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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Chip and PIN isn't mandatory in the UK - it's just the default. My debit card is not Chip and PIN, because I asked the bank very nicely. The problem isn't the Chip and PIN itself, although it has been implemented less securel
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I'm astonished that this thread hasn't yet mentioned https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html Long story short, someone accidentally did rf -rf * in the wrong place as root, and they had to r
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
You can technically use any display as a projector. You just need to put a huge lens in front of it that is capable of collecting all the light that is being emitted in all directions and focusing it onto the surface. No, it won't be p
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
It's not that they aren't well enough funded to have a DSLR on hand. They'll often have very much more expensive cameras in the lab, but they'll be purpose-built into other very expensive equipment such as microscopes. I
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
My experience is more that a hybrid working environment includes people who are in the office all week (because they have to pipette things and look down microscopes) and people who are never in the office (like me, because I'd rather
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Capacitors are fairly good at keeping charge - there isn't much loss over time. In fact, capacitors used in high voltage equipment should generally have a discharge resistor wired across them to deliberately discharge them slowly, to p
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
When an MRI machine has a quenching event, it's a very serious deal. All the energy from the electromagnet gets dumped as heat, which boils off the coolant very quickly. MRI machines have to have a quench pipe which allows the now-gase
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Is that a psychological disorder? (I think the jury might still be out on that.)
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Um, yeah, a couple of months ago I pulled my 4k dashcam footage for a car I was following reasonably closely, and I was shocked at how hard it was to make out the correct number plate. But that's largely because the camera is (rightly)
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I use dave@null.com. Sorry Dave.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
My research group in 2004-ish bought a couple of DEC Tru64 Unix boxes on the basis of their fast CPUs and the high availability features. We discovered fairly quickly that the OS was pretty awful compared to the Linux we had on all our othe
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
My diesel car from 2020 has a 40-ish litre tank and a range of around 500 miles. I just drove back from my holidays yesterday, which took nearly six hours, including three stops for loo breaks, lunch, and looking around a very small museum.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
It's not as simple as that. In general English usage, when we have an acronym, we tend to look at whether it sounds like it starts with a vowel. So for instance the acronym RTFM is pronounced "arr tee eff em", which starts
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Don't forget the victim surcharge. Remember that Al Capone was jailed for tax evasion.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Remember that the Play Store uses encryption to download apps to the phone. If the law is enacted then this encrypted channel will technically need to be compromised too, which Google might also object to. If Google withdraw the Play Store
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
There's a general "bad" when law are enacted and then not enforced, especially if it's a law that most people would naturally break because it's a silly law. It allows the authorities to persecute chosen individuals
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EsqMLT0Hzw for the video version of this.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Yeah, a few years ago I steered our university research group towards using ZFS for a couple of new servers with 1.5PB storage each (2.0PB before raidz2), on RHEL (would have preferred Debian). Absolutely no problems with the system. The IT
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Yes, they do have ads, but they're restricted to adverts for other BBC programmes. (That for some reason doesn't make them much less annoying.)
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
> 15° is the angle the Earth turns in one hour It's actually more like 15.0411° in an hour. This matters if you're keeping a telescope pointed at something in the night sky to take a picture of it.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I'll agree with Motorola, though pretty-much the first thing I did when I switched mine on was disable all the Moto app stuff. Once you have done that it does mostly stay completely out of your way, which is probably the closest you&#x
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
"Fuel duty is currently levied at a flat rate of 52.95p per litre for both petrol and diesel, while VAT at 20% is then charged on both the product price and the duty." https://racfoundation.org/data/percentage
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
There's also a pretty awful Star Trek DS9 episode with a probability-bending MacGuffin.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I'll argue that the police can enter the park with their vehicles, but they'll be violating the rule when they do so. But if we're ignoring local rules and the only question is whether or not they would be violating the rul
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I think they meant "any more".
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The important bit is that the cookies not only are irrelevant from the point of view of allowing tracking to occur technically, they're also irrelevant from a legal point of view. A company must have your consent to hold and process yo
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I was under the impression that this had been changed in the last few years. Do you have a link for that case?
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I pressure washed them this spring, and bought new ones to add to them at the same time. How regularly?
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Delicious. I have one nearing harvesting size out in the garden right now. They do look like aliens from outer space though.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I collect rainwater in water butts outside for watering the garden. They stink. What are you doing right that I'm doing wrong?

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