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by bjowen 5y ago
Yep, plenty of gravestones are weathered to the point of illegibility after 100 years. Pick that mineral carefully. Or maybe go with a ceramic?
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by bjowen 5y ago
Those people are required to and have taken vaccine in order to attend. 95% of Australians have at this point. There are check-ins and density limits and other mandates to limit the spread, and it is still spreading at a rate faster than te
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by bjowen 5y ago
There’s definitely an aspect of suburbia - eg a lot of Hachioji, although the zoning is a bit different and that’s shaped the way they’ve emerged. It reminds be a bit of the way London has expanded - suburban areas centred on stations of tr
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Lindsay Ellis on Quitting YouTube(patreon.com)
4 points by bjowen 5y ago|1 comments
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by bjowen 5y ago
My parents have a cast aluminium one - it’s cracked and older than me but still makes an excellent cup. The only thing that will retire it will be induction cooking!
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by bjowen 5y ago
If you managed to crack the detection problem, you’d still likely be so saturated with solar / background neutrinos as to confound any real prospect of a signal.
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by bjowen 5y ago
Super off-topic but national differences in washing lines vs dryer use are fascinating. In an early attempt to replicate the Japanese line-drying time forecast[0], I looked around for English-language articles about clothes drying, and the
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by bjowen 5y ago
Sounds like a similar tactic to blaming the Texas blackout on renewable energy. An event that irritates the general public is fertile ground for opportunists to be first to press with something from ideology rather than information.
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by bjowen 5y ago
Oh come on, this story again? This is great news for physics PhDs and the NIF machine is cool as hell, but it’s research to keep the US’s doomsday devices up to date. This does very little to stave off the other doomsday threat before us an
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by bjowen 5y ago
Same and same - although I recall hearing it in 2019 and it felt like an outlier.
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A timeline of earth’s average temperature(xkcd.com)
1 points by bjowen 5y ago|0 comments
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by bjowen 5y ago
Cute. There is already a News Corp doing monopoly stuff and regulatory capture, so that doesn’t seem too far fetched.
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by bjowen 5y ago
There’s probably a PhD length answer that involves the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music, the plagues of the mid 17th century and the Little Ice Age. Violins have always been identified as being tuned in 5ths to the best of my kn
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Netflix Sued by SK Internet After ‘Squid Game’ Causes Traffic Surge(forbes.com)
3 points by bjowen 5y ago|2 comments
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by bjowen 5y ago
The NIF and some other facilities (eg the Sandia Lab Z machine) are for studying fusion plasmas in order to understand their behaviour in thermonuclear weapons first, and possible application in power generation as a distant second. That’s
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by bjowen 5y ago
In a much cooler reality, it is, and it’s the other Tesla.
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Cooling system leak led to Victorian Big Battery fire(esv.vic.gov.au)
110 points by bjowen 5y ago|80 comments
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by bjowen 5y ago
Outsider to US religious / politics interface here but the impression from over here is that it’s the Falwell end of the evangelical movement rather than the RC church that has been driving denialism.
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by bjowen 5y ago
It’s worth pointing out that stamina changes surprisingly quickly, it can be only 3 days between a hill being impossibly daunting and just a hill.
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by bjowen 5y ago
+1 cycling. This is very contingent on the kind of area you live in (distances, hills, bike routes / lanes, general tolerance of cyclists) but it has made the difference between couch potato and relative fitness for a lot of people I
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by bjowen 5y ago
There’s a whole class of persistent organic pollutants that probably fit that bill. Plastics manufacture can involve BPA and phthalates; things like PCBs / PBBs occur in a surprising range of places like transformers and capacitors, fi
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by bjowen 5y ago
It seems like the top of the list to me! - though it’s been emitted for longer in quantity.
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by bjowen 5y ago
It’s a high-school level laboratory experiment. Nobody’s handing them out at birthday parties[0], but mostly because hydrogen likes to go bang loudly, not because it’s corrosive or toxic or anything. [0] unless Mark Rober is involved in som
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by bjowen 5y ago
Thirty thousand cases today, with about 1700 added overnight - and that is with the lockdowns. You may still personally consider this an overreaction, but please do not invite other people to that conclusion with incorrect data.
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by bjowen 5y ago
I love this most characteristic of phrases, it’s something English lacks. That last morsel of the shared slice of cake, the semi-sip of wine left in the bottle… the remnant of politeness?
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by bjowen 5y ago
> 5. Under Swiss law, it is obligatory for a user to be notified if a third party makes a request for their private data and such data is to be used in a criminal proceeding. More information can be found here. This is subject to carve
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by bjowen 5y ago
A historian’s word for this might be inclosure. A wag’s might be the hostile corporate takeover of everyone’s private life.
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by bjowen 5y ago
Just a small caution - this is a weird place for the news to break (5:40 am in Adelaide). There’s been talk of this move for 5 months, since a report was tabled in April with this alongside other recommendations [0]. I can’t find other rece
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by bjowen 5y ago
Same. The consolidation of departments and powers into the new Department of Homeland Affairs under the current incumbency has been an ominous kind of creep towards it too. It feels inevitable that there will be support for this move from t
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by bjowen 5y ago
The cast-aluminium little guys are devilish to get right, and they only make 3 shots of coffee. Once you get the knack they’re fine, and as they get bigger I find it’s much easier to get a consistent brew. Better still, get a steel one wh

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