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by detritus 1y ago
I'm glad I came here to check to see if anyone else had the same issue as I've had! As soon as I realised that both my webmail and my phone app were buggered, it was probably not just a Me Problem.
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by detritus 1y ago
Ooh, thanks for this. Apparently it's here, and is short enough to read in a few minutes, so I know what I'm doing! https://www.eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
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by detritus 1y ago
This might scratch that itch? (not really my domain, but I happened to see this recently, so my apologies to you if it's not what you mean) "UberPaint: Layer-based Material Painting for Blender (PUBLIC BETA)" https:/&#x
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by detritus 1y ago
If we're being condescending: 'So, a parasol?'.
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by detritus 1y ago
Musk himself suggested many years ago that achieving success is harder with smaller rockets than larger ones. The analogy he used at the time was the difference between balancing a pencil upright in your hand versus a brush pole.
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by detritus 1y ago
I've long-wondered about the use of global container logistics for moving something like a small nuclear or chemical/biological weapon and just having it wait in-situ, until it needs to be activated. I never considered drones, whi
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by detritus 1y ago
It was all about ads back then too, they just weren't so targeted.
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by detritus 1y ago
The problem, as I see it, is that the Flash editing environment doesn't have a widely-accepted descendant, and the person you're responding to is right - there's not really a contemporary editor that is as easy - and more imp
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by detritus 1y ago
Not necessarily. I think it's reasonable to imagine that 'some sort of low-level life' might be fairly common across the galaxy ('one in a ten million'), whereas complex life - never mind 'intelligent' or
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by detritus 2y ago
I meant "I want it to stay off".
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by detritus 2y ago
Aha! That explains my missing it here too. And it's staying off... .
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by detritus 2y ago
The novel is from 1991.
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by detritus 2y ago
> this spy ship loaded to the brim with sensors? And yet they still didn't see them. I suspect HM Naval Service knows what it's upto and what its limits are.
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by detritus 2y ago
Yeah, I've had a couple of odd looks from other people in the supermarket when my daughter's piped up about not being allowed to touch the shopping receipts, haha. I do get the impression companies are beginning to move back to tr
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by detritus 2y ago
I bought my daughter a set of multi-colour Bic Cristal pens and, aside from a weird plug that had to be removed from each tip (intentional? dried-up ink from the manufacturing process?) the textural quality of the ink is wonderful. I don&#x
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by detritus 2y ago
Great stuff! Just a wee thing - when I read "Atlas of Space" I immediately assumed it went beyond the solar system and clicked-through expecting to be able to track stars at least a few light years out. Reading your explanation he
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by detritus 2y ago
I get the impression that a load of people are preparing to jump ship once Win10's sundowned and they're faced with having to get rid of a perfectly usable computer to install Win11. I know I am, loathe as I am to move over to Lin
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by detritus 2y ago
I cook all the time, mostly from scratch, but I keep frozen french fries in the freezer for very quick 'junk' meals, and more particularly because I don't in any way want to have deep-ish oil boiling my kitchen, for safety an
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by detritus 2y ago
Is there even a surface?
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by detritus 2y ago
I thought their having a 'patina' from use was part of the original schtick, before they even came out? I know that was one aspect that made me go "huh" and think they might be onto something interesting.
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by detritus 2y ago
The silly thing is they know entirely well that we can do the same to them. The US/UK at least have at least the same capability, if not moreso.
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by detritus 2y ago
If you're routing through the Chunnel, I suspect you could fit at least two seperate links.
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by detritus 2y ago
Me too, I remember tearing up watching her videos when she realised she had a tumour in her brain, before the operations.
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by detritus 2y ago
Over here in Europe I loved going on holiday to Spain as I could pick up [French] Majorette-brand toy cars, which I remember having much smoother wheels, so they would coast faster and longer than either Matchbox or Hot Wheels.
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by detritus 2y ago
I had one friend in the UK who had an Atari 8-bit computer and I remember being awed by a game I'd never seen anywhere else and only worked out what it was many years later, in the internet days - Rescue on Fractalus. It certainly blew
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by detritus 2y ago
Arrgh - I didn't need to go even deeper down the rabbit hole! (I did) That Linus Tech Tips video was useful to me - there are a few of those HP Workstations available cheaply here in the UK, some with better i7 processsors. Thanks! The
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by detritus 2y ago
Thanks for this! I've been meaning to get back into games but only keep a laptop at home and I had no idea that I could make a machine that could capably serve my needs for <£300 (32Gb Win10 i7 6700 with 256gb SSD (!), OK 2nd hand G
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by detritus 2y ago
I'm with you. Unfortunately. The older I get, the more I realise just how hard, far and pointless existing beyond the Earth's atmosphere will be, for the most part. Certainly the next few hundred years. There's just no real p
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by detritus 2y ago
Didn't 1960s-era spy satellites use physical rolls of film that were dropped back to Earth and caught by planes or helicopters?
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by detritus 2y ago
You can, and I did, but at some point I must've accidentally fumbled one of the many 'would you like to back up your data to...?' requests as I recently had a warning that my Google drive was nearly full. This was perplexing

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