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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Anecdotal, but indicates there's a certain honour among thieves - if you volunteer to visit inmates in Norwegian prisons, you get a parking pass to keep prison staff from having your car towed or bike removed while you're visitin
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Oh, we had one approved graphing calculator - well, two. The Casio FX-7700 and its big brother, the FX-9700. Problem solved. Except if you happened to prefer RPN; I had a HP-48 which I had bought prior to the edict naming The One True Calcu
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by lb1lf 7y ago
When I was in our high school equivalent, our maths teacher blew that trick out of the water simply by having us all clear the calculator memory, then having us swap calculators at random. Worked a charm. Next time, noone had bothered to hi
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Just finished Higginbotham's Midnight in Chernobyl on the accident, the cleanup and its consequences. At times it read almost like a thriller, while still being extremely informative.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Not the OP, but living in a Norwegian small town (population 5,000), my two oldest kids (aged 5 and 10) are just sent outside to find someone to play with - they have several friends living within a few minutes' walk, and what sparse
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Not necessarily; after all, such a beacon will only let the world know that someone, somewhere is in the water; depending on where they fell in, rescue personnel may need days to get to the site if it is sufficiently remote and the weather
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by lb1lf 7y ago
You basically reinvented the PLB (Personal Location Beacon), a GPS-equipped radio transmitter slightly bigger than a pack of cigarettes which will let a satellite network know your precise location minutes after falling in the water. The on
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by lb1lf 7y ago
The author of the story, Ian Urbina, has just published an eminently readable book (Outlaw Ocean, from which this story is an edited excerpt) on the vagaries of law on the high seas; embedding with fishermen, repossessors, fishery authoriti
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Full-frame glass can get quite small, too. A 35mm f/2 for the Leica M system weighs in at 250g/0.55lbs. I believe the equivalent APS-C Fuji 23mm f/2 is around 200g/0.45lbs. Of course, with the Summicron you give up such
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I'll recycle a comment I made in another thread a year ago: When clearing out my grandmother's house a few years ago, my uncle and I almost broke our backs trying to get the freezer out. It felt like it weighed a ton, even empty.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Some markets are viable - even well suited - for electrically propelled planes. Norway is sparsely populated and it has been a strategy for decades to have small airports everywhere out in the boonies. Most flights are operated by twin-engi
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Totally different genre, but German industrial/art/whatever band Einstürzende Neubauten has a song titled 'Hör mit Schmerzen' (Listen with/in pain) - which, as far as titles go, is pretty descriptive. (I love the Ne
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Norway trades a wee bit of land with Russia, too - a couple of banks in the Pasvik and Grense Jakobselv rivers are traded back and forth as the currents shift them from one side to the other of the centerline, the bilateral agreement govern
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Not an aeronautical engineer, but I know that a lot of thought goes into ensuring that pretty much no matter what happens to the engine, debris flying from it is not going to damage the structural integrity of the wing or fuselage. With re
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-It doesn't solve the problem (which is why I am considering splitting them now that I have added a ~1A consumer to the mix), but it does postpone the problem for long enough to (in most cases) ensure that you will realise your mistake
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by lb1lf 7y ago
You just have to be picky when you choose cars; my twenty year old Land Cruiser came with twin batteries factory fitted - though rather than one for starting and one for all the thingamajigs, they went with two beefy ones in parallel - 2*10
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by lb1lf 7y ago
From my experience, (Norwegian, but have spent a year or so in Germany over a couple of dozen visits), the Germans have found a quite good balance: Drinking in public is OK. Being drunk and a nuisance in public is not OK. I wish we could ad
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-They will not die instantly, for sure, but the temperature extremes will definitely not do them any good over time - I'd be lying if I said I sat on the edge of my seat during biology class, but I think survival at those extremes was
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by lb1lf 7y ago
While they may have survived the impact as such, tardigrades being some tough little critters an'all, the Moon is rather unlikely to become a tardigrade Eden anytime soon. Without water, they go into a dormant state from which they may
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I stupidly thought they'd find the idea amusing, so I sent them a copy of the write-up I did afterwards. (School project.) They were not amused.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
While you do not need a visa to go to Svalbard, staying there for an extended period of time is non-trivial; there is not much housing for rent, and Svalbard... Well, isn't very tent friendly. The governor, Sysselmannen, can ship you o
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by lb1lf 7y ago
That you do.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Just piggyback it onto something the recipient would want to plug in. Problem solved.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Careful. The Norwegian postal service almost ripped me a new one for having the gall to ship a microcontroller, a thermometer and a couple of accelerometers to myself; apparently, buried somewhere deep in some regulation is the fact that sh
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by lb1lf 7y ago
If my (granted, very limited and anecdotal) experience is anything to go by, rather than TEMPESTifying a whole building, one rather hardens specific rooms or areas inside it. Oh, and in those rooms bringing your own stuff from the outside i
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-It’s not just refinishing of the case, but rather cleaning and lubing the movement; you don’t want the innards to grind themselves to pieces. That being said, my everyday Omega (a PlanetOcean diver) has gone for 11 years without a service
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Which is all the reason I need to bring up Tyler Vigen’s amazing spurious correlations: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Ooh, ze plot thickens. We call that little cage a 'lekegrind'. Førskole is a bridge between kindergarten and primary school - typically a few hours a week for the last few months in kindergarten. We've been pretentious at lea
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by lb1lf 7y ago
> There's a little more than cuteness here. If a country has a large economic interest in producing fossil fuels, there are often political forces driving consumption of fossil fuels, and undermining any and all attempt to even disc
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by lb1lf 7y ago
> Getting the 100km/day driver to change from ICE to electric would have 10x the impact as the 10km/day driver. -Not if there are 20 times as many 10km/day drivers as 100km/day ones. Put another way - if the bulk of c

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