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by mhandley 2y ago
I think that tile shape has one cusp-like corner and two ~90-degree corners. Thus it's not a complete transformation of a polygon into a soft cell, and hence the "at least two" rule doesn't apply.
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by mhandley 2y ago
I'm not holding wind to a higher standard - I'd rather have two pretty reliable sources whose downtime is uncorrelated.
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by mhandley 2y ago
Yes, Hinkley and Sizewell may be expensive - but they're unlikely to be that much more expensive than wind/PV plus enough storage to provide reliable 24/7/365 power. In the end, I'd much rather have some diversity
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by mhandley 2y ago
There's a blast from the past - I had that book too and absolutely loved it. I'm glad I grew up in an era when a child had some hope of thinking they could understand all the technology around them (even though with hindsight, I
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by mhandley 2y ago
Rocket Lab is growing into being a real competitor. They've been very innovative and successful in the small satellite market and, given what we've seen so far, I have confidence they will also succeed with Neutron which is their
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by mhandley 2y ago
Concorde had 13 fuel tanks, but only four directly fed the engines, so they were constantly moving fuel between tanks. In addition, fuel was used to cool the aircraft structure because it got very hot from supersonic speeds. And fuel was
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by mhandley 2y ago
It took me a little while, because that blue line is definitely a distraction. But once the other holds all settled down to being properly in the plane and sharply focused, and I ignored the blue line, the misplaced one was clearly above t
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Team New Zealand boat damaged in crane accident at America's Cup base(stuff.co.nz)
4 points by mhandley 2y ago|0 comments
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by mhandley 2y ago
Thanks for that - five minutes well spent!
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by mhandley 2y ago
The problematic thrusters are in the service module, which separates and burns up on reentry. So even if it lands OK, they won't learn anything new about the thruster problem by recovering the capsule.
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by mhandley 2y ago
Unless you're a diver, it should be OK. I've never taken mine off for swimming or sailing and not had a problem in two years.
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by mhandley 2y ago
I have exactly the same watch for exactly the same reasons. With saphire glass and a titanium case and strap, it's very light and after two years of being worn constantly, it's still completely unmarked. It's also nicely in
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by mhandley 2y ago
If it doesn't show for you in the README (it didn't for me at first), just click on demo.gif
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by mhandley 2y ago
If this were a manned launch, I would guess that unless the telemetry showed something very off, they would most likely have completed the full second stage burn. That would have left Dragon in a 190 x 205 km orbit, which is stable. If I
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by mhandley 2y ago
London also created Thameslink in the 1980s by linking existing suburban rail north and south of the city. It's not as fancy as the new Elizabeth line, but it did make a big difference to a lot of people commuting to the City of Londo
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by mhandley 2y ago
If you're going to design a taxi from scratch, why would you not make it wheelchair accessible? All newer London black cabs are wheelchair accessible. What a missed opportunity.
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by mhandley 2y ago
My son has a Seat Leon MK1 from 2002 and that uses coil-on-plug. The MK1 was released in 1999, so likely at least VW group were using coil-on-plug in the late 1990s.
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by mhandley 2y ago
A Jupiter Ace was my second computer, when I was 14 or 15, after a Sinclair ZX81. Great little computer, but compared to the Spectrum that came out around the same time, it had a worse keyboard, only black and white graphics and 3KB of RAM
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by mhandley 2y ago
Dialing by tapping the cradle switch to produce your own pulses was very useful once upon a time - it allowed you to bypass the dial lock that some places fitted to allow incoming calls only. Some people who shall remain anonymous got quit
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by mhandley 2y ago
Just because you cite a paper doesn't mean you agree with it. At least in CS, often you're citing a paper because you're suggesting problems with it, or because your solution works better. Cascading deletes don't reall
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by mhandley 2y ago
Looking at the Tudor map, one thing that really stands out is how many abbeys and monasteries there were (shown in pink), and how much of London was taken up by them.
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Bees can survive for a week underwater(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by mhandley 2y ago|0 comments
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by mhandley 2y ago
Also home to Tesla's Berlin factory, which accounts for around 1/4 of German EV output.
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by mhandley 2y ago
On the other hand, Meta just rapidly built two different training networks in existing datacenter buildings, with existing cooling constraints, using mostly commodity components (albeit expensive commodity components) each of which would
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A nova will explode this summer (probably)(spaceweather.com)
2 points by mhandley 2y ago|0 comments
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by mhandley 2y ago
Yes, that is correct - they need the header tanks to make sure that fuel is immediately available, not sloshing around the main tanks as the ship flips. Rockets really don't like sucking in vapour. I'm not sure if they're pr
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by mhandley 2y ago
The fact that it managed the flip and landing burn means the fuel tanks (i.e. most of the fuselage) must have suffered no burn-through, despite what happened to the front flap. They've obviously got some redesign needed on the thermal
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by mhandley 2y ago
Also at T+57:20 or so, watching the front flap start to come apart: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798098040588480826
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by mhandley 2y ago
I had a Psion 3a - it fit in my back pocket and was strong enough it didn't break when I sat on it. I carried it everywhere and used it as my main device for taking notes in meetings - the combination of form factor and a usable keyboa
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by mhandley 2y ago
In my case, Tesla just don't make the car I want. If they made a hatchback variant of the Model 3 and gave it physical controls, I'd probably buy it. But I don't want a Model Y - it's ugly, I really don't want an

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