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by oasisbob 5y ago
You would be surprised. If you're ever using your phone with a single available cell at low signal quality, just about anything will affect your signal... how you hold your phone, which room you're in, which way you're facing
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by oasisbob 5y ago
> that the main reason is a combination of virtue signaling, hygiene theater, and because it makes you feel safer. Or, because you feel it's a conservative decision which is respectful of others. I'm not worried about incidenta
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Pressurizing conduits also helps prevent water ingress.
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It's a metaphorical example. Even when I received a physical paycheck years ago, it wasn't typically done in the mail. Personally, I'm more worried as a consumer that legal notice delivery is unreliable. My storage unit (Publ
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Interesting that P&G is also standing in as the branding for the product, as well.
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by oasisbob 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding is another similar technique, probably most similar to this one. It's an interesting one to discuss with arborists. In North America, there isn't a long history of pol
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by oasisbob 5y ago
> I see oxygen production being such a basic industrial process, that I never could've imagined even a most poorly industrialised country having troubles producing it. This article discusses some of the challenges being faced, sound
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by oasisbob 6y ago
That is simply not true. Children can easily ingest objects 2cm in diameter, and batteries that size can be especially dangerous because of how they lodge in the esophagus. Citing Eck, Langham says, "Clinical outcomes can be determined
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Button batteries and neodymium magnets both are pretty horrifying when taken internally. I would be curious to see how Apple protects the battery compartment of the AirTag, I'm sure they thought about this. eg, my car key fob needs to
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by oasisbob 6y ago
People are diverse enough that with a few millennia, probably no need to troll. There's an archaeological site near here, vaguely described in most publications. If you can get your hands on some of the original field reporting, you le
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by oasisbob 6y ago
> So now let’s go back to our marble. It is completely impervious to any chemical attack Isn't this a wildly misguided assertion? As any antique bottle collector will tell you, bottles underground WILL corrode, and the corrosion is
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by oasisbob 6y ago
I haven't thought about tips in a while... definitely part of the "magic" of STM. Cutting a wire under tension sounds like it was a pretty common technique, it's the one my lab was using too. If the imaging just wasn&#x2
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Homebrew STM is a pretty common and simple in principle. I used to have a chemistry prof who would guide a group of high schoolers through building an STM head each year. Homebrew SEM is probably much more difficult and rare.
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Sort of? STM is frequently used to characterize adsorbed molecular monolayers on a graphite substrate. You're obviously depending on electron conduction to image the sample, but you can image all sorts of things which wouldn't be
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by oasisbob 6y ago
That's for SEM. I've never heard of sputter coating used for STM.
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Alphonso mangos. Many other "exotics", which oftentimes just means they need special processing to clear APHIS based on their country of origin. Landing here in Seattle, I've seen planes unload huge amounts of fruit and produ
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Nature news has a nice article from earlier this year rounding up some of the data and changes in recommendations on the spread of the coronavirus through fomites: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4 See
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by oasisbob 6y ago
There are probably better ways to say this. If you're familiar with the industry, perhaps you could better inform the conversation. Personally, I've always been surprised by the amount of fruit, flowers, and other perishables that
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by oasisbob 6y ago
> There's already a global plastic shortage Whoa, bad time to be in IoT then, since they're pretty much entirely plastic and a few (also probably short) components! https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/pl
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by oasisbob 6y ago
How obnoxious. I would hate that too, and would be tempted to refuse. Is that a common thing to do these days? With the seriousness of academic dishonesty charges, I don't see why students would put up with this. If someone wants to br
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Mostly UPS. Occasionally FedEx.
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by oasisbob 6y ago
I would call it a market failure if someone wants to obtain a container, and cannot do so at any price. There are ag producers on the west coast who cannot obtain containers regardless of cost. That article quoted a 2x increase - there are
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by oasisbob 6y ago
This was highly regional. A year ago, Amazon's delivery broke down entirely where I was living. (Rural community about an hour outside Seattle.) For several months, Amazon prime delivery was in the 7-10 days range. Seattle quickly re
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by oasisbob 6y ago
"Lower 48" is a term from Alaska, and predates Hawaii's statehood. ie, an updated version would be "Lower 49".
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by oasisbob 6y ago
My most recent home here in Seattle was built with glass showers. The house was a three-story townhome, with the master shower up top, "overlooking" the stairwell. The second floor bathroom is split into two - a toilet on one end
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Halon 1301 is still used for fire suppression aboard ships and aircraft. It can be safely flooded into confined spaces without killing people. Calling these agents "oxygen suppressing" is a HUGE misnomer. Halon, FM200, etc don&#x2
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by oasisbob 6y ago
If there is, I haven't found it yet. Many national standards I've seen don't seem to even have DOIs assigned. My tiny stash of climbing relevant EN safety standards only exists because of a scrappy Russian climbing community
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Phone or email would work too, no contract required. > As a special customer service, and to improve the overall security of the Internet, Cisco may offer customers free software updates to address high-severity security problems. The de
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by oasisbob 6y ago
It's been a while since I've had to deal with Cisco IOS, but IIRC they were always good about releasing security fixes to anyone upon a TAC request. For used devices off support contract, security incidents were a great opportunit
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Why would that be the case? With battery powered chainsaws, the noise signature is much better and quieter. 2 stroke engines just have a way of screaming in their power band.

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