digestives

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by digestives 8mo ago
Thank you for sharing this - it reminds of the film adaption of "The Peasants" novel which uses a painted animation technique made up of thousands and thousands of paintings. Quite literally, nearly "Every Frame [is] a Painti
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by digestives 10mo ago
X-ray, in some languages (like Polish) the abbreviation comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_(unit)
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by digestives 2y ago
Ah, memories flood back of LAN or dial-up sessions with friends on custom maps like de_747 [1] 1: https://gamebanana.com/mods/82979 I still contend it is one of the most atmospheric custom maps ever made - how else do
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by digestives 3y ago
There was a great BBC docudrama in 2003 called Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. [1] First episode is about the SS Great Eastern, an iron ship that was the largest ship built at the time of her launch, designed by Brunel. [2] I’d highl
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by digestives 3y ago
> Almost everything always has much more thought given to it than it might first appear. A credo to live by in work and in general - one of the most terrifying phrases in the English language is "it's just...".
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European ammunition maker says plant expansion hit by data centre energy use(ft.com)
2 points by digestives 3y ago|0 comments
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by digestives 4y ago
Engineering Explained made a good breakdown and analysis video on the physics of the truck: "Does The Tesla Semi Make Any Sense?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv44W7xa4IU
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by digestives 4y ago
The risk with this is everytime your earnings go up, your expenditure follows suit. If your motivation to earn more is because you spend too much - that underlying reason isn't going away once you get that big pay rise unless you reall
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Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – documentary from Adam Curtis(theguardian.com)
2 points by digestives 4y ago|1 comments
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by digestives 4y ago
Filling up on fuel in litres and then using miles per (Imperial) gallon to measure fuel efficiency is wonderfully convoluted.
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Bee Home Design Generator(beehome.design)
3 points by digestives 5y ago|0 comments
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by digestives 7y ago
Renting out public housing
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by digestives 7y ago
Not only totally unprofessional, it is also bad Project Managing as a typo is a common mistake. So rather than making childish comments, I'd be asking how we could improve the debugging process!
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by digestives 8y ago
> Homeopathy isn't widely available on the NHS. In 2017, NHS England recommended that GPs and other prescribers should stop providing it. [0] Luckily this is no longer the case (in general)! [0] https://www.nhs.uk/co
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Tesla shares drop on disappointing quarterly performance(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by digestives 8y ago|0 comments
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Crypto-coin-stealing code sneaks into fairly popular NPM lib(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by digestives 8y ago|0 comments
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Personalized Gut Mucosal Colonization Resistance to Empiric Probiotics(linkinghub.elsevier.com)
1 points by digestives 8y ago|0 comments
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Tesla Factory Tour with Elon Musk [video](youtube.com)
3 points by digestives 8y ago|0 comments
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by digestives 10y ago
"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
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Zuckerberg: my Facebook manifesto to re-boot globalisation(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by digestives 10y ago|0 comments
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Security and Privacy Guidelines for the Internet of Things(schneier.com)
3 points by digestives 10y ago|0 comments
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by digestives 10y ago
A rather famous example in the UK, is of Gerald Ratner, a company chairman attacking his own product. [1] [1] - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1573380/Doing-a-Ratne...
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by digestives 10y ago
http://xkcd.com/1167/ via https://twitter.com/crell/status/296506190190489600
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Uber asking for support against new regulations in email to London customers(cityam.com)
1 points by digestives 10y ago|0 comments
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by digestives 10y ago
I have a Samsung Series 9 15" from 2011 - well built, stylish, decent specs and still serving me well! https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=samsung+serie...
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by digestives 10y ago
Probably something you might want to check if you have the following tagline: "A modern user interface that is beautiful on every screen and performs perfectly on every platform is not an option, it’s a necessity."
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by digestives 10y ago
File size is a moot point with regards to long selectors - they are just a bad idea. [1][2] I am a fan of BEM to keep things sane. [3] [1] http://csswizardry.com/2012/05/keep-your-css-selectors-short... [2] https
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by digestives 10y ago
The section about using qanats for cooling and ice storage by the Persians around 400 BCE [1] is fascinating. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhchal
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by digestives 10y ago
My grandfather recalled once how his Latin teacher told him the most important job in society is that of the garbage collector - how can it function properly if everywhere is piled high with waste?