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by ternus 10mo ago
The BBC Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell miniseries is excellent . One of those times (others might include the original LOTR films and early Game of Thrones) where a genre adaptation wildly exceeded my expectations.
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by ternus 10mo ago
This is still a concern in 2025. If your aircraft systems break, or if you don't want to be identified, there are surprisingly few ways of identifying you nonetheless. It surprises many people to learn that we do not have full radar co
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by ternus 10mo ago
I can't find the original tweet, but someone (half?) jokingly proposed a law that all benefits must be defined as continuously differentiable functions (thus making cliffs impossible). "Yeah, I made $1M last year. Here's my S
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by ternus 10mo ago
If you don't care about music or background play, and all you want is to eliminate ads, YouTube Premium Lite is $8/month. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15968883
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by ternus 10mo ago
Anecdotally, the professors I talked to in the building hated it. Non-rectilinear walls and oddly-shaped offices made it difficult to put up bookcases and desks. The windows were all custom, meaning if one broke, it was difficult to replace
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by ternus 11mo ago
> it was French that equipped English to become the language of international communication, _a state of affairs which should be celebrated as la francophonie’s greatest achievement_. Imagine making this claim to a proud French language
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by ternus 11mo ago
My primary monitor is the Samsung 57" 8Kx2K 240Hz ultrawide. That's the same amount of bandwidth, running over DisplayPort 2. It mostly works!
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by ternus 11mo ago
I visited in person several years back and was astonished - the grass really was that shade of lime green. Don't miss Sete Cidades: the cluster of small towns inside the caldera of an extinct volcano. Gorgeous.
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by ternus 11mo ago
That phrase is Google's mission statement.
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by ternus 11mo ago
What's the go-to recommendation for smart thermostats with local control (no cloud) + Home Assistant these days? Claude suggests Ecobee + Homekit. Z-Wave seems to be another popular option. What are people using?
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by ternus 11mo ago
Good writeup. Note that they say: > Evidence so far is scarce, so we repeat these claims with some healthy skepticism. But we should also note, external contacts and 3rd party reports are all telling us the same story: the litho tool is
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by ternus 11mo ago
Debt ceiling is different than a shutdown. Debt ceiling negotiations are about raising the debt limit to pay for spending Congress has already appropriated. The debt ceiling failure mode is "the US defaults on its debt." Shutdowns
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by ternus 11mo ago
I was astonished at the claim that pilots ejecting can lose half an inch of height due to spinal compression induced by the G-forces. Claims seem to be borne out: https://www.forcesnews.com/news/can-ejecting-aircraft-ma
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by ternus 11mo ago
The claims made on that kind of hobby tool, in that era, serve as a fantastic argument for truth-in-advertising laws. Looking at you, the perpetual ad for (plans for) time machines and force fields in the back of Boy's Life.
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by ternus 11mo ago
> If you are sleeping a healthy amount you aren't grinding enough Unless you build a soundproof box for your rock tumbling - then you can run it 24/7.
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by ternus 11mo ago
Wow, that's awful. Have you looked into the existing powered exoskeletons? Or are those too hip/thigh focused to help?
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by ternus 11mo ago
This is a major through-line in War and Peace. Native Russian characters write to each other in (untranslated-in-the-original! Hope your translation comes with footnotes!) French, and a significant chunk of the dialogue is in French as well
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by ternus 11mo ago
Were the bath bombs any good? Did the LLM's advice(?) make a meaningful difference? I didn't know making them was so simple.
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by ternus 11mo ago
I read this as a reference to the Fourth and Fifth Republic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fifth_Republic (I've read that the French are talking about a Sixth, given that they've gone through several p
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by ternus 11mo ago
The saving grace was that it was followed by a single hyphen, not an em-dash.
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by ternus 11mo ago
Presumably they mean the Model Y Standard. The existing model became the Model Y Premium.
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by ternus 11mo ago
Great project! If you don't feel like building your own chicken squisher, there are commercially-available automatic coop doors that you can buy on Amazon. The one I got is Tuya-based, making it easy to integrate into Home Assistant. F
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by ternus 11mo ago
That's not his department.
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by ternus 11mo ago
Artemis II is not on the pad. It's in the VAB, and it isn't stacked yet (source: my sister's an engineer with NASA Exploration Ground Support and is one of the people in charge of assembling it). There's a lot left to do
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by ternus 11mo ago
Many dishwashers are supposed to be wood-screwed into the surrounding cabinets! Recently installed one for a friend and was surprised to see that instruction. Meanwhile, with the exception of ice makers/water dispensers (1/4 PEX),
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by ternus 11mo ago
Also: if you find ice forming in your fridge, or uneven cooling inside, it may be due to a clogged drain tube. This was the root cause of my fridge breaking: tube in the back clogged -> condensation backed up around the evaporator coils
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by ternus 11mo ago
Totally fine to choose as the author did, but for others who might face a similar choice: repairing a thermostat in a fridge is dramatically easier than fixing almost anything in a dishwasher. I did that with my fridge - cost <$20 for
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by ternus 11mo ago
I used to be a huge fan of Charlie Stross. He's made exactly this kind of apocalyptic prediction many times before. When devastation doesn't materialize, or the outcome far less severe than he predicted, he doesn't update on
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by ternus 1y ago
The bread is the mascot of the TV channel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_das_Brot -- an article surprisingly full of gems such as this: > The reason for Bernd's depression was revealed in the 85th episode
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by ternus 2y ago
I'm confused. According to the article, several days working results in a 90kb compressed DB. If that's the case, it can't be capturing all the text you see, including web pages - perhaps "working" here doesn't

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