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I also think this is a US thing. In other countries a ring without diamond is also normal. And I guess most people could not even distinct a diamond from polished glass.

The paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/smll.202004... (you need access to see all parameters). Anyway it looks like they created a very tiny diamond. So it loo…

I think an onload limit is much more useful than file size. A 700kB JavaScript page can take up to 10 sec. to render on older mobile devices. And a 500kB image can contain megapixe…

As with other types of viruses. Nerve damage is very common.

It is strange. I noticed all the ads lately, sometimes even 2 in a row. But thinking about it I can't remember a single ad. Today more and more people have an ad filter in their he…

https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/moeten-wij-ons-in-nederland-zor... (Dutch) The storage and production is highly regulated. Every suspicious event must be communicated with the "Nation…

"...and pretty much have their entire business on there..." This is what I don't get about YouTubers. They created a business with basically only one source of income. This is bad …

In 2019 30,000 hours of content per hour was uploaded.

There are already 2 known virus mutations: G614 and D514. In Italy new research suggests even a 3rd mutation might go around. And Denmark also had a mutation. Do those vaccines wor…

I seriously consider going away from Android (Google). Is Linux a viable option as mobile OS? I've got a feeling that it is almost as a 'dumb' phone. You got your calculator and SM…

Imho Mercurial is much easier than Git. I have seen team members who lost data with Git but never with Mercurial. I still miss Mercurial. Unfortunately most people moved to Git so …

Privacy is the control to choose what kind of things about yourself you would like to expose. If that control is gone there is no privacy.

If so many people are confused by this, aren't VPN settings per app not insecure by default? It looks like a lot of people are under the assumption that enabling VPN means system w…

It has always been like this. The Mad Man series are about an advertisement company in the fifties.

Maybe the Dutch website is different but I think it is one of the worst webshops I've been on. When you search for a product you end up in a flood of pages with half related produc…

Visuals is a very broad term. As you can read in my comment I agree with you. For example working with text in Gimp is just horrible. And Inkscape is very good untill you need it f…

And I just read on Wikipedia the fastest speed ever recorded was 396.86 km/h. And the fastest average horizontal speed over 1000m: 325.4 km/h. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings…

Are you sure? Those small EDFs can generate 12-25kg of thrust. The fastest wingsuit flight almost topped 400km/h so maybe the real question is how much extra speed was gained with …

Some things changed for the good the last couple of years. I am programming on Ubuntu (C#, PHP, Javascript) with Jetbrains software. This works absolutely great. For 3D work I use …

What about bamboo? Grows fast grows straight.

I really wanted to use Sailfish as Android alternative. But after reading reviews I think it is just not ready and will not be an alternative to Android and iOS any time soon. Ther…

You can at the cost of some light bounces. Most modern render engines render rays from the camera into the scene. This speeds up rendering a lot but also means rendering caustics w…

In the Netherlands we grow a lot of bell peppers on 'water'. Those sweet pepers are much larger than the ones grown on soal. But the only difference is the taste and the thickness …

I don't like Facebook but I don't think I would have a problem with creating a Facebook account for the device only (with an email address only for this device). But what seems to …

Currently I have a lot of trouble with my body because I am sitting to much. After different types of exercise I believe what matters most is keeping the blood flowing and stimulat…