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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
I understand that the difference in pressure at the inlet and outlet of the RO system indicates that work was done moving the water through the system, but the RO system is there to fill a glass of water - it's not clear to me why the
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Aside from the PFA situation, it's possible to turn your tap water in to selzer water (probably generating less waste and saving money) with a SodaStream or similar.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
That'll trip you up if you ever board Tally Ho, her front door is on the starboard[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpulXX1cros
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
I'm a little confused by this thread - it seems like you suggest that the drone should be controlled by the SBC in an effects pedal, that the guitarist is using to provide low-latency audio processing? As a techie and perpetual-interm
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
My information is not super current, last time I was on the ice was 2014 for a year at Pole, so take this with a grain of salt. > Do you know if they are landing on winter flights, or just doing airdrops? My understanding is that they ha
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
I agree, just want to add a couple updates in case folks are interested in getting involved. > The US Navy manages all the food/fuel/housing logistics. These days, actually I think since shortly after you were there, this is ha
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Forgive me, but I don't understand the relevance of "follow" vs "reach out to". In the post, you wrote a paragraph starting with `Almost everything around me is designed to addict me.`, which seems incongruous with
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
> If this resonated with you - reach out to me on Twitter It resonated with me, right up until the "on Twitter" part. A few weeks shy of 20 years ago, I was a fed-up high school student and made probably the best decision of my
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
I've been down with the USAP a couple times, most recently about a decade ago, and in that span the psych eval was required for winterover deployments but not summers. It was very questionable. I like to think that a spoof "How t
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Classic "Condition Fun"! Antz and Christine are great - recommend "A Year On Ice".
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Scott Base is easy walking distance from McMurdo, not 99 miles (or 100 kilometers and 100 miles and 100 nautical miles - that site is quite confused!). Both are actually in New Zealand depending on the purpose, due to the Ross Dependency[1]
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Chicken breeds used by commercial operations are highly optimised for either meat or egg production. Hobby or specialist farmers might do as you describe, often with more general-purpose breeds, but it usually isn't worth raising a la
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Imagine pinching an ice cube. One finger applies force like the sails, the other finger applies force like the keel+rudder, and the cube is the vessel.
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
> The article raises a good point that there is a reason to worry - micro- and nano-plastics have structural similarities to chemically inert metal particles, which are known to be hazardous to health. As nice as it would be to be able t
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
> but there's little evidence that they're destroying ecosystems Plastic waste in the ocean is a major issue for seabirds [1] > or harming health "The combined data, although fragmentary, indicate that exposure to micro
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Maybe there could be a "C++ style defaults" set of configuration, as default?
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
I'm a native English speaker and agree that it is a slightly weird corner of the language - thanks for asking! "Against" can also mean something like "adjacent to" or "in contact with", like "let&#x27
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
I feel like that boils down to "time is money", and I don't disagree in a commercial context.
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Could you expand on this? It doesn't really make sense to me, but I'm also a Rust fan. The premise that Rust prioritizes safety (or performance) over developer productivity also doesn't resonate. As a consumer, I tend to pr
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
How do you suggest others find people like you to work with?
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
More of an observation than a suggestion, but literally every single organisation (businesses, educational institutions, community groups) that I've been involved with, has had technical stuff that could be improved to help with the co
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Thanks for the response - I like the sentence about the web of responsibilities multiplying, and I think that's kinda what I'm getting at. Maybe I'm weird, or doing it wrong, but in my life so far, I just don't see a rea
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Hmm, I'm still not seeing the connection. How does a steady monogamous relationship, especially in that "procreative stage", make it easier (or harder?) to grow old, or deal with aging parents?
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Could you expand a bit on the link between free love, and later-in-life commitments? It seems a little like you're saying that people have a responsibility to make the next generation of caretakers? To me as a late-30s person with no
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
A nit: this blog is from McMurdo Station, which is on an island just off off the coast of mainland Antarctica. Something like 800 miles away is the geographic South Pole, where there is a US research station too. There's dirt, dramat
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Or made a "fresh clone". I've had colleagues nuke a repo when it gets in to a "bad state", start over with `git clone`, repeat the work that git lost...
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
I agree with the post you're responding to, and make a lot more commits than I share with my team. Pushing commits to a shared branch is where work is shared. At my current employer, we used to use Perforce, and in that world you&#x27
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
McMurdo used to have a greenhouse too - it was small and homey and lovely, in one of the cargo yards. It didn't produce nearly enough food to be useful for the summer population (except maybe fresh herbs), and from memory got torn dow
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
Another argument to always hire someone else: if you learn to get a nice finish with drywall, you'll start noticing defects in existing drywall. Everywhere. Highly recommend Vancouver Carpenter on youtube, if you do want to go down th
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by bacon_waffle 4y ago
It's not clear to me why the reference points need to be a couple hundred years ago, and a couple decades ago. Was the intent to point out that the dollars are a one-off, where the kWh's keep on coming as long as the equipment wo

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