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by mcpackieh 3y ago
My first thought was that expanding foam from the hardware store is very cheap, but obviously that sort of foam would be crushed by the water pressure. > Syntactic foams are composite materials synthesized by filling a metal, polymer,[1
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
It's very common for recreational divers to visit ships with bodies still in them. Maybe it's morbid, but it's common and generally you don't need to be "0.1%" to do it. If this story were about some worki
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
TBH at this stage we just don't know. They might not have imploded but instead been left stranded on the bottom with an intact pressure hull but some other sort of equipment failure. Still a hopeless situation unfortunately.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Void all trademarks that are unmodified common nouns. If a company wants exclusive rights to a word they should have to invent their own word or at least find a novel way to spell an old word.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I switched to LXQt for the same reasons. KDE is great on paper but Plasma has too many random bugs for me to enjoy (specifically Plasma; Kwin is fine.) I just want a basic and stable desktop environment with GUI configuration and and stan
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> Did it not occur to anyone that it might be a bad idea? Of course the danger was considered, be realistic and stop letting class conflict cloud your judgement. Something being judged to be dangerous doesn't mean people won&#x2
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> Could a Foxbat shoot down an SR-71? If it were in the right place at the right time (e.g. already in the air and in front of it so the SR71 comes to them..) Not impossible, but extremely circumstantial.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> And to complete the loop, Russia is now importing sanctioned American microchips for its missiles via third parties. I think they were doing exactly that back then too. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Of related interest, here is an old CIA.gov webpage giving an account (from the CIA, keep in mind..) of the United States' realization that the Soviet Union was building the Alfa class of submarine with titanium hulls, which many peopl
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
While it is true that many public IRC channels publish logs on the web, I cannot remember the last time such a log ever showed up in my google results. It virtually never happens. If somebody's primary concern with discord is search
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What would 100k for Mozilla do? According to their 2021 Form 990 (the latest made public) a hundred thousand dollars would pay for 6.5 days of Mitchell Baker. Does that really seem like a good use of money to you? You're free