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Well, the primary particles that hit the atmosphere are mostly protons. They cause avalanche of secondaires that are varied but mostly muons,

I'd recommend listening to Webern's Op. 27, it's a strict 2nd Viennese school 12-tone composition but also very expensive, I love it (although it works better in a concert setting …

Leisure only, there hasn't been commercial traffic on that canal for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Canal_(Scotland)

That's what you think...

It seems to be more heat resistant?

Secondary school physics teacher here: The article is conflating power (watt or joule per second) and energy (joule or kilowatt-hour), so any claim they make is nonsense and the ar…

I think it does: Right at the bottom under Frequently Asked Questions: How much lightning would we need to capture to power the entire U.S. electricity grid? Merely capturing the e…

I believe it would be a far greater problem if those people didn't die. Aging populations are a huge problem around the globe and unless we'd improve the quality of life to such a …

I work for a small company, around 10 devs. We've picked up quite a few projects over the years where a freelance team came in, built something and when the going got tough, walked…

This should be a reliable source on 3mmc, but it is in Dutch: https://www.trimbos.nl/aanbod/webwinkel/af1916-factsheet-3mm...

I've read somewhere that the iodine can negatively affect the fermentation process, so that it's better to use iodine free sea salt. Cant remember the source, though.

I do _really_ hate the slugs in my garden

Is it just me, or has DDG been having trouble often lately? Or is it just a combination with some outage + degradation of search results lately that makes me g! regularly these day…

My mom grew up in South Africa, '40s and '50s, she always made us wash our lips after eating mango to avoid a rash. Only later did I discover I didn't need to, I always assumed the…

Same, but on gentoo :-p

Funny, I started typing a comment here, about the author not getting the Ruby side of things right, that actually the difference would rather be that Ruby uses a special language c…

It's hard to compare as the business model has changed, I believe that nowadays it's basically impossible for a library to get an individual subscription to a individual journal: s…

I guess you should take into account that you are not (one of) the most preeminent computer scientists in the world, right?

I agree, if you think of just a few big OSS project, like Linux, Postgres, Sqlite, nginx or apache web server, run as proprietary companies each of those would easily be worth way …

This is a webserver that can run various web applications for you. In a typical setup you'd run a web/http server (nginx or Apache etc) to handle the 'slow' connections to the clie…

Why would that be misleading? This seems to be just an attempt to better understand (some of the / potential) causes that unknown condition. Perhaps it doesn't help to diagnose it,…

Do you know what the consequences of that would be?

Did you invent something and forgot to tell us about it?

But also the sun is burning fuel and eventually that will run out and we don't really have any means of renewing that fuel (I don't know where to order intergalactic hydrogen).

I quite stormy disagree with you here: in order to reason about complex things it's absolutely necessary to have ready knowledge so that you can combine those bits and draw conclus…