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by alricb 11y ago
At high temperatures, steel loses strength long before melting. By 600 C (~1100 F), steel has lost half of its strength.
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by alricb 11y ago
One issue with the Federation is that cheating is really rampant, even among its board members. Part of the problem is that maple syrup harvesting is essentially a seasonal activity, with quite a short season, so it's a side activity f
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by alricb 11y ago
In English it's called "An Act Respecting the Marketing of Agricultural, Food and Fish Products": http://www.canlii.org/en/qc/laws/stat/cqlr-c-m-35.1/latest/c...
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by alricb 11y ago
Meh, no Manac underride guards [1], [2]. [1]: http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-unwraps-new-truck-trailers-j... [2]: http://www.trucknews.com/health-safety/trailer-underride-gua...
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by alricb 11y ago
What about a function named succ or next? They would make things a bit more explicit, and succ has its own tradition.
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by alricb 11y ago
One thing to note is that the trolley they assembled is made of steel and assembled with machine screws and a funny stud/"nut" combination. People's experience with your typical dowel/screw/quarter-turn connect
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by alricb 11y ago
Yes, but these connectors also include a stud you need to screw into a hole. In this case though, the Udden trolley [1] is made of steel and uses machine screws, but none of these quarter-turn connectors. [1]: http://www.ikea.com
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by alricb 11y ago
Haskell tends to attract people who like programming languages as programming languages. It encourages a style that's completely different from what you're taught in your basic Fortran/C/Java/Matlab course. If, like
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by alricb 11y ago
They're talking about M2 .50 heavy machine guns; the B-29 didn't have what are considered "cannons" (usually 20 mm or more). For the most part, defensive guns on bombers weren't all that useful; even with a fire-con
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by alricb 11y ago
There's already a "Mae West" pylon: http://www.hydroquebec.com/comprendre/transport/types-pylone... (top left picture)
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by alricb 11y ago
This is by Jason Scott of textfiles.com and the Internet Archive. It was released in 2010.
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by alricb 11y ago
The HVDC line between the mainland and Mallorca is used to send power to the Balearic Islands (the big ones being Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza). There's already a Mallorca-Menorca line, and they plan on building one to Ibiza.
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by alricb 11y ago
Spain is a net exporter of electricity; its net exports were 3406 GWh in 2014 (vs. total consumption of 243,530 GWh). It imported 5963 GWh from France and sent 2395 GWh back; For Portugal it was 6345 GWh imported vs. 7247 exported, and ther
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by alricb 11y ago
It may include everything, though, because the scheme only applies to installation of less than 50 MW: http://www.endesadistribucion.es/es/oficinaOnline/RegimenEsp... So a micro hydro plant or a rooftop solar inst
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by alricb 11y ago
Probably because of pumped storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
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by alricb 11y ago
I think it refers to the rest of the production that is done under the "Régimen Especial": https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9gimen_Especial_de_energ... The scheme includes energy generated from waste, biom
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by alricb 11y ago
You can just bypass the turbines to maintain the flow you want. That's one big advantages of Hydro: whether you have a run-of-the-river or a reservoir plant, you can adjust your power output to the demand very quickly.
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by alricb 11y ago
In XP, you could always change permission without logging off, by using the runas command or Run as... in the context menu. I think you could also set shortcuts to run programs as Administrator. So you could run as a non privileged users, a
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by alricb 11y ago
But how am I going to convey the fact that I'm an evil person planning on destroying your community to replace it with McMansions and Big Box stores?
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by alricb 11y ago
One example would be a language to deal with TLV data, like ASN.1 DER (e.g. TLS certificates). Currently most TLS libraries use C, which is insane, but in principle, you don't even need recursion to parse DER data; so even vanilla Hask
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by alricb 11y ago
No, I'm just saying that large-scale car factories are bigger, louder and takes up more space than consumer electronics factories. Apple does invest quite a bit in its production facilities, but most other manufacturers of consumer ele
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by alricb 11y ago
You use the French pronunciation, [detʁwɑ], obviously. Although when it was founded they might have pronounced [detʀwe]. Edit: but note that in English I would use an English pronunciation.
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by alricb 11y ago
See: http://buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-046-dam-ic... The snow melts because of heat coming from the inside the house. [1] So if you keep your roof cold through insulation and ventilation, you don&#
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by alricb 11y ago
Cars are made with stamping presses and assembly lines; you also need a foundry to cast the engine blocks. All these things are expensive and take quite a while to set up. OTOH, pick and place machines are fairly cheap and can be installed
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by alricb 11y ago
Bit of nonsense there: > Yamamoto [president of Lexus] should heed what his local peers are doing, and look for ways to move more production offshore. As Apple demonstrates, a widely dispersed supply chain can be quite consistent with pr
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by alricb 11y ago
You should never have to shovel your roof; you should have a vented attic or enough insulation to avoid ice dams, and the structure should be strong enough to support the snow load.
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by alricb 11y ago
In the bang-for-the-buck department, speakers made by Ontario companies like PSB, Paradigm and Axiom (some production may have been outsourced) usually do pretty well. Speakers are the no. 1 source of distortion in sound reproduction, and s
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by alricb 11y ago
re: shaking, it's not necessarily mass; it's rigidity, or lack thereof. It's more expensive, but you can build a more rigid floor by using deeper joists and spacing them more closely. You also need to make sure the floor is w
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by alricb 11y ago
A bit more technical: http://buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi080-tailor-... Essentially, Holladay is complaining about the lack of water detailing, which is super important to the durability of brick. It
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by alricb 11y ago
Psychology used to study the behaviour and cognition of undergrad students. Now it studies that of Mechanical Turk workers. Progress!

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