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by heads 3y ago
This is probably stating the obvious but being able to compete with low energy rifles is a must for inclusivity in the sport. Gas rifles are legal and available everywhere. The limit in the UK is 12 foot pounds for an air rifle. Oddly, co
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by heads 3y ago
> just competing on mental focus Ahem: snooker, darts, golf, test match cricket, tennis. To varying degrees with these sports, at the top tier, mastery of the skill is merely the table stakes. The winners are the ones who can do so u
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by heads 3y ago
I taught in a private school for a while. In England and Wales the law says that your employment “contract” is simply the verbal, written, or implied agreement to work there and the document enumerating the details — the written statement
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by heads 3y ago
Some would say not even English law has much authority in Hartlepool: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_hanger
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by heads 3y ago
I can also completely forgive anyone in the 1980s for being led down the spooky national-defence paranoia route, regarding their invention. It was a different time where people were more deferential to the authorities, and had more of a re
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by heads 3y ago
Looking at images of shorthand makes me remember how much I just enjoyed playing the 2023 game Chants of Sennaar : https://www.rundisc.io/chants-of-sennaar/ The game’s dialogue and story are all written in a series of
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by heads 3y ago
Infinite abundance — free boiled eggs and T-shirts — just felt like an extension of freedom to perform at the fullest of my abilities (which started out pretty meh, but grew quickly over time more than any other time in my career) without h
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by heads 3y ago
The grafana/grafana-oss docker image has a bin/grafana static go binary that takes up 180MB. It compresses to 20% that size as does the long tail of .js.map files each of which are 1MB to 10MB in size. Presumably these are only
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by heads 3y ago
> The researchers examined productivity trends in 43 industries — including chemical manufacturing, retail trade, and accommodation and food services… Given the breadth of this study, two different conclusions spring to mind: • product
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by heads 3y ago
It’s a good idea. You’ll want to support GitHub flavoured markdown as an input, if you don’t already. Be sure to allow an inline <style> so documents can still be customised using code. I’d also like to have a mode — the default? —
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by heads 3y ago
By a factor of a million in my typo of “125M km2”, right? The available solar power calculation is still correct, I believe.
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by heads 3y ago
Yes and this goes into some awkward Thanos did nothing wrong territory. I’m sure there’s serious research out there on what the fundamental population limit of Earth should be if we are to bound it based on minimal ecological impact.
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by heads 3y ago
Only half of our 500M square kilometre planet faces The Sun at any one time, and only half the surface (barren land and, more likely, oceans) could be used for solar panels. That gives us 125km2 of usable area. The atmosphere attenuates ou
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by heads 3y ago
Fingerprints alone are simply a number that is generated by your finger on a reader, and then sent to some other system. Think of a fingerprint reader as a USB keyboard that types out your fingerprint number for you when you touch it. Whil
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by heads 3y ago
It would be really interesting to study The Post Office in particular. Something about this organisation attracts some very sour people. Or perhaps they weren’t always like this but have become so in my adult lifetime over the last few de
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by heads 3y ago
Nothing beats that feeling of starting the day thinking “I have no idea at all how to do this” and finishing the day with a proof of concept for 80% of the system.
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by heads 3y ago
M&S colossally fucked up with their contract. It has an unbelievably frustrating amount of scan lag. An absolute classic example of one person buying a product on behalf of the end user and completely screwing up. I really hope someo
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by heads 3y ago
Thank you, that’s a useful explanation. I suppose, in that sense, the way corp dev operates between businesses is the same way that diplomats and business envoys operate between nations. The public role is about developing new opportuniti
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by heads 3y ago
> Deciders on M&A [do] not include the VP corp dev or the corp dev managers. Those are good relationships to have, but they don’t initiate large offers. What is corp dev’s role then? Maybe they like an in house recruiter: they cond
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Understanding Persian(speechmatics.com)
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by heads 3y ago
I am quite in love with the touchpads on my Steam Deck. Has anyone here seen a keyboard that incorporates such devices? (1.5” square haptic feedback pads, one under each thumb.)
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by heads 3y ago
Yes! It is a very exciting concept in science fiction, indeed! Some other similar ideas that come to mind are the multiverse quartz megaspheres in the second half of Diaspora and the message embedded in pi in Contact , the novel. These
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by heads 3y ago
Yes you are right but I think you’ve found a bug with my cack handed description of my logic, not with the logic itself! We value things highly by assigning them symbols with low values, so a symbol with a postfix modifier that gives it a s
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by heads 3y ago
To this day I cannot accept that A+ is better than A-. Clearly the ordering is increasing in value with each letter and so a smaller value is better, and “-“ / minus gives you a slightly smaller value. We accept that “A” comes before
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by heads 3y ago
As I’ve grown more senior in age and rank I’ve come to realise just how important it is to carry on the selection process after the interview, during probation, and managing performance throughout your hire’s entire journey. It just feels
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by heads 3y ago
This probably rings true for junior carpenters. As you progress in your career you are much more likely to land gigs based on your network. Carpenters work on projects together and want to keep working with other good carpenters. They do
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by heads 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Does that mean a correctly wired bold should have wires loose enough to allow a loose bolt to give itself away — either through rattling or becoming visibly undone? When I searched for images of wired bolts just
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by heads 3y ago
Bolts and machine screws are very interesting. One mistake I, an amateur bike mechanic, made for years was not greasing bolts properly before assembly. It sounds counterintuitive but without grease a bolt (or machine screw) will bind early
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by heads 3y ago
Does wiring bolts actually help? I feel like if a bolt is going to come loose enough such that the wire is all that is holding it in then you have a big problem already. The wire is just delaying the inevitable. A bolt is either fastened
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by heads 3y ago
Getting above the fresnel zone is another important hurdle to surmount. That’s at least 15 feet for a lot of 5GHz transceivers that are a mile apart.

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