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by nkurz 3y ago
Providing the archive.ph link is helpful, but why did you use a new title instead of the one from the article? The one you chose didn't make sense to me until after I had read the article.
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by nkurz 3y ago
In case he doesn't check this thread, and because my stove mostly matches his description, I'll mention that I'm happy with our Progress Hybrid by Woodstock Soapstone: https://www.woodstove.com/the-progress-h
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by nkurz 3y ago
I was responding to the specific claim that woodstoves cause measurable problems with indoor air quality in the houses where they are used. I'm willing to believe they can, but in my direct experience, mine didn't. I live in a ru
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by nkurz 3y ago
Presuming you've actually done this test, I think it must depend on your woodstove and how it is installed. We heat almost exclusively with wood, and have a modern EPA compliant wood stove connected to a continuous stainless steel lin
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by nkurz 3y ago
I'm not sure. Given that there is an individual standing in front of you, does it ever make sense to use the odds of a random individual instead of your best estimate for that particular individual? At the least, it seems likely that
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by nkurz 3y ago
Why do think they weren't able to get it that thin? What "technology" are you referring to? Here's Wikipedia's summary: "5,000 years ago, Egyptian artisans recognized the extraordinary durability and malleabi
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by nkurz 3y ago
It's a long video that deserves an introduction. This is the story of the creation of an artwork that was installed at the Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art. Most of the video is about the fabrication of the custom "Nixie tub
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The Deq Tattooist: Preserving the ink of a disappearing culture(aljazeera.com)
54 points by nkurz 3y ago|4 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
I presume you are right for where you are, but I don't think your experience was universal. I live in a rural part of Vermont. My impression is that the mandates here were generally well obeyed. No restaurants were open. Grocery
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by nkurz 3y ago
Would you go so far as to say "there's a couple different ways to say that?" As an American, this sounds a little folksy but not that odd. And it wouldn't mean that there are exactly two ways to say something!
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by nkurz 3y ago
I don't speak French, but it seems a lot more likely that "en huit" would translate as "in 8 (days)" rather than "in height (days)". Are you a native speaker and know better, or might this be a mistake?
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India’s pickle people: Decades-old culinary heirlooms, nostalgia(aljazeera.com)
238 points by nkurz 3y ago|132 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
I've interacted with you occasionally over the years here, and had read parts of your story, but had never known about your wife. Thanks for sharing some context. I wish you the best in achieving your goals, and applaud you for being
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by nkurz 3y ago
Great article. The "Author Feedback" section at the bottom is interesting. All 4 that are there read exactly like you would hope: dedicated researches agreeing with the Datacolada analysis and expressing disappointment that the
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by nkurz 3y ago
If you are trying to maximize port utilization, sometimes the exact instruction ordering can make a big difference. Compilers often want to "hoist" loads to the top, which can sometimes reduce performance. And sometimes you need
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by nkurz 3y ago
While true, this isn't the right way to analyze this. The right question is how much strength or size is necessary to operate a modern powerful chainsaw with a sharp chain. The answer is "not much". You need to be able to
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by nkurz 3y ago
What's the right punishment for a case like this? Does anyone believe that full rehabilitation is possible, and that a teenager who does this will later come to realize the error of their ways and become be a valuable contributor to s
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by nkurz 3y ago
I love your attitude, but I think your mental model is wrong. I think many people don't like lamb (and can't stand mutton) simply because of the way it tastes. My one-time fiancee grew up on a (meat) sheep farm in Manitoba. Wit
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by nkurz 3y ago
> In the US it's illegal to sell wild game meat, even between private individuals. Because I'm a pedantic sort, I'll point out that this isn't completely true. The act you link to governs interstate commerce. Indivi
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Pirates of the Caribbean (Metric Edition) (2017)(nist.gov)
121 points by nkurz 3y ago|73 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
https://archive.ph/cMGLi
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by nkurz 3y ago
Just a fun aside, but did you know that "point blank" actually means something completely different than the way that most people use the term? Rather than meaning something like "so close you couldn't miss" (which
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by nkurz 3y ago
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'll point out that the article is about how hardware processors react to assembly level shifts with greater than register size. Unless you are programming directly in assembly, the most import
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Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022)(bricknerd.com)
388 points by nkurz 3y ago|119 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
"Natty" means natural, and describes those who lift without performance enhancing drugs such as steroids, although some questionable supplements might be allowed. The opposite, describing those who use such drugs, might be "
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Google Maps has become an eyesore(fastcompany.com)
782 points by nkurz 3y ago|680 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
Weck jars would probably work: https://weckjars.com The metal clips in the pictures are just to hold the lid on in a water bath. In a microwave you could probably skip them.
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by nkurz 3y ago
Reka is an odd choice as an example of an American blueberry. While it's increasingly common to grow here, it was actually developed in New Zealand. "Reka" is named for the Maori word for "sweet". Which is also
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by nkurz 3y ago
> The world presently has 10e9 people. Historically, something like 10e12 people have ever existed (I'm estimating). Tangential, and doesn't detract much from your well-defended point, but the percentage of people alive today i
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by nkurz 3y ago
I think it's a little trickier than that, since the problem asks for the indices not the numbers, which would be lost in the sorted version. You'd have to keep an additional mapping from the sorted to original positions. And ar

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