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For Python, there is the Pint library: https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

I graduated with a PhD 10 years ago from the same university (Nottingham) as he did, in mechanical engineering, and have been working in academia ever since, working my way up to s…

It's not intrinsically better, it's just a convention, but it helps if everyone operates to the same standard for obvious reasons. Since neighbouring countries drove on the right, …

MagLev did pan out though, just not in Britain. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train

"And if goalies are being irrational, why aren't kickers exploiting it?" Two reasons I can think of. First, if you shoot to the left or right (particularly top or bottom corner of …

The estimated worth of the gold in jewellery privately owned in India alone (mainly by housewives) is estimated to be worth $600 billion. To put that in perspective, total US gold …

It may be possible that they developed their internal compass due to their nomadic lifestyle and the use of absolute directions within language resulted from that (rather than vice…

Lojban is a constructed, syntactically unambiguous language based on predicate logic that was originally conceived to examine the influence of language on the speaker's thought: ht…

Doesn't it have a handbrake?

Except that for the Tesla it's days after reaching zero charge, not months. From the manual "Important! Caution: If the battery’s charge level falls to 0%, it must be plugged in im…

"Imagine the flip side, that electric cars were normal, and internal combustion engines were unusual. Then we could have stories about owners ruining their engines because they nev…

In the UK, if you work for a company with 250 or more employees, you are also entitled to request time off work to train (including degree study): http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Emplo…

Once they offer a full set of modules, for say a CS degree, this could be very disruptive indeed.

Very good on Timothy's part too. In the same situation, I would probably sell the extra XBox to be honest.

A phenomenon I noticed in certain Latin American countries: there are vendors walking around and on every street corner advertising "Minutos" who carry a set of mobile phones on st…

"At some point they are discussing whether they are ascending or descending, while the stall alarm is blaring throughout. I don't think anyone will consider making the stall alarm …

The dual input warning doesn't inform specifically that copilot 1 is pulling back on the stick. It's clear from the report that was the problem, copilot 1 was pulling back the whol…

The crash report says that the second pilot and pilot (when he arrived) were both unaware that the other copilot was pulling back on his stick. E.g. at one point the other copilot …

One obvious improvement would be to replace the warning "Stall!" with "Stall! Stall protection disengaged!" when flying in alternative mode. Even better might be "Stall! Push stick…

UK = £ Sterling

Yes, in most cases the university will own any IP. Usually they will want a percentage of any spinout company resulting from PhD research. The best thing to do would be for them to…

I agree that a PhD is not the only way to get domain knowledge. Working in industry and private research into a problem are other ways (amongst many). No matter how obtained, domai…

A technical PhD will give you exceptional domain knowledge. With that you might be able to sidestep 99% of the start-up crowd who have programming skills alone and are stuck fighti…

So there is nothing Steve Blank could teach you that you don't already know? Besides, these classes involve getting into teams and trying out the concepts from class (and might hav…

Lulea is the correct English alphabet spelling.