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AFAIK JIS is now becoming obsolete, we have DIN 5260/ISO 8764-1 : https://rtstools.com/jis-vs-phillips-screwdrivers-and-where-...
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4y ago
Surely, but I don't want to try, historically there is the Chevalier Jackson collection: https://muttermuseum.org/exhibitions/chevalier-jackson-colle... that has many interesting items, including spoons and keys,
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4y ago
Seemingly they can be recharged, one hour between two plates at 1000 V appears to be the soft spot: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0023940 just imagine the cost of either re-processing the existing masks
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4y ago
>How to get started on building a personal brand as Technial Writer? I would start with double checks on spelling ... /s Seriously, a typo can happen to everyone, but when they happen, particularly in short text or in a title they
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4y ago
Side note, I think there is something way off in: >Henry: We get people to swallow pill cameras all the time in our gastro department, and they're bigger than that. The numbers that we'd learned, although I'd learned as pa
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4y ago
Small side-side issue, it seems you have a typo, without Javascript I get: JavaScript is required to be not enabled in your browser. Reload
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4y ago
Minor nitpick: >The demo is particularly interesting because it doesn't use a font. Typefaces that look like handwriting have been around for over 80 years, but each letter comes out as a duplicate no matter how many times you use i
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>That said, I questioned the wisdom of building a solar panel and then expecting it to keep working even though things are driving all over it. I don't understand, the project is about "canopies of solar panels that sit over th
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4y ago
>I pay $33/m, I fart around with some device in my kitchen, then send them by post to some company and get nothing in return. I think you also pay for the electricity the device uses, and for replacement filters. No idea what happen
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4y ago
Yep, but I was talking of the fire risk only, not of the presumed health ones. One case (BTW of a cigarette lighted near an open oxigen respirator) doesn't make smoking on board a fire safety risk. As said, I find a good idea to ban sm
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4y ago
Well, put aside the tips aspect, a coffee shop that provides self-ordering iPads and doesn't accept cash is not so common.
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Sure, but - statistically/historically - how many fires were recorded in airplanes due to smoking (or to the use of lighter or matches)? Mind you, I do smoke but still find a good idea to ban smoke on board of aircrafts, though I don&#
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4y ago
I have no idea how much it affects the data used to make that calculation, nor how much is its relevance in the US, but here (EU, Italy) besides the building code improvements there has been a very noticeable increase in amount/complex
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4y ago
[2019] The actual article should be this one: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b04168
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4y ago
I can confirm, the 28C actually shows the 4 (viewable) registries of the stack, numbered on the left as: 4: 3: 2: 1: So, if you input 4 [ENTER], 3 [ENTER], 2 [ENTER], 1 [ENTER] you have: 4:4 3:3 2:2 1:1 But if you input 4 [ENTER], 3 [ENTER]
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>What?! How cheap are contractors in the UK?? I would've expected this to be in the 10s of thousands. The whole article is nonsensical, they use absolute values for something that depends on surface and always reference the EST (i.e
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I am not sure if you are asking this seriously. Managing a bar is not about talking to customers. A bar (besides the initial capital you might need to open it) is a full-time activity, and you will become an employer, which brings its own a
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4y ago
700 million sounds better, thanks.
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4y ago
But 75,000,000/1,900 is roughly 40,000 per employee, it doesn't sound right. (the article does say 1,900 employees and if 2022 revenue seems like being around 75 millions, there must be something else I don't know/unders
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4y ago
I know, I was trying to highlight how at the moment (like so many of these "innovative" startups) not much of substance is shown. The article itself seems to alternate between deecribing something that already exists and the theor
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4y ago
It shows that I am getting old, but "prototype" is IMHO a big world, both videos show what I would call "RC models".
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>Is it fast though? I’d rather fill out 10 forms and get a definitive answer in two weeks than fill out one form and wait up to a year for the definitive answer like in the UK. Of course not. It is more like 2-3 forms and no definitive a
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Nowadays, with lots of places being converted to be more "energy efficient", the interventions are typically: 1) huge thickness thermal insulation on the exterior 2) double/triple gaze (airtight minus the small built-in venti
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Only to confirm that anything between 18 and 24 months for building a house is plausible, anything less is usually "wishful thinking", there may be some particular exceptions, of course, but my (close to 40 years) experience in th
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4y ago
I would say no earlier than October 1977: https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N47943
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As an Italian I am failing to see the cleverness, even if they are written the same wind and wind (different pronounciation) have different roots and meanings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homograph It would be like y
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4y ago
For long range trucks (electric) there could be (in theory) yet another possibility, adding a trailer on the highways. Not entirely unlike existing multi-trailer (used on some roads in Australia), so called Road Trains, but limited to two t
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Sure it is possible, in theory, in practice it is not happening in Europe and seemingly it is not happening in the US as well, no idea if the cited US$ 600 savings per household is accurate or not, but if it is, it is a tiny amount, when co
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>The bulk of the work is wrapping the building in 25cm of rigid foam exterior insulation, replacing windows and making sure that they are fairly air tight. They aren't adding mechanical ventilation, as installation would cause too m
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I don't know, from experience Huf Haus is (while being very expensive) offering a level of quality (both in the construction and in the details/personalization) that I haven't seen in other EU firms, it is very possible that
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