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by lqet 5y ago
> The day will come when the last star dies and the universe plunges into eternal darkness. [...] The last star in the cosmos will very likely be a red dwarf. Alien life forms may live around such a star, and it could be humanity’s final
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by lqet 5y ago
I am at a point in my life where I can quite reliably tell whether pasta is ready by just stirring it in the water with a cooking spoon. I don't know what it is, they just "feel" ready, or they don't. I was exposed to c
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by lqet 5y ago
This. I lost 12 kg in a few months when I was 20 by basically just stopping to drink sweet stuff and only eating one meal a day. I simply was too lazy as a student to buy and carry soda bottles and cook more than once a day. I have kept tha
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> Mrs Chippy’s voyage was not without incident. Storekeeper Thomas Orde-Lees, in a diary entry dated 13 September 1914, relates that "An extraordinary thing happened during the night. The tabby cat jumped overboard through one of th
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by lqet 5y ago
I remember watching a TV documentary about the Endurance expedition 10 years ago and being flabbergasted. First, the Endurance is trapped by ice for half a year. Then she is crushed by the ice, and the crew camps on the ice. Then they start
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by lqet 5y ago
> the main bridge in Lisbon, Portugal (Ponte de 25 abril) was built by the same company as the golden gate bridge I don't think this is true, according to Wikipedia, the Golden Gate Bridge was build by McClintic-Marshall, and the Po
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Man evaded arrest by implanting fake blood sample, confounding DNA test results(en.wikipedia.org)
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> You think you can outsmart the recipe and chop the peppers while the onions are cooking. [...] The bell peppers need to make it into the skillet by the 3 minute mark after the onions are in or else the dish is ruined. How so? Just move
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by lqet 5y ago
This is an amazing website. While it looks very minimalistc, every paragraph is in 11 nested divs and a final <p>, all with arcane IDs, classnames, and individual styling. Nearly 5 MB of JavaScript are required. Google Lighthouse on
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by lqet 5y ago
This #define would have almost been required by law in Indiana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
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by lqet 5y ago
I would love to know what early Sapiens thought about the Neanderthals. Did they see them as that other tribe that is very strong, but acts a bit foolishly sometimes? As we have been the only remaining member of the Homo species for thou
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by lqet 5y ago
This strongly reminds me of the ongoing efforts at the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg [0] (a very large model railway) to implement a model Formula 1 race track on which tiny race cars can move completely freely [1]. [0] https://
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by lqet 5y ago
Here is a fascinating picture of Beauvais Cathedral which captures just how unfinished it is and which also shows (like a time-freeze) how these gothic cathedrals typically replaced older romanic churches: https://upload.wikime
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by lqet 5y ago
I was expecting something as impressive as this: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co84189...
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by lqet 5y ago
Judging from the old towns where I grew up in in Europe, the problem isn't building a house that won't collapse for a 1000 years (a classic half-timbered house [0] will get you through most of the earthquakes to expect here for ce
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by lqet 5y ago
Chapter 21.4: > Let’s ask what “caused” this accident. > Did they crash “because” they made a wrong turn? I know of one occasion where the pilots actually made a wrong turn in the commonly used sense. In 1991, a film crew wanted to sh
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by lqet 5y ago
> If you’ve never seen M, make sure you don’t watch an older print! This cannot be emphasized enough. I once watched an old print at a university cinema, it was an extremely disappointing experience (I already knew the restored version a
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by lqet 5y ago
Here is a publication of the SA article's author in which she and her co-author explain their "default human" critique in more detail (linked in the SA article). https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.33
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by lqet 5y ago
While not 3D (and only real-time where real-time data is available, for example Switzerland and the Netherlands is RT), a similar project has been around for some years: https://travic.app/
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by lqet 5y ago
Now their headquarters are 7 floors in a generic office park building! The new strategy turned out to be successful I guess :) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Ni...
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by lqet 5y ago
> Netflix had considered offering movies online, but there were speeds and bandwidth problem in mid-2000. One of the more interesting things I learned from the (outstanding) documentary "Enron - The Smartest Guys in The Room" [
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by lqet 5y ago
If you look closely, you can see that the railway lines were later drawn onto the map by hand: https://maps.arcanum.com/en/map/europe-19century-secondsurve...
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by lqet 5y ago
Its not that sharp, its a tube of brushed aluminium around, around 2cm in diameter, the walls ca. 1 mm thick. It's tapered at the top (which can be seen in the image). I put tea in there and coudldn't get it out after it had swoll
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by lqet 5y ago
I chopped off around 3-4mm off the tip of my left index finger as a kid with a lawn trimmer. 20 years later, I punched a nice groove around 3mm deep into the tip of another finger tip while trying to get tea out of a tea tube [0] (don'
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by lqet 5y ago
But was the old way really that ineffective? I remember driving to a big empty parking space on a Sunday with my father, he removed the training wheels, and after around 30 minutes, I got it. Learning to ride a bike isn't complicated,
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by lqet 5y ago
> "Python is entirely manifestly typed. You know what this means, yes?" > "Yes." > "It means you cannot statically analyze Python code." Is this a typo, or is my understanding of "manifest typing&
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by lqet 5y ago
I would expect that. Clothes last significantly longer than shoes (you can wear a cheap T-Shirt for way over 5 years, but even good midrange shoes start to fall apart after 2 years). It is also fairly easy to repair or even make clothes at
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by lqet 5y ago
Do you have a source for that?
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That was an April fools' day joke by the company that manufactures it [0] https://www.facebook.com/ballistol/photos/ballistol-hat-f%C3...
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Interestingly, Ballistol was originally also used as a disinfectant in the Germany army.

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