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by pja 4y ago
Usually you find that the reason these barriers exist is because people were abusing the previous system. There are (sadly) plenty of people out there who will install a browser extension & tweak an about:config setting if you set up th
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by pja 4y ago
The mechanism - neutron flux from the first bomb pushing the second into criticality - seems plausible. Where does it say that this is impossible?
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by pja 4y ago
Go to IKEA. Buy mixer tap. Install mixer tap?
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by pja 4y ago
Google / Deepmind has already done this last year. They published the paper at the end of 2022 I think. (searches) yep: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a... It relies on test availabilit
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by pja 4y ago
Mastodon instances do seem to cache a /lot/ of content from peer servers in the interests of user-perceived latency.
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by pja 4y ago
Man, that cable routing looks fiendish. We could really do with a form factor that lets case manufacturers route this stuff internally for you, but getting the manufacturers to agree on a format & support it is probably not feasible sad
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by pja 4y ago
So long as you (the employee) know the score this sounds like a sweet gig. Work for a year or so at a nice leasuirely pace, save up, get to put large investment bank on your CV, move on. It’s the employees who don’t know that they’be been h
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by pja 4y ago
Time for a Google Takeout while you still have access to the account then!
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by pja 4y ago
So that’s 300 million doctors appointments a year that could be spent doing something else - treating someone who actually has something wrong with them. That’s before we even get to the question of whether doing this actually helps more th
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by pja 4y ago
They probably assumed that a) the pilot knew about the exclusion zone (kind of a big deal!) and b) you follow a river downstream (usually) so their instruction seemed (to them) unambiguous.
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by pja 4y ago
Scanning a mostly healthy population for issues is going to mean that you end up with at least some false positives. Those people are going to get expensive follow on investigations & maybe treatments, with all the psychological stress
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by pja 4y ago
Well, only in as much as Brexit has restricted the availability of people prepared to do social care work for minimum wage from outside the UK. But that’s not the main cause of the current problems the NHS is facing. The problems in the NHS
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by pja 4y ago
Pi4 will boot straight from a USB drive. Given the unreliability of sd-cards this is preferable if you need a USB drive anyway.
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by pja 4y ago
> Cancer rates have exploded since 1970 So has life expectancy! Cancer is ultimately a numbers game & you roll the dice every single day. Life expectancy in the US today is ten years longer than it was in 1970. All those extra dice r
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by pja 4y ago
A neighbour has one of these. What surprised me was that it didn’t bother (as far as I could see) pulling the heat out of the waste water - it was setup to pull the heat out of the air in the bathroom. I guess this makes at least some sense
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by pja 4y ago
The Pi foundation believes supply will steadily improve as this year progresses & will be back to ”you can buy any Pi you want today” by the end of the year. It’s not /great/, but given the supply chaos of the last few years i
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by pja 4y ago
Epigenetics is not fringe science - you inherit the methylation patterns from your parents' genes. Two people with the same genes can (in principle) have very different methylation patterns & thus differences in gene expression tha
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by pja 4y ago
Yes & it doesn’t work very well. Or at least it didn‘t, Apple has been notorious for sacrificing good strain relief on their cables in pursuit of aesthetics for years. Possibly things have improved now that Ive has left, but there was a
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by pja 4y ago
Yes, O2 has the same policy - they block a chunk of the internet unless you demonstrate that you’re over 18 & get the block lifted. I don’t know whether the government leant informally on the mobile providers to do this or whether it’s
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by pja 4y ago
You could read through the relevant Wikipedia pages for an overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_evid...
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by pja 4y ago
A helmet protects you by being crushed - it dissipates the kinetic energy of your head in the process. They’re not very strong in tension at all - a cracked helmet is a helmet that failed to do its job properly. If it crushed first & th
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by pja 4y ago
A modern Bosch dishwasher will use 9.5 litres per cycle or < 3 gallons btw. IIRC 10l / cycle is a standard set in the EU, but I can’t find a reference right now.
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by pja 4y ago
> Sulphonic Acids This is probably some kind of detergent, although there are lots of different sulphonic acids.
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by pja 4y ago
Weight on the outside of a wheel matters more than weight on the rest of the bike for racing types - it increases the rotational inertia of the wheel, slowing acceleration & braking on top of any actual weight increase. Personally I jus
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by pja 4y ago
This isn’t always the case. People who took cash out of Madoff’s ponzi scheme had to return it & take their proportionatey share of the total returned to all investors in exchange. Cash that’s been paid out from a bankrupt company can b
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by pja 4y ago
The wealthier end of my acquaintance circle are buying Polestars. The Hyundai Ioniq is also getting very good reviews at the cheaper end of the EV scale. Lots of Teslas on the streets though & anecdotally the supercharger network makes
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by pja 4y ago
The figure I've seen quoted for a peasant shirt was that it represented three months worth of labour to produce from start to finish. How many items of clothing would you own if each of them required that much work? The industrial revo
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by pja 4y ago
Yes, I think Sile has a lot of promise but it really needs some work done to bring these features up to scratch for end users. And inevitably volunteer time is in short supply...
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by pja 4y ago
The Aldi nearest to us has fridges with doors & chest freezers. Which implies that the expense of fridgeless systems must be worth eliminating, as Aldi are laser focused on cost.
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by pja 4y ago
Not quite as good, but much better than open shelves. Our upright fridge freezer has deep drawers in the freezer compartment, presumably for this reason.

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