perilunar

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by perilunar 6mo ago
> How do we keep the meanings of words from diverging so dramatically and so rapidly? By reading and re-reading old books. You learn the original meanings and usage of words and then recognise when someone tries to twist them.
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by perilunar 6mo ago
Can someone more knowledgeable explain this better please? I have questions: - if you can measure the 'optical singularities' travelling FTL, then surely 'information' is travelling FTL? - does it matter (i.e. violate re
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by perilunar 7mo ago
No. It's not really a predator-prey relationship, because the predators aren't consuming the prey for sustenance. They are killing out of self-defence only.
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by perilunar 7mo ago
Strictly speaking fossil fuels being finite does not mean we have to move to electric vehicles. We could switch to 'green' hydrogen, biofuels, or synthetic fuels. We'd still switch to renewables (or maybe nuclear), just not n
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by perilunar 7mo ago
> "In Combined mode, every possible time (43,200 of them) is spelled out, sorted alphabetically" Why limit yourself? — make a 24-hour version and you have 86,400 possible times!
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by perilunar 7mo ago
Before clocks 'clockwise' was called 'sunwise', because that's the direction the Sun moves across the sky in the Northern Hemisphere. Anticlockwise was called 'widdershins'.
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by perilunar 7mo ago
> Did something like this exist before, with the same level of interactivity? Yes, many of them. There have been online interactive tables of the elements since the early days of the web, and even before that they were available on DVD-R
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by perilunar 7mo ago
Bug report: in Safari (28.3.1 on macOS Tahoe 26.3.1) the electrons in the configuration pane are orbiting off-centre. Ok in Firefox and Chrome. Also, i think in the timeline you should show a summary of the discovery on hovering over the el
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by perilunar 7mo ago
The US defence/war budget could be paid entirely out of gasoline and diesel taxes: $962 billion / 186 billion gallons = $5.17 per gallon ($1.37 per L) which would double the price, but still pretty cheap If we were to price in al
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by perilunar 7mo ago
That's US$1.42 per litre for those who don't do gallons. (still cheap — it's more than double that where I am)
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by perilunar 7mo ago
I'm curious about how much bigger the video is than the actual canyon.mid file.
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by perilunar 7mo ago
The Guppy is very ugly, but I think the Optica is quite nice — the large duct is a bit ugly, but the rest of it has good lines
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by perilunar 7mo ago
I disagree. Driving a small dish antenna only requires a couple of small electric motors. The receivers would be more expensive, and require more power, but they would still be affordable enough.
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by perilunar 7mo ago
JFC — go easy on the ads man. Way too many.
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by perilunar 7mo ago
No, I've just left it smooth. You can buy spray-on rubber paint that would probably work though.
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by perilunar 7mo ago
You can remove the sticky vulcanised coating by rubbing will isopropanol or acetone. It's a bit of work, but beats throwing a working device out.
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by perilunar 7mo ago
> real time is impossible without wired Surely you can do real-time with analog RF?
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by perilunar 7mo ago
You don't need to outlaw parties, just remove any privileges and powers they have.
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by perilunar 7mo ago
AKA sortition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition “Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.” ― Plato
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by perilunar 7mo ago
> Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to “an archaic and undemocratic principle.” > “Our parliament should always be a place where talents are recognized and merit counts,” he said. “It should never be a
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by perilunar 7mo ago
> Cmd+G is used for some obscure find feature How is find next 'obscure'?
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by perilunar 7mo ago
What you are missing is that individual deaths will just appear as random events — you need to analyse a large number of deaths to see if there is a statistically significant change when people change time zone.
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by perilunar 7mo ago
Very cool!
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by perilunar 8mo ago
Two odd things strike me: 1. 5 is the symbols for 4 and 1 combined, 6 is new, then 7=6+1, 8=6+2, and 9=6+3. It seems to me it would be more obvious to have 1 to 5 be unique symbols, then 6=5+1, 7=5+2, 8=5+3, and 9=5+4. Like how we do with t
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by perilunar 8mo ago
Please no — I hope that all these landers and probes are left in place. Ideally with an exclusion zone around them to keep the landscape pristine. (We don't want a bunch of tourists messing up the first footprints on the moon, for exam
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by perilunar 8mo ago
Toast is an open sandwich, unless it has no topping, in which case it is just bread. Also their definition of cake as having multiple layers makes no sense, and would rule out most actual cakes.
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by perilunar 8mo ago
A pizza is an open sandwich
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by perilunar 8mo ago
If it was any more homogeneous it would just be a piece of bread.
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by perilunar 8mo ago
An open sandwich can have two layers.
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by perilunar 8mo ago
Loved that song. Just listened to it again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc

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