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by foofoo55 5y ago
Railways to the east are also washed out. [1] And the farm country in the cities of Abbotsford and Chilliwack to the east of Vancouver, which supplies most of the local dairy & poultry, is now either completely flooded or cut off. [2]
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by foofoo55 5y ago
It's so advanced the robot arm gets ahead of the guy at the 11 second mark.
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by foofoo55 5y ago
The Guardian article claims "Sinclair invented the pocket calculator", but other calculators were on the market before his: http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/history_of_electronic... [edit] More details
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by foofoo55 5y ago
A&W should have just called it the "Quarter-plus pounder".
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by foofoo55 5y ago
See also Bill C-10, currently making its way through parliament, which is trying to tax online media but also enforce a minimum amount of Canadian content: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c10-user-generated-c
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by foofoo55 5y ago
The advantage with tractor-pulled is lower cost and higher reliability. The propulsion, guidance, and power-supply problem has been dealt with by industry already and is already owned by the farmer. The autonomous weeding machine will und
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by foofoo55 6y ago
Note that this is for the web UI of their "B2" file-sharing service, and not general backups. Did their web UI for backups have the same issue? What meta-data and file name info is sent to Backblaze when using their end-to-end enc
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by foofoo55 6y ago
Ew. Looks like a sea slug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_slug#/media/File:Glossodor...
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by foofoo55 6y ago
Interesting she doesn't work with PET. I wonder what happens to the waste from deburring and installation, and the microplastic dust from cutting and wear & tear. I sometimes feel the only option for waste plastic is incineration.
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by foofoo55 6y ago
That's a band-stop (notch) filter. The inductor lets through low frequencies, and the capacitor lets through the highs. Stuff in between gets blocked.
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by foofoo55 6y ago
Here's a commercial RNA encapsulation system: https://www.precisionnanosystems.com/platform-technologies/p...
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by foofoo55 6y ago
Cautionary notes on PCB artwork from a PCB assembly expert: http://zentroidpickandplace.com/Pcb/Artwork.html
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by foofoo55 6y ago
SDR: Software Defined Radio
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Hootsuite employee fired after speaking out about company's ICE deal(bc.ctvnews.ca)
65 points by foofoo55 6y ago|24 comments
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by foofoo55 6y ago
Because the cars in front of it got out of the way for the police vehicle, the Tesla could accelerate to it's preset cruise speed.
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by foofoo55 6y ago
You mentioned Shanghai and Beijing, but note that sorting waste isn't new to the country. I was part of a team that installed a single-stream waste sorting system in China in 2007, prior to the Olympics. It was a very impressive syst
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by foofoo55 6y ago
Another vote for PDF-XChange. It's very good at selecting text and annotating a PDF. Plus it has excellent printing features.
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by foofoo55 6y ago
Because a crime scene might also have the DNA of innocent people. Because public DNA information could be a source of prejudice mis-used by government, law enforcement, health services, employers, even family, friends, and potential spouses
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by foofoo55 6y ago
Though fixed many years ago, there may be a lack of trust due to previous ability for malware to take snap shots without turning on the camera LED. https://www.theregister.com/2013/12/19/apple_isight_webcam_l.
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by foofoo55 6y ago
But is it not deception (to ourselves) to believe that these celebrities somehow acknowledge and maybe even like us, when they required money to do so? (Never mind the concept of someone becoming more special than others by being good at p
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by foofoo55 6y ago
ISOBUS was supposed to fix this by using the same monitor for multiple implements. https://www.precisionfarmingdealer.com/articles/299-isobus-s...
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by foofoo55 7y ago
The older military and aviation boards we make still all use lead. Changing to lead-free requires an extensive re-certification process for each board, and no one at any level wants to do that. Which seems to create a belief that lead is
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by foofoo55 7y ago
The Dutch I've met pronounce it something like "UFF-sly-dike". Worth visiting if you're in the area.
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by foofoo55 7y ago
That engine list is about driver-pleasing performance, not reliability. It states "The selection takes into account power and torque output, noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) levels, technical relevance, and basic comparative numbe
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by foofoo55 7y ago
We have a couple of printers and scanners which have no manufacturer support after Win7 and thus require a generic feature-limited driver under Win10. Control of privacy, auto-updates, and MS crapware is very difficult under the moving goal
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B.C. drivers bicker at EV charging stations(vancouversun.com)
1 points by foofoo55 7y ago|0 comments
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by foofoo55 7y ago
They do. But more commonly, CO2 is intentionally produced in greenhouses by burning natural gas (or propane) for no other reason than to create CO2 for the benefit of the plants: https://dutchgreenhouses.com/technology&#x2F
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by foofoo55 7y ago
The yellow/orange lights could very well be high-pressure sodium (HPS) lighting, the same type used in street lights prior to LEDs. Like the street lights, LED lights seems to have less wash and reflection back into the night sky than
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by foofoo55 7y ago
> raised in tubs and selected from a narrow genetic slice I have volunteered at a large hatchery in BC, located near the headwaters of a small river. Every fall salmon are trapped next to the hatchery, their eggs & sperm are extract
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Widow tries for months to get money from dead husband's PayPal account(cbc.ca)
3 points by foofoo55 7y ago|4 comments

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