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by mnw21cam 7mo ago
True. I think the novel point is that on average, the emitter just isn't emitting. Normally, you can have a very simple piece of equipment that can pick up the fact that a signal source is emitting something, but then you need to get a
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by mnw21cam 7mo ago
It's "Cue", rather than "Queue".
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by mnw21cam 7mo ago
Brass instruments have a finger loop on the third valve loop, but it's not primarily for adjusting to just temperament. Most brass instruments have three valves. The first lowers the pitch by a tone. The second lowers the pitch by a se
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by mnw21cam 8mo ago
It's certainly possible to find people who care about doing a job properly in a western society. Paying a bit more has been suggested on another post as a method of trying to achieve that, but I'd argue that that is necessary but
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by mnw21cam 8mo ago
A fourth option is "I can and I will, but only after certain prerequisites are met - go away and meet them first", which looks to me what they were saying.
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by mnw21cam 8mo ago
I was recently involved in a large server purchase for work, where we wanted 72 hard drives of 24TB each for a server. They were available last year, but last month the largest we could get were 20TB drives.
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by mnw21cam 8mo ago
You could always push it, which would count as walking.
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by mnw21cam 8mo ago
Click on "New Panorama"
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by mnw21cam 8mo ago
A niggle - if you are referring to a 2 second gap between the back bumper and the following front bumper, then the formula is no longer speed independent, as you need to add the small overhead to account for the time taken for the length of
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by mnw21cam 8mo ago
Braking distance and following distance are two distinct things. Following distance is the rule that you should leave a 2 second gap in front of you. That is often less distance than the braking distance. You should be always able to see th
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by mnw21cam 8mo ago
This assumes that a 2 second interval is appropriate for all travelling speeds. This assumption is untrue at very low speeds, particularly when it takes longer than 2 seconds for a car to pass a point. For instance if we assume cars are 4m
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by mnw21cam 8mo ago
Carnot efficiency is 1 - Tc/Th, where Th is the hot side temperature and Tc is the cold side temperature. Tc is set by the surrounding environment, probably in the vicinity of 300K. If you have a hot side temperature around 1,000,000K
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by mnw21cam 8mo ago
Dwarf Fortress. That's really how to suddenly say "Oh, how did it get to 4am already?"
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by mnw21cam 8mo ago
For me, it actually seems fairly plausible. I was a fairly untrained 70kg forty-something when I went to the gym and very quickly found that as I did a bit of hiking, I could max out the standing calf raise machine at 155kg. This involves h
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
Agreed. Most of the time the cost of driving out of your way exceeds the saving you would make. However, there's a fuel station near me that is 19.8% cheaper than one only 1.6 miles away from it, and that's a thing that is worth k
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
However this is only really good for slow connections. If your connection is faster than about 50MB/s then the delta calculation mechanism becomes the bottleneck. On fast connections you should use the -W option for rsync which switche
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
I still want my /var/log/messages back. The new system just doesn't seem to work correctly.
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
That's not strictly true. The very simplest of DC LED drivers flicker, such as the classic single-transistor battery saver circuit, but a slightly more complex DC LED driver circuit will not. One of the best ways to drive an LED is wit
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
A while back I wrote a piece of (academic) software. A couple of years ago I was asked to review a paper prior to publication, and it was about a piece of software that did the same-ish thing as mine, where they had benchmarked against a se
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
The lower case "k" vs upper case "K" is an abomination. The official notation is lower case "k" for 1000 and lower case "ki" for 1024. It's an abomination too, but it's the correct abomina
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
They're checking to see whether any of the links they put in the emails are being fetched from their servers. It's stupid, but it works for most people. I had a similar situation with SMS messages that were being sent to me with l
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
Though I do not know the way.
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
I certainly use the word "exciting" in ways that that might be non-standard, like for instance describing when everything has gone catastrophically wrong.
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
Thanks for making me feel old.
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
In my case, I set some course-work, where they have to log in to a Linux server in the university and process a load of data, get the results, and then write the essay about the process. Because the LLM hasn't been able to log in and s
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
Agreed. I have a couple of servers each with 168 hard drives, about 6 years old. A few hard drives are starting to fail. ZFS counts read errors (the drive reported an error because its checksum didn't match) and checksum errors (the
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
I teach at MSc level, and over the last couple of years about 15% of my students have cheated. Really obviously cheated, like two students submitting 100% byte-identical answers.
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
I teach at MSc level. My students are scattered around the country and world. This makes hand-written exams tricky. Luckily, the nature of the questions they are asked to solve in the essay I give them following their coursework are that ch
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by mnw21cam 9mo ago
Just buy them slightly oversize and let them shrink down to the right size.
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by mnw21cam 10mo ago
Even assuming that we lose that particular battle, I can't understand why the browsers won't make their right-click menus orthogonal and offer an "open in this tab" option.

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