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by manarth 4mo ago
I'm not sure many UK homes have the appropriate "skeleton" for cold-air ducting – you can use a heat-pump to cool things down, but getting the cool air to the rooms it needs to be in is likely to be a very expensive refit. Wo
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by manarth 4mo ago
Perhaps partly because heroin was late to the party. It was identified/extracted in 1874 and only had around 40 year of legal use before controls came in. Compared to opium and alcohol where consumption dates back thousands of years.
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by manarth 4mo ago
Guardian article "Nasa rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/24/nasa-rover-d... https://news.ycombinator.
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by manarth 4mo ago
Organic matter, i.e. originating from once-living matter. Spatially distributed: i.e. found in many locations, so unlikely to be a contaminant introduced by the rover, and therefore adding weight to the theory that there was once life on Ma
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by manarth 4mo ago
Sadly not known to breathe fire, but on the plus side, less likely to burn your house down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogona
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by manarth 4mo ago
Some correlation but not necessarily causation. Passenger numbers start rising before privatisation, and that was attributed to an uptick in the economy (after a period of recession).
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by manarth 4mo ago
And the bike shed absolutely MUST be painted blue
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by manarth 4mo ago
If you're not creating your own galaxy which can make free hydrogen, oxygen, and an environment to promote the evolution of a coffee plant over millions of years, you're consuming such an inferior product that you might as well dr
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Russian frigate fires warning shots at British yacht in English Channel(theguardian.com)
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by manarth 4mo ago
They have! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/09/worlds-first-w...
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by manarth 4mo ago
> "Why not move the gas pedal too?" I'd support that. It does feel unusual in most cars' cruise control that you can push the accelerator to three-quarters of its travel before you start to accelerate (e.g.
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by manarth 4mo ago
I'm not sure that the traditional notion of traction control applies, given that there are three independent suppliers of power, so you don't necessarily need the mechanics of diffs and computer-controlled brakes to provide maximu
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by manarth 4mo ago
I've used left-foot-braking in my (ICE-powered) daily driver for years. Regenerative braking is very different to taking your foot off the accelerator in a conventional ICE car, it's much more powerful a stopping force than tradit
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by manarth 4mo ago
> "instead of applying engine breaking when the driver takes their foot off the pedal, they went to great lengths to _move the break pedal_ in proportion to the amount of engine breaking that is currently being applied as per
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by manarth 4mo ago
The translation's a little woolly. For the AMG GT4 there will be 3 motors: two at the rear, and one at the front. My interpretation (and my German's pretty lousy) is that each motor is combined with a gear system in a single packa
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by manarth 4mo ago
https://archive.is/I067h
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by manarth 4mo ago
https://archive.is/Xnfis
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by manarth 4mo ago
Don't forget the twice-a-year realignment when the clocks change for daylight saving
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by manarth 4mo ago
Haha good spot. And when the data centre is running on batteries, the DC uses DC. And if it's in the USA capital, it could be a DC using DC in DC.
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by manarth 4mo ago
The data centres aren't inherently spikey, in general use their consumption is reasonably predictable. However, if a DC detects that the _grid_ is wobbly (voltage or frequency deviations) the DC will disconnect without warning, and swi
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by manarth 4mo ago
I'm a scuba instructor so for giggles I did the maths! Based on these densities: Gold Density: 19.32 g/cm3 Lead Density: 11.34 g/cm3 We now need to understand how much water is displaced by a kg. Gold volum
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by manarth 4mo ago
More like 20+ weight belts, you go underwater with a 280kg weight belt you're not coming back!
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by manarth 4mo ago
It's not always enough to know what - the why is often important. For example, d4vd is a famous musician, and search stats may indicate his potential popularity and future record sales. Or the public may be searching his name to find
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by manarth 5mo ago
40,000 acres, aka 77 × Monaco's! TIL.
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by manarth 5mo ago
That's the land allocation rather than the building-size / data-centre size. The average data centre is 10,000 square metres (2.5 acres). As well as compute and network facilities, DCs also need to accommodate parking, personnel a
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by manarth 5mo ago
The logical conclusion is turning up at the airport in flip-flops and a pair of skimpy briefs. Saves time going through security too!
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by manarth 5mo ago
https://archive.is/sBhNn
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by manarth 5mo ago
Galvanic corrosion typically happens at 0.5V (and as low as 0.15V in salt-water); 1.7V is "ultra high potential" in comparison with normal corrosion thresholds.
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by manarth 5mo ago
The cursor icon is useful as an indicator of function - e.g. the "I" styled character over text (where you can select/highlight then copy), and the "hand" icon to indicate a link. Being able to change the cursor to
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by manarth 5mo ago
> "Docker images (even slimmed down) have an OS (most likely a Linux distribution)" Not necessarily. Docker images can be based from the "scratch" container, and may contain only a single binary. With static

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