mnw21cam

38 ms·

571.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
> For this reason, dying at home is often unattainable for many... Currently, Medicare only covers an average of two hours per day, five days a week, of home health aide coverage for a patient in hospice care. This article left me fairly
572.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
> So if there is a departing plane waiting on the runway or someone crossing then the approaching plane is given "cleared approach runway 08" but never "cleared to land". Which also means that if you are piloting the
573.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Criticality doesn't work like that. A lump of fissile material either is or isn't supercritical, regardless of the neutron flux. There are things that can change a lump from subcritical to supercritical, like lowering its temperat
574.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
I think for two nukes sitting any further apart than a few metres, if you set one off, the fissile material in the second nuke may have some small number of fissions due to incident neutrons, but it would be a very long way away from &quo
575.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
> But had one of them exploded, the other one would have as well Really? Because everything we have been told about nukes so far is that this does not happen.
576.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
I used to be able to do that on my 25MHz Amiga with 10MB of RAM. Static absolute task priority scheduling is actually a very good way to ensure your MP3 will play without stuttering.
577.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Sounds like a fairly good yarn to me.
578.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
I use https://github.com/Dunky13/outlook_unsafelink to fix that. I agree, it's a stupid way of training users to accept dodgy links.
579.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
> In the normal default kernel settings, this only happens for processes that use the madvise(2) system call to tell the kernel that a mmap()'d area of theirs is suitable for this. And everything makes sense now. I was having terrib
580.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
"To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript." I don't want to "use the Mastodon web application", whatever that means. I just want to read a web page like a normal person. Sigh Does anyone have
581.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
I'm going to second this one. A physics professor friend who taught me electronics when I was a kid is now "retired", as in still coming in to the university several days a week, but only to do the interesting things they wan
582.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
When someone stands up from an office chair, they also create the ideal conditions for static electricity. If the air is fairly dry, and they have sat and squirmed in that chair for a while, then they will have built up a little bit of char
583.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Half a bit per second?
584.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
I would definitely appreciate an idiots guide to doing this.
585.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Teams.
586.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Surely this is a problem that has already been well and truly solved by the earth-based GPS systems. They are based on a collection of different satellites that are all in different positions with independent clocks that tick at slightly di
587.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Kind of. Consider solar panels. A lot of the time, you'll be using around 30% of the discharge capacity to keep you overnight. However, some days will be cloudy, so you might have to use more of the capacity. In this situation, a Lead-
588.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPPUqLZOqCQ LiFePo is maybe 10x the lifespan of a normal Lead-Acid battery, if you're cycling it several times a day. A car battery for instance will not do very well in this test. But I
589.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
LiFePo can last longer than Lead-Acid. It depends on the usage. LiFePo has a very high maximum cycle count. But after ten years, they'll die anyway. The only way that you can actually achieve a cycle count as high as the specification
590.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
I made this argument a few years ago when my wife asked me if it was a good idea for us to get solar panels for the house. My reply was that solar farms get economy of scale and would out-compete us, plus our roof views East/West, not
591.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Deep cycle lead-acid batteries are available around £100/kWh, and they'll last pretty-much as long as a LiFePo if managed sensibly.
592.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
The reason they use the 80% mark is that Li-ion batteries tend to rapidly degrade after they reach that point, so once they get there it's best to replace them.
593.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
These up and coming battery types look fantastic, but everyone seems to forget that lead-acid batteries are already way better than Li-ion or LiFePo for non-mobile energy storage, in terms of price per kWh stored.
594.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Chlorine is an oxidising agent as well, but you don't want to be breathing that.
595.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
If you liked that story, you'll love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKoHMXggEHU
596.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Also, "penetrate and patch" is definitely at work in the airline industry. Yes, airliners are well designed as safe systems, but every now and again a problem does occur, to varying degrees of seriousness, and when such a problem
597.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Won't that arch change mean that old binaries are incompatible? (I mean, I suppose that's half the point - if you want to verify that your system no longer has any software that suddenly breaks at a specific time, break it all now
598.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
As someone who has a key cross-signed with the author, I'd say yes that's likely. And also an important part of their job.
599.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
A house does need ventilation. It's incredible how quickly humidity and carbon dioxide build up in an enclosed space from just breathing. The carbon dioxide is bad for you (reduces your ability to concentrate), and the humidity will ha
600.
by mnw21cam 4y ago
Thank you - finally someone who knows that it was always a dash.

More ›