ptha

8 ms·

31.
by ptha 5y ago
Also if your home has a "NightSaver" meter (just what they're called here in Ireland, but basically a day and night meter), the night rate is often nearly half the day rate, so it makes sense to charge at night.
32.
by ptha 5y ago
It appears that Gilbert Bourgeaud or "Bob Denard" may have been part of Katanga militias in the "Siege of Jadotville" (now also a film from Netflix). A militia force of about 3000 laid siege to about 156 Irish UN troops,
33.
by ptha 5y ago
DST was supposed to go away in 2021 in the EU, but a pandemic, brexit, and practicalities may have put paid to that... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-11/will-dayl...
34.
by ptha 5y ago
I think Tesla had a lot off issues when trying to automate as much as possible, possibly trying to push the envelope too much at the beginning. Last year they've started installing "Giga Presses" - the largest high-pressure
35.
by ptha 5y ago
I've heard it's pronounced "Win", but don't take my word for it.
36.
by ptha 5y ago
The article described something specific that could be tested. I leave it to the scientist to design a similarly specific experiment for humans. Also the "reckless" behaviour exhibited by the cubs disappeared after there were olde
37.
by ptha 5y ago
Also linked in the article, scientists have experimented on communicating with Lucid dreamers (low-tech version of Inception), asking yes/no and simple maths questions. The researchers asked 158 questions of the lucid dreamers, who re
38.
by ptha 5y ago
The article mentions complications with this because of existing deals: Still, efforts by Amazon to profit off MGM's library won’t be easy, or cheap. In many cases, MGM’s content is tied up in multi-year deals with television networks
39.
by ptha 6y ago
From the article: and I’ll put her name in IMDb. And she didn’t have a page, so I couldn’t post hers. I would take the: "put her name in IMDB" to mean he just did a search. On first reading like you I did think that meant he cre
40.
by ptha 6y ago
I'm not advocating it, but when there's a sudden decrease in demand (due to Covid-19 in this case), culling in various ways: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/19/millions... One
41.
by ptha 6y ago
My S8 has a "Samsung Health" app, that measures Oxygen Saturation under the "Stress" section. It uses the sensor next to camera (also used for Heart Rate). I've no idea how accurate it is though. Some googling and I
42.
by ptha 6y ago
Then there's the band "The Postal Service" that got a cease and desist from USPS to stop using their trademark. However it had a happy ending: the United States Postal Service -- the real one, as in stamps and letters -- sig
43.
by ptha 6y ago
Following the link to libeatmydata that some hardware controllers use for asynchronous writes: libeatmydata is a small LD_PRELOAD library designed to (transparently) disable fsync (and friends, like open(O_SYNC)). This has two side-effec
44.
by ptha 7y ago
To me they are reminiscent of the drawings the monks put in the margins when creating the illuminated manuscripts. These were not hidden, but were certainly at odds with the serious text they surrounded. https://www.collectorswee
45.
by ptha 7y ago
The protection on the front of the orbiter is quite a combination of old/new tech. Solar Orbiter’s radiation-hardened instruments will be protected from the sweltering heat by a shield covered with doors that periodically open to allo
46.
by ptha 7y ago
You shouldn't, it didn't originate in Spain. Even today, experts aren’t certain where the outbreak originated. Some say China, some say the American Midwest, and others suggest France. But one thing’s for certain—it wasn’t Spain.
47.
by ptha 7y ago
Similarly the story of Noah Wall, The parents of a boy born with only 2 percent of his brain have spoken out about their son's "extraordinary" development. Shelly and his father Rob Wall spoke of how their six-year-old son
48.
by ptha 7y ago
Kindle edition appears to be £1.49 on Amazon.co.uk https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emperor-All-Maladies-Siddhartha-Muk...
49.
by ptha 7y ago
Some further info on Work Profiles from Google: https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/6191949?hl=en
50.
by ptha 7y ago
I noticed this for a few hotels when traveling to New Zealand recently, a few hotels required a $100-200 deposit - in cash only. As I'd been using a Revolut card for purchases and it was near the end of the holiday so I didn't wan
51.
by ptha 7y ago
Fascinating/harrowing stuff: Despite these losses, the crew was able to attain and then maintain limited control by using the throttles to adjust thrust to the remaining wing-mounted engines. By using each engine independently, the cr
52.
by ptha 8y ago
While the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) only logged a total of one minute of flight time at an altitude of 2 inches above the ground, the scientists were able to get the data they need to be able to say that it will work on Mars. "The
53.
by ptha 8y ago
From some googling it doesn't appear that you are actually physically removing the app, from xda-developers: these uninstalled system applications can/will come back after a factory reset. This is a good thing, however, as it mea
54.
by ptha 8y ago
Actually they are related, renamed in Britain to avoid confusion with a British retailer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK_Maxx
55.
by ptha 8y ago
I like the half basements, but they have their issues: http://copenhagenbydesign.com/blog/2015/5/21/half-up-and-hal...
56.
by ptha 9y ago
Episode 1 (Hard NOx) of the Netflix series "Dirty Money" covers this quite well: https://www.netflix.com/ie/title/80118100 The other episodes are also worth a watch.
57.
by ptha 9y ago
Hans Rosling has done some research and ted talks about this: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_...
58.
by ptha 9y ago
Don't worry about the insects, see the last quote: As the scent of 82 proof alcohol that preserves the bugs wafted, just a little, through the room, a reporter asked if, at this rate, all the insects were going to disappear. “Oh, don’
59.
by ptha 9y ago
In Ireland we had a property bubble during the "Celtic Tiger" years, and suffered a major correction after 2007 [1]. Apartments in Dublin the capital city lost about 62% of their value. 10years later and prices are climbing steadi
60.
by ptha 9y ago
The Maasai people in Africa have and still drink cow's blood as part of their diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people#Diet

More ›