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by avar 3y ago
It's heating and "hot water". Icelandic building are both heated by the hot water supply, and that water runs directly to the hot water taps (sinks, showers etc.). Well, "directly". It's now common to make use
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by avar 3y ago
I believe that there's a translation error in this news story (I sent a note to the author). I think that they mean that they've turned off the ventilation system at the airport. I doubt that they've got air conditioning. If
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by avar 3y ago
> I chose to limit it to airlines operating in the U.S. due to our generally higher expectations around maintenance, pilot training, and workload, amongst other things. The high-quality training that resulted in a pilot being unable to d
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by avar 3y ago
If you'd like to experiment with bricking the head unit on your new car you can shop around and find a totaled specimen. If all you need is a working head unit you should be able to get that for <$1000. It's still an investment
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by avar 3y ago
I'd think the primary defense against drones on a naval vessel would be that the ship's made of metal, and doesn't have squishy humans wandering around (unless it's a carrier). IOW a very small drone also means a very sm
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by avar 3y ago
The fake eyes remind me of the bit about video calling in Infinite Jest: http://www.telos.tv/infinite-jest-by-david-foster-wallace/
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by avar 3y ago
The Earth is larger than Venus, but its atmosphere is 90 times denser than ours. There's a lot more variables that just gravity.
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by avar 3y ago
"Landlocked": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine%E2%80%93Main%E2%80%93Dan...
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by avar 3y ago
Why would they need a filter? The laser light isn't making it directly to the eyeballs of the wearer. The worst you'll get is 100% illumination on all pixels on the LCD inside the headset. You can't stare at the Sun, but you
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by avar 3y ago
Have you tried using this this with full size (downhill) ski goggles? It'll enclose your eyes and glasses from your nose. If you get good anti -fog goggles (expensive) you should be able to mostly or entirely avoid the fogging. Not jus
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by avar 3y ago
> supposedly makes you > not buried as deep Not just that, but if you start out deep it should make you "float" to the top while the avalanche is in motion, at least for some types of avalanches. Put small and
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by avar 3y ago
I knew about that, actually. It's way too big still for some uses, and I'm guessing won't deal well with anything that repeatedly lightly pulls on the wire (e.g. a trunk hinge). But for some other cases it's great.
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by avar 3y ago
You just learn how to do it, it's not part of the school program or anything :-) If you're standing around in the cold it's a natural impulse to hide half your face it your jacket collar. I'm surprised I'm the first
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by avar 3y ago
Growing up in Iceland[1] I learned to breathe in through my mouth, out the nose, with the chin tucked into my collar. It requires tightly fitted clothing and folded clothing layers, and a bit of practice, but by doing this you can breathe p
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by avar 3y ago
You're comparing apples to oranges. You need to twist or otherwise adhere wires together before soldering them, e.g. when using heat shrink solder sleeve, unless you've some other way to hold the wires in place. There's place
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by avar 3y ago
Yes, why wouldn't it work like that? If a package falls off a truck in front of your house you can pick it up and inform the authorities, who'll in turn inform the owner. If the police or owner care enough to pick it up they can h
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by avar 3y ago
The reason they're not accusing them of copyright infringement is presumably that a few sentences allegedly lifted with modifications from other books won't rise to that level. Perhaps UK law is different, but presumably this is j
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by avar 3y ago
You no longer believe that we're conversing in good faith? > At the moment, climate projections are that within the next few centuries we will reach temperatures not seen since the eocene. That seems about right, see e.g.: https:&#
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by avar 3y ago
The temperature and CO2 concentrations are also unusually low for the Cenozoic Era. That's the post-Dinosaur era (if we're not including avians): https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Dynamics-of-global-surfa...
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by avar 3y ago
I looked up the interior of a 1997 LaSabre, there's plenty of places to add a new button. I don't think (but I may be wrong) that US law stipulates that the horn must be operated via the steering wheel, and modifying it is trickie
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by avar 3y ago
The rate at which the temperature is changing is probably at historic highs, but both the current temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentrations are close to historic lows. See [1], that xkcd is picking a really biased starting point by usi
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by avar 3y ago
That's a weird issue I hadn't heard of before. Wouldn't a simpler and cheaper solution be to run an extra circuit to the horn? You'd then honk it by pressing a new button (or use an unused one) in the dashboard. The diff
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by avar 3y ago
C still supports EBCDIC, and other potential non-ASCII character sets one might invent in the future. It promises e.g. that 0..9 is contiguous, but e.g. "case 'A' ... 'Z'" would behave differently.
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by avar 3y ago
Some dictatorships are doing stricter rules lawyering than any democracy, the "issue" being that there's an unambiguous rule somewhere that the King is sovereign without limits on their power. I think you have this backwards.
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by avar 3y ago
Before the dam they'd have around the same amount of water, actually slightly less than that, as the reservoir loses water through evaporation. Dams don't create water that wasn't there before. It sounds like they're ups
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by avar 3y ago
A car that floats ... but only with a mandatory fully open sunroof ... in a part of the world that gets typhoons. Is the 30 minute time limitation an estimate on how long it'll take to fill it up in the rain with an open sunroof?
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by avar 3y ago
With MCAS the MAX is already a flying flight simulator for earlier 737 versions. Fixing this should be trivial: Fit passengers with VR headsets to simulate there not being a giant hole in the fuselage.
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by avar 3y ago
We do, it's called an alternator.
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by avar 3y ago
You're only reading that as a political jab because you're too entranced in American partisan politics. Americans are a minority among the portion of the world's population that can read English easily enough to consult the E
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by avar 3y ago
It's fully enclosed, has 4 wheels and a steering wheel. In (some) cities it's a faster commuter than any two-seat convertible, as it can legally get away with straddling the line between a car and a bicycle. It doesn't appeal

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