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by defrost 4mo ago
Hopefully they see this - there's still time to edit the submission link.
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by defrost 4mo ago
For anyone with an interest this article is cut down and pared slice of a portion of the work of Dr. Olivier Walther and Dr. Steven Radil, geographers at the University of Florida. A somewhat longer article of theirs is Why African Border
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by defrost 4mo ago
> what is the EU frontier chip fabs? Where are the US or Chinese equivalents or betters of ASML of the Netherlands?
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by defrost 4mo ago
There's a bit of a difference between countries with {nuclear weapons, nuclear power reactors, and nuclear enrichment and breeding programs} and countries without any of that. The CSIRO costings include the estimated ten year lead
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by defrost 4mo ago
> And the math clearly shows advantages of nuclear. If that's the case and the advantages are so sharp and clearly defined, ... Then why did Australia's latest CSIRO (National Science body) energy options for the nations future
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by defrost 4mo ago
I have a greater concern about societal skill atrophy. I also am not about to forget how to for(;;), that said, as a result of some years invested in aligning old pre WGS84 mapping with modern GPS and improving digital mapping, there are
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by defrost 4mo ago
MINIX having inherent design flaws was simply just a robustly expressed opinion ... it was nothing like the Meow Wars of '98.
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by defrost 4mo ago
Sure, 4 Ha (10 acres) is an inconsequential corner of a 4,500 Ha farm with rural zoning - no one's going to care if you carve out a few underground spaces and rock wall them entirely and only at risk to yourself. Community standards ki
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by defrost 4mo ago
Why does it need to run at that time? * If it's being run to scrap data from a source that's available at some time, adjust the job if the source changes its time. * If it's being run "when its dark and no one is aroun
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by defrost 4mo ago
https://archive.md/zru6f
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by defrost 4mo ago
> the worst thing you can do with a table saw is experiment. And yet, that's very much exactly what happened, well predating the table saw; look into steam engines belt driving saw pit blades for logging. The table saw itself has ev
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Australia investigating five social media giants for not enforcing ban on kids(theregister.com)
8 points by defrost 4mo ago|0 comments
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by defrost 4mo ago
My hat.
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by defrost 4mo ago
It's not, by the article, in a strict taxonomy. In a wider sloppier sense some use the term for bugs that are hard to pin down and exhibit wide behaviours.
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by defrost 4mo ago
That's some doggedly determined back tracing to uncover an unexpected heisenbug (loose meaning). So a total of 46% of the crashes were due to this rogue force-unload of a DLL. This is a case of bucket spray, where a single underlyi
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by defrost 4mo ago
ASML of the Netherlands agreed to go along with past US requests to not supply China with bleeding edge machines, so China is making do with the older models while working hard to break the non-US hardware monopoly. Washington, via the rece
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by defrost 4mo ago
I had a similar thought and drew a distinction between snark about lines in the submitted article and snark directed at a fellow HN commenter. Both are discouraged, neither is great, the second following piling on and getting personal examp
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by defrost 4mo ago
Offhand, Ulysses S. Grant had a scandal ridden presidency (1869 - 1877) with multiple large scale corruption examples all headed by his closest associates. There was some goings on related to foreign territories and annexation that I don&#x
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by defrost 4mo ago
The UK is part of Europe despite leaving the EU (which is of course not equivalent to "Europe"). In the UK it is common for the British to refer to both Pakistanis and Indians as Asian and not uncommon for the Chinese to be lumped
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by defrost 4mo ago
Always? Never? There are > 190 countries in the world and many of them require immigrants to meet at least the same criteria for employment and assistance as born citizens.
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by defrost 4mo ago
Please consider imparting information rather than zero content snark. Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by defrost 4mo ago
Locally (rural Western Australia) we've faced the same shortage of builders relative to demand that many places have and new builds have increased in number while still falling short of demand. Traditionally this state near the capital
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by defrost 4mo ago
Cheers for the follow-up .. and that's certainly interesting. Chinese 50 fps thermal cameras and scopes have been about for a while now, they've been supplying the industrial specialist market even longer than the general consumer
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by defrost 4mo ago
> why is it reasonable to exclude the various incidents of non-gun homicides at Australian schools. (when " listing any homicide that occurred within the vicinity of a school") It isn't reasonable, and that is exactly why
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Germany: Hottest temperature on record 41.3C (106.3°F)(phys.org)
25 points by defrost 4mo ago|5 comments
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by defrost 4mo ago
In context, the thrust of my annotation above was that comparisons of the US and Roman Senate is apples and hedgehogs. There were some 700+ years of Rome before they occupied Britain and lasted for longer than the current age of the US sena
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by defrost 4mo ago
The Roman historian Titus Livius (Livy's History of Rome (and various other names)) roughly covered how it worked from the founding through until 293 BC and from 219 to 166 BC. The periods 293 through 219 BC and 166 to 9 BC are vague
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by defrost 4mo ago
From an alternative source, that varied: What period are we talking about? In the monarchy, the Senate were all men who could no longer serve in the military, generally believed to be at least 60 or older, and generally numbered 100-200
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by defrost 4mo ago
to be fair, other countries also have listed as school shootings any event that involved shooting and a school; eg: Australia with a population ~ 15x smaller than the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_sho
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by defrost 4mo ago
If that was a guesstimate on frame rate it's likely off. Regardless of US controls, I can from Australia buy a high quality 50 fps thermal scope with built in 1000m (or ~ 1000 yard) laser range finder from Hangzhou, China. ie. Why lock

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