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Fluorochemicals in the EU: Speak Up(science.org)
1 points by dcminter 3y ago|0 comments
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by dcminter 3y ago
Point taken, but it's still illustrative - could you do that photo now? Without safety harnesses and so forth? In the mid 30s you could.
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by dcminter 3y ago
In this case, however, the original author is not enforcing their copyright: https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/06/16/david-ahl-places-all-hi...
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by dcminter 3y ago
Bear in mind that the incident was only a little more than a decade after this photo was taken: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper "Workplace safety" is a comparatively modern invention.
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by dcminter 3y ago
Did you intend to reply to a different comment? This doesn't have much relevance to mine. Also - "water is lighter than air" is an odd claim.
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by dcminter 3y ago
I thought the silica based ones were pretty strong under compression? Edit: Wikipedia has a persuasive picture of some aerogel supporting a house brick!
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by dcminter 3y ago
I mean you need a vacuum to create an aerogel in the first place!
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by dcminter 3y ago
I'd been wondering if an aerogel sphere with a mylar coating (constructed under vacuum) would be sufficiently low density to float - the aerogel would let it resist the pressure and the mylar would seal it. I guess the aerogel would be
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by dcminter 3y ago
Couldn't agree more - make the central characters TV reporters instead of radio, tweak it a bit, and bob's your uncle a parable about global warming. Though I'd love to see it done as a faithful alternate history/retro-f
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by dcminter 3y ago
Nope - in fact right now I'm not running much at all; just some static hosting with S3 and CloudFront which costs pennies a month. For a blog that's pretty much write-only and that not very often. When I'm playing with more c
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by dcminter 3y ago
They are "cheapest and easiest" because they're the ones that currently exist. Any other approach would require work on the part of the site owners. If you want them to change that then you're going to have to present a
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by dcminter 3y ago
I think OP is talking about new posts rather than new threads on existing posts. Although I'm still inclined to suspect that spam mitigation factors¹ caught their particular post rather than this being a general thing, because I&#x
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by dcminter 3y ago
> I created a new account, posted legit content, and none of the content appeared until ~5 days later. This proves that it happened to you for the content that you posted, not that it's a general issue. Even if we assume your conten
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by dcminter 3y ago
> If you signup and try to post a lot of text or god forbid a Show HN you spent weeks building, it shadow bans you for at least five days. It forces you to wait before you can participate. Firstly is that actually true? I feel like I&#x
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by dcminter 3y ago
> It's statically linked, and [...] secrets [...] are compiled into the binary Depends a lot on what you're doing this for; in particularly for personal stuff then you do you - but this particular item does give me pause. But t
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by dcminter 3y ago
Wow, TIL! Thanks!
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by dcminter 3y ago
Off topic, but... > it took me nearly half an hour to load a single 40 kilobyte game from tape Surely that's a bit pessimistic? It was around 5 minutes for the ZX Spectrum, the Commodore wasn't a slower baud rate was it?
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by dcminter 3y ago
Ok, it sounds like you're not joking. The 2.4 GHz frequency was unlicensed spectrum because it couldn't be used for other purposes (due to the interference). Wifi originally used this part of the spectrum because it was unlicensed
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by dcminter 3y ago
• https://this-week-in-rust.org/ • https://www.swedishtechweekly.com/ And then it's not exactly tech, but Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" : • https://www.bloomberg.com/accoun
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by dcminter 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Joseph_Muller
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by dcminter 3y ago
I think you can already enforce this (for all apps) at the OS level: https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/6191949
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by dcminter 3y ago
Not super common, but again that would be more an "antiques market" or similar (e.g. see Alfies Antiques Market in Marylebone, London) rather than a flea. It's not really that they don't exist, just that the catchall ter
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by dcminter 3y ago
> or "flea market" is a codeword It kind of is. Not in that way though. Flea-markets aren't really a thing in England at least by name. So this was probably a jumble sale or a car boot sale. A jumble sale is a small indoor
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by dcminter 3y ago
Nut can mean head, although it's a bit dated - giving nutcase and, in British English, nutter. I'd guess that's the root of it and that substitution gets you to other botanicals. Edit: I checked OED and it gives that derivati
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by dcminter 3y ago
E.g. lines 7 and 9 it's "checkout" or "upsell". Probably the latter. Can't be the same as the longer redacted term on line 7 - though I suppose it might be an abbreviation for it and they're protecting t
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by dcminter 3y ago
Some of the redactions are single words trivially inferred from context; what's with that?
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by dcminter 3y ago
I had some success running a dance night in a cafe. Turns out dancers will pay for cake!
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by dcminter 3y ago
> thanks to the stability of the eyes Took me a few seconds to work out that this was a typo, not some strange persistence-of-vision related effect!
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Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?(hackaday.com)
143 points by dcminter 3y ago|234 comments
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by dcminter 3y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to discover this in a local book store the other day: https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/

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