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by xioxox 10y ago
But you can put copper compounds on your organic crops under certain circumstances in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_pesticide
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by xioxox 10y ago
Here's a practical example of SDR to make a powerful radio telescope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOFAR
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Interesting. Have you thought about an option for non-US amazon, e.g. .uk / .de?
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I hit some crashes with PyQt which were fixed if the Python slots were defined with "@slot". I think this may be now fixed.
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In astronomy you need multiple exposures to get rid of cosmic rays, which appear as bright lines or dots. A median filter can be applied to the exposures. HST uses tools called drizzlepac and multidrizzle to combine multiple dithered images
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Starglider II was very impressive at the time - I was wowed by seeing it on my friend's Atari ST. You could fly around a solar system and through a network of tunnels inside the planets, refuel yourself by flying along power lines, sho
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by xioxox 10y ago
It seems standard practice for German banks to limit online passwords to five alpha-numeric characters. Fortunately, you need a TAN number (generated by a device or from an SMS message) to actually make a transaction. I have no idea why the
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But it won't let you add disks to your array one-by-one, unlike linux software raid.
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I'd recommend my Veusz scientific plotting package if you want a free scriptable GUI plotting tool. It's much easier to use than the aged gnuplot and is more flexible for 2D plotting (3D is coming!) http://home.gna.org&
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Reminds me a bit of the technique I developed to spatially bin X-ray astronomy data for spectral analysis: https://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/papers/contbin/
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So, if there was a massive crash in the stock market, you wouldn't be tempted to buy some shares at low prices?
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Unlike in the US, in many countries notes are not valid for all time. After an expiry date they must be exchanged at a bank for a new note.
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The operating energy of the LHC is around 15 orders of magnitude less than the Planck energy (if I worked it out correctly). Therefore we cannot directly probe Planck length scales.
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Ireland is still sovereign. They could pull out of the EU and its rules at any time if they wanted to. Is this different to delegating some aspect of trade to WTO rules?
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One advantage I find of more over less, is that it doesn't clear the terminal on exit. It's often nice to see what you have looked at above the command prompt. There is a "-X" option for less, but this also breaks mouse
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I hate the ribbon. I can never remember on which tab has the button I want. I just click round the tabs in circles trying to find the appropriate button. The ordering of the buttons on the ribbon seems random too. Why can't Microsoft i
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Is that really true? There's a long list of important science which was discovered by accident while working on other things (serendipitous discoveries). In astronomy, you have the discovery of gamma ray bursts and the cosmic microwave
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The suggestions have included alternative explanations for the results, useful checks on the data analysis procedures, sensible ways to restructure a paper, useful plots which could be included, places where the text was unclear, indicating
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What do you mean by "local Milky Way group"? The "Local group" is a group of galaxies, containing the MW and Andromeda as its most massive members. The MW plus its satellites isn't called the local Milky Way Group.
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> and even worse it rarely improves the quality of the paper being reviewed. That might be your experience, but I think it has significantly improved the quality of a large fraction of the papers I have been an author or co-author on. I
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That's a bit optimistic. I've encountered 48hrs between my own accounts within Germany. I wish I still had the luxury of almost instant UK transfers.
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Those debit cards only work for in-person transactions however. Some German companies let you do direct debits or bank transfers for online payments, but it's very annoying compared to a real debit card.
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I don't know much about Ethereum, but why aren't the contracts declarative? Surely, it would be much easier to see the logic behind the contract and avoid the impossible task of a bug free turing complete language.
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Maybe this one: http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.html
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Church attendance is much higher in the US compared to other western countries (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_attendance ). Looking at the article, the death rate is decreasing in these countries, while it&#
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He ran a fund which was based in tax haven to avoid double taxation. Lots of funds do things like this. It's not corruption or criminal.
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If you're interested in colour maps, cubehelix [1] is a useful scheme to make intensity maps which display well when converted to greyscale. [1] https://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~dag/CUBEHELIX/
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My Veusz package can handle that in a second or two if anti-aliasing is switched off. It takes a 1.5-2x longer with anti-aliasing on.
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Don't you rinse your clothes before wearing them? Detergents can do nasty things to your skin.
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From around 1992, a 16 bit Windows Borland (Turbo) Pascal GUI database for my parents' business. This was the 2rd rewrite of some DOS and then Amstrad CP/M software I wrote in Modula-2! It still runs (in a Windows 32 bit VM) and I

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