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by thombat 7y ago
But do you also give them a free hand to implement the entire stack below to meet that goal, along with the budgeting advice "waste anything but time"?
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by thombat 7y ago
For a sodium ion in solution it's more a question of pico-scale. And since most sodium salts are quite soluble you'll need some pretty exotic glue to attach that nano-magnetite.
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by thombat 7y ago
Those skyscrapers teem with occupants, each with a bladder, each one a source of saline. The spare water and power we use for growing cucumbers in the hydroponic gardens. The waste brine we use for picking those gherkins, which makes the id
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by thombat 7y ago
Especially if we pretend that "rime" starts with a silent "c" (his hair is of course grey from the many times he wrestled with the question of bumping the version number vs slipping it out as an surely-that's-still-
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by thombat 7y ago
That was unexpectedly splendid: my city isn't covered by StreetView, with the sole exception of the interior of the city museum in the old palace. So according to the simulated view tomorrow at 0612 I can look for a string of pearls gl
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by thombat 7y ago
> Hiroshima and Nagasaki hosted mostly old retired people and children, and women in a smaller percentage. It hosted no military equipment of any significance, nor strategic locations, nor any significant factory. Wikipedia may well be w
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by thombat 7y ago
Terror and fear was already present in greater abundance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo#Operation_Mee... yet five months later Japan maintained an external persona of implacable resistance. For example
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by thombat 7y ago
In general the patient is only being treated because the infectious agent is doing some kind of damage (makes them sad/sick/dead...) So the fear is that before the non-resistant strain has supplanted the resistant one the patient
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by thombat 7y ago
So around 0.4 kWh/passenger-km? - seems it compares pretty favourably to long-haul aviation (e.g. wiuth very crude maths 600 people on A380 at max range/fuel works out as 0.36). Naively I had been assuming that the battery mass an
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by thombat 7y ago
> travel 40-50m quickly for about the energy cost of a cup of coffee By "energy cost" do you mean something like "the price of a cup of coffee spent on electricity"? That seems surprisingly efficient but maybe here (E
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by thombat 7y ago
Let's suppose that the entire control logic for MCAS was now re-implemented with vacuum tubes. Would you now argue that the aircraft crashes indicate a hardware problem? Or would you agree that the real problem is in the system design,
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by thombat 7y ago
Plus "booking flights with miles". Here's my amazing secret for "getting paid to drink beer!" - I take back a case of empty beer bottles and with the deposit money I can buy two new bottles and have 14 cents left ov
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by thombat 7y ago
Since Windows has spinlocks too (for judicious use in driver code) does that make it non-user-friendly too? Or am I missing the point you're making?
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by thombat 7y ago
On AF447 all three of the airspeed probes iced up for 40 seconds, prompting the flight computers to disconnect autopilot and autothrottle and clearly announce to the crew that air data was unreliable and that the normal protection against s
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by thombat 7y ago
Better yet, by performing succussions at appropriate intervals you'll create a homeopathic wonder drug.
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by thombat 7y ago
My wife has started making photobooks of significant family events, having observed that having an arbitrarily large pile of digital photos that never get curated or culled actually means we're less likely to revisit our past.
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by thombat 7y ago
A popular app for pod dwellers would be "furniture tesselator": given a selection of standard square furnishings it works out an arrangement in your curvy-walled room that maximises free floor space / minimises dust-bunny far
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by thombat 7y ago
The unimpeded path required for a tow line would restrict the number of drones an airship could operate, since it would presumably need to be nearly directly above them. This would also make it difficult to operate in cities with overhead c
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by thombat 7y ago
It's still good news, since methane is a more potent greenhouse gas - depending upon the timeframe and calculation method it's generally reckoned to have between 30 and 100 times the warming potential of C02 [1]. Moreover a power
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by thombat 7y ago
We must have read different stories. The one I read was about Jean-Jacques Muyembe, PhD in microbiology, who elected to return to his homeland to work as an epidemiologist, and when called to a disease outbreak recognised it as something no
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by thombat 7y ago
In general I think that if the State wants to support some activity it should do so directly by allocating funds, not by making the tax system more complex. The introduction of the GST consumption tax in NZ was admirable in this respect: pr
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by thombat 7y ago
I don't think it's being directly mocked: the implicit association with this electrolysis result is being questioned.
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by thombat 7y ago
"nazis" (briefly hugs self with silent glee at besting a grammar nazi in the field, then quietly settles to await the inevitable reply pointing out my own solecism)
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by thombat 7y ago
Maybe they were (bio)chemists at heart? That stuff under a mountain is mineral oil: more useful than edible oils in many ways but it has to go under the frying pan, not in it.
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by thombat 7y ago
Yep, like the boast on bottles of bleach: "Kills the AIDS virus!". So does sunlight, soap, drying up, in fact almost anything besides "being kept in a body fluid at ambient temperature"
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by thombat 7y ago
Be inspired to run a small trial of magnets vs placebo by having your S.O. randomly swap them for similarly heavy non-magnetic lumps and keep a journal of the results. Of course puts your pain relief at risk (regardless of its basis), but t
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by thombat 7y ago
I genuinely like your argument: although I've seen a few too many managers that exemplified the Peter Principle it's not unreasonable to hope that a "plant manager" is aware that a web of process exists, even if they can
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by thombat 7y ago
Seems like an exemplary case for "Chesterton's fence": https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/ Often the most important comments in a codebase are signs on such fences, preserving hard-won knowle
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by thombat 7y ago
Back in the day of Total Quality Management and ISO9002 the software company I worked for decided to get itself certified. Problem was, nobody had a clue how to quickly describe the business of creating software as a set of processes, let a
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by thombat 7y ago
It's referencing the trade disputes between the current US administration & India. So it's of relevance when talking about the Indian economy: https://www.piie.com/blogs/trade-and-investment-policy-watch..

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