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by thombat 4y ago
In part that will depend upon its ETOPS capabilities, i.e. how far it can be trusted to fly after an engine fails. The Great Circle mapper is fun for playing "what if" games with potential routes: e.g. here's the direct Seatt
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by thombat 4y ago
You have a truly marvelous demonstration of this method, which this margin is too narrow to contain?
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by thombat 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation! Since my last comment on anything was a couple of days ago I guess the cooldown gets tripped by something else too (possibly I went back+forward a couple of times so looked like obsessive reloading)
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by thombat 4y ago
And you could kid yourself that it might just be a labour of love from a single engineer, rather than the product of a marketing team responding to quarterly strategic product directives triggered by engagement metrics.
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by thombat 4y ago
Meant for a reply to the adjacent Godel_unicode but the nesting limit (?) precludes that: No, rude asshole criticism is extremely rude. Well-pitched constructive criticism is a gift, although you'd be right to say that when addressing
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by thombat 4y ago
That's exactly what you do, but that means some finely pulverised irradiated material probably gets ejected. The notorious example of this was the Sedan nuclear excavation test [1] which created a usefully big hole (100m deep, 390m dia
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by thombat 4y ago
Unfortunately that "Popular Mechanics" reference appears to be false: the December 1941 issue [1] did feature an article "Pitch Hitters for Defense" which included Ford's car experiments, but the entire focus was on
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by thombat 4y ago
Part of the answer is that atmospheric explosions generate a lot less fallout precisely because they move less dirt: that first link states that a 30m high tower was used in large part to minimise fallout and left a crater with maximum dept
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by thombat 4y ago
Problem is, you don't want to protect it from photons...
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by thombat 4y ago
I doubt I shall ever again have such a feeling of warping into the future as I got when moving from coding 6502 assembler on the Beeb to ARM-2 on the Archimedes. Suddenly there were enough registers. And they were all general purpose: use f
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by thombat 4y ago
There's more than one kind of cancer... specifically here it seems the effect of interest is on colon cancer. So you might be trading off the risk of skin cancer vs colon. And for higher latitudes vitamin D supplementation is generally
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by thombat 4y ago
From https://www.statista.com/statistics/970920/monetizable-daily... that figure of 1.9M is rather less than 2% of their MDAU figure, and less than the MDAU growth in almost any quarter. So more of a correction th
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by thombat 4y ago
"COVID-19 leading cause of death for 45-54 year olds in 2021" https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/covid-19...
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by thombat 4y ago
The historic averages don't look very different: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/germany/leipzig/climate https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/moscow/climate though
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by thombat 4y ago
It's a fun set of optimisations: to get the path-clearing effect do you run the pipes on less optimal routes (greater capital costs), or do you using varying grades of insulation (less effective under paths to get the clearing effect,
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by thombat 4y ago
Because as it was presented it solved the wrong problem: "how to prove you purchased the movie". But the problem is: the vendor doesn't dispute your purchase, but they define that purchase as being of an arbitarily revocable
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by thombat 4y ago
And you make sure the player never, ever, has access to the internet, in case it downloads a licence update for the game that revokes your use of it.
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by thombat 4y ago
By German standards that's still poor insulation. In winter in Leipzig the district heating pipes have snow sitting on them.
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by thombat 4y ago
Now I'm depressed in two ways: firstly I didn't instantly recognise the reference (getting old...) and secondly, last time I was in London the bartender would have replied "From a fiver? That doesn't cover the first pint
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by thombat 4y ago
Seemingly not, from a hasty look for data. [1] shows the price of a pint of lager across 1973 - 2017 increasing from 17p to 358p while the Bank of England calculator [2] shows an increase in line with inflation would have been 138p. Of cour
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by thombat 4y ago
Try to stop assuming that everybody here shares your exact experiences and background. English has acquired many loan words and phrases from French and many people from British and Commonwealth backgrounds learned some French at school, to
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by thombat 4y ago
It presumes you know both what the current month is and how many days it has. I'm pretty solid on the former and for the second it's either "thirty days hath September" or counting across my knuckles. I also know it&#x27
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by thombat 4y ago
Yep, my key insight was "oh, you don't worry about next month". So you just need to separately know when the current month ends (whether a leap year, etc), so it's a pure series of seven day weeks starting from an arbitr
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by thombat 4y ago
Doing this in a non-spherical-cow environment will be challenging, because the gravitational load varies (passengers stepping on/off) but it's probably important to keep the velocity fairly constant to avoid upsetting the balance
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by thombat 4y ago
Please indulge an ignorant question from a Go-curious outsider: are ignored error returns flagged/grumbled-about? One of the enduring PITAs with C-error handling is that AFAIK there's no good way to highlight slipshod code. For ex
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by thombat 4y ago
I guess the movie did fail, if by the end you're thinking of Roy as "the villain".
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by thombat 4y ago
We know he's a replicant, but I don't think he knows with any confidence: all he knows is that Gaff has an uncanny degree of insight, and that a definite replicant thought he was a man and spared his life to share the end of his o
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by thombat 4y ago
"Let's face it" - anyone who brings their preferences to the table as indisputable truths held by all reasonable, i.e. non "pretentious", folk, could probably do with some long expository chats with other film fans
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by thombat 4y ago
So basically Germany lost WW2 because they were devoting too many resources to saving sick Jews & Romany, trying their best as they were. I doubt that you believe such nonsense, but if you do it's a testament to the power of self-d
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by thombat 4y ago
Unless they signed bizarrely horrible contracts at least some of the staff will be getting residuals. By way of imperfect comparison, Ringo Starr's annual income of $20m doesn't come from doing the Xmas Special of "Thomas the

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