ouchjars

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by ouchjars 2y ago
-o is most characteristic of Australian English but English speakers over the world are familiar with "kiddo", "psycho", and now "doggo".
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by ouchjars 3y ago
Ironically, I'm finding this hard to read without formatting to distinguish using words and mentioning them.
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by ouchjars 3y ago
Alcohol does change the surface tension so foaming will be different. Ever seen a security guard shake someone's water bottle to check if it's really water? The thing that makes beer foam stay there is the protein content. Yeast c
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by ouchjars 4y ago
As well as the arrows, the buttons are just positioned intuitively most of the time. We usually get two perpendicular kerb ramps rather than a diagonal one pointing at the centre of the intersection. The button for the crossing you want is
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by ouchjars 4y ago
It even says "The correct answer was zero"!
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by ouchjars 4y ago
Traditional masonry construction has the same results in terms of thermal mass. More so, if it's denser and thicker. With the right shading and ventilation it's useful for both temperature extremes. See vernacular architecture in
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by ouchjars 4y ago
With few exceptions, your cooking oil would have to be smoking profusely before the pan is hot enough to damage silicone. At that point it's not quite hot enough to ruin the Teflon either.
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by ouchjars 4y ago
To some extent, the forced downtime is a benefit. Instantly refeullable vehicles enable fatigued driving. It's not even healthy to be sitting for that long as a passenger.
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by ouchjars 4y ago
Self-powered evaporative air conditioning is an ancient technology. Air conditioning as we understand and use it today is a gold-plated band-aid over bad design. It's so entrenched you almost can't get a house built any other way.
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by ouchjars 5y ago
> everyone getting the same word on the same day Not really true as it is, being based on local time. For example, there's only a one hour period each day where someone in New Zealand and someone in Hawaii have the same word. Fortun
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by ouchjars 5y ago
If you could avoid getting obese with two shots in the arm and wearing a piece of cloth every time you leave the house for a couple years.
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by ouchjars 5y ago
Even if it is "imaginary", there's a positive feedback loop between the belief that supply chain issues exist and changes in buying patterns.
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by ouchjars 5y ago
Stop signs here in Australia, like most of the world, are only placed where the visibility actually makes it necessary to come to a stop. They're far more common over in the US. Pick any random intersection, it probably has a stop sign
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by ouchjars 5y ago
> The thing with riding that on a bike path was that I had no concerns slowing down amongst pedestrians or on blind corners as it was no effort to get back up to speed. I was less inclined on my road bike due to the effort. Many bike pat
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by ouchjars 5y ago
> The recommendations are also getting worse IMO It seems to me that this happens on a per-user basis as recommendations are overfitted to the recommendations they've already listened to. They overfit so much that if you put a playl
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by ouchjars 5y ago
Swahili, which they do support, is the national language of Kenya and a lingua franca in the region. They also have Amharic (Ethiopia), Xhosa and Zulu (South Africa). I agree that supporting a finite set of languages isn't accessible e
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by ouchjars 5y ago
I see it as a feature of Euro English, like writing "XIV century" instead of "19th" or saying "actual" with the meaning of "current". Language change caused by an influx of non-native speakers is not
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by ouchjars 6y ago
Rex Krueger has the most budget-conscious channel I know of ( https://www.youtube.com/c/RexKrueger ). His "Woodworking for Humans" series starts out with just needing three tools and bootstrapping your way to m
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by ouchjars 6y ago
South Australia, which generated 60% of its electricity with renewables last year, is installing synchronous condensers to provide some kind of grid stabilisation. (The current conservative government is aiming for net 100% renewables by 20
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by ouchjars 6y ago
If you have any of a number of disabilities, that is exactly the case.
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by ouchjars 6y ago
Borrowed plural forms are most likely to happen with French, Latin, and Greek loans, and also those from languages that don't change words to make them plural, e.g. Japanese and Maori. Sometimes it happens with other languages, like th
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by ouchjars 6y ago
I thought so too, but I'm not completely sure since they rolled out the personalised "Time Capsule" playlists. Most of the tracks in mine seem more based on my age and location than my listening history. Particularly, many tr
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by ouchjars 6y ago
They copied other social networks' stories feature so accurately, they even included the bit where it's only available on mobile apps first.
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by ouchjars 6y ago
I was happy to wait an hour and a bit for delivery when dial-a-pizza and the local Chinese restaurant were the only places around that did it. The food industry is over-optimising for speed. Especially drive-throughs. Every time I've b
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by ouchjars 6y ago
The virus can't "continue from where it left off" if there's nobody left in the country infected by it. If it turns out there were a few infections left, or one slipped through quarantine for arriving travellers, the hea
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by ouchjars 6y ago
We've come a long way from $20,000 per GB (the rate on Telstra prepaid circa 2011, as I discovered when I put my SIM into my first smartphone).
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by ouchjars 6y ago
The point is that other jurisdictions get away with using way fewer stop signs than in North America, while having much safer roads.
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by ouchjars 6y ago
Nor can I middle-click scroll on desktop.
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by ouchjars 6y ago
The battery plant capacity is growing in hand with decentralised battery storage, an interconnector to New South Wales which is building hydro storage capacity, and demand management. Apparently generation and transmission costs are falling
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by ouchjars 6y ago
There was a unique social quality to public player-run servers at their height. They have not been surpassed as the closest virtual equivalents to bars. I miss talking to strangers and mild acquaintances more than I thought I would, in that

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