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by thombat 6y ago
That truly was a case of a picture being worth a thousand words - a much more dramatic effect than my puny intuition had guessed, and a nice piece of video editing: a clear view of the salient parts and no blather. Thanks indeed for posting
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by thombat 6y ago
Airliners are required to be able to land with reverse-thrust inoperative: reversers are useful for shorter taxi times and reducing brake wear but they aren't essential.
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by thombat 6y ago
The footprint of the sonic boom is sizeable so there aren't many rural-enough areas on direct routes between candidate cities (slaloming along quiet corridors would cancel the speed advantage). So supersonic was largely restricted to t
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by thombat 6y ago
Any contract should be a meeting of minds, not a cheating. So on the other end of the spectrum from manifestly dumb user is woefully deceitful company. The latter will make the button very small, low contrast, and place it in the middle of
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by thombat 6y ago
Contra examples from simply googling "prolific + NAME": Wikipedia on Mozart: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[a] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart,[b] was a prolific and inf
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by thombat 6y ago
A similar case with a telling difference is Anchorite Rock in NZ's Hauraki Gulf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Anchorite_(P422)#Service The difference being that this rock was already known by some local fishe
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by thombat 6y ago
Eiffel has a cool geyser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallender_Born
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by thombat 6y ago
Extending this comment, before motors it was routine to have to wait for favourable winds, especially in harbours and confined waterways. Here's the famous navigator James Cook setting out from London on his second voyage: "I sail
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by thombat 6y ago
Our company became determined to control such panic-driven prioritisation, and had four simple levels of importance, P4 up to P1, a predictable conveyor belt delivering work. Equally predictable was the later addition of P0. Followed inevit
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by thombat 6y ago
Very interesting description, since the early casual discussions of this symptom assumed that it was simply mechanical ('flu symptoms, inflamed mucous membranes, stuffed nose, of course they can't smell). Later I saw it described
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by thombat 6y ago
> systematically lie about V1’s over shooting London by 60 miles, then faking craters so that when the Luftwaffe sent a reconnaissance plane over it looked legit, Interesting that after D-Day the Luftwaffe could still manage any reconnai
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by thombat 6y ago
This would require the other conditions to frequently enable death with COVID symptoms which wouldn't have happened with the condition being treated. For example patient has liver cancer under treatment, treatment ceases and they contr
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by thombat 6y ago
It's weirdly nostalgic, like playing the original "Wolfenstein 3D": there were effectively no visual cues for which wall panels were secret doorways so to find all of the goodies I ran along the edges of rooms pressing each p
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by thombat 6y ago
So be an e-aphid and let the kindly e-ants farm you?
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by thombat 6y ago
Very interesting report! Do you have information on how common materials such as plastics and clothing fabrics respond to a germicidal level of UVC?
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by thombat 6y ago
Possible problem with pointing lights at planets is that eventually they'll notice the moving beams from the faint zodiacal light. Of course they won't immediately conclude "the sun is a giant planetarium projector" but
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by thombat 6y ago
True, but it isn't the case that we know how to repair blood vessels or regrow limbs in other vertebrates. Medical regulations haven't retarded basic research, it's just that biology is fundamentally very complex and most med
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by thombat 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maytag_Blue_cheese Complete with patent-dickery: "During the Second World War, [the] university patented the homogenisation of cheese milk and attempted to have charges levied on Dani
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by thombat 6y ago
A celebrated example was the use of the freshly-minted "Prevention of Terrorism Act" to stop an old man heckling the Foreign Secretary: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1499466/Heckler-82-w...
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by thombat 6y ago
Indeed it is: "These regulations include the addition of five public authorities who will gain the power to obtain communications data as they are increasingly unable to rely on local police forces to investigate crimes on their behalf
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by thombat 6y ago
But those things generally don't pose an obvious risk to other people: a paraglider who trains above a kindergarten will be regarded differently to one who trains on a mountainside. And infectious disease is worse yet: the negligent su
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by thombat 7y ago
The German town of Gangelt is the study case that the OP was referring to, which thanks to a small population and a well-attended carnival party with many infected attendees and a legion of subsequent linked cases had acquired the reputatio
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by thombat 7y ago
And they define it as: 1. tasteless; insipid 2. sour; bitter So providing three contradictory definitions in just four words. What do you mean by it when you use it?
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by thombat 7y ago
>> Radio frequencies are also susceptible to hackers who can intercept signals, Islim notes, whereas visible light could be protected by opaque objects. So the security hinges upon it being easier to block visible light than more conv
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by thombat 7y ago
Precisely - as an early outbreak centre that town is referred to as "Germany's Wuhan", and is expected to have among the highest proportion of infected inhabitants. So actually the 15% figure came as a disappointment and some
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by thombat 7y ago
The combination of exponential growth with a sizeable lag means that you really don't want to come anywhere close to being stressed, because then you were just a few hours away from a calamity. Time for a car analogy: it's like br
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by thombat 7y ago
It gets ever-more rickety but it's still usable, and I still use it: the combination of decent face recognition, useful tools, fast UI, locally-stored photos is a combination that I value and I've yet to find an acceptable substit
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by thombat 7y ago
From the outside, around 2000, I used to marvel at Nokia's ability to deliver. Then after starting work there and seeing "how the sausage is made" I switched to marvelling at the implication that all of their competitors must
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by thombat 7y ago
50% are dumber than the median. Confusing mean and median might be a telltale for which half of the population an individual belongs to :-)
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by thombat 7y ago
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