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by detritus 5y ago
I hadn't even considered that. Starship as General Utility (Somewhat Expendable) Space Truck has a myriad of military uses, I now realise.
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by detritus 5y ago
For what it's worth, I've had it happen a few times and I use Firefox on a PC. I suspect it's probably more to do with linking variables after the url proper from certain sites, rather than a browser-level complaint.
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by detritus 5y ago
I'd rather we threw whatever guaranteeing stake the UK government owes into supporting Hinkcley instead to the likes of Rolls Royce and modular small-scale nuclear, which seems to me a better use of fission nuclear in the [hopeful] int
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by detritus 5y ago
Yes, I know - we played the game within the constraints of the rules available, for better or worse as far as the development of the Community was concerned. Our political overlords have played that game forever, particularly since the U
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by detritus 5y ago
Mmm, I have much the same misgivings about the likes of EDF being allowed to go on spending sprees in other countres - including my own, Britain - when they are mostly owned by the French state. At the less knuckle-dragging end of the Brexi
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by detritus 5y ago
Here in the UK years back, unscrupulous growers sprayed the silicate-based additive used in road paintmarkings for reflectivity, as when applied to the buds it made it look like they were of incredibly high quality. This was not scaremonger
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by detritus 5y ago
Actually, Spice proper used a fairly benign synthetic cannabinoid. It was only after the market showed promise and after they were banned that slew of cheaper knock-offs that became commonly known as 'Spice' (despite having differ
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by detritus 5y ago
I know :) I just prefer not to presume when I link... .
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by detritus 5y ago
Sabine Hossenfelder mentioned this is one of her videos last year (around 2:30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VWLjhJBCp0
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by detritus 5y ago
Mediterranean countries had artificial candle-or-whatever light with which to play upon spherical fruit dangling from trees, which otherwise in the daytime caught specular light glimmering through leaves. Knowing the Earth was round, I don&
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by detritus 5y ago
My apologies, I think I entirely misread your response prior and responded uselessly. I have no response other to say "That's shit". I'm of the mind that a percentage of men who are particularly homophobic are veiling th
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by detritus 5y ago
As for one, at least, if the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians knew the world was spherical (as they did, and had an approximate measure of its dimension), this could be easily predicted and might make part of whatever speculative discussion the
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by detritus 5y ago
I presumed a subtler gradient in whatever confused muddle of thinking went on, literally and figuratively. Humans are nothing if not highly flawed and somewhat tribal.
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by detritus 5y ago
I think you're over/underthinking the sheer cynicism at play in the minds of the people who designed and OK'd that ad going out. I found it laughable when I first saw it months back, on the side of a bus. Like, "What?! I
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by detritus 5y ago
Curious, I was under the impression that the demographics of the Faroe Isands were changing dramatically due to an influx of female partners from Asia, actively 'imported'. It's 'cute' that you choose to condescend
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by detritus 5y ago
I was specifically trying to be neutral to make a point about the choice of language used in the person I was responding to, yes. I'm not advocating the thought, I just find it curious how polarised and absolutist such discussions get
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by detritus 5y ago
Kaizen culture was a big meme back in the 80s and 90s in the North of England as Japanese car manufacturers set up shop and the differences to then-declining local manufacturing culture became evident.
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by detritus 5y ago
Why is a preference for homogeneity always equated with a sense of superiority? I'm not defending their actions - and perhaps they did indeed feel some misguided sense of superiority - but perhaps just as equally, they did not and simp
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by detritus 5y ago
Crikey! Thanks. That's still a heck of a lot of work in those hours, with very little downtime. I do a lot of 'proceduralised' jobs, but I'm 'lucky' in that I get to define and hone the procedure and then it te
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by detritus 5y ago
O/T - How many side mirror rims were in each cycle? If it were just one, then your shifts must have been over a day long, which doesn't make much sense.
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by detritus 5y ago
Which labs? Or do you mean botanical specimens held in places such as the British Museum, with which they can compare with to check the species - but not propagate from - as they're long-since dead? Seems to me the excitement in this n
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by detritus 5y ago
Nope, still using two of their products today, and waiting for the moment (as, I think, promised soon?) wherein I could donate/pay directly to/for firefox. I don't broadly support Mozilla's aims (I also don't not -
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by detritus 5y ago
Thanks for confirming - I wasn't sure if I was mixing up the version number with Photoshop, which 5.5 was (if memory serves) the one that fixed terribly-kerned typesetting in v5, and added some new web-export wizziness.
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by detritus 5y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong - it was a Trojan Horse, and my first ever web browsing experience was on Navigator, so it was a hard-hearted appreciation at the time. But from my stand point then, It Just Worked.
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by detritus 5y ago
Going a bit further back, IE 5 and 6 were the best browser by far. Strange for me to think that my now-beloved Firefox has its heritage embedded in Netscape, which at the same time as IE5 was an absolute pig. - ed for some reason I have it
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by detritus 5y ago
I suspect, yes - I imagine that a lot of the mental trauma stems from a feeling of helplessness being trapped beyond the furthest boundary fringes of our typical existence. If technology develops enough and we can have a fleet of starships
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by detritus 5y ago
Yeah, I thought they'd stopped doing this, but it appears they've simply removed the option to disable it from the admin screen, presumably keeping it on in the background. Christ, I loathe BT. - ed turns out you can turn it off,
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by detritus 5y ago
> Wow, sounds an awful lot like a typical event loop from a game engine. I coulda sworn I recall John Carmack making a similar comparison when he was working on Armadillo Aerospace, but implying that rockets were actually a bit simpler.
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by detritus 5y ago
I just happened to watch this, which says pretty much the same https://youtu.be/Bq9xR5PUs6s?t=388 "Is Infinity Real?" Sabine Hossenfelder, about 6:25 in. Perhaps this is what OP was referring to?
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by detritus 5y ago
Modern technology allows us to seriously meddle with nature within a generation or two, whereas always prior it might've taken a few tens. Over time though, we've had thousands of generations to make our mark. I fundamentally beli

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