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by bcraven 6y ago
http://www.stephenbiesty.co.uk/galleries_cross_sections_cast... Stephen Biesty's cross sections are my reference for most engineering.
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by bcraven 6y ago
Politician offers to resign after showering during live video meeting https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/councillor-s...
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by bcraven 6y ago
Paragraph 9: Amusingly, if you get through to a human, or demand to speak to a person, the staffer will probably just tell you what the AI wanted to say anyway: the software will, behind the scenes, provide prompts to the call-center worker
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by bcraven 6y ago
That was the WHO advice in April: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/15/world/social-distancing-l...
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by bcraven 6y ago
It should technically just be "ka" which stands for kiloannum following ISO 80000-3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year#Kiloannum
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by bcraven 6y ago
Adam Curtis: Bugger, Maybe The Real State Secret Is That Spies Aren't Very Good At Their Jobs And Don't Know Very Much About The World https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9...
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by bcraven 6y ago
If Tom Scott or a similar personality did a video on it, yes.
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by bcraven 7y ago
http://archive.vn/oUJ6Z
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by bcraven 7y ago
Bricklink did get taken over, yes, but these are Brickset links.
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by bcraven 7y ago
Which cities use that technology?
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by bcraven 7y ago
It's more UK-centric perhaps, but I've had a great time with Money Dashboard[0] for tagging and multiple-accounts overview. The In/Out chart is great for checking that I'm not spending too much each month. [0] https:&#x
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by bcraven 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
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by bcraven 7y ago
Eustatic change is much faster than isostatic change though. In a few thousand years you might be alright but you'd have been wet for millennia.
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by bcraven 7y ago
Because there is a big audience there to read it. Fortunately this website exists: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1151832864494903296.html
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by bcraven 7y ago
>The researchers acknowledged that drawing fish back to dead or dying reefs will not reverse the damage by itself. But degraded reefs have a better shot at recovery if they have robust populations of fish, which play a variety of roles i
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by bcraven 7y ago
I think Iain Stewart went down one for his "Rise of the Continents" series.
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by bcraven 7y ago
> "In the background, the first video of the user’s recommendations is playing" Well that sounds horrendous.
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by bcraven 7y ago
Try this: https://rickyromero.com/shutup/ Available for iOS, Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
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by bcraven 7y ago
In the early 1900s, people would shout "get a horse" at people in cars: Get a horse! According to Mr Norris M Davidson, a retired radio commentator on music including opera, and very widely read who was born c. 1908 this was
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by bcraven 8y ago
Why is it not acceptable to stand on a bus? It increases capacity hugely and if you're only going a few stops it makes perfect sense. Most buses are rated for "X Standing, Y Seated" passengers.
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by bcraven 8y ago
What makes you think a man-made stress release will be any different from a natural one?
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by bcraven 8y ago
And the little details on those tiles are called 'greebles'! https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-wars/36450/greebles-ho...
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by bcraven 8y ago
They're desperately short of money, did you see that email from them a few weeks ago?
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by bcraven 8y ago
I'm intrigued to know what "Instagramish portraits" look like!
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by bcraven 8y ago
What if all the screens you were using were off in your peripheral vision, but you could swipe them in front of you when needed. It would make it much easier to keep track of things.
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by bcraven 8y ago
>If you look at your average paratrooper or ranger they are constantly receiving revised mission parameters and in harsh conditions like a dessert Delicious!
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by bcraven 8y ago
The Smithsonian is an American institution and as such caters to American's habit of using Imperial measurements. This makes it more relatable to the the passing reader.
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by bcraven 8y ago
> Did they make any special geological discoveries? [From the Wikipedia article:] To scientists, one of the more fascinating findings to emerge from this well is that no transition from granite to basalt was found at the depth of about 7
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by bcraven 8y ago
Well actually it happened recently in Peru: https://twitter.com/alerta_sismo/status/930989560896647169 So either someone saw that and decided to make this story up, or it does indeed happen. I can tell you from ex
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by bcraven 9y ago
Did you read the article? "I call it the overdramatic worldview. It’s stressful and misleading. In fact, the vast majority of the world’s population live somewhere in the middle of the income scale. Perhaps they are not what we think o

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