LeapingLennie

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by LeapingLennie 1mo ago
https://www.coles.com.au/ (the 2nd largest supermarket chain in Australia) and https://makerworld.com/ are two I've come across.
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by LeapingLennie 2y ago
Regarding the drugs vs guns comparison, I bet you'd find that every country that has implemented reasonably effective gun control still has thriving illicit drug markets. Australia is just as zealous at persecuting the drug war as the
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by LeapingLennie 3y ago
I lost a bit of respect for them when they did an episode about the placenta and had an apology at the start because the episode contained the word "mother" rather than "pregnant person". I feel if you want to be a great
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by LeapingLennie 3y ago
Are there any textbooks you would recommend for learning vector analysis / vector fields before studying EM?
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Jack Daniel's and dog toy in Supreme Court showdown(bbc.com)
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by LeapingLennie 4y ago
The Economist recently reported on a study that used the brightness of countries' lights at night as proxy for GDP[1][2]. The study suggests China and other autocracies have significantly exaggerated their GDP growth over the last twen
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by LeapingLennie 4y ago
Any rational investor isn't going to be aiming to cover inflation, they are going to be trying to maximize their rate of return. It wouldn't matter if the interest rate was above or below the inflation rate, investors will always
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by LeapingLennie 4y ago
In Australia we don't even need to present ID. Just tell the official your name and address and they cross it off a list. It's hard to believe a system that simple could work but as far as I know there haven't ever been any i
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by LeapingLennie 5y ago
What would half-photons look like? I guess photons with half the energy expected given their wavelength and the Planck relation E = hc/λ?
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by LeapingLennie 5y ago
It's also possible to streamline adding the RSS feed by using custom url schemes (at least on iOS). A url like podcast://example.rss will open in Apple Podcasts and other podcast apps offer their own url schemes. This can mak
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by LeapingLennie 5y ago
I'm more than happy to pay for movies or shows and currently subscribe to 5 streaming services but often find I need to resort to pirated content for a few reasons: 1. Frequently movies I want to watch are simply unavailable to stream
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by LeapingLennie 5y ago
Yes, I've also had managers that start their day at some ungodly hour in the morning and so it wouldn't be unusual to receive emails from them at 5am. There was never any expectation to respond to emails straight away and the same
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by LeapingLennie 5y ago
Not everyone in the world is protected by the US Constitution and although Apple is initially only rolling this out in the US there is no doubt it will be rolled out in other countries sooner or later.
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by LeapingLennie 9y ago
I use C-Space. Easy to type and doesn’t interfere with any readline or vim keybindings.
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by LeapingLennie 13y ago
That is making the assumption that government spending is constant irrespective of tax revenue. If tax rates and public debt remain constant then tax avoidance will lead government spending to fall. This may mean fewer immoral actions condu