siriaan

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by siriaan 1mo ago
People didn't like the early self-checkout machines which were horribly slow and inaccurate. Current models are quite slick and many people prefer them.
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by siriaan 3mo ago
What about the 1%?
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by siriaan 4mo ago
Occasional ums and ahs are fine but when every other phrase starts with a long aaaaah it can be pretty unpleasant to listen to.
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by siriaan 5mo ago
I was never interested in seeing the gore pics but the library section had some great writing in it. They even had an interview with Patton Oswalt: https://web.archive.org/web/20170902074735/http://www.ro
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by siriaan 6mo ago
Corncob 3D was a flight simulator with quite realistic physics and flat shaded 3D graphics written in x86 assembly. It ran pretty well on a 286!
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by siriaan 7mo ago
Don't forget dirt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophagia#Humans
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by siriaan 1y ago
In the physical world, sure, but there's no reason why a virtual linear slide could not be made endless
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by siriaan 1y ago
There's also the issue of cargo space. The 777-300 actually has a larger hold, about 11% more. Cargo is pretty lucrative so even passenger airlines like being able to devote some of their hold space to it.
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by siriaan 2y ago
Took me several years to unlearn 'Lie-nix'!
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by siriaan 2y ago
I'd love to see someone make a kind of response to 300 based on the Battle of Leuctra where the Spartans got their butts handed to them by the Thebans
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by siriaan 2y ago
Not the Pinkertons, but John Sayle's Matewan from 1987 features the Baldwin-Felts agency behaving similarly.
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by siriaan 2y ago
Just like Andorra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_iqrvnC_4
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by siriaan 2y ago
Japan used NTSC-J, not PAL. Apparently it's close enough to American NTSC that they are basically compatible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC-J
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by siriaan 2y ago
Sega had basically the same service several years earlier - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel
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by siriaan 2y ago
Except a moving subject, of course.
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by siriaan 3y ago
Well a university in New Zealand got the ok to blast pigs in the head with a Glock for a blood spatter study - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/284438/how-did-shooting-...
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by siriaan 3y ago
Those houses across the street are reminiscent of the sort of mid-century build you'd see lining the streets of every city and town where a young New Zealander might have grown up. So you get views of the three things your average Kiwi
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by siriaan 3y ago
> You couldn't fit a four stroke engine to a leaf blower or chainsaw etc. Actually not true - you can definitely get four stroke blowers, chainsaws, weed whackers, etc.
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by siriaan 3y ago
The bedrock around Göbekli Tepe is apparently limestone, so saith Wikipedia, so no, metal is not required to carve it.
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by siriaan 3y ago
I found an obvious one I thought was fairly amusing. This site acting like "The Far Pavilions" miniseries from 1984 had only just come out and was up for a second season next year, complete with a countdown clock - https:/&#
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by siriaan 3y ago
Parts printed in ABS can be smoothed with acetone vapor - https://all3dp.com/2/abs-acetone-smoothing-3d-print-vapor-sm...
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The Revolutionary Chip Inside Your Favorite Pedals (2019)(reverb.com)
1 points by siriaan 4y ago|0 comments
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by siriaan 4y ago
The Pyramid of the Sun and the other pyramids of Teotihuacan actually predate the Aztecs by over a thousand years - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan
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The Chemical Formulary(babel.hathitrust.org)
2 points by siriaan 4y ago|0 comments