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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I'm getting a nice video flyby of the outside of the pyramid, and a spinny thing at the bottom that says loading, and has done since last night. Chromium 106.0.5249.119 on Debian, JS is switched on, webgl works correctly. Edit: I shoul
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Dinorwig power station [0] is in the middle of a national park. A pretty one, even. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Price and ability to recycle.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It'd be nice, sure. But regular deep cycles is precisely what lead-acid is not good at. Having said that, LiIon isn't that good at surviving deep discharge either, although it is better than lead-acid. A battery management syste
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I wouldn't knock lead-acid for UPS use. That (and turning starter motors) is what lead-acid is particularly suitable for. They're also really effectively recycled right now.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
How would you verify your email address while you're trying to get wifi access if you don't have wifi access?
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
While the gadget that adjusts the flow return temperature is a great idea, it basically means that the radiators in the house aren't big enough. Either the radiators were installed in an age where condensing boilers were unusual and th
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Very neat. Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2dvwdbQshQ
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
If a nuclear warhead is intercepted, it generally doesn't detonate. It requires a very carefully-timed and managed sequence of events to make a warhead detonate, deliberately so.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The "sleep 10 seconds" solution isn't robust enough. Consider if you have created a snapshot on the filesystem. That snapshot has to keep hold of all the data, so when you delete files, the amount of free space doesn't c
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
And anyone to anyone sailing on one of those first ships to Australia, the SMC and LMC would have been really obvious in the sky. Sure, they're only dwarf galaxies, but still.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The classic example of this is the Hubble Variable Nebula. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2261 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeiVERr2J2Q
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I just rebooted my EeePC. It had an uptime of 5.8 years. I only rebooted it to upgrade from Debian 9 to Debian 10, and I'll bump it up to Debian 11 later on. It has a broken screen, so it just sits on top of a cupboard with a couple of
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I was the right age to learn about the enormous potential of deep sea mining by reading Willard Price. Actually, looking at when Underwater Adventure was written, I could have been born any year and still learn about it by that method.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Ok, but let's not fool ourselves that this is to save the mains electric grid from the power used to charge these things. This is for convenience, not environmentalism. The amount of power used by headphones is tiny. Which is lucky, be
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
There are quite a lot of lorries, trucks, and vans on the road right now with exactly this, with diagonal red and yellow stripes. Do a google image search for "rear reflective chevron" for examples. I think it's a great idea,
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
So, I got interested, and did some calculations. In my neck of the woods (50 deg North, not as North as Sweden), I get a reasonable amount of sunlight. Let's just imagine that 1/3 of the days during winter I get 5 hours of sunligh
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Soldier Out of Luck.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I get mild restless legs if I don't take my daily calcium supplements. I think both calcium and magnesium are helpful, although I have also heard they are meant to work against each other in some way.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
If you're in an area that gets hot enough in summer for you to want cooling, then yes you'll be pumping heat into the ground during summer and extracting it in the winter. For those of us who don't get hot enough in summer to
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I just get a blank white page, viewing from UK. This might have something to do with the fact that the web page doesn't actually have any content in the HTML file, and even if it did, the CSS file has "display: block" so one
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
There are certainly places in the UK where you aren't allowed to put up washing lines. I'm pretty sure Poundbury is one, but I can't find any evidence, but there's also Nansledan [0]. [0] https://www.thesun.co
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It's great to see plans to boost the orbit, but I'm thinking it's going to need some maintenance as well fairly soon.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27552985/ estimates that about one fifth of papers with supplementary Excel lists of genes contain mangled gene names. I remember talking about this problem back in 2003. The HGNC has be
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I'll argue the corner of bioinformatic file formats here. The main ones are FASTQ, SAM, BAM, VCF, and that format that GATK's DepthOfCoverage spews out. FASTQ is a plain text format, and is usually gzipped. This is usually not a p
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Not if you're deficient. Then it has a really strong effect.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
What surprises me the most about the placebo effect is that it still happens when the patient knows it is a placebo.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Yes, I have been using it for the bulk storage part of my desktop for the last 7 years, in a 3-drive RAID-Z configuration. I don't think any of the drives in the pool are the originals, as they have been swapped out for larger models a
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Corporations have external pressures though. If a corporation is run in a manner that is inefficient, it tends to be overtaken by a different corporation that does better. Or the board gets involved and fires the boss and replaces them with
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I think we can trust the Jews to have kept the Sabbath fairly consistently. The Christians literally changed their reserved day of the week in honour of Jesus' resurrection. Luckily the fact that this was the day after the sabbath is c

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