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by mjlee 10y ago
Everybody I know in the military owns a few of these, normally tied to bits of gear. They're robust enough to rely on and when they do get destroyed they're cheap enough to replace. An n+1 configuration is pretty affordable.
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by mjlee 10y ago
The F-91W is so ubiquitous that at one point it was associated with Al-Qaida's bomb making techniques. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13194733
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by mjlee 10y ago
He'll get pretty close. The terrain along the shoreline makes the beach in question pretty much inaccessible. It's not unusual in Hawaii to flaunt the law by making public access as inconvenient as possible by buying the surroun
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by mjlee 10y ago
Have a quick scan through the papers...
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by mjlee 10y ago
Code Hotel distinguishes "I have a pilot on board" from Hotel meaning "I am conducting rotary-wing flying operations".
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by mjlee 10y ago
Flags are still very much used around the world. Visual signalling leaves no trace and can only be seen by those who you can see. Radio transmissions can be detected by sensors you don't know are present. This is useful for navies. The
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by mjlee 10y ago
That's not what they said at all. The example of red wine vs a bright red robe is a very valid one. You might become more specific when tasked with artistically describing the colour of a wine, but off the cuff you'd probably ju
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by mjlee 10y ago
Did you read the article? The discussion is entirely about colour as a linguistic concept, not as a wavelength of reflected light. Until a few hundred years ago, pink things were simple "light red" things in English (and many oth
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by mjlee 10y ago
I'm slightly worried that I might be taking your comment too literally, but it's a very commonly used term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_capital
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by mjlee 10y ago
It hasn't been illegal since 1972. It's discouraged in the Highway Code and an enthusiastic traffic officer could (but almost certainly won't) charge you with careless driving.
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by mjlee 10y ago
For those who aren't yet aware, Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick (of Secret of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion fame) are currently developing Thimbleweed Park - due to release in early 2017. Dev blog here: https://blog.thimblew
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by mjlee 10y ago
Wedge the watertight doors open, disable the salvage eductors and you can sink a ship by cracking a single sea water intake pipe open. I'm on mobile so I can't provide a link, but look up the Argentinian Type 42 sunk in harbour or
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by mjlee 10y ago
British police do use tasers: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/dec/22/how-da... I think you may have missed the point of the video. It isn't to show the most time-efficient and e
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by mjlee 10y ago
To be honest, it doesn't bother me enough to run any sort of rigorous trial. Going by some trusted reviewers, GLONASS sucks an extra 20% during activities. I'm never so far away from being able to charge it that such a small dif
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by mjlee 10y ago
Like all of the best stories, the truth is probably somewhere in between the fantastic and the more plausible. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for the sake of comedy.
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by mjlee 10y ago
Douglas Adams on David Letterman (14 February 1985): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2fZ2iOXhk The interview contains a version of one my favourite stories of his starting at 2:55. The whole video is worth watching.
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by mjlee 10y ago
According to DC Rainmaker, when combined with the watch you'll get this information on your wrist as well. So now it's a <$170 device that has optical HR and GPS. It may not have some of the Garmin features (ANT+ is a maybe, G
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by mjlee 10y ago
It's decent, but using it in outdoor running mode (the only exercise mode I've tried) depletes the battery quite fast. I enable the optional GLONASS, I'm not sure how much effect that has. Big handfuls, you'll get about
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by mjlee 10y ago
Did you mean to quote the same passage twice?
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by mjlee 10y ago
Interestingly (to me) the author used the phrase "on accident". I googled it and found this: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215/is-it-correct... As a British English speaker, this stopped me
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by mjlee 10y ago
My fiancée has this problem. There's a Siri command to "delete all my alarms".
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by mjlee 10y ago
From the announcement: "These users do not fill a seat: Outside collaborators with access to only public repositories "
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by mjlee 11y ago
Here's a non-mobile version of that same link: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-New-Smart-Wifi-plug-sock...
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by mjlee 11y ago
Not only does the UK have a speed limit for vehicles over 7.5 tonnes (60mph, enforced by a speed limiter) but we have drivers' hours limits. It is somewhat complex ( https://www.gov.uk/drivers-hours/overview ) but t
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by mjlee 11y ago
More details here: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2XDBFUD9CTN2R/ref=cm_cr_rdp_p... The source was a "1st party Apple 12W iPad charger"
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by mjlee 11y ago
Some local authorities in the UK provide free or heavily subsidised parking for electric cars. https://www.westminster.gov.uk/electric-vehicles Including the the cheap ones! ( http://www.goingreen.co.uk/prod
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by mjlee 11y ago
Certainly in the UK and, in my experience, around the world, military exercised are programmed, confined to specific areas and certain emitters such as sonar are carefully logged. That said, we know little about how currents and water bodie
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by mjlee 11y ago
I'd guess HiFi is pronounced Hi-Fee as it takes the "fi" sound from "High Fidelity".
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Abigail's WWW Dream(www-users.cs.york.ac.uk)
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by mjlee 11y ago
It's not entirely unusual. I've been a member for about 6 years now and, candidly, it's in a permanent state of disarray. I've not been there in about 7 months as I've been out of London but I don't imagine m

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