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by thombat 1y ago
But unless you have a way of slowing down again you'll never see anything of your destination, just the briefest of flares of light as you sail past. And if you do have a way that involves anything like physics that we recognise, you&#
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by thombat 1y ago
The article notes that this data would reveal abortions or miscarriages, and that in some states this information is used as input for criminal prosecution.
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by thombat 1y ago
And it starts with the all-too-familiar "Chesterton's Fence" arrogance of the domain expert who sees something done wrong and presumes that this is due to the ignorance or laziness of the doers, only to learn that there are s
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by thombat 1y ago
The only reason that the subsurface rock is cooler than magma is being able to conduct heat through to a cooler surface. When that surface becomes exterminatingly hot and remains so for a while the subsurface will be heating up too. Since t
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by thombat 1y ago
Perhaps I'd become effortlessly fluent in Aramaic if I had to read enough articles in it, but absent some substantial benefit I'd prefer to keep with standard English.
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by thombat 2y ago
It's too late to enter the market now. Let's try for the first mover advantage in influencer-favourite ball wipes and ass shavers.
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by thombat 2y ago
Because x8 is simply shifting 3 bits left so it's "free" (fixed-sized shifts are very simple to implement), whereas generating the x7 would require the additional circuitry, which additionally will be more expensive than the
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by thombat 2y ago
At Symbian defects were classified from P1-P4, with the inevitable shit-fights about adding magic runes to the title so everyone knows that your P1 is more important than theirs. The day came when, after prolonged hand wringing and with ste
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by thombat 2y ago
Planned range for the Boom Overture is 4900 miles, so only a little better than the 4500 miles of Concorde, which occasionally had to make a refueling stop going westward over the Atlantic. So it won't have the capability for transpola
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by thombat 2y ago
Slash-Dot chortled at that mail but I yearned to work for a software company where the CEO would spend their after-hours time actually eating some dog food & providing feedback (at the time I worked for a mobile phone company and all th
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by thombat 2y ago
That's too bitter. Speaking as a westerner married into an East German family, what people seem to crave more than anything is stability, which the dead hand of The Party delivered. When I talk to them about the comforts and freedoms o
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by thombat 2y ago
That description of heavy lead shielding of a power plant on Mir surprises me since photos show it as having solar arrays. Wikipedia also gives the power source as solar with no mention of lead components. Can you add further details of thi
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by thombat 2y ago
After the external auditors resigned saying that the financials couldn't be trusted the fact that an internal report run from the board of the directors clears them mightn't be as generally reassuring as you seem to find it.
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by thombat 2y ago
I missed that news. Could you pay some links to the DOJ and SEC investigations into Hindenburg?
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by thombat 2y ago
Those others are effectively asphyxiants: they'll kill you by displacing oxygen, leading to you collapsing and dying if not rescued, eg by being dragged clear or having ventilation improved. Ammonia is a caustic: airway constriction an
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by thombat 2y ago
Apparently the acronym can now be read as the blander "ExTended OPerationS", or according to the ICAO all such flights can be referred to as EDTO (Extended Diversion Time Operations", which is less fun to say out loud and los
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by thombat 2y ago
I periodically suffer the delusion that some of the nonsense-adjacent people may benefit from seeing that sensible answers can be found. Of course there's effectively no chance of reaching the proudly loudly ignorant, wearing their ref
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by thombat 2y ago
Which is exactly why one of the perks of working in modestly-scaled corporate IT is getting to destroy the storage devices before they get taken for recycling. Wiping keys is quick and effective, but can't match a sledge hammer for una
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by thombat 2y ago
Or his original: I asked her to take it to the dump, she said 'too busy, do it yourself', meanwhile I remembered I wanted to double check which drive I'd thrown out but she'd had a change of heart and taken it already.
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by thombat 2y ago
The article says that it was known at the time to be likely to be within a 2000m^2 block, narrowing beyond that will be harder since the rubbish is distributed across it (bulldozers keeping it somewhat level as dumping proceeds, rather than
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by thombat 2y ago
They'd need to provide sufficient confidence that they were going to continue to operate the landfill in accordance with all regulations, not just declare bankruptcy when the hunt is over and leave an unsafe mess and a financial black
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by thombat 2y ago
It's a general purpose landfill for a town of 150,000 people and according to the original article he only understood his loss three months after disposal, in which time a further 10,000 tonnes of rubbish had been deposited. That small
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by thombat 2y ago
But to what end? Backup everything in case the owner comes looking later? The contents of a drive won't in general become the property of the recycling facility, since much of it will be constrained by licences or copyright.
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by thombat 2y ago
Standard flat-earther response is to scornfully deny the existence of gravity. It's all density/buoyancy you see... Gravity is a hoax promulgated by the notorious cabalist Newton, in service to his Illuminati/Papal masters, e
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by thombat 2y ago
That link rather misses the problem in only considering the total population. The graphs under https://www.population-trends-asiapacific.org/data/JPN give a more nuanced view of the problem; graph 5 shows that the prop
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by thombat 2y ago
Generally having fewer than four wheels reduces stability while not offering compensating substantial advantages ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-wheeler#Configurations ). And more than four disjoint wheels means ad
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by thombat 2y ago
FWIW I just reserved a room at the first Vegas hotel that Google served up (MGM Grand Las Vegas) and clicking through to the "Reservation Terms & Conditions" includes: Room Status . MGM Grand reserves the right to check the s
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by thombat 2y ago
Can you dig out a reference for that? WP describes it as evolving from a representation of handwriting, initially used for informal or intimate writing, later being employed for emphasis.
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by thombat 2y ago
That officer will have been Major Neuheim, a blustering and venial SS bureaucrat played with panache by Ian Richardson (not unlike his role as Mr Warrenn in "Brazil"). I'm also puzzled how little-known the series has become,
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by thombat 2y ago
That sounds like something that works best in company? Or can you also enjoy them alone, and if so, would you enjoy them that way if you'd never earlier performed that observance in company? For me, of a perforce-alone evening I can so

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