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by mmmBacon 9y ago
While the focus of the article is on crosswords, Will Shortz makes all kinds of puzzles. He has a Sunday Puzzle show he does on NPR which is a word game and he is a prolific author of Sodoku puzzles as well as others. So I'd argue tha
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by mmmBacon 9y ago
Slow down, take a deep breath it's not hard! It should not be hard particularly if you are on a city water supply. If the system is old you'll want to check that there are appropriate backflow preventors on the system and that
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by mmmBacon 9y ago
Again anything that moves liquid from point A to point B requires water pressure or the liquid will not move. So the system you describe still requires water pressure to operate. I really don't see how this simplifies because you have
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by mmmBacon 9y ago
Sorry but this is not correct. The anti-siphon valve is almost always apparent. These spigot valves are not very good and fail pretty regularly so I would not trust my drinking water to them. Also an anti-siphon valve only works if it&#x
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by mmmBacon 9y ago
I've owned several houses in California and not one has had an anti siphon valve on it. A quick check around my neighborhood shows that non of my neighbors do either (at least on their front yard spigots).
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So one issue with what you posted is that it's a recipe for contaminating your drinking water. You need to have some type of anti-siphon device to prevent the back flow of water from your irrigation system into the house water supply.
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This Exactly. Companies like Amazon, Google, FB, Microsoft need 10% of those features. However oftentimes there's a bug in the 90% of the software that they don't use which impacts something in the 10% they do use. This causes
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>>>that means their fuel can be housed in safe tanks of metal. TWA800 likely exploded due to a short circuit that ignited fuel-air vapor inside the fuel tank. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800
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I was out riding motorcycles with a friend. He went down and was pretty broken up. As the ambulance loaded him up, I tried to use his Android phone to call his wife to let her know he had been hurt and what hospital he was being taken to.
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United States Attorney. from Wikipedia: United States Attorneys (also known as chief federal prosecutors and, historically, as United States District Attorneys)[1][2][3] represent the United States federal government in United States distri
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
Seems like people have been aware of concerns about violating the TOS with these hot patch frameworks. From April 2016 >>Rollout is aware of the concerns within the community that patching apps outside of the App Store could be a viol
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
War is not something that can be controlled once it breaks out. Non-aligned militaries that come into close proximity is something that's very dangerous. At the very least an incident between militaries can cause a diplomatic crisis
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
I have this book on my desk at work. I have several pre-marked pages that I use to help me deal with frustration and anger at work. I find it to be a very practical implementation of stoicism that is relatable even today.
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I have embraced certain aspects of stoic philosophy in my life. In particular I've found The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius to be helpful and practical. I struggle with my temper and in the last few years my temper has affected my
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
Sorry but education serves society and not you personally. It serves society that you know certain things. Civics for example is extremely important in a free democratic society. I think of all my schooling it was singularly the most imp
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
Reminds me of David Hahn, a kid who tried to make a breeder reactor in a garden shed. He massed Americium from smoke detectors in an attempt to make Plutonium. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
I started a new job where I work in an open office. I don't really mind it. We do have more open conversations about work and that's a good thing. These are similar to hallway conversations I've had in other places. When I
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
>I'm wondering why people focus on financial compensation so much? Why does how much someone was paid justify more or less bashing, as the case might be? It's simply the issue of gratuitous executive pay. If her pay hadn'
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
I'd be very curious to know if there is any impact to choosing Numpy C ordered arrays or Fortran ordered arrays. As a long time Matlab user (since 1993) who moved to Python 3 years ago, I have always defaulted to Fortran order because
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
You don't want to power LEDs with DC if you want the highest light output. This is because the junction heats up and lowers the efficiency of light output. When LEDs are pulsed at a high enough rate, the junction temperature can stay
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
Michael Burry of The Big Short fame is investing in water. Pretty interesting article about investing in water. http://vintagevalueinvesting.com/how-to-invest-in-water-like...
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
Del dot B = 0 Gauss's law for magnetism is so simultaneously simple and profound at the same time. It says that there is no such thing as magnetic charge (monopole).
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
I was in kindergarten about 13 miles away when the Three Mile Island (TMI) accidentally occurred. I recall people being panicked about it and my neighbors jamming up the roads trying to get away. There was great controversy when they want
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
I haven't been to Ithaca in 20 years but I used to visit twice a month for a few years. I always thought it was a cool little town. I have great memories from there and agree that people were cool there. I still have a soft spot in m
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I also recommend the movie the Right Stuff. I saw the movie as a kid and it was really something inspirational to me at the time. Nice little article from Wired about John Glenn's depiction in the movie. https://www.wired.
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I'd say start with pocket screw joints. You can buy a jig from Kreg for ~$100 for making the holes. You could build the entire stool in a few hours if you have all the right tools. I like the pocket screws for beginners because it al
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Agreed. I am a huge believer that you can get to answers quickly with a Monte-Carlo analysis. But I'd take it a step further and include how to solve differential equations numerically as well. You'd be amazed at how far you
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
Does something like this make a strong case for UK having a formal constitution to check the power of Parliament to make laws like this?
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I've had a little exposure to Go and seen how rapid development in Go can be while still maintaining decent performance. Is anyone aware of scientific stack development in Go? Specifically, does HN think thee will be a Numpy or Scipy
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I lived in Rochester for 5 years. I remember 6 months of gray slate skies where the clouds are low to the ground in an almost claustrophobic way. Summers were humid. It not as hot as other areas. Rochester is cheap though and has good

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