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by sitharus 3y ago
It is so the flight attendants can see outside, and also so the passengers’ eyes are adapted to outside light in case of an evacuation. You don’t want people hesitating on the slides because they can’t see.
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by sitharus 3y ago
Same here in New Zealand. Registration plates just have the number for the car, nothing special. The registration database has make, model and VIN to confirm they’re the right plates.
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by sitharus 3y ago
Every quarter? Even when driving a 15 year old combustion car I have never had a car that needed to go for service that often! My new EV has a two-year service interval to check the coolant and brakes.
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by sitharus 3y ago
I’m always amazed at other country’s tax systems. Here in NZ if you’re a sole trader you only pay personal income tax, if you incorporate you either take the whole profit as income and pay income tax, or take a dividend which comes with tax
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by sitharus 3y ago
> To do this, we essentially need to develop something that will cause serious harm to the bacteria and yet not harm human cells. The other problem is we depend on mutualistic bacteria to survive, if we kill all bacteria in our bodies we
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by sitharus 3y ago
Pay-at-pump is ubiquitous here in New Zealand, I don't think I've seen a station without it for years. This may be because around 90% of all retail transactions are done with payment cards here. It's easy. You select the max
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by sitharus 3y ago
You don't need to keep paying, you can just get a one-month subscription and download your genome once it's sequenced. The subscription is just for the alerting.
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by sitharus 3y ago
I don't live in the US (in New Zealand), but this made me check my policies. I'm no longer a home owner but I checked my policy from a couple of years ago, and I checked the contents insurance I currently have (which has indemnity
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by sitharus 3y ago
I don't think the railcars are carrying fermented grain, they carry grain which spills and ferments... However getting grain to ferment is somewhat tricky compared to fruit, you need the right amount of water at the right time to get i
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by sitharus 3y ago
The odd thing is this behaviour is documented. Classes reference types, are always heap allocated, and passed by reference. Structs are value types, allocated inline (that is inline in the containing object/array, or on the stack for l
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by sitharus 3y ago
Glyphosate is toxic to some bacteria as they use the same enzyme as part of amino acid synthesis. It’s not a universal antibiotic.
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by sitharus 3y ago
The worst showers I’ve found are the ones installed in the 70s and 80s here in New Zealand. There’s no pressure control, only temperature control with off after full cold. The shower head is fixed and has the control integrated so you have
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by sitharus 3y ago
Maybe Bob makes jam?
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by sitharus 3y ago
It can, but not retrospectively.
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by sitharus 3y ago
On point 5, bandcamp doesn’t own any rights to the music on the site. The artist agreement is limited to the service of selling music, if that changes the artists can revoke their agreement.
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by sitharus 3y ago
That was my experience as well, and totally ruined my first year at university. The lecturers expected I'd been taught application and derivation of proofs, but in reality I'd only been taught the proofs required to pass the high
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by sitharus 3y ago
I'm not in the US. Mutton is sheep over a year old in the UK, NZ, Australia, USA and Canada at least. Interesting to know about India though, TIL!
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by sitharus 3y ago
Mutton is adult sheep, older than hogget which is older than lamb. Goat is goat.
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by sitharus 3y ago
Oh thanks for that, it looks very handy! I use ZWave and Home Assistant's support is functional but flakey since they moved to zwave-js. Plus I have better things to do that maintain my automation server.
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by sitharus 3y ago
This actually happened to one of my colleagues a few years back! Except it was someone in the next row over sitting down causing his monitor to turn off. Took them ages to figure it out.
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by sitharus 3y ago
Technical. A lot of NZ is mountainous country with volcanic soil on top of impermeable clays, which means there's very little groundwater. Some of the alluvial areas have plentiful groundwater and they use wells, but the majority of ru
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by sitharus 3y ago
In New Zealand rural water supply is often rain water, so in the summer months where there's little rain you only have what's in the tank. You can order water from a commercial water suppliers of course, but why pay extra if you c
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by sitharus 3y ago
I actually checked this, on the regular (2 hour) cycle my dishwasher just opens the main detergent dispenser immediately. I have no idea why. The one hour cycle actually does a prewash.
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by sitharus 3y ago
Having grown up rurally on a limited water supply, I know you can do the dishes for a family of four in about 10L/2.5 gallons of water. You just have to scrape off all the solids first (four-legged helpers excel at this). If you want y
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by sitharus 3y ago
I live in New Zealand, and many people have guns. The difference is if you point it at someone at minimum you’ll lose your gun licence and have the weapon confiscated. I used to work at a multinational, we were quite amused when we saw an u
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by sitharus 3y ago
American circuits are rated to _12_ amps continuous load, peak of 15 amps (see https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/72733/what-is-the-ma... ) Contrast this to my house in NZ where each circuit is rated to 20 amp
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by sitharus 3y ago
The article is really unclear. COPY from a file is a fully server-side process, the server opens and loads the file directly. However the code linked to is from psql, the CLI tool. This is for the \copy CLI command (which invokes COPY FROM
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by sitharus 3y ago
Reduced child neglect and abuse
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by sitharus 3y ago
Why would the internet be involved? Remotely operated valves always have manual controls in case of network failure.
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by sitharus 3y ago
It's only cheaper for the consumer when there is a forcing function for price. In a competitive marketplace - lets say breakfast cereal - if you're inefficient another manufacturer can undercut you while maintaining profit margins

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