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psud

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  • Removed

    Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?

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  • One of the good things about IT in giant organisations is teams often get big enough to let programmers specialise into the job they enjoy. In my team one programmer does all the auto unit testing, the other two do more of the programming

    In my job, I haven't found other analysts who want to do all the admin

  • Removed

    Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?

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  • My favourite thing has always been English language, so I was disappointed you didn't think of an "apposite opposite anecdote" (though your experience was both apposite and opposite)

    My phone thinks apposite isn't a real word. Silly phone.

  • Lobster 🦞 Claws

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  • Funny that the most correct answer was also the worst spelled

  • Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic.

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  • One of the carnivore doctors (Dr Anthony Chaffey, I think) does a presentation named plants are trying to kill us. The central idea is to eat only meat because you can't overeat it, you can't poison yourself with meat. But plants don't have teeth, claws, hooves or horns, they use poison

  • earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard

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  • A neutron bomb but different

  • It's basic science

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  • But if you asked for milk and they gave you anything made from a plant, you'd be right to reject it

    Milk with no qualifiers is cow juice

  • Free software has some glib naming conventions

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  • GNU does have a kernel though

  • YOLO

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  • Polyethylene, polypropylene and Teflon aren't damaged by hydrofluoric acid. Enema bags are commonly polypropylene, so he may not have used anything special, just the glass etching kit and the enema bag he already had to make an arse etching kit

  • YOLO

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  • I wouldn't be, having known a couple of people who went into chemistry and what their motivations were

  • How I imagine mathematicians...

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  • Lots of zeros in that due to a=b (before looking at the spoiler text)

  • Can't stop till brimstone

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  • I don't think they know they're trying to abbreviate 'until'

  • Lol, lmao even.

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  • So for a kilowatt and 300K with a poor quality radiator (0.8)

    Area = 1000/(0.85.670373x10-830^4)

    =1000/367.4401704

    ≈2.72m^2

    So using the approximation of 1kW/m2 of solar, you need on the order of 2.7x the area of solar for radiators

    That doesn't seem too bad, and is on par with what the ISS has. The radiators on ISS have emissivity about 0.91

    Ed. With the same quality of radiator on the ISS it's about 2.4*solar kilowatts

  • Lol, lmao even.

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  • Also it is a reminder that an expert in something is not generally an expert in anything else, and anything they're not expert in they're only as good at it as the average person of the same intelligence and education

  • Lol, lmao even.

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  • I wonder whether any LLMs are any good at hypothesis generation

  • Chop 💥 Chop

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  • And other things like remove the political opposition of the people who control it

  • Fun science fact

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  • Here's a bucket of them 🪣

  • This is why we can't have nice things.

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  • I think that only happens if you manage to acquire a monopoly and are forced to break up your company - I'm not entirely sure you have to sell parts of it publicly even then

    Unless the someone happens to be the owner.

  • This is why we can't have nice things.

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  • It's still legal in Australia, at least, we never got the anti-circumvention rule the US media companies got into the US trade agreements

    Or rather we did, but they have exceptions that cover just about every otherwise legal use case. I can legally decrypt media to play on my Linux machine, for example. I think the only thing we can't legally do is circumvent controls to do copyright violation

  • River River

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  • ye classic times

    The letter you're using y to stand in for is available on computers and phones: þ (thorn). It makes the same sound as "th" in "that". The other letter "th" replaced was ð (eth) which makes the sound "th" in "something"