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by shmeeed 2y ago
Not a biologist, but OTOH they might have had a very different body structure that doesn't conserve well, e.g. like molluscs. Or maybe we _did__ find their remains and just have no idea they were part of an intelligent civilization. I
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by shmeeed 2y ago
OMG, I finally understand what's happening there. Thank you so much!
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by shmeeed 2y ago
TL;DR: if you're on the fence, go read the book. It's good and short to boot. I have to admit I've only seen part of a playthrough of /The Invicible/, but haven't played the game myself. Still, as a general rul
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Curious as to why you feel the retro look doesn't fit? In my head canon, Lem's worlds look just about like that, because they were written in the era. It might be because I tend to glance over details in descriptions, though...
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Are they really actually claiming to have designed such a rocket engine? Thanks for the Sprint info BTW, I had never heard of that.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
You gotta love how they just handwave away the fact that this is basically impossible with current technology. I guess payload design to such specs will be the customer's problem.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
The article the quote is from was written in 2014.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Did you read the ACOUP article? I remember reading it when it was published, and it changed my mind on the topic.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Re: your last paragraph called to my mind the great french thriller "The Wages of Fear" from 1953, in which two trucks loaded with nitroglycerin need to cross rough terrain, and the viewer finds himself holding his breath quite a
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by shmeeed 2y ago
I'm waiting for myself to one day muster the courage to order "dos expressis" at a restaurant in Italy. But I fear the repercussions.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
That's an interesting take, but I'm not sold. It sounds a bit like claiming to be a family of firefighters because your grandpa participated in a drill once, passing along empty buckets.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
I use my knuckle for that, because I'm much less likely to touch my food or face with it later. Same goes for e.g. elevator buttons.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
This is some serious Twilight Zone stuff.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
What I find so chilling and reminding about this history is that to this very day, the spanish peninsula remains largely deforested because of that fleet they had 500 years ago.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Do you have an example for such a site? Where does one even find a site without tracking nowadays? How is such a banner even supposed to work when there is no choice for the user to make? I mean, someone has to make that banner, so it'
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by shmeeed 2y ago
It doesn't have to be silicone. SiO2 is a necessary ingredient in all rubber compounds.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
This would never have gone past Jobs.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Versions with longer sleeves exist for this exact reason.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Both
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Dabbling, sure. But Kim was never a dabbler. He chose to go for ALL the money and the money only, everytime. Many people seem to forget or not know that all along his career he went ripping off fellow nerds and hackers left and right for hi
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Is it really possible that there's no driver that is capable of doing this in Windows? Did you look into this? I wouldn't know because I consider all those effect libraries, mixers and presets ("Concert Hall" - who would
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by shmeeed 2y ago
That depends on the principle, some are actually built to trickle and seep into the ground below. Anyway I suppose that such concrete underground structures are often built on the cheap, and by the very nature of their content they're
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Usually because waste water from putrefaction is loaded with nitrogen and bacteria that can contaminate ground water.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Not an optometrist myself, so please excuse if I'm using all the wrong words here. The way it's been explained to me: you want to leave some challenge for the eye to overcome, so the muscles that do the focussing stay in training.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Please only try this in countries with left-hand traffic.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
It could be the 194.5 or any one number (e.g. the 10), depending on which measure is actually considered important by the designer. As presented, the designer would get points deducted in a drafting 101 exercise.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Real question, how do you audit that data got deleted with certainty, and not just locked away out of reach for the time being? To me this seems like a fact hard to prove.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
I admit that was a bit of hyperbole. My point stands regardless.
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by shmeeed 2y ago
Now that's interesting. I wonder why neither here nor there anybody mentions GK's name. Fear of litigation? IMO somebody who managed to collapse the most important infrastructure on earth twice in as many decades - not a small fea

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