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by simonblack 2y ago
Only when valued in US Dollars. When valued in AUD the price of gold has dropped. the main drivers of recent gold gains have been the weaker U.S. dollar and ...
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by simonblack 2y ago
Use standard office procedure, basically. Stuff comes 'in', and gets filed away constantly. You have an 'in' tray, with me it's my 'Downloads' folder. Even locally-generated files get put there. So stuff c
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by simonblack 2y ago
I suppose the "OK, Boomer" will now become "OK, Millennial". Of course this was going to happen, it's what always happens, generation after generation. It's called 'The Cycle of Life'. We've been
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by simonblack 2y ago
Once you have manufacturers start implementing TC, that will really hamper reverse engineering efforts. Imagine the possibilities of capturing the non-Microsoft market be allowing the TC to be turned off, or by not including it. When it c
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by simonblack 2y ago
Why would they bother? Three hundred and fifty million Americans as possibilities and all they can come up with as a selection-choice is Kamala and Trump?? That's a bit like having to choose between bashing all of your teeth out with a
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by simonblack 2y ago
At this point in history, killing off Taiwanese chip companies would be a bigger disaster for the West than for China. China has lots of chipmakers (and producing even more in the future), the West not so much. TSMC makes something like 60%
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by simonblack 2y ago
Will they be removing laptops made in China, and TV cameras made in china, and ball-point pens made in China, too? And underwear made in China? And phones made in China?? This is starting to remind me of WW1 when they banned music because
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by simonblack 2y ago
That's Western civilisation. Those other civilisations have been around a lot longer. They've been there, done that. Some even have the T-shirt.
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by simonblack 2y ago
Green hydrogen?? I was always taught that it was colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
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by simonblack 2y ago
https://www.astronomy.com/science/starlink-satellites-disrup...
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by simonblack 2y ago
Unless it flashed past me, I didn't see any mention of the ubiquitous int a=5; style of initialisation. I tend to initialise all ints as a zero default with "int xxx = 0;". I know that all globals, etc are initialis
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by simonblack 2y ago
Is it really quitting when they leave one channel to start their own? Click-bait title.
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by simonblack 2y ago
The strange thing is that my subjective age has always been about 20. Two shock realisations: One: when I looked in the mirror one day and my reaction was "Who is that old bastard?" Two: when my mind suddenly came up with the thou
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by simonblack 2y ago
cui bono?
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by simonblack 2y ago
Just ask your local friendly astronomer what he thinks about Starlink.
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by simonblack 2y ago
Better yet. Stop any repeat submissions of the same article for at least four days. "Sorry. That article has been submitted already." Time and time again we get the same article submitted by half a dozen (or more) submitters over
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by simonblack 2y ago
The annoying 'What's the Black Line For' Treasure Hunt every time it happens could be eliminated by having a tooltip appear on hovering over the black line with something along the lines of "Bill Smith dies." For ex
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by simonblack 2y ago
Starlink IS an orbital debris field.
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by simonblack 2y ago
This article's headline made me lose some trust in the WSJ Most of Murdoch's media have been designated as 'Entertainment, and not obliged to be truthful'.(Florida ruling: early 1990s) If you're expecting the trut
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by simonblack 2y ago
"Show me your tits, and I'll show you my tats."
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by simonblack 2y ago
If you can't explain why planes stay in the air, you can't explain how fish and humans move around in water. The physics of flight is well understood, no matter what bullshit 'scientific' American may print.
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by simonblack 2y ago
I like the *idea* of the George Foreman grill, but they are one of the messiest ways of cooking ever devised. Better overall, IMO, is the 'air fryer' with a non-stick surface. The beauty of those is that the basket(s) can be thr
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by simonblack 2y ago
The same way as always. If the news is important enough, you will get it by word of mouth. I was once told (30-40 years ago), "Don't bother listening/watching the news on radio/TV. It only wastes your precious time.&quot
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by simonblack 2y ago
I hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary that day, except that some websites were slow. I usually don't watch the news but hours later that night flicking through channels, I caught a few words talking about 'huge outage
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by simonblack 2y ago
Went back to the market this morning: Those bananas were dwarf Cavendish. And the farmer said " .. and we don't treat them with (ethylene) gas."
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by simonblack 2y ago
Yurk! Sorry, I don't like the Logo at all! I thought the redesign was to do with the STRUCTURE of Linux Mint, not a piddly logo change. And the central menu isn't as worker-friendly when you have a screen-full of stuff already
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by simonblack 2y ago
What's a 'Blue Screen of Death'? I don't get those. Why am I missing out?
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by simonblack 2y ago
You're quite correct. It's ethylene and not ethylene oxide that does the ripening. Sometimes you don't want to have to wait days for a fruit to ripen, that's why it's faster to use the plastic bag trick.
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by simonblack 2y ago
I don't use Windows, but Linux. Today, apart from one or two websites being slower than usual, I didn't notice anything until I heard the news on the TV about the outage hours later.
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by simonblack 2y ago
Ripening fruit/veges give off ethylene oxide which causes further ripening. If you trap that ethylene oxide by putting the fruit or veges in a closed plastic bag, they will ripen even faster. Here in the tropics fruit ripens very quick

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