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Some Unusual Trees 4 months ago

Eucalypt forest fires are bad because the leaves are full of oil and when it's hot, dry and windy, they're extremely flammable and the fire races through the tops of the trees at incredible speeds, and jumps across large fire breaks that appear to be wide enough that they should stop it.

But at the same time the wood is also very dense, so makes great campfire wood, but doesn't burn so much in a forest fire, which is a bit ironic...

Apple Business 4 months ago

At most decent sized companies with a cyber security and network admin team, this is probably the fastest way to get disconnected from the internal corporate network with no way to reconnect.

Try and 12 months ago

Pro tip: Duolingo is a game and basically a dead end for properly learning a language. If you want to really learn, you need to build intuition, and that only comes from huge amounts of level-appropriate input. Find yourself some good native language podcasts that are targeted at language learners and native reading material. Search for "Refold" for a better strategy (no affiliation, it's just awesome), and make sure that whatever you do, you enjoy it. Language learning is a marathon, the fun is in the journey, not just the destination.

Killed by LLM 2 years ago

I read that as the pass mark being able to identify human vs machine more than 50% of the time. At 50% it's no better than randomly guessing.

For you. Everyone's different, and I have no problem closing my laptop and psychologically switching from "at work" to "at home" almost instantly. But I absolutely appreciate that other people need the physical separation and temporal separation to make that switch. I don't begrudge anyone that wants to work from the office and commute each day. Please, do what works for you, but that's not what works for me.

Having bought basic archery gear for 3 people in the last year, unless you're talking about a toy longbow, $20 is not going to get you anywhere. Even buying the absolute necessities for a basic barebow recurve setup, let's list things off:

Riser, plunger, arrow rest, limbs, string, arrows, finger tab. That's the absolute bare minimum. You'll also probably want an arm guard unless you don't value your forearms. You can't do this for less than US$150-$200, unless you find someone basically giving away second hand equipment.

Yes! On average, my Orient watch runs about 15-20s fast per week when I lay it flat on its back at night. But when I position it crown down at night, it runs about 4s slow per week. I usually check it every Sunday morning, and if it's running a bit slow, then I'll put it on it's back for a couple of night to let it catch up. Haven't had to pull the crown out and adjust it for about 2 months now with this system.

Mars Cyclers 3 years ago

Those two vehicles have very different flight profiles, so comparing them is of limited value, but yes, that is the plan.

After listening to some of the samples and thinking how nice they were, I've just also noticed the morning bird calls outside my home office window, which my mind usually filters out and ignores...

They're lovely!

My wife has the Chemistry 2e books for her uni courses. She absolutely raves about them. Yes, compared to her other Chem books, the printing feels a bit cheap, and the typesetting feels like it could use some work, but in terms of content, they seem to hit the mark.

If you want to use any part of this document and/or any figure, please contact me. If you work at Amazon, you cannot use and refer to this document because of the copyright violation issues.

This is an interesting inclusion, would they be referring to copies of this book being sold on Amazon? Or usage in their documentation? I'm genuinely curious what the issue is with them...

Rather than free, I'd say the marginal cost would be more like what you could otherwise sell the electricity back to the grid for. eg. if you're paying $0.25/kWh to buy from the grid, and selling back to the grid at $0.06/kWh, then you're really "paying" $0.06/kWh in opportunity cost to charge your vehicle from your solar panels.

There's also the file system cache to consider, which Kafka famously leans on heavily for IO performance. If the majority of your consumers are reading the latest messages which were just written, these will likely come from the cache which is in memory. A consumer reading from the earliest messages on a large topic could conceivably cause changes to what's available from file system cache for other consumers reading from the latest messages, so they're not necessarily totally isolated. I've not taken measurements of this though to say it's an actual issue, just saying that I wouldn't dismiss it.

Considering you'd like to buy both a complete laptop minus the main board (to put your existing main board in), and a main board (to upgrade your existing 11th gen), I'm sure there's a solution we can find here...

Our main state university had an open day as part of a national "Science Week". They had a bunch of Leica stereo dissecting scopes set up on benches with random aquatic plants, bugs and other stuff in small dishes, that looked like it was something that you just pull out of your local creek. People could come in and just take a look.

It was incredible. Zooming in on some of the plants, it was like there was a entire world in there that was completely invisible to the human eye.

It reminded me of Feynman's quote/lecture about there being "plenty of room at the bottom". It put it into perspective about just how much room there really was.

Oh, don't get me started... MS Teams has been doing this recently at work. Everyone is pinning messages, because when you hover over the Edit menu item for a message and go to click it, two more menu items load asynchronously below it, and switch the Edit button out for a Pin Message button right when you go to click it. And it's not even consistently like that, just sometimes. It's infuriating...

Long term, CO2's worse, but that's probably not the best way to look at it.

Excess H2O (water vapor) falls out of the sky as rain, so it's fairly constant (ie. "maxed out"), and its long term concentration levels are a function of CO2 equivalent gases in the atmosphere. So if you increase CO2 levels, H20 levels will naturally increase as well, and vice versa.