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by dwd 11mo ago
During Talisman Sabre 25, a RCAF C-17 air-dropped a Himars and some ADF personnel on Christmas Island, simulated a firing and then left. Pushes the defensive line quite a bit further out from the mainland, and you could potentially cover ch
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by dwd 11mo ago
Worked for a car insurance firm about a decade ago and the whole business ran on their Big Iron. I joined the company to work on a customer facing web UI that hooked into an API layer the server group developed to pull data from the Db2. Th
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by dwd 11mo ago
Daddy long-legs are known predators of Australian red-backs, while the American cellar spider supposedly hunts black widows.
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by dwd 11mo ago
Rats becoming carriers of Lyssavirus would be quite alarming.
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by dwd 1y ago
The sodium ion battery was invented over 200 years ago. No one needs to steal the technology, and manufacturing is basically the same. All the research is in finding ever better combinations of anode/cathode. Lithium mining and process
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by dwd 1y ago
I guess it depends on your perspective. If you're Chinese, graphite is abundant and available as 98% of processing currently occurs in China. Lithium, not so much which is why it is Chinese firms leading development of sodium ion batte
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by dwd 1y ago
Ideally they will be used in personal electronics as sodium chloride solid state (SCSS) batteries are far safer and not going to explode or cause a run-away fire. They also don't need some "critical" minerals such as graphite
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by dwd 1y ago
As a tool, it could be useful as a starting point (a way to get your creativity going), but the sound is completely wrong. Early Udio generated songs when run through a stem splitter were horrible to listen to and you could hear how it was
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by dwd 1y ago
PG's old essay "Keep your identity small", should be required reading. https://paulgraham.com/identity.html
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by dwd 1y ago
Australia has had self-checkout in supermarkets and larger retailers for nearly 2 decades now. Usually you will have a single staff member responsible for 4-10 checkouts to override the machine when your product doesn't register a weig
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by dwd 1y ago
My only beef with down votes is you often never know why. Maybe requiring a comment to downvote, or at least if you are the first to down vote a comment would go a long way.
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by dwd 1y ago
I have given it medical results, and asked it to explain what all the readings were. It was quite happy to comment on each data point and what you could expect for a normal reading.
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by dwd 1y ago
Once you're in a air-conditioned environment the outside world doesn't matter. More likely he compared the 4nm yield to the 3nm yield in Taiwan?
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by dwd 1y ago
In the default mode, the Mac draws on a canvas with 2940x1912px and downscales to fit the 2560x1660px screen. That seems to be a very inexact 1.7415x, but there's nothing stopping you running at 2560x1660px.
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by dwd 1y ago
To be more exact, it is 70-80% of hospital-aquired UTIs are catheter linked. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31532742/ The infection rate is initially 3-10% but increases by 5% for every day its left in. Some more info
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by dwd 1y ago
Currently have a 14" M2 Pro and a 13" M4 Air in front of me. The Pro keyboard is loud and clicky and I much prefer the softer feel of the Air's. Its also half the weight and the battery seems to last twice as long. Screen is
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by dwd 1y ago
Something else unmentioned is that 70-80% of hospital acquired infections are related to medical devices that are susceptible to the formation of biofilms where the bacteria create a protective layer that antibiotics can't penetrate. F
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by dwd 1y ago
The thing is if you don't crash the market, you're looking at the Japanese experience of a long slide where prices slowly drop relative to inflation over 20+ years which means some generation is going to miss out and not own a hom
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by dwd 1y ago
This has been the reality in Australian for the last 2 decades ever since Demographia first started publishing their annual report. The Australian average right now is 9.7. Maybe 30 years ago, it was closer to 3 (the 150k house on a 50k wag
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by dwd 1y ago
I would also be looking for card washing and see if they attempted to purchase and the card failed. Repeated purchase attempts, particularly on the cheapest product in the catalogue is a bad sign.
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by dwd 1y ago
You can create a nasty smoke bomb by lighting a table tennis ball wrapped in aluminium foil.
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by dwd 1y ago
A simple search across a codebase for "TODO" will find all sorts of things left undone, but having access to source control and commit messages, who knows what you might find. "Here be dragons" is also a good search if y
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by dwd 1y ago
I don't believe Equifax received money, just a long list of demands to be allowed to continue as a viable business. That it was a nation-state actor may have allowed them some grace, as it didn't result in individuals' detail
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by dwd 1y ago
Or writing papers on Panpsychism. While I hold a similar view as Sean Carroll that it is basically hand-waving to say we'll never understand consciousness, I can't discount Donald Hoffman's Interface theory of perception and
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by dwd 1y ago
Very interesting, will have a read in depth. Wondering if you have any ideas on this, which can be quite jarring when it happens? You are thinking about something, and then walk through a doorway into another room and suddenly completely lo
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by dwd 1y ago
Anil Seth would have it the other way around that you predictively generate a perception of the world and then use your senses to refine that. Consciousness could still be the self reaction to this sub-conscious predictive/generative f
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by dwd 1y ago
Acrobat Reader lets you do a lot of potentially bad things with ActiveScript in a PDF once the user allows it. I worked on a PDF form that was distributed widely within a Gov department. It would be routinely saved locally and emailed half
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by dwd 1y ago
Queensland exports about 25% of timber production, but changes are now in progress to ensure local housing demands are met, as the current material costs are exobitant: https://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/business-priorities/for
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by dwd 1y ago
Have a non-working line border collie, and he has had zero interest in chasing a ball his whole life. All he ever wanted to do was run or chase birds. He failed all his training, didn't even get through puppy preschool as he's not
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by dwd 1y ago
Squeaky toys are our GSD's main play toys, even just seems to like carrying them around. Games of chase, tug-of-war or just as a way to annoyingly get your attention with squeaking. The other weird obsession seems to be hunting related

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