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The hole will fill up.
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Not everyone at McMurdo is a research scientist. Many are contractors maintaining and supporting the base or constructing new equipment.
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Alcohol is not banned. Purchase of alcohol at bars is. Employees can still buy alcohol at the store.
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ED has clamped down on it. Now if you post something and can't prove it's from an unlimited distribution source BigNewey will delete your post pretty much immediately. I typically see that stuff on community Discords where the vol
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Art sales are typically for tax reasons, not money laundering.
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> BG3 is taking a genre to an entirely new place. Is it? It seems to be ti be building and iterating on games like the Pathfinder CRPGs, Divinity, and older Bioware RPGs.
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Trying to figure out if and how these can be used at companies that have regulatory requirements too strict to use hosted models. Sadly, Meta restricts use of Llama for anything ITAR (as opposed to other TOSes which only restrict weapons an
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Headband mounted GoPros are awkward. A helmet mounted GoPro works better, but you're either not wearing a helmet, or if you are you probably need to keep it clear of protrusions for safety reasons.
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If it can run on an Xbox it can probably run on your PC!
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Thieves currently make more money stealing entire sport and touring motorcycles, or lightweight high end bicycles.
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> With a grinder, trolley and 5 minutes you could remove one from a car. No, you cannot. Look up SuperFastMatt's video about the construction and layout of the Tesla battery he had to "chop up" for this custom build.
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Article is an oversimplification. There is a proper shutdown procedure which takes some time. Deviating from it requires the aircraft to be checked and possibly serviced by ground crew.
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It's a good thing militaries have bulldozers, then!
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Additionally- the F-35B has a smaller combat payload than the F-35A, due to the combination of internal space/weight for SVTOL capabilities and lower payloads and the lower payload available for short takeoff. Vertical takeoff is mostl
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It can do vertical takeoff for demonstration or very short ferries but cannot carry a combat loadout.
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There are machines designed for testing tires and axles that go around corners under load- for example, the fatigue carousel at University Gustave Eiffel, currently used to test pavement. I could imagine such a machine rolling tires in a cl
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Apple and Adobe also used to have a mutual no-headhunting policy. And speaking anecdotally I don't think I've ever heard of someone working at both companies during their career even today.
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Not a bus, but TropeTrainer: https://www.inverse.com/input/features/tropetrainer-thomas-b... , to the point where synagogues are passing around computers running old copies of macOS so kids can study fir their bar
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I'm not sure if they literally mean crond, or something vaguely cron-like but easier to manage like systemd timers.
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The people downvoting you haven't used the older AMD Windows GPU drivers, or run heavy VR workloads on modern AMD GPUs. I say this as an AMD fan who is very happy with my 5900X/6900XT system.
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Out of NAT sockets? Just use more IP addresses.
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In game development I believe developers should listen to their players complaints but never to how the players would fix the problems.
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On the combat side the top games are War Thunder (which I don't recommend due to it's microtransaction model), DCS World (flawed and expensive but still fun), IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad (good WW2 game) and Falcon BMS (excellent, b
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MSFS is scalable from a small child being able to fly with the keyboard or an Xbox controller to near-professional grade airline simulators.
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"How do these products compare if I ignore their unique advantages" is not a useful measure.
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2008 didn't have Pinterest, fewer listicles, conspiracy websites were less mainstream, and mobile web was in its toddler phase.
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Kagi's killer feature can't be blind tested, because Google and Bing don't have it. The ability to pin, raise or block sites in your results is a game changer.
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Number one is pinning sites that have canonical information (like official documentation), raising sources which are consistently good and blocking sources that are consistently bad. With a day or two of tuning these you get better results
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Kagi is the single best productivity tool I've added to my kit in the past year. It is easily worth the price.
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Worked on a piece of software which suffered from years of this split brain. It had some logging and some metrics, but the team was told to be economical about observability. This resulted in the software having many blind spots which led t
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