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by mnw21cam 3y ago
This is also what happens whenever I try to install anything that uses the package managers for python or perl. For some reason, these two always fail with messages about conflicting, non-existent, or failed-to-compile dependencies. I work
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
A while ago I bought one of those plug-in power monitors, and went around measuring everything I could find around the house. It's a worthwhile exercise, I think. You can leave an appliance plugged into it for as long as you like to ge
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Also, in quite a few houses, the initial run of water out of the hot tap is cold for quite some time until the hot water has either made it round from the hot tank, or if you have a combi boiler system then after that has fired itself up, g
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
No such thing is necessary. Capita are a "phenomenon" of their very own. The Fujitsu and Post Office managers probably learnt from Capita.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
My phone goes ping every time any money goes out of my account. Yes, at the beginning of the month I get a slew of pings for mortgage, power, water, etc, but it's worth it. A while back my phone went ping twice and I was phoning the ba
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
In other words, having your cheese a predictable colour allows you to recognise when something else is growing on it.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
There's a pretty major problem with economics. If the food that is grown and is currently thrown away wasn't thrown away, then it would be effectively be available for a lower price than mainstream food. If this were taken to its
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Experience is what allows you to recognise a mistake the second time you make it.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The main reason why lenses have become significantly better over the last 10-20 years (certainly at the consumer level) is mainly because camera sensors have become significantly better over the last 10-20 years, and therefore the lenses ha
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Telescopes for astronomy are often corrected well into the infrared regime due to some of the fairly interesting emission lines that can be imaged using an appropriate camera.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
When a lens is designed, typically an optimiser is used to try to find a combination of lens elements that focuses light of all wavelengths to the same spot across the whole image. If all the same type of glass is used, then it's hard
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The Crown Prosecution Service also has the power to take over a case that is being prosecuted privately, and if they decide to take no further action on it, then the person/company that was doing the private prosecution no longer can.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I don't understand this argument. Meta makes its money from selling adverts. Meta grabs bucketloads of personal data from us. Meta shows us adverts when we access their systems. NOYB is objecting to Meta grabbing bucketloads of persona
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The front server doesn't need to wait for the entire first chunk to arrive (as in scenario 2), any more than it needs to wait for the entire file to arrive before starting (as in scenario 1). Unless a chunk needs repair - then of cours
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
And because they are run so infrequently, they don't need to be fancy or efficient - just cheap and powerful. It's easier than one might imagine, but it helps if you think of scale along the lines that horsepower is roughly compar
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I always used to just have 'echo "^G"' instead (where ^G is typed as CTRL-V CTRL-G).
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The requests are parallel and therefore complete in the same(ish) amount of time as a single request, so the latency isn't increased.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I don't understand this thing about shutting everything down. I have a VPS that costs me £1.20 per month, so at the very base level if it is a service that nobody is using, then its maintenance cost can be extraordinarily small. And if
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Absolutely, there are plenty of climates where HRV (aka MVHR) is quite sufficient. In inland areas (most of the US, and a fair chunk of Europe), the temperature difference between summer and winter is enough that a HRV is unlikely to be suf
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
See also https://www.instructables.com/heat-recovery-ventilation/
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I'd also recommend Oolite if you want to play what is basically a free version of this (but improved and with hundreds of community-build extensions). https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite_Main_Page
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
So yes, literally incredible - not credible.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Agreed - most people don't realise, but even if you don't have any swap, all your executable code is effectively treated exactly the same way as swap (except it's read-only and needed more often). I'd love a setting on L
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I have a work server with 384GB of RAM, some swap on spinning rust, and a fairly old installation of Linux, and it has certainly had times when it has taken hours for the kernel OOM killer to sort the thing out. earlyoom was one of the firs
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
It'd be balanced by the difficulty in getting the light into the material in the first place. You're right, you can't change the laws of physics. Light will only enter an object with lower refractive index if its angle of i
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The article attributes CFS to an immune response. I think that's over-simplifying it. Certainly for long covid, it appears to be multiple different things all acting together, and that's probably true for CFS too. Yes, there'
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Document the abuse, collect enough evidence, quit, then sue them for constructive dismissal.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Absolutely. The aggressive alternative to "I'm sorry you feel that way" is "I'm not interested", "I'm not going to help you with this", or even just "No". I'd also like to point ou
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Oh absolutely. The phrase "I'm sorry you feel that way" disconnects you from the other person, and if that is an appropriate thing to do, then it's an appropriate phrase to use. If someone is trying to guilt-trip you int
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I still do that.

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