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by fian 6y ago
We already have ship to ship cargo transfers (Lightering): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightering due to draft concerns for the larger vessel.
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by fian 6y ago
Deer, donkeys, dogs (domestic distinct from Dingoes), goats, plus multiple bird and fish species, insects and plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species_in_Australia
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by fian 6y ago
The focus has switched to pushing the limits of therapeutic exemption drugs. It is amazing how many top swimmers and cyclists are asthmatic and _need_ to take the most hard core pharmaceuticals available to treat it.
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by fian 6y ago
Not aware of a society without a judicial system. About 1% of the population could be considered psycho paths. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059069/ So there is a high probability of anti-soci
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by fian 6y ago
I live in a city that has a serious methamphetamine problem. I live in the suburbs but near a train station. For many years there would be smashed car windows in the street multiple times per week. The thieves would be looking for small c
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by fian 6y ago
The progress from first man made flight to landing on the moon was largely driven by world encompassing wars. A huge amount of research and development went into aeroplane design as people quickly realised they could be used very effectivel
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by fian 6y ago
Do _most_ people at your work cycle in? I work in a large office tower where thousands of people work. A small minority cycle to work. There are very good end of trip facilities (lockers, showers, irons, spin dryers, drying cabinets etc)
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by fian 6y ago
Australian person here. When the summer temps are routinely over 30C and winters have many rainy days, cycling in casual clothes doesn't work except for only very short distances. Most commuters in my city that ride more than 5km to w
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by fian 6y ago
Just ordered a second replacement battery in under 5 years for a Dell XPS laptop due to the battery swelling. The first was replaced under warranty (and the trackpad was also replaced as it had been slightly bent). The laptop is now out of
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by fian 6y ago
Verbalising a problem helps you check for assumptions. See "talk to the duck"
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by fian 6y ago
How about from other established rappers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0OdmRtuQew Admittedly they are now "older" :)
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by fian 6y ago
Reminds me of The Toaster, a short story by Piers Anthony, included in Anthonology.
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by fian 6y ago
I'm running Kubuntu on an i7 series Dell XPS. Can't recall much tweaking needed to get things working, including audio, wifi and GPU. Every now and then the fans wind up but that is usually down to browser tab going rogue.
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by fian 6y ago
It also depends on the status of your local grid/substation. My university was on the same local distribution as a nearby hospital. The hospital had special status for receiving power, for obvious reasons. So in the 10 odd years I s
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by fian 6y ago
Cyclists who ride regularly in traffic subconsciously use sound and to a lesser extent air pressure to detect and map the movements of larger vehicles. Unlike eyesight requires a head movement to detect anything not in a field of view in f
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by fian 6y ago
I worked on a Java desktop app, that had a highly complex UI written in Swing, for ~14 years. We only officially targeted Windows as a platform. For a few years I switched to a Linux development machine. The only code change required was
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by fian 6y ago
When you are on the the aero-bars your hands are not on the brakes and the your ability to perform accurate steering adjustments is greatly compromised. There is a good answer to this question here: https://bicycles.stackexchange
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by fian 6y ago
Was is programming focused? https://projecteuler.net/
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by fian 7y ago
Interesting observation, some thoughts on how this might have come about below. Due to its roots, Hacker News started out with a community heavily biased towards people with entrepreneurial tendencies who are often optimistic by nature. Ov
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by fian 7y ago
A friend became a police officer (in Australia) a couple of years ago at the age of 35. He quite quickly became distrusting of what people say and would adopt a negative analysis of situations. Why? - because for the majority of his shifts
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by fian 7y ago
To counter the counter: solar/wind as an energy source for non-tethered transport (ie cars that require batteries) needs raw materials for the batteries. This will require mining of lithium and other minerals. This also has land use
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by fian 7y ago
Winters are shorter and summers longer in Australia compared to 70 years ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51697803 This means a reduction in the length of the cooler stable weather periods when prescribed
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by fian 7y ago
As others have said, dehydration is your probably your biggest risk. Access to fresh water can be challenge, especially in summer. Depending on where you are, exposure would be the next biggest risk (many hikers get into trouble in the Stir
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by fian 7y ago
If you are interested in a simple primer on the chemistry and biochemistry of weight loss, check out this episode of ABC (Australia) Catalyst: https://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/where-does-fat-go/11015048 The overall
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by fian 7y ago
The trend to sameness is probably due to two main factors, more comprehensive collision safety laws and the push in many markets for fuel efficiency. The collision safety regulations appear to have caused side and rear windows to get smalle
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by fian 7y ago
Australia recently had a Royal Commission into the Aged Care sector: https://agedcare.royalcommission.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx One of the 3 major issues identified in the interim report is: to respond to the signific
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by fian 7y ago
Eclipse still has this and even better you can define your own tags that are also added to the list view. You can then filter by tag name in the list view. I found this handy when doing large refactorings (e.g. that took multiple weeks or
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by fian 7y ago
I have friends who work in medium sized architecture firms. They all say the office culture is for very long hours, led by the architects. You don't get to iterate much on a building design once construction has begun.
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by fian 7y ago
Awk predates Excel (and therefore LibreOffice), so the original point was that...there was no GUI spreadsheet application to use instead. 32-bit Excel used to have a limit of around 65 000 rows. 64 bit Excel is just over 1 000 000 rows. Bo
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by fian 7y ago
This made me wonder what alcoholic beverages the vodka belt countries drank before the arrival of the potato from South America in the late 1500's. Seems it was mostly beer and mead: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHis

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