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by jccooper 5y ago
Augustine was reading manuscript without spaces, punctuation, or standardized spelling (though, granted, being Latin, a pretty regular orthography.) You can read such silently, but it really assumes you're reading it aloud, and is easi
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There's recent thought (as in: published today) that static electricity, triggered by the helicopter recovery process, was responsible for activating the hatch: https://astronomy.com/news/2021/07/did-stat
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by jccooper 5y ago
Tesla seems to be testing a CCS adapter. With such a thing, which doesn't seen like high barrier, a Tesla would be able to use both networks.
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Except that Texas has that law on the books since 2011.
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It's a quick suborbital jaunt. Carried on another aircraft to 50,000ft, then on rocket power to (the edge of) space, and then back down after a couple minute in freefall. Glides and lands on runway. Apogee between 50mi and 100km (which
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by jccooper 5y ago
For those wondering: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/842...
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by jccooper 5y ago
I don't believe we have any ancient hominid integument at all, just a few strands of hair here and there. Soft tissues are extremely rare survivals (and we have very few examples of any ancient mammalian soft tissue), so it's not
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by jccooper 5y ago
Soyuz has been used for spacewalks before, and the cabin is tolerant of vacuum. They haven't done that in ages, so it's possible that's been optimized out, but I'd suspect that requirement's been respected over the
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TIAR. ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
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Low volume products need high margins to be worthwhile. Which is another way of saying "no one has found it worthwhile to sell a simple rechargable bicycle light for $18."
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Attacks would commonly get to the first line or two of trenches; the trick was keeping them, given counterattacks. There were many lines of trenches still in front.
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I'd say it's more than messy, it's a disaster. There are reasonable solutions to internet+sales tax, but the current situation is not one of them. If you collect the tax, you need to remit it. The transaction/amount limi
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Yes, to the extent they require it (and you want to stay compliant.) There are companies that can handle the remittance for you; Stripe lists several on their page. Reporting requirements would probably be quarterly or monthly. In practice,
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by jccooper 5y ago
Omnivision OV7251: https://www.ovt.com/sensors/OV7251 Looks to be ~$3 on Digikey: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/omnivision-techno...
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It's unlikely those camps left behind any identifiable evidence, but wouldn't that be amazing? Makes me wonder if there are any identifiable characteristics of 600 BC Mediterranean grains that might be found out of place in South
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by jccooper 5y ago
Egyptian rulers of the Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Persians, Greeks, (probably) Romans, and Fatimids all dug or redug (and probably used, at least briefly) a canal or canals from the Nile to the Great Bitter Lakes and Red Sea. The Ptolemai
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by jccooper 5y ago
The amount of torque you can handle with the drill horizontal and close to the body is rather different than vertical and leaning over an engine bay.
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by jccooper 5y ago
I've done the deadline-via-management-boast thing, and it's highly corrosive. Burnout's especially bad when you look back when it's all done and ask "why?" and there's no answer.
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DC seems to be Amazon East-1 based on their status page [ https://planetscale.freshstatus.io/ ]. As for the rest? Very good questions. Just coming out of beta, so perhaps they're still filling out the website.
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It checks null. It doesn't check for some nonsense thing inserted by a third party.
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It had manually encoded ROM in the form of "core rope memory", which is pretty wacky, but it was a digital computer. In fact, it was the first IC computer. You can learn way too much about it and even operate (a simulation of) one
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by jccooper 5y ago
An interesting read, but the title here is pretty terrible. It represents one line in a table halfway down the page. The original article title is "Estimation of Total Mortality Due to COVID-19" which is accurate, if dull. I'
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by jccooper 5y ago
Flu has significant fomite transmission, both direct and from emissions, where CoV-2 basically has none. Aerosol transmission is present in flu, but nowhere near as strong as CoV-2. There are definitely some overlaps, like direct large drop
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by jccooper 5y ago
You always fight the last war. Covid measures started as flu measures, and to a great extent still are even though we now know (and knew fairly early) that the transmission modes differ significantly.
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Tesla hasn't had the Federal tax credit for all of 2020. Most of the rest of their "subsidies" are local government deals, which are common to any large manufacturer. There are foreign governments that do have sales support,
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Presumably because price is basically per kW, and installations can vary significantly in size?
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New York is a huge outlier in terms of police department size.
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It would need lunar or high elliptic refueling to do that. Which is possible, but more complicated.
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We'll get a full video once they have time to uplink it. Unsurprisingly, you can't stream high-quality video from Mars.
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After that it will be abandoned.

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