WorkLobster

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by WorkLobster 2y ago
No, I agree, but you specifically mentioned "science-fiction" in the second post, and implicitly denied even their existence in the first post. I think there's a reasonable distance between that, and economic considerations
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by WorkLobster 2y ago
The Be would be inside the (radioactive) reactor vessel, which already has extremely strict isolation requirements. I believe it's accessed and maintained with robotics. As for the change, I'm just an interested amateur, so should
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by WorkLobster 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand what's 'science-fiction' about lead or beryllium?
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by WorkLobster 2y ago
> you would need 100% efficiency to be able to breed your own tritium How so? As I understand it, the breeding reaction is exothermic (Li-6 + n -> He-4 + T) so all you need are neutrons, for which (as someone pointed out to me two yea
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by WorkLobster 3y ago
Three years in, and it's working great. We're different people with different work styles, but get the job done with tons of respect on both sides. The only difference is that the friendship is perhaps at a sightly further remove
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by WorkLobster 3y ago
Emphasis not just in the narrow sense of showing intense emotion, but rather the general concept of giving a sentence rhythm and prosody, often to highlight a wry or ironic situation. Your analysis is correct that GP likely did not do it en
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by WorkLobster 3y ago
It is a stylistic device that serves as a sort of emphasis. Rhetorically censoring all or part calls attention to it as profanity. You hear an analogous effect used a lot in spoken speech (definitely in the UK, not sure about USA), for exam
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by WorkLobster 3y ago
Can you elaborate on how I and a good number of the people I know cannot remain healthy? I have to say, I feel pretty fine.
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by WorkLobster 3y ago
Are you thinking just of roundabouts that include a raised middle and/or central reservations on approaching roads? In general, roundabouts need no more space and cost than a regular road would, see e.g. https://goo.gl&#x2F
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by WorkLobster 3y ago
These questions are tackled in most basic primers that should show up in a google search such as you suggest. E.g.: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/25733/interactive... > Climate is always changing.
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by WorkLobster 3y ago
I dimly remember trying this five years ago and it being a bit of a mess. IIRC it was that date picker widgets in browsers presented in a different format to what the Accept-Language header suggests (a killer when you're trying to rend
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by WorkLobster 4y ago
While skin-in-the-game is a good tool for problems of this general class, the editor has said that refundable fees would not be workable in this particular case due to issues with payment providers[1]. [1] https://www.reddit.com&
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by WorkLobster 4y ago
As someone that enjoys trying to make up inversions on the spot, and laments that chord charts only ever seem to acknowledge open chords and E/A-shape barres, that command line tool looks fantastic. Is it available to download anywhere
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by WorkLobster 4y ago
There's a great and very comprehensive chart by "Our World in Data" about the breakdown of emissions / environmental impact for different foods: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/02/E
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by WorkLobster 4y ago
These are all excellent points—thank you for clarifying some of the parts I hadn't considered. In terms of the last and how practical it is, we're more-or-less saying the same thing; my hope was to be clear on what is a result of
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by WorkLobster 4y ago
> you will always need at least a small fission reactor to breed some tritium The idea for future designs is to breed Tritium in the blanket surrounding the vessel. This obviates the need for external sources. > everything close to th
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by WorkLobster 5y ago
Personal anecdote, but since Ogham has been available in Unicode, I've seen the odd person start being interested in it to write out names, exclamations, etc. It feels like a small previously-closed gate has been opened for a nice litt
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by WorkLobster 5y ago
Just a note that you've framed the question as "without JS turned on" but it's not always a choice; there are people who don't have access to sufficiently new hardware or reliable telecoms that it will work as inten
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by WorkLobster 5y ago
Someone made a fantastic fan "movie" poster a while ago that's stuck in my head ever since: https://existentialterror.tumblr.com/post/611166753441169408...
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by WorkLobster 5y ago
This question seems to be becoming more popular lately. My own understanding is that most people are apprehensive about killing because it involves denying another being self-actualisation and/or causing its suffering, both of which by
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by WorkLobster 5y ago
This is a ridiculous straw-man take and you know it. Please aim for helpful discussion instead of empty sarcasm.
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by WorkLobster 5y ago
Apologies if my earlier post came off as peevish. I would not want your comment to be removed, and to my mind there is nothing sexist about it. I am just constantly surprised that, in a community that seems to pride itself on putative ratio
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by WorkLobster 5y ago
I'm surprised an assertion this strong with zero attestation and the hint of pseudoscientificism is still alive on HN. Anyone living through the 00s (and perhaps even still today) will recognise rising intonation as a social affectatio
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by WorkLobster 5y ago
One thing I don't understand about what this page seems to suggest: shouldn't there be a bright ring of starlight at some non-zero angle away from dead ahead? Given a finite collection of objects out to a certain radius (stars), r
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by WorkLobster 5y ago
> I can eat less meat It's something I keep quiet about in day-to-day life since it seems to invite reprisal, but if we're soul-searching for what we as individuals can do, I beg you to try eating no meat at all. There seems to
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by WorkLobster 5y ago
This may be just me being odd, but I alternate the direction of my belt roughly once per week. Otherwise, it gets stretched at only the top, and as a result becomes warped and uncomfortable.
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by WorkLobster 5y ago
I pictured it as more that being in a social atmosphere means someone is more likely to relax and let their practised subconscious take the lead, than give it their full attention and perhaps be too critical or detail-oriented.
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
Oh yeah, that's a fair point, I have encountered the input lock issue before. Hopefully it will be fixed in future. VLC also works for me from the start, but seems to lag at higher resolutions, hence fiddling to get DirectShow working.
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
Just to make sure we're talking about the same fix, do you mean running the LAV installer first (edit: followed by selecting DirectShow in the options)? That worked for me with Proton 5.13-6.
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
I use Whirligig, which works with a minor fix documented on ProtonDB.

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