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by perilunar 5mo ago
PETPEEV — People for Ethical Treatment of Plants, Ecosystems, and Vegetation
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Loved that scene! Makes me want to find all the old LEDs from broken kids toys and Christmas lights and wire them all up to a power supply...
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Clearly they make economic sense or people wouldn't buy them.
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by perilunar 5mo ago
And don't forget the cheap, reusable rockets. Effing tech bros.
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by perilunar 5mo ago
It's a bit difficult to use the Big Bang as time zero when the current uncertainty of when it actually happened ±0.02 billion years, which is what, a thousand times longer than all of recorded human history. We could use the birth da
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Of course it's easier to stick with what you have in the short term. Change is difficult. You do it for the long term gain. If you had done it 50 years ago like the rest of the English-speaking world you wouldn't be in this mess
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Font sizes would be perfectly fine in millimetres. 9 pt ≅ 3 mm, 12 pt ≅ 4 mm, 18 pt ≅ 6 mm, 24 pt ≅ 8 mm. The difference is about 6%.
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by perilunar 5mo ago
> "Going metric" raises the question of whether we adopt metric measures for our existing standards (such as pipe threads) or actually adopt the ISO sizes. You adopt ISO sizes FFS. They are international standards . You really
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Related: https://rubberduckdebugging.com
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by perilunar 5mo ago
It is a real airplane. Remotely controlled, but still real.
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by perilunar 6mo ago
I think it's an error. Should be long-wave (LW), as opposed to medium- and short-wave.
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by perilunar 6mo ago
> The Atlantic will be crossed in four days, and the voyage to Australia will be accomplished in a month. Alcock and Brown crossed the Atlantic in under 16 hours in 1919. Keith and Ross Smith flew from London to Darwin in 136 hrs flying
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by perilunar 6mo ago
Maybe ask Hacker News if anyone wants to take over running it? — i.e. post the question on Ask HN.
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by perilunar 6mo ago
You are not the first generation to live through rapid change. My grandfather grew up on a farm with no electricity. Horse and cart, kerosene lamps. He fought in WWI, saw aeroplanes, automobiles, electricity, radio, the great depression, a
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by perilunar 6mo ago
I just FTP to my personal website and send a link to it.
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by perilunar 6mo ago
Of course you can. You can convert any image to base64.
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by perilunar 6mo ago
The box-drawing characters pre-date unicode though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
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by perilunar 6mo ago
Sure you can: data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODdhMAAwAPAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAMAAw AAAC8IyPqcvt3wCcDkiLc7C0qwyGHhSWpjQu5yqmCYsapyuvUUlvONmOZtfzgFz ByTB10QgxOR0TqBQejhRNzOfkVJ+5YiUqrXF5Y5lKh/DeuNcP5yLWGsEbtLiOSp a&#x2
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by perilunar 6mo ago
I thought it was going to be about a bomber with a parabolic-shaped wing, or something similar.
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by perilunar 6mo ago
Add in the cost of all the wars in the Middle East as well.
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by perilunar 6mo ago
> Overall, solar generated over 2,700 terawatt-hours last year, Terawatt-hours per year is a ridiculous unit — it contains three different units of time embedded in it (seconds, hours, and years) 2700 TWh/yr = 309 GW (Which happens
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by perilunar 6mo ago
Not if its legal to grow your own.
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by perilunar 6mo ago
I have a slightly different take on this. Tobacco is a product that is sold by producers who know it is both highly addictive and extremely bad for their customers' health. That should be illegal. But it should not be illegal for peo
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by perilunar 6mo ago
Elon Musk. Ok, so he's a bit of a arse, and I really wish he had stayed out of politics, but overall...
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by perilunar 6mo ago
Neither the rules link nor the home page are much good for anyone who wants to get a quick look at how it works. Pages of text — great. I'm not going to register just to see a game in action. How about a demo page? Let me play a quick
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by perilunar 6mo ago
Free electricity in summer and high prices in winter is not a bad place to be really — it provides a good incentive to develop long-term storage. Batteries are probably not it. Pumped hydro is good — not in Denmark (too flat), but maybe in
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by perilunar 6mo ago
That's how it works in Australia, though rotated six months: Summer starts December 1, Autumn starts March 1, Winter starts June 1, and Spring starts September 1. I think it even has legal status. In the North of the country though the
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by perilunar 6mo ago
These are wonderful!
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by perilunar 6mo ago
I wonder if you could find all the seconds in the region around the HH:MM time — or more to the point, how much do you need to zoom out to find the nearest SS pair? Then you could keep the HH:MM time centered as it is now, but highlight the
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by perilunar 6mo ago
To blow my own trumpet a bit: https://sunclock.net/ If you turn off the numbers you get a pretty decent and (i think anyway) culturally assumption-free clock. It tracks the sun and moon, shows the seasons (in #calendar). Th

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