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by thombat 4y ago
Neighbors and pilots may complain
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> If we can add Feel to the humble checkbox, imagine what it could do for apps that aid in personal connections or creativity. For some that will be grand, for me, I'd much rather they kept unobtrusively discrete and let me get on w
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by thombat 4y ago
Please ELI5: what did the Nazi regime actually do? What is it about Hitler that warrants universal admiration?
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Seconded - it's fabulous to find that not only is he writing, but writing posts with titles like: http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2021/08/Screw-You-Microso... no M$-lapdog, he. I learnt my Win16 from
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by thombat 4y ago
Generally alloys can selectively corrode, so with a combination of gold and iron the iron may still be attacked. But certainly some gold alloys provide improved hardness without being very vulnerable. For a boat the gold coating would need
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It's actually the opposite of an ad hominem: Shakespeare puts those words in the mouth of a violent and disordered criminal precisely to attack such sentiments, tempting though they may be to us when faced with outrageous behavior by l
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The perversity is that if they do care then they're less likely to be heading anywhere, since they won't be seen as a go-getter. The problem extends to the customers too: we all know that solid unexciting dependable quality is t
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Shakespeare puts those words into the mouth of Dick the Butcher, a violent anti-intellectual anarchist, who for the sheer devilment of it joins forces with a deranged pretender noble (who in turn sets about killing the literate while "
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by thombat 4y ago
For version 2 they're adding themes for the social media icons
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Out of sheer cussedness I just took a look (45 mins before start of total eclipse). The earth's shadow is quite apparent at this point but the sky behind it is already quite pale. So I great that once the "bite" is complete t
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by thombat 4y ago
I guess if the network/power company can't/won't accept surplus power then it hugely devalues the financial case for domestic solar, since if your summertime production doesn't much exceed consumption then you have
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by thombat 4y ago
An easier to interpret description: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16 which given your location tells you what to expect. For me the news is bleak: full eclipse begins at 05:23 local time, and
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Stating the obvious, but if making money depends upon "free electricity" then it's an elaborate way to take money from whoever is paying that power bill.
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Florida pays the wrongfully imprisoned $50k per year - but only if they have no other felony convictions. And Thomas James has one for possession of marijuana in 1989, so by Florida law he's entitled to no compensation at all. Parts of
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Normally used to mean an activity in the fresh air, generally with pleasant overtones. So dining "Al fresco" might be a meal on a terrace, or a picnic in a park. Flying al fresco could be a jolly ride in a biplane or a hot air bal
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by thombat 5y ago
Habakkuk sounds like many a run-away software project, where a promising notion keeps being pursued long before its impracticability is apparent. Gems from that wiki link: * The final design of Habakkuk II gave the bergship, as it was calle
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by thombat 5y ago
Minimum runway length quoted for Boeing 777 take-offs is 2500m, plus a 240m runway end safety area (a sandpit it can plow into if the takeoff is aborted without remaining space to halt). On an aircraft carrier this might be shortened a litt
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Boiling the final product then gives a process of: evaporate -> condense -> re-evaporate -> re-condense Quite a lot of energy, but at least you can market it as double-distilled, like a fancy spirit.
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It very much depends upon what "deep space" means to you: * escape from the solar system altogether? That requires a big change in velocity, about half as much again as what it took to get to its current orbit. * chuck it into the
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Safety regulations offer the possibility of a more holistic take on wellbeing than an insurance company's accident indemnity can be expected to offer. So there is some correction going on: https://www.theguardian.com/wo
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5G spectrum is various bands from 700MHz -> 95GHz [1]. So the corresponding wavelengths range from 45cm down to 3mm - if constructive interference is a concern than rather than worry about the siting of your apartment it's the posit
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"Germans effectively left" makes it sound almost voluntary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_of_East_Prussia#K%C...
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That paper doesn't address the question being asked: are microplastics in fish a particular cancer risk?
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At the root of medicine is biochemistry, and at the root of chemistry is quantum physics: the formation and breaking of chemical bonds is at core random events shaped by probabilities. We can only say how likely events are, not which ones w
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The "Some Facts" panel presents a meta joke by repeating a brain claim: Some Facts.. The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharoh Ramses II who fa
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Thanks! - I should know better than to copy & paste a link without trial-clicking the result.
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The whole sentence is self-explanatory: > One asked a technical question about my lib, I answered "do you know what's happening in Ukraine right now?" - no reply. Innocently asking the question seems fine; as you say we ge
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Indeed, current theories of stellar evolution place the extinction of life on Earth in the range on hundreds of millions of years, due to the increase of its luminosity. For example here's a description of a better climate model [1] ex
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And far too valuable to discard frivilously - I heard a medieval historian bewailing the cinematic convention of cutting a prisoner's bonds when setting them free, basically "do they not know how many hours of work it took to make
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But first filter out all the legion irrelevant 1-star reviews ("The courier left the box in the rain", "I couldn't return it because I waited too long to unpack it because it was a surprise present - SO MAD!!!!", et

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