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by lmpdev 1y ago
All of those are from the later scientific revolution (except Linneaus, Maxwell and Kelvin) and none of those are priests/leaders of a church. You’re correct in that they’re protestant and were surely religious but had little to no inf
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by lmpdev 1y ago
> Reformation I’d argue the Catholic Jesuits probably had a more profound impact on science than any counter-catholic Christian denomination - purely from their intellectual output They were formed around the same time as the reformation
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by lmpdev 1y ago
Panadol is a household staple in Australia as well
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by lmpdev 1y ago
Oh for fuck sake Can we not ruin every technology we develop with ads?
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by lmpdev 1y ago
This is probably the most important comment ITT The tricky part is how do we even begin to model that with a somewhat comprehensible parameter? Without near perfect traceability across all nations in the world, we can only use sledgehamme
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by lmpdev 1y ago
Really disappointingly sour responses from HN ITT This is a tiny and temporary library in Wellington set up while the main library gets upgraded to deal with the city’s risk of earthquakes It’s about the size of a house, with only ~20,0
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by lmpdev 1y ago
Would the vibration be detectable via touch? It would be wild to integrate this into haptics
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by lmpdev 1y ago
Sigh Brainpower is not a commodity and this discussion is absurd
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by lmpdev 1y ago
I deeply regret not getting diagnosed as a kid I got diagnosed at 19 I went from having never read a fiction book cover to cover to finishing DFW’s Infinite Jest I still did remarkably well in English in highschool, because luckily reading
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by lmpdev 1y ago
How are you prevented? The article shows an American poster albeit aimed at First Nations
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by lmpdev 1y ago
I’d argue this exists for public companies, but there are many smaller, private businesses where there’s no doctrine of maximising shareholder value These companies often place a greater emphasis on reputation and legacy Very few and far be
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by lmpdev 1y ago
I have it on my old S8
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by lmpdev 1y ago
Multimedia Interface?
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by lmpdev 1y ago
Most intro to stats courses will do I did the Stats I -> II -> II pipeline at uni but you should be fitting basic linear models by the end of Stats I
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by lmpdev 1y ago
It’s funny, I sell wire To me “outdoor” rated wire means has strands of tinned copper. Pure copper corrodes so much faster than jackets fail from UV damage We use the term “solar cable” to refer to a UV resistant jacket, but we use that t
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by lmpdev 1y ago
There is an inverse to this though I sell 12-24V fridges with adjustable temperatures on them More than a handful of times I’ve had customer returns because the fridge is “broken” and when I inquire further they refuse to use a fridge which
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by lmpdev 1y ago
Makes sense I work in retail but most 5G devices have these awful TS9 or similar connectors which we have to adapt to something usable like SMA I literally have customers returning products as faulty because “the connector just will not sit
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by lmpdev 1y ago
Looking at type specimens on archive.org this year I was actually getting frustrated with the opaqueness of what a brass rule actually is/was It makes me wonder how much of our documentation nowadays will be incomprehensible in centuri
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by lmpdev 1y ago
RE: the power filter caps It might be somewhat more ethical redacting this, some things are just better left alluded to I myself have taken apart CRTs and microwaves, but learning these things should be done by reading media with all attent
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by lmpdev 1y ago
Interesting thing about the evolution of Hyraxes is that it is likely to be an example of a Hard Polytomy - as in Hyraxes, Elephants and Manatees split off simultaneously
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by lmpdev 1y ago
I was working part time in copper fabrication and had some potential lead exposure You can ask your doctor, it was just a blood test It was free but I’m Australian Came back zero
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by lmpdev 1y ago
That’s the biggest thing I took away from the whole Boeing corporate disaster You need to maintain at least a minimum amount of internal competency in almost all areas If you completely give away a capability to other countries (in this cas
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by lmpdev 2y ago
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts gets all these rave reviews for its production quality But tbh Triple J’s Like a Version blows it out of the water Especially giving artists the leeway to try genre switching Like Denzel Curry covering Rage Against
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by lmpdev 2y ago
> Visual effects Maybe I missed the mark on “gamedev”, but 3D is larger than just “aesthetically pleasing 3D VFX” for its own sake Often I’m trying to use something as a reference for a design where a 3D model isn’t the actual end goal,
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by lmpdev 2y ago
I use pointclouds all the time in Rhino/Lastools/Meshlab I much prefer pointclouds and nurbs over meshes Not everything is gamedev
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by lmpdev 2y ago
I did a fair bit of applied mathematics at uni What I think Mathematicians should remind themselves is a lot of prestigious mathematicians, the likes of Cantor or Erdos, often only employed a handful of “tricks”/heuristics for their pr
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Ask HN: Are anyone else's HN points mysteriously increasing out of no where?
9 points by lmpdev 2y ago|9 comments
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by lmpdev 2y ago
Some of the content that pops up on /t/ are extremely interesting from a data hoarding/lost media perspective I vaguely remember a poster having digitised his entire niche Serbian breakfast cartoon collection A lot falls thro
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by lmpdev 2y ago
Only in the US and some other countries I’m still “waiting” for the GFC to correct the Australian housing market…
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by lmpdev 2y ago
Let’s face it though Without ABS the ability for a layperson to brake is greatly diminished People aren’t going to remember to pump the brakes in an emergency, heck most people don’t even know rhythmically pumping the brakes is a thing

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