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by iso1210 5y ago
Based on how little progress Russia is making and how little backing they have, with nuclear weapons out of the way I can't see Russia making any progress against the EU, let alone if you include Britain and the US. Meanwhile China wil
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I did things like Nyquist/Shannon, things like Manchester encoding and stop bits, etc 20 years ago in an electronics module at university. Barely remember anything about them, and haven't used them at all. Some colleagues might as
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by iso1210 5y ago
The central checker knows you've proven your age, but not where you've proven it. As someone else points out, you send a message to your ID provider 17 requesting the minimum required fields and an anonymous token provided by HN,
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Why not indeed
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Imagine you are visiting hacker news, and for some reason you have to prove your age, but you don't want HN to know who you are, nor your age identity site to know you're going to HN One way to do this off the top mf my head would
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by iso1210 5y ago
People living in areas without public transport should have driveways and/or garages. Driving an average 14,000 miles a year or 40 miles a day, or 13kWh, is easily charged from the power you get out of a standard socket overnight, 1kWh
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by iso1210 5y ago
I did some hostile environment training a while back, one of the medical courses was about "sucking chest wounds", where someone gets shot (or stabbed), and the action of breathing fills the chest cavity and thus means the lung ca
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by iso1210 5y ago
This line got me: "the doctors successfully released the trapped air from the patient's chest, and she spent the rest of the flight uneventfully eating and watching in-flight movies"
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by iso1210 5y ago
Most video I deal with is YUV (YCbCr) 422 at 30 bits per 2 pixels
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by iso1210 5y ago
Well yes, $100k a year is going to put you in the top 80 million earners. It doesn't take into account the cost of living, especially the cost of land, that said living in Tokyo you'll have a far higher standard of living than som
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by iso1210 5y ago
I still don't see the value of dropbox, it seems to remove control, suck up resources, and occasionally wipe out files.
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by iso1210 5y ago
A normal internet user wouldn't need to figure this out, they wouldn't have a .pizza email, they'd have @gmail.com. There are two approaches 1) You can complain that they aren't serving you, and take your money elsewhere
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by iso1210 5y ago
I have an iphone, it has various mail accounts on it, including my work one (.co.uk), my home ones (.net and .com), and an old gmail one. I have no idea about any apple email addresses.
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by iso1210 5y ago
The change isn't because of India, it's because you change your clocks. The half hour is only confusing if you're not used to it. (Nepal has a 45 minute offset, which is a great timezone to check things work. Chatham Island
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by iso1210 5y ago
I get the feeling that it's fairly common in US schools to have kids in before 8am, possibly even before 7am! Is this because of the widespread school transport and the need to stagger the bus usage? In the UK it's quite rare to h
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by iso1210 5y ago
If you're stepping away from organised activities, practically every kid in the world plays football, all you need is a ball, clearly that outnumbers sports that need equipment - Tennis and especially Squash.
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by iso1210 5y ago
If you're talking professional, there are at least 100,000 professional football players in the world https://colors-newyork.com/how-many-professional-footballers... There's fewer than 10,000 professional Tennis p
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by iso1210 5y ago
There are many examples of the UK not being serious in dealing with it, laws around e-scooters on public loand is fairly low down that list though
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Is Nuclear available now? In the UK it seems to take decades to build a nuclear power plant
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Or much less than the Sahara Desert Of course it's not just solar, throw in geothermal, tidal and wind too
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That says global 'consumption' is about 80000 TWh a year. Incoming solar energy is about 1700 times that
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My monitoring doesn't remember the last time we had a service outage lasting 7 seconds, let alone 7 minutes.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Newest member of my team has been in the company for 6 years and on my team for 4. I was in the local pub the other day and there was a retirement do for someone who had been here for 35 years, which certainly isn't exceptional (40 yea
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by iso1210 5y ago
At work in 1997 they bought a rack full of IRIX graphics processing which costs 000,000s to do a specific task When I started in 2003 the same task was performed on a 2U machine costing in the region of 2k.
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If you stole $50 from a mob boss, would that be OK?
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> Open source can be blocked with sanctions How?
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/23/russia-dep... Who - UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace makes a claim What - Russian forces have prepared a mobile crematorium for use in any future conflic
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> rip it to MP3/FLAC Alas that's illegal in the UK
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RT in Europe is in English, not Russian, so it's not what Russian people are being told
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> but don’t because using the crack is easier for them. That's a whole separate problem. In my experience 'anti piracy' measures cause problems for people who pay for the software, it's just another reason not to pay.

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