mr_toad

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by mr_toad 2y ago
You can’t scale up a wheel on a children’s toy and expect it to work on a loaded cart. It would just break. Cartwheels that will go the distance require fairly skilled carpentry.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
A real combat simulator would have you polish boots and cleaning latrines for most of them time, and then wake you in the middle of the night with an artillery barrage.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
NASA has a whole streaming service. Not sure of the legal status but I thought everything made by the US government was public domain? https://plus.nasa.gov/
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by mr_toad 2y ago
> Monogamy / rules about adultery are for stopping the spread of STDs. And preventing unwanted pregnancies, and partly to stop a few men from monopolising all the women.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
Geese have also been employed for security including by military forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_goose
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by mr_toad 2y ago
Europeans liked to depict the same scenes over and over. There must have been hundreds of versions of “The Adoration of the Magi” done over the centuries.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
As well as aluminium to make solid fuel.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
> I think it's reasonable to hold that tech behemoth to tech behemoth standards You’d end up with Apple-style reviews and then people complaining about them. You can’t really win.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
Energy, even if it doesn’t convey information is still a “thing”. Photons with a black body spectrum - thermal noise, are still things. Hawking himself originally had an idea of photons that tunnelled through the event horizon as a possibl
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by mr_toad 2y ago
> Even an amateur Christian theologian can tell you that this only refers to unjust death / murder It’s only an assumption that the mis-translation was unintentional. It could have been quite deliberate. Do not be too eager to dea
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by mr_toad 2y ago
Anarchy argues that supreme executive power should not rest in a ceremonially selected individual but instead derive from a mandate from the masses. Yes that’s paraphrasing Monty Python. But real anarchism isn’t the rejection of all author
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by mr_toad 2y ago
> Heresy is a sin against the moral convictions of the in-group. Honestly I’m perplexed. Consider the heresy of Arianism. In what way was this heresy morally different from the orthodoxy position? I just don’t see how the nature of
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by mr_toad 2y ago
> More has to stake out a position, and he has to do so “publicly” where the “public” in this case is a few thousand literate Englishmen who actually care about such things. I guess he’s saying that only a few thousand people cared about
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by mr_toad 2y ago
> nothing underpinning reality Gravity is a thing, and we can feel it under us. But we can’t touch it, or see it. Intuitively things that we can touch and see should be qualitatively different, but this intuition is wrong. Turns out it
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by mr_toad 2y ago
Yes, essentially. The perturbation of the electrical field causes EM radiation (radio), which moves at the speed of light.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
EM radiation, whether radio or visible light is photons, and photons only have one speed. However, electrical conduction is the movement of electrons, not photons.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
What’s really mind blowing is how fast the gluons inside the protons inside those molecules are moving.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
> In the UK, there's no right to bear arms, so people are pretty helpless against their oppressing government. When people want to revolt it doesn’t seem like the right to bear arms has much to do with it. Not having the right to b
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by mr_toad 2y ago
You need proof of address.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
Memes with illegal content. It’s not hard to imagine creating a meme that would have the FBI knocking on your door.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
You’ll probably want a method of downloading apps tied to the UK app store though - particularly banking apps.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
> Also is it not possible to set up my Apple account outside of the UK while living here? The ability to turn on Advanced Data Protection does seem to be tied to your iCloud region (as of now I can still turn it on, and I’m in the UK but
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by mr_toad 2y ago
I’ve heard that Torvalds build Git in 5 (or 10) days and that Brendan Eich created JavaScript in 10 days. Maybe the average programmer is less efficient, but the distribution is probably heavily skewed these days.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
I’ve written code for hobby projects. It’s mostly HTML, JavaScript and Bash. I’m a data engineer, so at work I mostly use SQL, Python and Bash. There’s not much overlap.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
I wonder who manufacturers them. Time to sell Qualcomm and buy ???
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by mr_toad 2y ago
In New Zealand public servants salaries were published in the “Public Service List” from 1866 through to 1988. https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/33070/page-from-the-public-... Anecdotally they were mainly used
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by mr_toad 2y ago
> Locally, the black hole would swallow any atoms it comes into contact with Would it be capable of doing that? If the radius of the event horizon is significantly smaller than the radius of a proton, would it be capable of swallowing a
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by mr_toad 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by mr_toad 2y ago
I’ve only heard of voting CPUs being used on launchers. I think the level of redundancy on other craft varies.
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by mr_toad 2y ago
Poor students couldn’t afford Macs in those days. We built PCs by hand to save a few bucks.

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