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by abirkill 18d ago
Founded in 1976 by Trottier and Matić, and according to the article and Wikipedia, since 2019 has been owned 100% by Trottier. There's no indication that the founders lost majority ownership at any time, and although they sold off one
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by abirkill 1y ago
I found that there's a surprising difference in quality for what feels like it should be a commodity item. All the outlets in my newish build were tamper-resistant, and pretty much as you described -- at best they were unpleasantly st
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by abirkill 2y ago
This is not a dissimilar system to Teletext[1], which transmitted data in the blanking interval of a broadcast TV signal, and could be interpreted by a TV or other hardware with appropriate support. Teletext was pretty widespread throughou
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by abirkill 2y ago
I can't speak to the cloud provider support, as I don't use it, but they have supported scheduled backups since at least June 2019, as I have locally-stored backups from scheduled Takeout jobs going back that far. Bear in mind tha
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by abirkill 2y ago
There were also several others, including some live shows, all of which can be found on the BBC's Computer Literacy Project Archive: https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/ During one of the live shows, demonstrating e-mail, the
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by abirkill 2y ago
I think the speed that things can go wrong when using a table saw (or most power tools) is faster than some people, including some woodworkers, might expect. There's a good example video here (warning, shows a very minor injury): htt
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by abirkill 3y ago
Churchill was also prime minister from 1951-55.
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by abirkill 3y ago
As a counter-example, I haven't had an entirely successful Google Takeout export in at least a couple of years, using their service to schedule the exports automatically every two months. I always have a failure with Google Fit data, w
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by abirkill 4y ago
This is true, but I don't think any consumer-grade sensor systems offer this as an option? I guess it might be useful if you're building your own sensor, and can't afford/justify a dual-NDIR sensor. My understanding is
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by abirkill 4y ago
That's a shame, they've worked well for me. Unfortunately I can't recommend any others without doing some research, I found quite a few dual-NDIR sensor modules when I was looking and chose this one primarily based on availa
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by abirkill 4y ago
The auto-calibration systems on cheaper consumer sensors also cause issues if they rarely see air that has low CO2 levels. Because these sensors can't measure absolute CO2 levels, only relative CO2 levels, they provide an absolute fig
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by abirkill 5y ago
Out of the three vaccines in use in both Canada and Europe, it appears that Canada entered agreements as follows: Moderna: August 5th, 2020 [1] Pfizer: August 5th, 2020 [1] AstraZeneca: September 25th, 2020 [2] Europe entered agr
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DMGPlus(spritesmods.com)
3 points by abirkill 5y ago|0 comments
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by abirkill 6y ago
From the second paper[0]: 'In order to provide more information about event severity within the S1 designation, S1 severity events have been separated into two columns in Table 1 based on whether each event is of sufficient severity to
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by abirkill 6y ago
They're using the ISO 26262 scale for severity, not their own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_26262#Part_9:_Automotive_S...
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by abirkill 7y ago
Another interesting example is Hyder, Alaska, which is only accessible by road from BC, Canada. It relies on various services from Canada, including ambulance and fire services, the latter due to Hyder's fire hall being burnt down, wi
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by abirkill 8y ago
As a counter-example, I requested mine about 20 minutes ago, received an e-mail confirming the request, received another e-mail 6 minutes later to say it was available for download, and the ~90MB download completed in under 10 seconds on my
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by abirkill 9y ago
From the location of those light sources, I suspect they are from drilling rigs extracting oil from several large oil fields around the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. There's a map of the largest fields in this article: http:/&#x2F
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by abirkill 9y ago
If you're simply looking for capacitive touch in a consumer environment, then there are a great many. Simple capacitive touch sensors to replace physical push-buttons were widely seen in the 80s, I remember using them on elevators, an
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by abirkill 9y ago
If yours also claim to be manufactured by American Paper Optics, as the pair in the parent comment claim to be, the (real) manufacturer has some information to help determine if they're counterfeit: https://www.eclipseglasse
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by abirkill 9y ago
Many libraries have received glasses for free from the Space Science Institute, which is a reputable organisation funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and others. There's a map of libraries on their website: http:/&#x
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by abirkill 9y ago
This isn't limited to glasses. I purchased a 12x12 sheet of solar filter film from a seller on Amazon, manufactured by Thousand Oaks Optical (who are listed on the American Astronomical Society's list of reputable vendors), and I
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by abirkill 9y ago
As an example, the Vestas V164-8MW seems to be one of the largest off-shore wind turbines, and has a rotor diameter of 164m and a rotational speed of between 4.8 and 12.1rpm. [1] Unless I'm miscalculating, that means that the tip of on
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Lego Clock: tick #1(proterra.me.uk)
3 points by abirkill 9y ago|0 comments
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This is Bears Ears(bearsears.patagonia.com)
2 points by abirkill 10y ago|0 comments
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by abirkill 10y ago
I had the same issue with the seat edge, I believe that it's referred to as a waterfall edge. The rest of the chair was great, but I found that extremely uncomfortable after a few hours. Many people don't have a problem with it,
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Getty Images to file competition law complaint against Google(press.gettyimages.com)
4 points by abirkill 10y ago|0 comments
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by abirkill 12y ago
YouTube's stabilisation option attempts to remove (with reasonable success, in my experience) rolling shutter wobble caused by camera movement, although I don't believe it will mitigate the effect of a moving subject. There was a
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by abirkill 12y ago
Not all houses in the UK have numbers, especially in rural areas. If you don't live in a village or larger, it's pretty common to have a house name, and no number. (Edit: I just checked the village I grew up in, and was surprise
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ATAP Project Tango(google.com)
2 points by abirkill 12y ago|0 comments

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