martyvis

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by martyvis 2y ago
Wouldn't the aim be to not make a killing?
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by martyvis 2y ago
If you are interesting in geographically finding stations http://radio.garden/ is great
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by martyvis 2y ago
Came here for this comment.
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by martyvis 2y ago
There are something like 28 thrusters on Starliner - only 5 have had issues.
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by martyvis 2y ago
You might have a good backup from say a week ago which is great to recover from but then you still have to sift out what may have been compromised transaction-wise if the attackers were clever in hiding their attack
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by martyvis 2y ago
Apparently going via Bangkok. https://x.com/eevblog/status/1805402801658638356?t=NWDJGlqrI...
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First Look Inside SpaceX's Starfactory with Elon Musk(youtube.com)
2 points by martyvis 2y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 2y ago
The large IT integrator I work for is definitely a large Microsoft customer as are all the enterprise customers that I have worked with. We definitely don't do anything to discriminate against non Microsoft customers
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by martyvis 2y ago
Very cool!
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by martyvis 2y ago
Clearly you don't understand Elon's Starlink. If they did nothing from today literally every satellite will re-enter and burn up of it's own accord within 5 years - not generations. They have to actively boost it keep it in o
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by martyvis 2y ago
And when the made up word "bouba" is presented I immediately thought of the slang word "boob" for breast so that round shape is a good fit.(Also bubble and bauble are also near sounding and round)
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by martyvis 2y ago
Alliteration always anticipates attention.
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by martyvis 2y ago
On my Android Pixel you only need to highlight the text and a definition pops up which can then be swiped further up for other search options
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The World's Best Foosball Robot(youtube.com)
1 points by martyvis 2y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 2y ago
Timeline has been so useful. I have used it as a way to recall where we stopped in holidays, check where I was when I made a purchase, and to help diarise work related car trips for tax purposes. Having a small computer a with you with lots
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by martyvis 2y ago
Do you have other good resources for this? (I'm sure I understood this better back doing my degree but it was 40 years ago)
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by martyvis 2y ago
They seem to have proper shadow information. I live in a semi-rural village and shadows from trees along our street are quite accurate ( and seem to be based on one section before it was cleared a year ago or so)
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by martyvis 2y ago
This could have been a follow-up to "The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art
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by martyvis 2y ago
Ullo John. Gotta new motor? https://youtu.be/7MqMZ6XqMfc?si=wwIVzKeDE7bdX2U2
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by martyvis 2y ago
"uses 20% ocean-bound-plastic" Yep someone is literally standing next to a river with a net catching chip bag wrappers and drink bottles and sending them back to the computer factory.
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by martyvis 2y ago
Is that all. I get around 70 genuine spam emails to my Gmail account every day now (all detected correctly by Gmail)
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by martyvis 2y ago
Use by dates are only relevant until the product is opened. They usually then have a "consume within" time which is often relatively short.
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by martyvis 2y ago
Is that photo possibly the most unrepresentative stock photo of a working 737 aircraft that they could find that actually has a 737 in it?
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A Python Interface for the Generic Mapping Tools(pygmt.org)
1 points by martyvis 2y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 2y ago
Why are they the Brothers Grimm and not the Grimm Brothers?
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by martyvis 2y ago
There was a zero G running track in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"
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by martyvis 2y ago
It's not just Starliner that is going to have it's maiden crewed flight but also the Atlas V rocket that will take it to orbit has never been used on a manned flight (though early variants of Atlas were used in the Mercury program
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by martyvis 2y ago
The point of more resilient bags is you take them back with you. Both of our cars has a cooler bag with a bunch of regular bags to get packed at the Supermarket. You just have to remind yourself to bring them in with you.
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15 Note Poly Tempo Pendulum [video](youtube.com)
92 points by martyvis 3y ago|26 comments
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by martyvis 3y ago
No different to why any car is able to drive 50km/h above the national speed limit.

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