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The moon cycle is approx 28 days, which is 7x4.

The height of tides are rooted in this but have 7 day periods of increasing, decreasing, increasing, decreasing.

I don't know if thats reason enough to continue with it, but possibly part of the history

I'm pretty sure the file command is not GNU btw, and I can't find anything about a GNU version.. do you have a reference?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_(command)

I don't really understand the banks point, given that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC exists.

Um, taking it orally or dropping it in your eye?

(I'm interested because my sister has just had eye surgery and while she is still adjusting to her new vision, she said something about potential dryness)

I am not sure that actually, the intermediate site is even technically sending the image.

As I understand it, the iframe is set up such that the users browser loads your site inside the frame and the intermediate site outside of the frame. If you serve a file then you are serving it directly to the browser. The intermediate site never sees it?

what is the prevailing theory currently?

No, ground effect is (AFAIK) when the depth of the wing (fore-aft) is greater than the distance above the surface it is flying over. The leading edge of the wing creates a pressure wave that reflects back from the surface and provides lift to the whole wing. You can see it with birds like pelicans which skim the water for a long way without needing to flap at all. I don't know if this would enhance the speed at all though, there are presumably other effects involved with going faster.

Surely if the FaceID module provides a key to decrypt the encrypted contents of the phone, if you swap a module then another module might be able to verify a face but not provide the correct key, and the phone remains locked? If, before you remove the module, you wiped the phone then of course no key is required..

Having a module which could be removed and replaced just say Yes or No would seem to be a very poor design. Also in that case, Apple could presumably authorise a new module, meaning they would retain the capability to break into any phone (which I understood they did not want)

Yeah but be aware before you move in that the Tater Du Lighthouse is very nearby (IIRC just round the point you see in Side Garden photo)

Tater Du has an automatic fog horn..

I guess there is a reason they settled on the phrase "The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".

This article is truth, but not the whole truth.

Makes me wonder what the insurance company is paying, how much you pay them and if its even worth it.

My dentist (in UK) charges £2500 for an implant. I don't have insurance.

(technically I do have insurance, since NHS dentistry exists which I pay for in my taxes. However I had an NHS dentist and when they got sold on to Bupa they would simply not do things which would be expensive for them, meaning after some years I had fillings falling out and broken teeth all over)

You seem to be an order of magnitude away from what I consider normal for a small sailboat. 80W solar panel & 400Ah battery bank. Even the 'high output' alternator only puts out 70A max. Do people really need AC when away from shore? I lived in the Caribbean for years and never had it, its much cooler out on the water..

I had a couple of operations as a youngster, and from my memory (could be faulty) they would speak to you while you were still on the trolley then waft some gas in front of you as you needed to breathe in. Then, when you were sedated they would get on with the business. I guess they would be able to inject you with something a bit more serious without you squirming, and transfer you to the table etc..

The guys we know about

I don't know about .NET or OpenBSD specifically but Mono claims to be available on all BSD platforms -> https://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/supported-platf...

No, at least I wasn't. My kph was about 10-12k giving 5-6 keystrokes per task if I recall.

At least in the UK, if we had a postcode then that was enough. Not even required to type the whole thing. The UK postcode is split into two parts, the first part (outcode) designates the sorting office to send to and for newly posted mail on the afternoon shift then thats the main thing they wanted immediately; the image has been taken and the mail item has been tagged and will be in a van for some hours. If no postcode then usually the postal town is enough to get it on its way. When I was there, the second part (incode) was not done but I think these days that is processed by the night shift before the posties came in at 5am to take it for delivery.

Looking at the pictures in the article, they only have one address on the screen at a time. We had two; the one you are keying and the next one stacked above. It doesn't take long to learn to pipeline, so you are looking at the top image all the time but typing the details from the bottom one which was previously up top. There was an indicator to the side saying what it wanted and you generally only had to type that or various rejects.

also, 70 hours a week of that is pretty insane. Our normal was 40 and sometimes (eg xmas) up to 20 hours overtime was available. We worked 60 mins for each 10 minute eye break, and one 30 min meal break during the shift.

I worked ~20 years ago doing this exact job at Royal Mail in UK. The software that they were using was not their own, but being created on contract by Lockheed Martin, who did not write it themselves but subcontracted out to another company. I'm pretty sure that the basics of the software will have been sold again and again to different companies. The end result of the contract was that Royal Mail did not own the software and when the development contract was up, there were several stupid things that could not/would not be fixed without serious money being spent on a new contract.

