manarth

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by manarth 7mo ago
> notebooks are hard to sterilize Washing / sterilizing the lab coat has the same effect as erasing the data written on it. There isn't a library of lab coats which contain notes written on them, for future consultati
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by manarth 7mo ago
> I find it somewhat offensive that I am lying and/or unprofessional about this. It's an extraordinary claim, which usually would require extraordinary proof. I've also worked in UK healthcare, albeit in a patien
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by manarth 7mo ago
There's an economic benefit: in the UK (and many other countries), ingredients which are not "fit for human consumption" (and might otherwise be thrown away) can be processed into pet food. Much commercial dog-food is made wi
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by manarth 7mo ago
> "I can assure you we did write all over them" You and your colleagues deliberately chose to carry a magic-marker (and no paper), in order to deliberately write on your clothes, rather than the more simple expedien
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by manarth 7mo ago
> "our coats were white because we used to write on them" It's hard to tell whether this is a deliberately trolling statement, a fantastical Walter Mitty style statement, or something else. Coats weren't whi
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by manarth 7mo ago
> "a hunter who routinely cooks the same meal for himself and his dog" "Dogfood" is used to differentiate from "food", "steak", "meat", etc. The youtube channel you describe is
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by manarth 7mo ago
https://archive.is/mzQjQ
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by manarth 7mo ago
> "No wonder robotics is hard" Imagine the furore when AGI realises humans frown on it for its table-manners! :-D
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by manarth 7mo ago
when you're ready to close your tab, you can make a small X with your index fingers In the UK, we have the mime of "writing a cheque". I wonder how widespread that is, and if/when it'll fall out of relevan
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by manarth 7mo ago
I don't often bring sandpaper or dremel tools to a restaurant.
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by manarth 7mo ago
If I were eating a stereotypical British meal – say: meat, potatoes, and peas – I would use the fork as a "shovel" for the peas: guide the peas onto the fork with a knife, then raise and eat from the fork. I wouldn't switch f
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by manarth 7mo ago
Discover 62,000 ways to get pwned by a supply-chain attack.
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by manarth 7mo ago
https://archive.is/AQq3G Theft of the 1966 football World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet
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by manarth 7mo ago
TLDR: Man claims he's a former Olympian competitor, was kidnapped and forced to take part in a Mexican cartel version of "Squid Game" sports competitions. You'll never believe what the reporter discovered! (Hint: real li
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by manarth 7mo ago
Huh, and I thought it was short for "Conditional Access TV" – i.e. you needed a subscription of some sort. TIL.
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by manarth 7mo ago
> Must be pricey Suppliers will often sponsor/partner with high-profile athletes, providing kit for free and treating it as an advertising expense. Still "pricey", but accounted in a different way. The Turner Twi
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by manarth 7mo ago
People who paraglide often launch (and land) on skis and can then use thermals to ascend above their launch site. No-one's flying to 11,000m though! (The highest recorded paraglider flight was 10,054m – unintentional, got sucked into a
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by manarth 7mo ago
https://archive.is/YQrYM
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by manarth 7mo ago
I misread the [flagged] as a reply to my message (and the subsequent comments as responses to a thread I was involved in). Apologies for the out-of-context comment on this thread.
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by manarth 7mo ago
I'm a scuba-diver and qualified marine archaelogist with a long-standing interest in archaeology and history. I used Google to find suitable lay-descriptions/citations for the topics I already knew about (UK law on treasure and ma
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by manarth 7mo ago
> "Is there any obligation to turn over treasure you find yourself?" There is, in some places. For example, the UK Treasure Act: "Under the Act, treasure is owned by the Crown" "The act requir
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by manarth 7mo ago
Consumer Price Index (inflation/deflation being the change in CPI), but I get your point, thanks
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by manarth 7mo ago
Citation please? > £2,751.70 PowerEdge R260 Xeon® 6315P 2.8GHz 1x16GB DIMM 2x2TB HDD SATA https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/dell-poweredge-servers/sr/se...
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by manarth 7mo ago
I can understand a certain amount of switching in the basket - e.g. a washing machine or dishwasher was once a "luxury good" in a market such as USA, but is now (for the most part) an everyone-appliance. Interesting to consider th
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by manarth 7mo ago
I guess the typical inflation basket doesn't include rental income , which the upper-quartile are rather more likely to have than the lower quartile. Wonder how that might impact figures if residual/passive income were included?
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postcard- sized photo
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by manarth 7mo ago
Some countries alter their observance of DST in line with their observance of Ramadan, which means that the time-offset changes aligned with Ramadan. Ramadan is observed from one visual sighting of a crescent moon to the next. Cloud condi
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by manarth 7mo ago
But will it burn? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34585754
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https://archive.ph/Se13K
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by manarth 7mo ago
Please do write that fanfic play (with appropriate Shakespearean tragedy) :-D

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