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by satori99 6y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson wrote a book, 2312 , which featured an equatorial city on Mercury mounted on massive concrete rails. The expansion of the concrete rails on the day side permanently keeps the city in the planets relatively pleasant pre
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It is worth noting that rigging and sails for lightweight racing hulls has evolved way beyond anything that has ever been used commercially -- And would look quite weird (though still recognizable) to a 19th C sailor [0]. Also, the material
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I lived on a houseboat in Sydney for a few years. It was by far the cheapest lifestyle I have ever lived in this city, but it is not really lawful as I was on a swing mooring. My fees for the mooring was only a few hundred dollars a year, L
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This reminds me of another interesting flying boat story; https://medium.com/s/story/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that...
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I have heard anecdotally that a significant and growing number of children and young people have difficulty reading analog clocks.
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Oh wow, I hate this one so much. I try to avoid opening multiple FF windows because I always close the wrong one last.
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For someone like me who has rarely seen snow in my 45 years on this planet, getting a glimpse of an ordinary life in extraordinary climate is quite interesting.
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I still have an EPS-16+ Digital Sampler with 4 whole megabytes of RAM, but unfortunately its floppy drive hasn't survived the decades, so I can't boot it. http://www.vintagesynth.com/ensoniq/ens_eps16.php
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You seem to have a problem with the X lines of code... part. I guess I can see how it might be seen as boastful or showboating, but to me it signals "This might be a fun coding project for a single afternoon."
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Acclaimed video software like VLC also uses FFmpeg/libavcodec to do the encoding/decoding etc, and I don't think anyone is claiming those developers are 'cheating'.
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> The Culture has technology to manipulate physical reality similar to classic science fiction "force fields" that allows ships to maintain an atmosphere and protect against physical damage. In The Player of Games , A GSV expl
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It appears to generate ROM (cartridge) images, which I'm guessing are sound patches, for a vintage Yamaha FM synthesizer -- A model which was extremely popular and ubiquitous a few decades ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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My parents used to run a produce market agency in Sydney. Their clients were banana farmers and their customers were national supermarket chains. From what I remember, not much was ever wasted and trashed out of their warehouses. Any banana
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Why Rebel Groups Love the Toyota Hilux (2010) > [...] A former British special forces soldier, who asked not to be identified because he still consults on active operations, says he too has faced the Hilux, which he refers to as "t
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by satori99 6y ago
Well, OP did say "even if it's impossible to understand" so if it is in fact in any way misleading, then my lawyers assure me that I may claim the full privileges of a contextual get-out-of-jail-free card for linking to it, a
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=uHeTQLNFTgU This comes close -- It shows the jittery thermal motion of this tiny machinery, instead of nice smooth glides.
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Are there really any legal protections? Parliament has not even been sitting, right?
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It is worth noting that "The Australian Media" in this case refers almost entirely to Rupert Murdoch.
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Do Dogs Know Calculus? http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/bardware/classes/0220/dkc.pdf
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Interestingly, a decade later, both Tad William's Otherland (1996), and Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash (1992) described networked virtual realities which everyday normal people had access to, but they were referred to as "Ke
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The article makes it clear that these jets do retain their electronic warfare pods and radar systems. There would be little point in training against them otherwise.
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I become aware of this after reading Temple Grandin's book Thinking in Pictures (1995): > When I was a child and a teenager, I thought everybody thought in pictures. I had no idea that my thought processes were different. In fact
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Wow. I googled him a little more, and his story was fascinating.; > Despite opposition to his concept from many in an engineering profession known for its conservatism, his roundabout designs were formally written into government desig
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The traffic engineer who managed to convince authorities that this was the solution to their problems must've been very charismatic.
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There are no races to land before the curfew starts at Sydney airport. The curfew only affect large planes, and late arriving jets still land normally in sequence, though the airlines pay a steep increase in landing fees. It is worth noting
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They are asking people not too, but also its hard to overstate just how rugged and inhospitable the terrain to the north west of Sydney is. It is essentially untouched wilderness that is very difficult to traverse for even experienced bush-
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Not only were they discovered so recently, but the grove is only @100KM from Australia's largest city of >5M people
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I enjoyed it as a super cheap depth camera, and never used it for gaming.
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Secret firefighting mission saves 'dinosaur trees'(smh.com.au)
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Or Red Dwarf (novel); The trend spread. GELFs, Genetically Engineered Life Forms, were everywhere, and soon virtually every consumer product was made of living tissue. Gelf armchairs, which could sense your mood, and massage

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