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Better to keep things running at a low level than fully idle I'd think. Even if the outputs are consumed by testing, development, or even just stockpiled. Lots of things can get lost by not making parts for a while, including the knowledge involved in troubleshooting or replacing parts.
Of course then people would complain about all the money wasted not utilizing the equipment/space enough.
By now, its battlefield lethality exceeds that of small arms and artillery shells.
The war in Ukraine seems to be showing this to not be true. Drones are used as much as they are because they do not have enough artillery. Are they useful, yes. But they do not replace artillery. Maybe in another type of war, but that is another issue, what is the next war we expect to find ourselves in? For all the talk of China deterrence, we're seeing a pivot away from China now.
Like piggies to the trough.
There are plenty of things to criticize in procurement. I don't see this as a useful reaction or attempt to fix issues in a long term way.
Interesting, that looks too spendy for my taste honestly but I can see a way to justify it. I use a trackball for some of my CAD work but on another PC I sometimes have to check things in CAD, rather than real work, and a ball like that could be a good way to do it.
Once you get the presoldered board it is ~$300. I'm not into keyboards, is it common to price them without key caps and switches? I noticed that.
I'm not sure I see the e-ink screen as useful, but that touchpad caught my eye. What do people use that screen for?
Was this during a storm a few years ago? I used to fly Southwest a decent amount but I haven't in several years now. I've heard worse things about them in the last couple years.
Once you've traveled even a significant fraction of a mile in your living room I'm afraid you're likely dead or seriously injured.
I struggle with the music one. I listen to a lot of different music, used see live music at least once a week, and have some strong opinions. I still struggle to explain music to others or why I enjoy certain artists/songs.
It is like the details don't register in a usable way, where one of my good friends will tell me he likes a band because of the guitar tone or the drummer's technique or something else that I struggle to explain or even pick out of the music. I wish I could explain my preference better.
Good point, I wasn't clear. The warning was about the systemic reaction inside the veins and arteries. Or something along those lines. Whatever it was the warning struck me as much more drastic than the usual allergic reaction warning.
Baker's lung is a thing too. I think about that when I see the dust from my spice grinder when making various powders. No matter what there is airborne dust when I open the grinder. I try to do my wood cutting outside but I am not sanding much. When I refinished my floors I wore dust protection and a loose tshirt over the dust protection to make clean up at the end of the day a bit easier.
Interesting, I had some vermiculite removed recently and got a response from the ZAI trust that the samples had fibers but they couldn't say specifically that it was asbestos. I assumed that was a legal distinction, it didn't occur to me that it might be from different test methods.
When I had mine I got the form with warnings about side effects. When I saw the allergic reaction I was a bit concerned, I asked the tech and was told it wasn't a big deal. Since I was in the basement I didn't have service and I decided to trust them given the large number of my friends who've had MRIs. It was fine, but it seemed like a major thing to toss in the patients lap right before they get strapped down in a tube.
Are you certain it is gadolinium? As I recall from a family member's health issues you can get particulates in joints from arthroscopic surgery or from the metal implants. Not saying that is what happened in your case, but I'm just curious because I remember reading about metal in joints as a potential side effect of the surgery.
I remember when there was a big push to make ball point pen tips, and how a but less than 10 years later they succeeded in making them domestically.
What happens when the building sways multiple feet in the wind? We don't normally think about them moving, but for accurate positioning I'd think the additional distance to the beacon could be a problem.
With regard to the sections about beavers, I went to an event this year where a beaver scientist mentioned that many European settlers in North America showed up after beavers had been nearly extirpated by trappers. So they would come across open flat areas with a stream flowing through which had likely been dammed by beavers in the past. This caused problems with flooding and water damage, and problems as beavers have been reestablished in much of the US (and Canada?)
There is a bookstore in Vancouver with a section of translations which is reliably fruitful when I visit. The last book I bought there was a translation of Yuri Herrera's Season of the Swamp. I devoured it, even though I agree that I wish it were more fleshed out. It made me think about reading some of his work in Spanish even though it would be a long process for me. I enjoyed the effort in spanish literature class, maybe I can do it again.
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/season-swamp
On the topic of the OP, I struggled with Satantango on more than one occasion over the last 12 years. For whatever reason I couldn't get through it, but I've carried the book around through several moves. Maybe I'll try again.
Those are great pictures. And I've been near there! I've seen the Alps from near Saignelégier then we drove through Plombieres-les-Bains on the way north. On certain clear winter days I bet the mountains look bigger due to lensing.
I might be using a dead person's account at several grocery stores. I just never updated the phone number I used, who knows what bucket my purchasing data goes into. But I hope it causes some inconsistency somewhere.
There's a nearly 450 km photo of the Ecrins from the Pyrenees!
https://beyondrange.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestre...
That's a cool thing to track, I've been surprised by the places I've seen the Seattle skyline reflected on the water near sundown. No crazy distances, but there's a small time period where it flashes into view.
Interesting, I haven't looked at the datasheets but I assumed there were some PFAS used in the coatings. That is good to know. The problem I see is that the material properties of PFAS are so useful and desireable, so they are used in so many different contexts.
How do you deal with running electricity through the house? This is not meant to be a fully serious question, but I'm replacing old wires in my home currently and it doesn't escape my attention that PFAS added to the insulation makes the new wiring easier to use and possibly safer from a fire perspective. I'm not certain about this but pulling cloth wrapper wires out of the ceiling makes me think where such chemicals have been used. I know I buy precrimped jumper wires with a teflon coating for work. I'm certain some people strip them with a heated tool. And I certainly melted some insulation while soldering them as a teenager.
I live in one of the places in the lower 48 with relatively easy access to glaciers. The change in some of them is fairly noticeable for me over the last say 20 years. It tends to feel grim and helpless if think about it too much. But I hike so I have spent time closer to them than an average person.
This researcher's account is interesting to see comparisons of EU glaciers over the last 100 years or so. https://bsky.app/profile/subfossilguy.bsky.social
And this blog: https://glacierchange.blog/
The last time the blob persisted it led to sea Star and kelp death. And reduced salmon runs, and as a result stressed some of the orcas that ate those salmon typically. Also reduced the snowpack noticably.
I suppose I don't think too much about the type of sugars in my fruits. We're approaching the end of my fruit picking season but yesterday I probably ate ~3-5 pears worth of scraps/discards while processing a bunch for pear sauce. During huckleberry season my picking for the winter is limited by the amount I eat since each bush obviously must be sampled for flavor.
I'm trying to think the last time I saw one in use, last year or a couple years ago when there were large scale power outages. Of course the newer cards lack raised digits so I'm not sure how well they worked for keeping business moving. I had cash.
I think that was fixed (again). I can still buy real mimolette at the grocery store near me.
Interesting, thanks. I'm changing docs/insurance and thinking about the tests I should be paying attention to.
Does this mean this test is recommenced in place of cholesterol for people who are not taking statins? Or is the test in addition?
Maybe I'm just lucky but looking at special interest blogs I appreciate the comments from other users/experts/makers. Diqus is the latest in a string of commenting tool and they all seem to have issues over time. A favorite blog resource of mine got nuked after the comments were filled with spam, and possibly used to hack the site. Unfortunately the blog was a collection of years of specific experiences in places with very little other information for that activity. I've talked to the owner about getting information in the years since and he's been helpful, but building the site back would take too long for him, so it's mostly gone. The comments there were useful for updates from people who visited those locations, or found alternate routes/approaches.