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by nirse 19d ago
Derek Lowe mentions dimethyl mercury as the first substance that's not worth the risk: https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/a-risk-not-worth-taki...
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by nirse 28d ago
Perhaps education has an intrinsic value to society that does not need to be measured?
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by nirse 4mo ago
Well, the primary particles that hit the atmosphere are mostly protons. They cause avalanche of secondaires that are varied but mostly muons,
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by nirse 6mo ago
I'd recommend listening to Webern's Op. 27, it's a strict 2nd Viennese school 12-tone composition but also very expensive, I love it (although it works better in a concert setting then a recording): https://youtu.b
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by nirse 7mo ago
Leisure only, there hasn't been commercial traffic on that canal for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Canal_(Scotland)
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by nirse 8mo ago
That's what you think...
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by nirse 10mo ago
It seems to be more heat resistant?
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by nirse 1y ago
Secondary school physics teacher here: The article is conflating power (watt or joule per second) and energy (joule or kilowatt-hour), so any claim they make is nonsense and the article shouldn't be taken seriously. My students make th
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by nirse 1y ago
I think it does: Right at the bottom under Frequently Asked Questions: How much lightning would we need to capture to power the entire U.S. electricity grid? Merely capturing the energy from 115 lightning strikes would supply all of
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by nirse 1y ago
I believe it would be a far greater problem if those people didn't die. Aging populations are a huge problem around the globe and unless we'd improve the quality of life to such a margin that octo- and nonagenarians are able to ca
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by nirse 2y ago
I work for a small company, around 10 devs. We've picked up quite a few projects over the years where a freelance team came in, built something and when the going got tough, walked away. That said, I've seen the same happen at ren
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by nirse 2y ago
This should be a reliable source on 3mmc, but it is in Dutch: https://www.trimbos.nl/aanbod/webwinkel/af1916-factsheet-3mm...
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by nirse 2y ago
I've read somewhere that the iodine can negatively affect the fermentation process, so that it's better to use iodine free sea salt. Cant remember the source, though.
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by nirse 2y ago
I do _really_ hate the slugs in my garden
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by nirse 2y ago
Is it just me, or has DDG been having trouble often lately? Or is it just a combination with some outage + degradation of search results lately that makes me g! regularly these days? Didn't use to need that.
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by nirse 2y ago
My mom grew up in South Africa, '40s and '50s, she always made us wash our lips after eating mango to avoid a rash. Only later did I discover I didn't need to, I always assumed the rash-causing compound has been bred out of m
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by nirse 2y ago
Same, but on gentoo :-p
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by nirse 2y ago
Funny, I started typing a comment here, about the author not getting the Ruby side of things right, that actually the difference would rather be that Ruby uses a special language construct and Python just normal methods and conventions. But
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by nirse 3y ago
It's hard to compare as the business model has changed, I believe that nowadays it's basically impossible for a library to get an individual subscription to a individual journal: subscriptions are bundled and (online) subscription
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by nirse 3y ago
I guess you should take into account that you are not (one of) the most preeminent computer scientists in the world, right?
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by nirse 3y ago
I agree, if you think of just a few big OSS project, like Linux, Postgres, Sqlite, nginx or apache web server, run as proprietary companies each of those would easily be worth way more then $177M (for reference, nginx was sold for $670M in
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by nirse 3y ago
This is a webserver that can run various web applications for you. In a typical setup you'd run a web/http server (nginx or Apache etc) to handle the 'slow' connections to the client and a separate app server (say, an ex
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by nirse 3y ago
Why would that be misleading? This seems to be just an attempt to better understand (some of the / potential) causes that unknown condition. Perhaps it doesn't help to diagnose it, as there might not be any direct evidence left in
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by nirse 3y ago
Do you know what the consequences of that would be?
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by nirse 3y ago
Did you invent something and forgot to tell us about it?
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by nirse 3y ago
But also the sun is burning fuel and eventually that will run out and we don't really have any means of renewing that fuel (I don't know where to order intergalactic hydrogen).
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by nirse 3y ago
I quite stormy disagree with you here: in order to reason about complex things it's absolutely necessary to have ready knowledge so that you can combine those bits and draw conclusions, see bigger pictures etc, you just can't do t
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by nirse 3y ago
Hmm, never knew they have highways in the UK.
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by nirse 3y ago
I agree, but some of my favourite cookbooks are American. What can you do?
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by nirse 3y ago
In philosophy, the most common definition of knowledge is that it is true, justified belief[1]. In that definition knowledge certainly is predicated to be correct. [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analys

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