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despoticruin

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  • How far back in time could you go with your skills?

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  • Penicillin isn't just growing some mold, it was selected for out of literally tens of thousands of strains of mold that were sent in from around the globe to find one that wouldn't kill the patient. You would, at a minimum, need: microscope optics, glassblowing equipment to perform extractions and purifications, a source of solvents (ether will only go so far), assaying equipment (even old school stuff needs indicators), and enough industrial progress to make and machine steel to be able to scale any of it up.

    Just finding the correct strain of mold to begin to produce any form of antibiotics would need a pretty insane amount of hardware to make what we would consider a rudimentary lab in modern times, let alone isolating it in a way that's safe for human consumption.

  • My cat desperately wants to remover her own face. How do I stop that?

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  • Yeah, I can second the mites. They aren't always obvious, not every cat has an ear canal you can see them in. Getting some drops with aloe in them went over well for our cat, it helps the itching.

  • I've never read a more menacing headline about pumpkins

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  • It's still a literal ton of vegetal mass, you can compost it. Competition for the sake of competition is wasteful in general, look at the Olympics.

  • Ah fuck I burnt it

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  • Dale Earnhardt was a big name in NASCAR. He got burnt. Honestly I have no fucking idea.

  • Trump attends another extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago as thousands, including government employees, hit food banks in shutdown

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  • Nothing that's going to dodge a tox screen, you would want to go accidental. I am a big supporter of some Visine in his coke, but some nitrates would probably cause a heart attack given his likely meds to deal with the swelling.

  • Repurposing Dodgy Android TV Boxes As Linux Boxes

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  • Small web hosting, pihole, docker dashboard, Minecraft server for kids, wireguard router for travelling, or just use it with a media center spin/Kodi and turn it back into a media box that doesn't suck.

    Those specs are enough to do a lot of stuff.

  • How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster

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  • You can also paint the fakes before you apply them, which makes the entire process so much easier.

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  • That gets into some of the first principles of engineering a flying machine though. The hydraulics are your control for stuff like flaps and gear deployment. These things need to work consistently against pretty impressive forces, and you can only extend mechanical advantage so far before you start to run into issues with weight. Even having a backup hydraulic system would be a considerable amount of weight, and how else do you propose moving flaps and ailerons requiring hundreds or thousands of newtons of force to budge in the air?

  • hmm breakfast

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  • There is a lot wrong with palm oil that has nothing to do with your waistline, and that's what composes most of Nutella.

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  • It's not completely hollow, it has channels between the various holes that open and close selectively. The way hydraulics work requires everything to hold the hydraulic pressure, manifolds are where all of the various pressurized points meet up and get distributed to the various mechanics. If you can break that pressure seal at the manifold you can usually cripple the whole system at once. Most of a plane is run off of hydraulics, especially flight control systems.

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  • One of the windows would be better. There aren't a ton of places where a single bullet will take down a plane, if you can get a window you can at least depressurize the cabin and force a really sketchy landing, but guaranteeing the plane crashes when it's full of people capable of keeping it in the air is no small feat. Maybe if you have access to the maintenance cabins you can pop one of the hydraulic manifold blocks, I'm not sure if the main ones have redundant fail-safes if the whole manifold spontaneously opens a new outlet.

  • And what car did you learn in?

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  • A car without a clutch could also just be a funny car. They don't really have a clutch, it's more a bullseye looking thing that drops in stages. Basically if you try to dump 3000+ horses into first gear metal tends to explode, so you dump multiple stages that just roast until you get speed. You still have gears, but it's less of a clutch and more of a time delay friction welding system attached to the crankshaft.

  • Walmart’s SNAP Paradox: Billions Gained, Workers Subsidized

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  • This actually happens in Fort Collins Colorado. Check out the section 8 group by the Walmart off of Lincoln, most of their employees live in that chunk of houses.

  • Anti Facial Recognition DIY

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  • Not just the capacitors, the tube itself is a capacitor that handles multiple kilovolts, so you can easily hit the wrong side of the flyback transformer or poke the wrong part of the tube and get fried.

    Not just an "Ouch, don't do that again", more of a heart just stops.

  • Anti Facial Recognition DIY

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  • They are part of the deflection yoke. If you saw that chunky core wrapped in magnet wire on the skinny end of the tube that's what that was. They aren't always permanent magnets, most of the later model TVs used electromagnets, but it's how the electron beam is moved across the screen. All of them will have very strong magnets somewhere by design.

  • Donald Trump got mad at the TV, so now stuff costs more

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  • This is the way. It wouldn't harm a single regular US citizen, instead it would target multi-billion dollar corporations. I'm all for this plan of action

  • Trump administration won’t use contingency fund to pay November food stamp benefits

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  • It's worse than that because of how the poverty line is calculated based on the cost of food.

    Sounds like a great plan, except that we stopped there.

    Our poverty line is only calculated based on the cost of food. As is rent was free.

    15% of our population couldn't even afford food if they didn't pay any rent at all.

    Let that sink in and understand it's not hyperbole when we say we are fucked.

  • AMD planning monstrous dual-cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 with 192MB of game-boosting L3 cache, according to leak

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  • The extra cache can be a pretty significant speedup in certain workloads, as much or more than the first CCD was compared to non-X3D parts. The caveat is these workloads are encountered in less than one percent of real world consumer situations. Sure, these chips are exactly what some data scientists and people handling data sources like colliders or SEM arrays want, you can now hold an entire genome deconvolution module in cache and operate purely in memory. Every other average jackoff wanting a few extra frames in Waifu Simulator buying these chips will be mostly disappointed, the loss in boost clocks and TDP allocated to the compute tiles will outweigh the extra couple of shaders they can compute in real time.

    This is blatantly obvious to anyone who grew up adding their own cache to PCs back in the day, you really do hit a point where cache is big enough for your cores to saturate and you are back to waiting on the pipeline pretty quickly, and the only people even now that can squeeze more out of that are working with massively parallelized computations that themselves are cheap, but with data types that don't align with what a GPU can work with.

    Fintech, genome researchers, and people studying field theory will benefit to be sure, and the extra X3D chip would be absolutely worth the premium over having to otherwise use Epyc/Threadripper and trading off clocks and memory speeds. Honestly the X3D2 chip would make a far cheaper and faster workstation than a threadripper that ran similar workloads as long as you stayed under 128GB of memory.

  • Pro-Trump owner shocked as grocery store that thrived for 43 years goes bankrupt under his tariffs and policies - WTF Detective

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  • A good solution to this debacle would have been to not vote in the felonious conman who famously, and regularly, bankrupts businesses known to be the most consistent moneymakers man has come up with.

    These people are not good at solutions.

  • Pro-Trump owner shocked as grocery store that thrived for 43 years goes bankrupt under his tariffs and policies - WTF Detective

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  • Volume will make you more money than margins, Walmart proved that pretty handily. Cheaper groceries means more volume. They were pretty on point with that logic, grocery stores generally want cheaper stock so people buy more.