The issues that we (as keyers) had with the software in development were virtually impossible to address, given that there were several corporate layers between the contacts. The one time that a load of developers came to our data centre to observe keyers in action, one of our quick-thinking lower managers managed to snag a contact detail and for about a month there was an easy option to get small niggles fixed.

oh, btw my tph was 2-3000 so I don't know why the USPS workers are so slow. Actually thats just boasting, I probably do - it is likely that the software is a whole lot better than it was, which means that the quality of the images that it cannot handle has gone right down and takes longer for a human to process as a result.

looks neat and I am in no way any kind of expert; I wonder why there is an external counterweight? It seems to me that the rotating 'piston' has hollow chambers in one side only to allow passage of gases and therefore needs a counterweight to balance it; is there a reason they cannot have some hollows in the other side but not have them connected to the burn chamber so that the piston is balanced by design, and the external weight not required?

can you name it please? I'm interested in a hobbyist project and although I haven't got up off my arse yet, I might one day...

I always think, in their minds they are outraged about the implication of m->f transgender using the f changing room, but now as a direct consequence of their law they are going to get f->m transgender using the f changing room.

Or perhaps that is secretly the point

Snark is not really welcome on this, the situation can be much more complex than you state. The article makes it clear that there are different categories "parents" and "birth parents". Also, "parents" is plural. (in your example that might include "fathers")

My cousin is a parent by adoption to two and is a very good mother to a family. The children also have birth parents and while they have never been in contact, the children are in contact with their siblings who were adopted by other families and meet up regularly. They also know their birth-grandparents.

interestingly, while I was living in Ireland I heard people referring to a euro as a quid reasonably commonly.

Well, in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, they had a bit of a revolution on the moon and started throwing rocks. Having the power generators situated on earth would keep that scenario at bay.

Do we know truly that 'most' Russians believe this? We understand that it is the only narrative that they are allowed to hear via media, but it seems that there were many who did not believe it in the beginning, and many who still don't though they are forbidden from voicing that. Interesting to know for sure how it goes over there..

I think your argument comes under 'whataboutism' to start with

This war is caused by an invasion of Ukraine by Russia and nothing else. Neither the US nor NATO are fighting in this war, it is solely Russian troops invading Ukraine, Russian aircraft bombing Ukraine, and Russian missiles targeting Ukraine. Ukraine is fighting back within their own border and although they are being provided with support and weaponry by several NATO and non-NATO countries, I think they have not targeted anything other than Russian troops within their country, and Russian military who were attacking them. There are no troops from any other country fighting in Ukraine with the Ukrainians.

This article is about Russia taking children from occupied territories and relocating them into Russia and making them into Russian citizens. It was evil when China did it in Tibet for the last 50 years, and it is evil when Russia is doing it Ukraine now.

I do appreciate that this is a war and both sides are able to disseminate propaganda, but from over here in Europe, some of the stories we hear about the things that the Russians are doing does not leave me with any confidence that the war can end without the complete dissolution of one side or other.

I always said I wouldn't transition to electronic charts until I can get a high resolution e-paper like device which can show the chart at a reasonable size with reasonable detail and I can leave it on the chart table or take it outside. I haven't looked lately so I don't really know if a large tablet would do it for me. The problem I've always found with electronic charts is that you get an overview or detail and the middle ground is vague. I don't like not having the detail on the overview.

tbh I'm getting to be a bit of a dinosaur; I don't really sail much out of my home area (~30 mile radius) which I already know quite well, and even then I already have paper charts covering several hundred miles around. I don't have many admiralty charts (Imray charts are printed on waterproof paper so have been more useful) and as they say, the rocks don't change much.

Presumably for a whole lot less than he paid for Twitter, he could have purchased 100 jets and flown them around the country continually for years, hopping on and off as he chose and nobody would have any idea where he was. He is still, afaik, 'worth' 100s of billions of dollars even though his wealth has plummeted.

Voting on his polls is engagment, which he wants/needs to be able to sell to advertisers.

Is "life without parole" in the USA actually a whole life until death sentence? Here in the UK I don't think it is, though I do think it would be preferable to have a name mean what it says. (ie if you want to give 20 years then call it that)