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by contingencies 24d ago
Nonsense is an nor-Englishman declaring correctness on an Australian thread, moreover one involving both botany (the English famously felling theirs), and wine! Stick to your corner and install some air conditioning, mate. The Italians woul
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by contingencies 24d ago
Hahaha, thanks that gave me a laugh. I assure you my nonsense is natural.
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by contingencies 24d ago
On the subject of flowers, the late Donald was a friend of a family friend who came over one night and after drinking a huge amount of wine decided in a midnight fit of inspiration (when we'd all gone to bed) to rearrange flowers throu
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by contingencies 24d ago
Logo is https://www.nsw.gov.au/themes/custom/dcs_theme/favicons/sets... whereas the actual waratah looks like https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=waratah
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by contingencies 25d ago
Humans everywhere have those characteristics. Currently, China has substantial control of the supply chain for almost everything. I think you'll find Chinese power remains but the wealth and power distribution internally becomes even m
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by contingencies 25d ago
Clearly Homo idiotensis here is incapable of cultivating a factual ontology that would place it below the 'great apes' as the type species amongst amongst the 'asshole apes'.
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by contingencies 25d ago
And what will make Musk's head explode: canada is starting to allow cheap chinese EVs into north america Another Musk moment: most aluminum in the US comes from Canada. Most of Musk's vehicles are built with aluminum. These tari
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by contingencies 26d ago
Can confirm :) Feel like a cat: had 9 lives since then.
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by contingencies 26d ago
Given the author appears to be a 19 year old German girl, UK bureaucrats proxying admin duties for offshore territories are unlikely to be motivated to start an international extradition for what amounts to a helpful tip.
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by contingencies 26d ago
Mike Diskett, the lead designer of Syndicate Wars , tried to do a Syndicate remake-ish thang called Satellite Reign recently; it came out on Steam as an early release but never quite made playability IMHO. Shame: the conceptual foundat
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by contingencies 29d ago
Interesting approach however what's the physical interface for re-enabling when you get back to the machine? If it's a wireless plus socket plus switch thing that's starting to get a bit exotic / high failure mode.
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by contingencies 29d ago
I had a washing machine break a couple of weeks ago. 3 years old. Just past warranty. Manufacturer advertised 10 year warranty on the motor. Motor controller burned out: not covered. PCB looked perfect. Had it swapped today: suddenly everyt
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by contingencies 1mo ago
3D print your own: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1477209 This reminds me, a CNC wire bender is on my list.
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by contingencies 1mo ago
Unless you are building a factory assembly line where a model is literally doing the same thing over and over, you almost always want a general purpose model over a specialized one. Turns out the world is made of simple, specialist proces
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by contingencies 1mo ago
FYI the so-called Bertrand Russell quotation is apparently in fact an expanded paraphrase of Carl Sagan, The Burden of Skepticism (1987): Britain has produced a range of remarkably gifted multidisciplinary scientists and scholars who are
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by contingencies 1mo ago
I remember it being a bit later: like mid 90s was still a mix, things like smc-ultra and lance but by late 90s it was everywhere and well dominant. The price point was very low, I recall around AUD$20. Definitely had NE2000s running on
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by contingencies 1mo ago
→ Macro African Union → Metazoan Member States → Panspermian Massive → Anomalies Anonymous "Hi I'm infinity and I... I cracked and generated a self-replicating biology last aeon. By the second kalpa they'd devised a writing
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by contingencies 1mo ago
You misspelled 'beers'. A boring technology.
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by contingencies 1mo ago
Wait wait wait: so Xinjiang is an inalienable part of Europe? For those interested in an overview of the history of the area in an historic dramatic frame of reference I can recommend the group of short stories published as Life Along the
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by contingencies 1mo ago
Lenses have energy budgets, responsiveness concerns and actuator/sensor pairings through embedded processing. Therefore they need firmware. Firmware goes out of date and has bugs and improvements. Having the ability to configure a len
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by contingencies 1mo ago
Sadly, it seems to me that what we are witnessing in our era is a convergence of technology-enhanced surveillance governance globally, greatly eroding personal agency and democratic capacity to institute change. We desperately need utopian
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by contingencies 1mo ago
Always wanted to do this but enjoying land-lubber life a bit too much at the moment. I'd like to think I've built most of the skills (sailing, electronics, mechanics, sewing, rigging, drinking amicably with strangers, radio, cooki
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by contingencies 1mo ago
I draw the line at public points.
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by contingencies 1mo ago
It's a global thing; most of those countries look to immigration to solve their depopulation problem. Education needs to be global. I guess LLMs do that now in many ways; we don't necessarily need formal education systems everywhe
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by contingencies 1mo ago
Indeed. As I see it (and I have lived in socialist and capitalist countries as well as developing countries) there are really only two problems. 1. People in power don't want the system to change because it's a threat to their pos
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by contingencies 1mo ago
ie. China is the future, US is the past.
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by contingencies 1mo ago
Many fungi have pan-tropical or global distribution. See p158+ in PDF https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annur...
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by contingencies 1mo ago
ROFL. Banned in Australia. "Requires age verification." Next up: Ethnomycology of nanny state....
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by contingencies 1mo ago
I'm aware of this guy but the presentation is a bit full on for me. My buddy who is in to botany says apparently his podcasts are really good: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zJDjluBz6qVCGrF1I8JhP
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by contingencies 1mo ago
Congratulations! Add a water feature ... it will attract birds. And next to that some smaller shrubs. Then once the trees grow you can put climbers and ferns in them. And throw down some rocks for good measure. It encourages variant microcl

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