dghughes

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by dghughes 4y ago
Everything about that was amazing. The design loos so simple and it's so small. The fuel used and the forward thinking of the fuel availability, separating fuel making from the reactor, how the fuel interacts with the reactor. Harnessi
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by dghughes 4y ago
> Heating 76.5 litres of water (8.9 minutes x 8.6 litres per minute) from 18 to 38 degrees Celsius requires 2.1 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy. In late September this year 2022 my region was hit by a hurricane. My power mine was off for
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by dghughes 4y ago
What I found impressive was the failure or rather why it couldn't keep going wasn't due to the fusion process it was due to overheated magnets. Generating 59 MJ (11MW) in five seconds was impressive too although I didn't see
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by dghughes 4y ago
The earliest I recall seeing a USB thumb drive was early 2000s maybe 2003. Staples then or a year later had 45MB thumb drives on sale I think $50). People went nuts over this deal. The cashier asked the elderly woman buying one if she wante
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by dghughes 4y ago
I'm not in a European country I'm curious do you know if small aircraft are allowed to use leaded avgas 100LL?
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by dghughes 4y ago
I've read about native English speakers who take classes to cleanse their colloquialisms from their speech. It's for conducting business with people who speak English but not natively. OP in a way is trying to do the opposite.
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by dghughes 4y ago
I recall on the local news a police officer urged people to "go with the flow". Don't speed but also don't doddle since the difference between speeders vs slow pokes is dangerous. If the speed is 100km/h and everyon
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by dghughes 4y ago
Here in Canada local calls were also free. Weirdly even calling someone you only had to use five digits I still recall my old phone number 2-2506. But the other part of the BBS hobby was the computer itself to be able to afford it. At the t
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by dghughes 4y ago
It's so hard to find decent documentaries to watch especially my favourite subject ancient history. I tend to find that anything 15 to 20 years old seems mostly free of the stink of "ancient aliens". And I find that YouTube i
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by dghughes 4y ago
Nigerian Prince?
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by dghughes 4y ago
>Remember that a chip is a liability to its issuer. Whoever ends up with those chips can come back to demand cash, so - in the case of a casino - it’s not in their interest to randomly issue huge numbers of chips to customers who don’t a
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by dghughes 4y ago
I'm in Canada and all I can think of is how my Mom, uncles, other older relatives do not have a computer. They have no interest in anything on a computer and have never touched one. You could put one in front of them powered on, logged
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by dghughes 4y ago
IBM's Phoenix pay system in Canada was a disaster.
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by dghughes 4y ago
I was watching a video of the BBC show Micro Live explaining how email works...in 1986! And it was done live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL1NaenGPdw
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by dghughes 4y ago
Same for Canada RSV especially but also influenza. I'm not sure about covid. And beds filling with those is bad since that doesn't even include the usual emergencies heart attack, cancer, car crash, births. The provincial and fede
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by dghughes 4y ago
Recently there were news articles of how leprosy bacteria can repair diseased organs to perfect health, and then infect it. I wonder if leprosy could be used in the lab grown meat industry to make it grow better. https://www.news
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by dghughes 4y ago
"Stroads" as they're called they're not a street or a raod they're both. Too wide for a street but with multiple entries and exits too much access for a road. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroa
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by dghughes 4y ago
Earth may send Musk to Mars...involuntarily.
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by dghughes 4y ago
I'm in Canada in The Maritimes in PEI my electric stove uses a big honking plug for 240V/220V that plugs into the wall. Not wired directly but an actual plug.
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by dghughes 4y ago
At an old job we had to go to a "retreat" of a sort where the sales guys and technicians all schmoozed. The company had made sales do tech work and techs do sales work neither side liked that. Sales guys just ignored it and called
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by dghughes 4y ago
I went to college late in life. We had Python programming class which I liked but I couldn't concentrate in a class with people talking even in low tones, key clacking, phones beeping. Exams were the worst but I got permission to use h
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by dghughes 4y ago
I think it's consistent sound/noise that matters. My Dad worked on a ship and he said when he was trying to sleep the worst sounds were intermittent. He preferred a constant sound no matter what it was.
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by dghughes 4y ago
It amazes me how most of the world is on 240V I'm in Canada and we are like the USA 120V 20A circuits. Today I made tea and I used a standalone electric kettle which is odd to most of us here in Canada and the US. Most times I would ha
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by dghughes 4y ago
I think it should be law that paying ransomware is a crime since it only makes these ransomware people more bold, and rich.
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by dghughes 4y ago
Not a phone but in 1999 I bought a JVC CyberCam camcorder but it also had a feature of a digital camera. It was only 640x480 on a small MMC card. But it was pretty amazing for the time. I think the camera came out maybe 1997?
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by dghughes 4y ago
I hear rectal texting is catching on.
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by dghughes 4y ago
I had the same pair of glasses for 20 years just getting new lenses as needed. A year ago I had a slight change in prescription but also had to make the plunge into bifocals. Cost to me even after insurance? $800. And they're terrible.
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by dghughes 4y ago
Sorry, yes as mentioned below Prince Edward Island aka PEI. We in PEI along with the Northwest Territories NWT also don't border any other nation. BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Yukon
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by dghughes 4y ago
I live in the only Canadian province that doesn't have moose, or bears, or deer, or any large animals other farm animals. Even skunks were imported (and escaped) as a cheaper replacement for fox fur. We don't have the experience o
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by dghughes 4y ago
Cries in Canadian :(

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