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by manarth 1y ago
https://archive.is/7DAj1
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by manarth 1y ago
https://archive.is/7uPN9
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by manarth 1y ago
Love this, but seeing "There was a problem communicating with the server." very often. Bots or HN hug of death?
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by manarth 1y ago
That's a fairly long-standing pre-metric tradition. In Sweden, 1 foot was around 28.96cm (in modern dimensions), whilst 1 foot in Amsterdam was 28.31cm. On such differences (OK, and a few other contributing factors) a ship was sunk.
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by manarth 1y ago
Order an antikindle and your bank balance goes UP? I like the sound of that.
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by manarth 1y ago
Impossible in an electric furnace (which could be powered by renewable sources). Virgin steel requires the higher temperatures of a coke-fed blast furnace.
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by manarth 1y ago
The energy source in TNT is the chemical potential within the explosive, which is greater than the potential outside, so the reaction is explosive. In this example, the energy source is the pressure of the water column, which is equipotent
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by manarth 1y ago
> "The implementation of the pressure hose led to challenges in the dimensioning even for the small prototype, because conventional pressure hoses are usually designed for high internal pressures, but not for high external pr
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by manarth 1y ago
They tested two approaches: "Open ventilation" (hose to the surface) and "Closed ventilation" (no air sources). "The most important finding was that an air-connection to the surface is not needed, reducing the
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by manarth 1y ago
The typical catastrophic failure would be a failure of "hull" integrity - i.e. the concrete sphere - at the point of relative vacuum. That could cause an implosion and collapse of the sphere. That implosion would have a localised
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by manarth 1y ago
The wikipedia article has a lot more detail on the proposal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Energy_at_Sea The target depth is 750m (compared to 100m for the pilot in Lake Constance).
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by manarth 1y ago
At the first sign of harmful interaction / insults / threats, your browser tab closes
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by manarth 2y ago
> A real Rolex dive watch The "dive" part is a red herring these days, as the use of watches to manage decompression strategies has declined since the 90s, and by early 2000s dive computers became the default tool. Us
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by manarth 2y ago
There are species of herpes big enough to carry goldfish? :-o What do they do with the fish?
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by manarth 2y ago
Although it's nominally and legitimately a "co-operative", the Co-Op in question is a large national supermarket chain in the UK. Working there is like working any retail job, and a far cry from a small community co-op.
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by manarth 2y ago
An installed battery will have its terminals protected and connected to the device. An uninstalled battery will have its terminals exposed, where they could be accidentally shorted by a stray paperclip, foil wrapper, or zip.
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by manarth 2y ago
Speak for yourself, if mine don't bring in £50 a week each from their car-wash, it's 3 days in the cell in the basement on bread and water. For all of them. They're learning the importance of contributing.
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by manarth 2y ago
The substations decribed in the power network case study above are for local distribution – 33kV stepping down to 11kV (×2) and 11kV to 415V (x12). The substation on fire (North Hyde) is a 275kV major distribution substation. That's a
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by manarth 2y ago
But only for burritos. Pizza's not quite as resilient.
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> "The only humane form of execution…is nitrogen asphyxiation" Alabama executed a man with nitrogen in January 2025. > "Despite state claims that it would be a painless death, witnesses reported Mr. Smit
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by manarth 2y ago
As others have said, the zip is for use above water. Underwater, men have similar choices – holding it in, wearing a diaper, or a condom catheter (similar principle but without the need for such precise and thorough glue application).
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"I see you have Chekhov's gun hanging on your wall"
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And the intermission! They should call it "popcorn time"
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Russian air-defense system downed Azerbaijan plane, sources say(reuters.com)
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Azerbaijan probe finds Russian missile caused deadly crash(aljazeera.com)
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Russian cargo ship sinks in Mediterranean after explosion in engine room(theguardian.com)
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by manarth 2y ago
> would empty most of the world's great museums whilst growing other museums around the world with art and culture in an authentic setting, with a closer connection to their cultural and historical context.
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by manarth 2y ago
https://github.com/OpenPuppetProject/planning/discussions provides a little context. I imagine the people involved here would be the initial governance board of a FLOSS foundation for the "not-puppet" fo
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by manarth 2y ago
> you bring the hot water What type of hot water supply is needed? E.g. - Hot water poured in from a kettle? - Hot water plumbed in from a domestic hot-water supply? - Hot water plumbed in from a boiling water tap (such as Quoo
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> CPU and memory are good enough that most regular consumer devices shouldn't need an internet connection Moxie appears to use ChatGPT and an in-house LLM for facial/speech recognition . https://moxierobo

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