y ago
Outside shutters, either roll up or swinging; better windows, with thicker glass and more layers; making sure the windows and door openings are properly air sealed, as well as all construction joints (corners, inside corners, where the wall
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by alricb 11y ago
Invocation of Orwell... check. Piss Christ... check. US-centrism... check. "Western culture"... check. Well that's a pretty standard Decline of Civilization article there. Well done! There are issues with modern art and sopho
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by alricb 11y ago
By being very good at conning people? The guy was brazen, but he was able to keep his game up for several years.
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by alricb 11y ago
Most of those stories came out of the unusual "heist", where in the months prior to July 2012 thieves took the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of syrup from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, around 25 km north of Victoriaville
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by alricb 11y ago
Some of Carnegie's reformed words were a bit silly in that they didn't account for the systematic assimilation of the voicing of the consonant preceding /d/ in words ending in -ed. So in the 30 words you get "askt&q
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by alricb 11y ago
It's true that Nintendo had a puritan attitude, but I would note Doom was ported to the SNES, with blood, gore and inverted crosses; the port was released in September 1995: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Super_NES
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by alricb 11y ago
Not now, no, but back in the 4.0 days (2005) GCC still used a yacc/bison parser for C; it had switched to a hand written parser for C++. The C++ yacc parser was still in use as of GCC 3.3 (2003).
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by alricb 11y ago
Naked CLT sucks at impact damping, but so does naked concrete. You really need to think things through (methods of attachment for vents and pipes, flanking problems, etc), and to add some stuff to dampen the impact (on that same page they s
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by alricb 11y ago
Hopefully the people building that stuff will have learned from Vancouver's leaky condo crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_condo_crisis If your roof leaks badly enough, even steel is unsafe: http:/&
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by alricb 11y ago
It depends on the design, but you can build something using the panels (+ gypsum board) as walls and floors, with almost no other structural members, at least for residential. For insulation, the standard approach seems to be using rigid pa
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by alricb 11y ago
Not if it's being kept relatively cool by a layer of carbonized wood (but you need a pretty thick piece of wood for that to happen; naked 2x4s burn like kindling).
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by alricb 11y ago
One possible problem is connections. You can make very large wood beams and columns, but then it becomes difficult to transfer the loads from one member to the other, because even a pretty big bolt will act on a fairly small area of wood.

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