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by speakeron 7y ago
> Speaking of which, it’s high time that we consider changing how we clean ourselves after we use the toilet. Tersorium, anyone? Rather than the Tersorium (basically a shitty sponge), the answer is the bidet or the bidet shower[1] which
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by speakeron 7y ago
> FWIW, the pilots in the doomed Lion Air plane on the flight just prior to the accident flight did just that. Not the pilots so much as the person sitting in the jump seat (who suggested disabling electric trim). It essentially took thr
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by speakeron 8y ago
The 'element zapper' (or 'picker' if you want it made permanent) in uBlock Origin also works great for these situations.
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by speakeron 8y ago
The 737 isn't trimmed with a trim tab; the whole stabilizer is moved (rotated) by a jackscrew driven by an electric motor.
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by speakeron 8y ago
> Not allowed by thermodynamics. Otherwise you could create free energy by continuously burning and recapturing the same carbon. That doesn't have to be the case; the carbon you capture may not be in a burnable form. E.g. if carbon
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by speakeron 8y ago
The particle goes through the event horizon in finite time according to its own clock (and will then hit the singularity in finite term however it tries to travel). Think of the view of it by an external observer as being 'frozen'
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by speakeron 8y ago
> How do these two things mix? A particle experiences asymptotic time dilation when it crosses the event horizon and the rest of the universe ends in that moment. Then the black hole evaporates and lo and behold the universe is not ended
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by speakeron 8y ago
I would also recommend (8 lectures) Leonard Susskind Topics in String Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ-ElsvYKyo Despite the name this is largely about general relativity and black holes and other horizons. The best
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by speakeron 8y ago
> The original color of the >1954 Fender Stratocaster was a three-toned sunburst. Two-tone, surely. The two-color sunburst finish became a three-color sunburst finish in the first half of 1958 with the addition of an “in between” red
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by speakeron 8y ago
But what the article doesn't address is that the same effect is seen in flying at high altitudes without supplementary oxygen, even in the absence of sleep deprivation, dehydration, and simple physical exhaustion .
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by speakeron 8y ago
While I'm always happy to hear good news about coffee (although as an espresso aficionado, I'd be hard pressed to consume half a litre a day), given the obvious difference between coffee and water, I don't see how this can be
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by speakeron 8y ago
> These statements directly contradict each other. They don't contradict each other at all. > Once block 26 comes online, block 6 is a permanent feature of the blockchain. What defines the 'blockchain'? It's the ch
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by speakeron 8y ago
One solution is the bidet shower[1][2] that's common in Islamic and Asian countries. Nothing to clog up the sewage system and a rather civilised way to keep clean. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet_shower [2
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by speakeron 8y ago
I'd go further and say you that, if you're on medication, you shouldn't take any supplements without first checking with your doctor. With regards to vitamin K, all the versions of the supplement I've seen have a speci
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by speakeron 8y ago
> I will thus cut down on supplementation to avoid vascular calcification. Current good practice is to also supplement with vitamin K when taking D. This is to promote carboxylation of osteocalcin, so calcium is directed into bones rathe
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by speakeron 8y ago
> You woke up from the abyss this morning. Actually I woke up directly (and, apparently, seamlessly) from a dream. (I went lucid a little too carelessly surged to a waking in the same manner as you come up from the bottom of a swimming p
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by speakeron 8y ago
However perfect it is, it can only guarantee no collisions if the size of the strings you're hashing is equal or lower than the hash size. In this house, we obey the pigeonhole principle.
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by speakeron 8y ago
"It was the ability to, for the very first time, measure hormones down to the billionth of a gram. That’s like if you took a gram of salt and threw it into the ocean, and it had a powerful impact." That's about 10 orders of
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by speakeron 8y ago
The short answer is that statements like "spooky action at a distance" are an attempt to shoehorn quantum mechanics into a classical framework. It doesn't have any meaning in that sense. The long answer is here: https:/
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by speakeron 8y ago
> My favourite project was the video camera he made from a 64kb DRAM chip My first job in computing was as a bench repair engineer for shop-returned Sinclair Spectrums. (Pretty busy time since they had a huge failure rate mainly due to a
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by speakeron 8y ago
That's how I got to understand it when I first heard about the problem in the early 90s. (Of course, I also wrote a simulation.) The problem itself can be rephrased in an even simpler manner where Monty doesn't open any doors at a
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by speakeron 8y ago
> I think an important thing to consider is that if your going to take large amounts of vitamin D, you should also be getting enough magnesium to prevent unhealthy calcification. You should be taking vitamin K as well.
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by speakeron 8y ago
> but isn't (except in the Everett version) Not even in the Everett version. When we make a measurement to discover the large-scale patterns, we have to invoke the Born Rule and see just one outcome of the quantum wave. The other wo
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by speakeron 8y ago
Nothing stops a site showing ads; they just have to think of creative ways to target them. It's a new opportunity, as all changes of environments are.
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by speakeron 8y ago
Tu quoque is not a logical fallacy. There's no logical step that's violated. It's an informal fallacy.
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by speakeron 9y ago
> The giant pile of dirt on my back yard is proof that I did hours of hard work with a tea spoon. It isn't proof: you could have used a digger. The point of Bitcoin-style proof-of-work is that everyone has to use a teaspoon, and i
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by speakeron 9y ago
That's true in the general case, but it only happens after a difficulty drop. Until then, miners dropping out will raise the block time (again, just a tiny bit). For cryptocoins with more dynamic difficulty adjustment, this process hap
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by speakeron 9y ago
> Advanced meditators are able to be vividly conscious in dep sleep. How can that be known except through self-reporting? At least with lucid dreaming, experiments have shown communication from the subject via eye signals[1]. Has a simil
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by speakeron 9y ago
> What uses cases involve running new untrusted code on legacy unsupported systems? Well yes, you shouldn't be doing that (particularly the 'unsupported' bit). The thinking here, I suppose, is that Meltdown makes privilege
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by speakeron 9y ago
Well, that's a 'stimulating' site. It seems to be channeling the 1980s UK paper the Sunday Sport[1] (famous for its "World War 2 Bomber Found on the Moon" headline). My favourite line so far is: "He has been ba

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