foobar1962

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by foobar1962 1y ago
> In practice, atheists are people who think they know there is no god. Many atheists find a verdict of "not guilty" on the charge "that god exists". It's the equivalent of saying "I don't believe you.&
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by foobar1962 1y ago
Atheists are people that don't bleieve there is a God. Agnostics are people who don't know they are atheists. -- Aron Ra
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by foobar1962 1y ago
That's almost a HHGG reference.
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by foobar1962 1y ago
American retailers. The rest of the word is only seeing rushes on popcorn, which we're eating as we wait to see the what happens.
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by foobar1962 1y ago
You'll need a case cracker and a tool specifically to de-energise the CRT: that's the killer part.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> If they were traveling uphill to work you’d think they would gain some of that back coming back downhill It's uphill both ways.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Famously, again in Australia, the ABC lost the rights to broadcast football final games to a commercial station, so two ABC comedians (Roy and HG) did a radio show where they watched the game on tv live and added their own humorous comment
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Such toxins are added to make the alcohol unsuitable for human consumption, and thus avoid paying government alcohol tax or duty. Where I am it's called "methylated spirits" and IIRC the boing point of the additive is very cl
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> The gas itself is under $100 per liter depending on purity. At what temperature and pressure?
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by foobar1962 2y ago
It's often what the 0.9% is that makes the difference between grades, other than purity. Generally and as an illustration, a chemical may have a 99% "reagent" grade that includes industrial solvents or some other chemicals th
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Compilr?
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by foobar1962 2y ago
I understand what you’re saying, but minutes, hours, days and weeks are fixed time periods that can be reduced to a number of seconds. Months and years are not which is why I did not include those in my earlier post. Calculating the calenda
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Saying that something happened x-number of seconds (or minutes, hours, days or weeks) ago (or in the future) is simple: it’s giving that point in time a calendar date that’s tricky.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
My first time seeing it. Thanks for posting, and thanks to HN for being the kind of place that stuff like this gets posted.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> True part-time work is hard to find because most companies would rather hire someone to work 4 x 40 hour weeks on a project instead over the part timer who wants to do it in 8 x 20 hour weeks or 16 x 10 hour weeks. My last two contract
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> There’s always been an industry of professional gamblers with various successful strategies. Some have become billionaires. Be the house.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Back in the 1980s I did some work on a computerised tabulation system for a large race course: my part was programming EPROMS for the displays, but I learned a lot about the system from that time. Basically, the house takes their cut from a
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> pre internet, your name, address, and phone number would published in the widely distributed telephone book This is used as a plot point in Steve Martin's movie "The Jerk". The titular character proudly sees their name a
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Maybe the delay has been caused by bugs.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
The mechanical driver part of the subwoofer might be able to be made smaller, but the surface that moves the air still needs to be large - there is a relationship to the wavelength of the sound involved that I no longer remember. This is wh
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by foobar1962 2y ago
1) take a breath 2) the universe is big, really big...
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by foobar1962 2y ago
This annoyed me as well.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
My father was a fitter and turner, diesel mechanic, farmer and self-taught panel beater. When I was a kid he worked on old British cars, Morris Minors in particular (he had a fondness for the early "split screen" flat head) as wel
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How London's Crystal Palace was built quickly (2024)(arstechnica.com)
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Cloning is likely. Finding more seeds unlikely. The plant hasn't flowered or grown fruit yet so the story insult over yet...
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> Yes, you will “meet” more women by dancing than by playing games on your computer. That doesn’t necessarily mean you will make any meaningful connections. This. I have been learning Argentine Tango for over 10 years. Going from the &qu
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Wax on, wax off?
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by foobar1962 2y ago
And another box close enough so the CD tray can press them when it opens.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> Milk is preferable, with a splash of water. I use oat milk… Ah so you are using water with a pinch of salt! /s
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> about 10^5 kelvins (don't try to convert this to this strange unit of Fahrenheit) Challenge accepted... it's about 10^5 Fahrenheit.

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