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by rm445 5y ago
That can't be right. The Normans as a people played a major part in European history from at least the year 911 through the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). I've never seen the faintest indication that they weren't still called
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by rm445 5y ago
The hospitals weren't (all) overwhelmed but were focused on managing the pandemic. Fewer appointments scheduled, procedures pushed back, no weekend services, that kind of thing. Perhaps an element of patients huddling at home and being
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by rm445 5y ago
A couple who are both in a good income bracket?
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by rm445 5y ago
(PRODUCT)RED is a charity that Apple has supported since the iPod days: you get a red device and some money goes to charity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Red
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by rm445 5y ago
You're in luck! You can now attach an AirTag to your Apple remote and use the powerful 'Find My' ecosystem to locate it.
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by rm445 6y ago
If we could capture carbon by itself, we wouldn't bury it, we could make all kinds of stuff with it. The problem, approximately, is that you get energy from oxidising stuff, and have to put energy in to reduce it. Of course, turning so
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by rm445 6y ago
Tracerco | Lead Embedded Software Engineer | Billingham, UK | ONSITE Tracerco specialises in instrumentation and detection, particularly for the petrochemical industry. Part of Johnson Matthey plc - excellent pension and benefits. Seeking a
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by rm445 6y ago
Different connectors. Molex connectors and the Molex company are still around. Not ruling out that you've heard them called the wrong thing, there's a bewildering array of connectors.
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by rm445 6y ago
Scheme has rational numbers in its number tower, is that the kind of thing you mean? (= 22/7 44/14) #t
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by rm445 6y ago
Think of web content in a CMS. All the assets are in a database and they get spat out through a pipeline giving a formatted end result. I've never written a book in a DBMS(!) but it seems plausible.
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by rm445 6y ago
It's interesting to see this exchange, though, because it's high-trust: I would bet the professor's initial letter was courteously written, and asked if there were other factors besides purely surface area to volume. The resp
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by rm445 6y ago
So... you're in favour of the current military coup?
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by rm445 6y ago
Never heard of that, thanks. Jake Garn is a pretty interesting character. City mayor, Senator, navy pilot with thousands of flying hours. Headed the Senate appropriations committee for NASA and wrangled himself a place on a Shuttle mission.
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by rm445 6y ago
> I was invited to speak at an event (...) One of the apparent organisers of this event contacted me separately to say there was a vacancy for a teaching position and would I be interested (...) I submitted my CV (...) A few weeks later
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by rm445 6y ago
> there is no such thing as a PLC accessible from Internet in a real production site. That is so massively optimistic. I don't doubt you know your stuff, but manufacturing is a huge field, widely distributed, it is done by small com
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by rm445 6y ago
This sounds very plausible. I have a Dell Windows laptop with an ordinary barrel charger port which can also be kept charged by a dock plugged into the USB C port. It seems a good arrangement. I haven't tried charging the laptop from a
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by rm445 6y ago
What about lasers for emitting waste heat? Obviously there are practical issues with having powerful-enough lasers essentially powered by a heat engine, but are there thermodynamic reasons it couldn't work? This question is not 'E
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by rm445 6y ago
Yeah the N64 was great, but in total worldwide console sales totals, PS2 = 155 million, N64 = 33 million, Dreamcast = 9 million. Partly the enormous total was because the PS2 stuck around for so long (and, cyclically, kept getting games for
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by rm445 6y ago
Great post, but in the context of "Where is everybody?", each 'we won't' or 'we could', where we haven't actually done it yet, is potentially part of the solution to the puzzle. Perhaps filling the un
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by rm445 6y ago
I've heard it, and said it, pertaining to not having a fourth child. Semi tongue-in-cheek but having to buy a van would be one extra inconvenience.
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by rm445 6y ago
That's a great story. I remember being blown away by Descent - probably the second 3D-type game I played after Doom. The thought of free spaceship movement through caves with 6-axis control was amazing - though IIRC the level design wa
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by rm445 6y ago
I don't know how old you are, but based on the comment it seems likely you haven't travelled all the way along the journey yet. People can be retired and alone a long time - it seems such a potentially lonely existence that it&#x2
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by rm445 6y ago
As a parent without nearby family, I think you're right. It's hard work. We went away to university, got jobs, settled down and bought a house. To move back close to family now would be an upheaval - there was probably only one sh
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by rm445 6y ago
Oddly, this article made me understand the case that exists for deletionism (though it's still awful). It always seemed to be one of those weird things that keeps happening despite nobody being willing to stand up for it. I think I see
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by rm445 6y ago
Microsoft maybe?
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by rm445 6y ago
Literally dogs and horses? With the level of craziness under discussion here I can't quite tell.
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by rm445 6y ago
The norms for doxing in media are going to have to change. It's a tenet of traditional journalism that everyone in a story must be doxed. A local newspaper wouldn't write a story about someone being burgled without describing them
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by rm445 6y ago
My guess would be employee fraud. Nothing against the people mentioned in the article, just where I'd start looking. There are umpteen posts in this thread already about potential interesting ways to game lotteries, but the historic wa
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by rm445 6y ago
The programmer wrote 'found_value = (0..Float::INFINITY).bsearch do'...
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by rm445 6y ago
Great point. Most people can create an old-school website with a little effort using few or basic tools, but creating something that can host a community is/was much harder. phpbb was about the limit. It's almost an inversion - in

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