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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Yes, I browse with JS switched off (Chromium). However, I do enable it for some sites where the risk/reward ratio is worth it. I also have a hosts file block list. The combination means I see hardly any adverts at all. I also have Cons
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
While I agree with most of what you just said, I'd like to pick out NPR as a bad example. When I visit a link to NPR from (for example) HN, I first get a demand to hand over the keys to my kingdom, then on refusal I get a passive-aggre
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Or if you're willing to dribble the data back home at a rate of 100GiB/month then it's $2.56/TiB.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Definitely recommend this one. I have it switched to not consenting to anything, and I haven't seen a cookie popup since.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Portland cement isn't called Portland cement because it comes from Portland. It is called that because when set it looks like the stone that could be quarried from Portland. It wasn't originally extracted from Portland.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The logical successor to panorama tools is hugin these days, and yes it is able to perform these transformations very easily. The control point generation can be done automatically now, although I admit it might struggle a little with fishe
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
There's a section of "Ignition!" where the rocket scientists try out mercaptans as a rocket fuel, and get exiled to the far end of a huge empty field for the duration of their experiments.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Oh, I started when it was fresh. It takes a while to munch through a 1.4kg root. And it actually seems to be remarkably unaffected by time, so far. Probably only a couple more salads left in it now.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Had raw grated beetroot in my salad today for lunch, and very tasty it was too. I pulled it out of the ground five weeks ago, weighed 1.4kg - it's the purple-and-white stripey version, makes the salad quite colourful. Been cutting bits
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
My village recently switched to LED street lamps, and I hate them. The light pollution has definitely become worse here over the last ten years. The village lights switch off around 1am, but that doesn't seem to make a jot of differenc
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Huh. That's completely the wrong way round. My instructor's car had a petrol engine that would have been appropriate for a skateboard, so I had to get the clutch just right and learnt properly.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I can read American publications and get mad when they are talking about America without indicating that they are talking about America . It's like me declaring that it's perfectly legal to cross the road wherever you like - unle
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Huh? I haven't seen or heard of anyone I know driving an automatic transmission car since 2005 or so, and that was a bizarre oddity at the time.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
If it were actually well-corrected and apochromatic, then a 165mm f/2.5 lens would be fantastic for astrophotography. There's a reason the manual-focus Rokinon 135mm f/2 lens is so popular for that purpose.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
RISC is the secret sauce that allows M2 to decode four instructions per clock cycle, due to the constant instruction length, and that is what gives the M2 a speed advantage over CISC instruction sets. The snapdragon CPUs aren't trying
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The problem is that CISC instructions are variable-length, so it's easy to work out how to decode the first instruction, but the second instruction depends on the length of the first instruction, and if you try to decode four instructi
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Snapdragons aren't aiming for 4 instructions decoded per clock cycle.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It was an advantage. Now it's a liability, because it is hard to scale the CISC-to-RISC translation up to decode many instructions per clock cycle. The translation unit has become the bottleneck.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
This is the correct answer. RISC has had its moments. Way back, it was better than CISC because the simpler instructions allowed a higher clock rate. Then CISC CPUs turned into RISC CPUs with a CISC-to-RISC translation on the front end. Wit
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Make sure you get the correct meaning of the 90%. This article isn't talking about a 10% false positive rate, which would mean that 10% of OK pictures are falsely flagged as bad. That would be awful. The article is actually talking abo
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
A moderator is a material that slows neutrons down. Slow neutrons are more likely to initiate fission in a Uranium (or other fissile) nucleus that they hit, so a moderator increases the reactivity of the reactor.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
> Britain uses GMT. Which Outlook in particular seems to get direly wrong. I have lost count of the number of times I have been sent an email from someone using Outlook containing a supposed calendar event in summer which declares that i
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
You don't even need that. Xenon flash tubes require quite a powerful surge of high voltage electricity, and it's common for them to emit considerable amounts of radio-frequency interference.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I have to say there are 126 comments already and I'm astonished that noone has yet posted https://xkcd.com/1217/
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Indeed, there's still plenty of people ending up in hospital because of covid, including me three months ago.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
> Similarly with the cold, which are coronaviruses like COVID just lead to less lasting immunity. This common knowledge needs to die. "Well over 200 virus strains are implicated in causing the common cold, with rhinoviruses, coronav
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Aurorawatch pinged me with a strong alert last night. Shame it was cloudy.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Coal and gas power stations need cooling water in exactly the same way as nuclear. Regarding the waste, I'd much rather have the very small amount of nuclear waste produced by a nuclear power station kept somewhere nice and safe than t
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Until fairly recently, if you opened the PulseAudio volume control app while in a Teams call, the volume slider for the call would be labelled as Skype. That's a name that the sound-producing software hands to PulseAudio, and is reason
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Or the parent could be trying to mv a file from one filesystem to another. In that case, mv will have to revert to a copy-then-delete operation, and the user may not have the permissions necessary to set up the new file with all the same me

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