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by sitharus 2y ago
SIP is wonderful. I no longer have to completely repave machines after my family install crapware because I know it can't mess with the base system. But for those of us who need that access we can disable it, with a bit of a dance to m
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by sitharus 2y ago
The answer is that’s just the way English is. Exactly 1 is singular, everything else is plural (mostly). “On accident” is American English, as a British English speaker I’d consider it a grammatical mistake. The same goes with “I forgot it
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by sitharus 2y ago
Yep, it absolutely does. YouTube would be unusable without it for me
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by sitharus 2y ago
Yes they’ll use more fuel than running on all engines. They always load the extra fuel that would be required for the maximum flight time with an engine out. The extra fuel burn is due to the drag from pushing a non-working engine through t
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by sitharus 2y ago
It was too long since I’d posted and I couldn’t edit it, otherwise I would have.
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by sitharus 2y ago
This is where the foundation of a relational database semantics in set theory shows through. You can’t model the behaviour with pure boolean logic. In the SQL spec by default unique indexes consider nulls distinct because you’re adding tupl
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by sitharus 2y ago
I did say _most_ for a reason :) Neither pronunciation is universal, but Commonwealth English speakers (except Canada which uses both) normally pronounce the l, American English speakers don’t. Other English varieties vary.
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by sitharus 2y ago
Flux in flux cored solder is rosin, rosin is distilled from pine sap and is a permitted food additive. It’s as a glaze on chewing gum and pharmaceuticals. Rosin is also used on violin bows to increase friction, and it’s the white powder you
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by sitharus 2y ago
It’s the same as applying flux separately, the flux is displaced by the metal. If you’re applying fluxed solder directly there’s not much point applying separate flux to clean metal. Of course the flux will boil off pretty quickly so you ne
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by sitharus 2y ago
That is indeed a typo, it's supposed to be 400°C.
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by sitharus 2y ago
This is confusing when you know that NULLs are not comparable, but it makes some sense if you consider the result of distinct/union as the output of a GROUP BY. You can consider everything that's NULL to be part of the same group,
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by sitharus 2y ago
Good point, I totally forgot that because cleaning my workbench and hand washing after work is just second nature to me now. Metallic lead is dangerous if inhaled or ingested, but not a big concern for momentary contact with your skin as me
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by sitharus 2y ago
It really depends on the flux, even modern fluxes have a range of toxicity. The only way to know is to check the MSDS. I use Канифоль/rosin flux as well and use a fume extractor. Rosin flux is the most common for flux-cored solder in m
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by sitharus 2y ago
Correct, but all materials have a vapour pressure so there will be a very small amount of lead vapour when soldering. Based on lead’s vapour pressure it’s in the range of a few atoms, I haven’t done the math though. I mentioned it for compl
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by sitharus 2y ago
Soldering makes a metal-metal connection, with the flux ensuring oxides are removed. This makes a very low resistance connection, mechanically it’s very strong, and it’s easy to automate. As a bonus it’s also very easy to undo. Other techno
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by sitharus 2y ago
Sodder is the common American pronunciation, most of the rest of the world says solder.
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by sitharus 2y ago
Yes that’s accurate for hobbyist work. There will be some lead vapour, but at the temperatures used for soldering we’re talking a few atoms. The flux is much more of a risk, and both are mitigated with proper fume extraction. Lead does bioa
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by sitharus 2y ago
Leaded solder is not a big health risk for hobbyists as long as you have proper fume extraction. Metallic lead is poorly absorbed through the skin (it _is_ absorbed from what I can find, but very very slowly), the major risk is from lead va
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by sitharus 2y ago
There’s an unspoken phrase here, it’s “in the way I think it should be done”. Just because the younger generation are doing things differently it doesn’t make them wrong, in my generation it was sending text messages that was wrong because
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by sitharus 2y ago
From what I understand, no, they don’t replace coupons you’ve entered. Honey’s advertising message was “never search for a coupon again” and “we’ll ensure you always have the best discount possible”. However in reality a merchant could sign
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by sitharus 2y ago
I only know about New Zealand, and we definitely do source a lot of medications from India. However we have a single payer health system for the most part (you can get medications that aren’t through the system, but you pay full non-US mark
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by sitharus 2y ago
One of the things I learnt about ADHD from my recent diagnosis is how it disrupts your perception of time compared to people without it. To me it doesn’t matter if there’s a deadline, my brain just does not perceive time in a way that makes
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by sitharus 2y ago
Huh, I failed to find the NZ page. My search skills must be getting rusty... thanks for the link!
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by sitharus 2y ago
If you think the taste of honey is indistinguishable from sugar syrup, you haven’t had real honey. In addition to flavour compounds from the nectar, honey contains trace amino acids that cause it to slowly undergo the malliard reaction at r
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by sitharus 2y ago
Unfortunately not. The rate of crystallisation depends on the source of nectar for the honey, I know from experience that clover honey seems to crystallise a lot sooner than Manuka honey. It also depends on the sort of processing done. Comm
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by sitharus 2y ago
Take a holiday to New Zealand and try honey here. It’s definitely not adulterated because we don’t allow any honey imports. Try clover, Rewarewa, Manuka, and multiflora, you can taste a clear difference between each. Of course they’ll likel
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by sitharus 2y ago
I’ve never heard of a legal limit for paying in cash. The AML rules require people to have an explanation of where the cash comes from, but there’s no limit on it. Of course there’s no requirement to accept cash except in the case of paying
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by sitharus 2y ago
But that's not a problem with Rust, and it's not something that anyone should feel ashamed about. Just acknowledge "Hey I can't use Rust because I can't commit the brain space needed to it".
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by sitharus 2y ago
Your plates can be washed with temperatures that would scald you and with chemicals that dissolve your skin. But you don’t want to sanitise your skin, just get the dirt off, so I don’t see any real issues.
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by sitharus 2y ago
> So, we're keeping the fire hazard, but adding a stored energy hazard in the form of compressed gas? All in a retrofit? This doesn't sound like a good idea for international ships. Indeed not, I haven't heard of any large

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