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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I definitely "invested" a decent amount of time into Larn when I was younger. Managed to win, too. There was a lot that could be improved on, and it did have a few bugs (and it really slowed to a crawl on some of the volcano lev
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Given that a 7MHz Amiga 500 could mix eight tracks in CPU in real time, this is a very sad state of affairs. Your M1 is how many thousand times faster?
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
No, that'd never happen, but only because there's no such thing as a single pound note any more.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Legal tender has an even narrower definition in some countries. For instance, in the UK, legal tender is the currency that has to be accepted by a court of law when a debt is to be paid to them . In all other cases, for instance if there i
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
This was 10-15 years ago, so I don't have my notes lying around. However, I do remember that it was based on the calorific efficiency of bread bought at a supermarket. Other foods may vary - for instance if you grow potatoes in your ba
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
If you're defining efficiency as energy required to travel a distance, then an electric bike that doesn't require effort from the rider is going to be way more efficient than walking or cycling. That was one of the exercises I had
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
There's an audiobook version... Edit: And a TV version, apparently.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
This is most wonderfully lampooned by Terry Pratchett in Going Postal and Making Money. https://wiki.lspace.org/A._Parker_and_Son%27s https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/tyyo47/on
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
... is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less. Maxim 29 https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-12-31 https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-03-08 https://schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki&#x2F
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
It looks interesting. It's different. It's clearly able to find patterns linking what was happening to what will happen in some ways better than our current physics-based modelling, which is really neat. That's because it has
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I did my doctorate in the Met Office. Weather forecasting is two separate problems. The first of these is physics - given the state of the atmosphere right now, what will it do. And this is hard, because there are so many different effects,
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
You're looking at it wrong. As an email host, you surely have an agreement with your clients that they will keep their credentials secure and not share them with anyone. If you discover that they have, then they have wilfully compromis
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The only reason you need a flash duration that short is if you really want to freeze something that is moving very quickly. You don't need the shutter duration to be that short as well, unless you also want to exclude light that hasn&#
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I don't think you're right about mechanical shutters being faster. The type of mechanical shutter on most cameras like this is a focal plane shutter[0]. It has two curtains - an upper one and a lower one. When the shutter is close
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
And web browsers, web sites, a fair proportion of most operating systems, software updates, remote work VPNs, etc. End to end encryption is baked into the overwhelming majority of everything that travels over the internet these days. If it
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
For me, I have a telescope, and I like taking photos of distant galaxies and the such. The difference in quality between a camera phone and a proper (even APS-C format) DSLR or mirrorless camera is absolutely massive. Probably mostly for tw
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
If consistency is what you're after, then Word doesn't provide it. Even if you set the language to en-UK, it has a habit of conveniently forgetting every now and again and trying to change all your words back to US versions. This
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Number one on that list is covered by the word "one". That usage has mostly fallen by the wayside, and I think that's an indication that we didn't really need to make that distinction. There are also other ways to word i
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
That doesn't answer the question. Receivers that are typically useful for a local area augmentation system are fixed down, with an accurately-known location. That known location is then the ground truth, and the GPS signals are measure
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
A beam reach isn't necessarily the fastest point of sail. It depends on the boat, the efficiency (lift/drag ratio) of the sail, and the efficiency of the centreboard/keel (again, lift/drag ratio), but a reach of some kin
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
"Everyday" doesn't mean the same thing as "Every day", just like "Everybody" doesn't mean the same thing as "Every body". Pet hate of mine.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
You didn't misunderstand. A sudden stretching of space cannot change the number of peaks and troughs as they go past, but since those peaks and troughs are now slightly further apart, the frequency of the light is slightly lower, and t
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The problem is that "billion" and "trillion" mean different things to different people[0]. In my opinion they should be regarded as unreliable words and never used. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Paedophiles using AI to turn singers and film stars into kids(bbc.co.uk)
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
It also really doesn't help that some of the power companies have started sending letters/emails to their customers saying "your meter has reached the end of its life, we have a legal obligation to replace it, please arrange
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I was quadruple-vaccinated due to being on immunosuppressants, and yet when I finally caught the virus (ironically at a medical science conference) it resulted in a stay at hospital, and now 18 months later I still have rapid heartbeat and
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Except (as I hear it) that's not even true in the US. Apparently, it's not enough to stay silent - you actually have to say that you are exercising the right to be silent, otherwise they are allowed to infer guilt from silence. In
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
That still doesn't require bidirectional communication. The power company can assume that a collection of a reasonable number of households will have a fairly predictable power draw when presented with information from the power compan
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
But the flow of information (for individual appliances) should be unidirectional from the supplier to the device, not the other way around.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Ha! Good joke. These days they just send out letters asking the customer to read the meter instead. First time I got one of those, I was thinking "What? No, that's your job. Don't I pay you for that?"

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