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Is there any mention of what kind of radioactive decay this is powered from? Based on the name, one might assume beta? This would also track with the "research done in the 20th Cen…

My partner's uncle and aunt have a holiday home right on that beach, just down from these pictures. We have of course enjoyed the privilege of staying there. We arrived in the dead…

I feel sorry for the people that have to use it to commute every day. Surely their hearing must be being damaged.

>I just wish people would remember that they've already told me a story before. I always get paranoid they'll remember half way through the story that they've told me it before, an…

I have always found it amusing that CSS does not accept both "color" and "colour" even though it accepts both "gray" and "grey"

It seems to be taking a while for the framework to propagate to more independent arms of the government; as well as your example, for the (e.g.) DVLA a lot of the top level informa…

Not even close. The specific case I know you're talking about is the woman who was in an exclusion zone that was in place to stop people harassing women entering an abortion clinic…

>I don't understand the cult following around Svelte. What I don't get is how I never (at least on HN) see any criticism of it. Like... never ever. And sure I've probably missed th…

It depends what you mean by data. Metadata maybe, but I'd think they're meaning that once your passwords data is encrypted (on your device), it is no longer your data without the e…

You can find ones with glass lids. Here in the UK we're lucky that Pyrex is still borosilicate glass, and there are some I've seen with glass lids that are advertised as "zero plas…

I'm not really well-versed in this kind of thing to make any particular comments, but this made me rage: >Please reply to this message by 05.10.2023 to let us know that you receive…

I found this to be successful too. It took a few times though because it kept telling me about restaurants in New York.

This wouldn't work in the same way in Japanese because characters can have different readings depending on the context. Could that be overcome with font ligatures? Still, even if w…

I don't know the contract law in the relevant (presumably US) jurisdiction, but surely an asterisk in the contract that's basically: Lifetime perpetual licence!* *but we can cancel…

I mean, yes, it is a very impactful book; I enjoyed it very much. What I'm meaning, though, is that if you were to go against your duty as the head of NASA, Carl Sagan isn't going …

Is there any actual strict requirement that you have to swear over a document of some kind? I'd have thought swearing over the bible is a stand-in for swearing "before God", and th…

"If you got shit on your fingers would you wipe it off with a piece of tissue, or wash your hands? Why would the answer be different for your bum?" I don't know about you but I don…

I get exactly the same pang of sadness. I even distinctly remember learning perturbation theory. But I use so little of what I learnt, and it's so long ago, that at lunch table dis…

One might assume it's forward thinking - if this were used in Japan, where there are woman-only carriages, this might be relevant.

>It's about time to effect change. It's about cross device and platform support. It's about it being easier to find developers familiar with the browser stack then native app devel…

Since everyone is complaining about the site rather than the topic - I hate sites that hide the menu bar when you scroll downwards but then show it again when you scroll even sligh…

> Then the RAM state is compared after each frame, to verify that the C implementation is correct. So not simply recreated, it's a 100% accurate replica of the original game. Crazy…

This has to be one of my biggest peeves online. It's such a pervasive tactic to shut down discussion of a topic that's disadvantageous for the "other side". To use a topical exampl…

...close the app then? It's just a different paradigm. It's not like quitting the app is in any way difficult (it's just cmd+Q which I actually find a bit too easy to trigger by ac…

I don't know if this is quite what you mean, but I've had more than one discussion (and seen many more online on twitter, reddit) that goes something like: >Alice: say, for the sak…