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Lead-acids are currently my enemy as the ones in my gf's wheelchair are 20kg each (I have to put them in the car boot so shopping trips are also a minor trip to the gym) and the internal resistance is massive at the moment due to their age. Some days (especially in winter) you just have to go outsid...

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Not just real, but disappointing! We're that far progressed as society that mecha fights can be disappointing!

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Poka yoke.

I think the lego comparison is flawed. Lego's schtick is to be assembled however you like. Jigsaws, on the other hand. It's just one of those 3d ones and you don't get a picture to work from.

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Starter for 8th

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12obin wrote:^

what blog platform are you using? I have a thing i want to do that i'm trying to choose a place for.

No idea. It's very, very early days. There's a few thousand characters of content, just nowhere for it - yet.

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Right... now to cram some sleep. I didn't stay up expressly for this, I just got carried away plotting a blog with a friend... and then I remembered this. Oops

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Honestly if it wasn't for the fact you've given actual human replies I'd suspect a bot. It'd be pretty trivial. Would probably get a bollocking from the powers-that-be.

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Mine? Ah god dammit, timezones.

The problem with this kind of game is the lack of varied participation. It's no good if there's only one person in a thread self-incrementing, but there's also no rule on double-posting so it's inevitable.

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So I'm starting the third year of a degree soon, and I've got to go from microcontroller programming in assembly (from the previous year's study, for some reason it's on the syllabus), to programming them in C. I'm excited by how abstract this will feel. Does anyone have any good "For dummies&q...

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chridd wrote:So do I!

Do you have data on post times, highest scoring posts, etc? It'd be cool to have a look at, if you do!

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Is there data on the highest scoring comment ever?

Also, that is a nifty site, it saves the hassle of self-calculation away. I also like the preview of "points to gain" and the variants of game rules.

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No, it's seriously a person parasailing. The top of the thing that's landing on the left was still travelling towards the ISS. We've gone past the crazy tests. We have rockets recovering themselves for "routine" supply missions, instead of having to build a whole new one every time. If I h...

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Where's the scoreboard?

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They're being towed by a boat, a-la "Start of Jurassic Park Episode 3 : Stop going on those islands!"

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Me and the herself are worried about how at the first sign of defeat, said 7 year old of hers, from the other page gives up completely. He's not a bad loser, in that he doesn't throw a tantrum or claim that others were cheating etc. He's just completely unable to handle not being the best at somethi...

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Clicky, it's a photo

Photographer's watermark shows who deserves credit. That and Elon Musk's tireless engineers. I won't list everyone whose discoveries led to this photograph.

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On one hand, I'd like to punch a Nazi. On the other hand, I like the idea that free speech is an "inalienable right" (that is such a ridiculous set of words that I've only seen in terms of US politics) on the off chance that one day my (currently fairly polite and mainstream) views become ...

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Sweet. I might've got to that if I'd walked away and come back but I'd got my head well and truly mixed up. Cheers.

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So I'm ok using these formulae to come up with ideal values for attenuator components for T-pad attenuators Source Given desired attenuation (K) and input (or output) impedance (Z), to find R1, R2 (R1 and R2 are equal) and (eventually - I'll skip this for brevity and for "figure it out yourself...

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9-3 if I'm in a gokart or using rotational steering, and between 11-1 and 7-5 when using push-pull (so, actively cornering, usually at lower speeds - higher speeds would be dramatic if I used that much steering lock...)

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Having just bought a laptop (Thinkpad X230) and immediately rooting around to check it wasn't stuck with that bastard supervisor password enabled (it wasn't! I was worried I'd have to get the screwdrivers...) I promptly installed Mint (w/ xfce) to get myself back into the *nix thing. It's annoyingly...

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Dunno about the US, but here it isn't that uncommon for residential houses to have three-phase supply simply to distribute load evenly among the three phases Similar in the USA, but "two phase". Neutral and +/- 120V, with the 120V loads "distributed evenly between them" (if you'...

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Apparently SkyUI is fairly functional already without SKSE. I need to stop playing the game long enough to try fiddling with settings to see if I can improve things further. My PC auto-detected as "High", I know that my GPU hates god rays (as they're a nVidia GameWorks bit of evil), but I ...

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Perhaps we need to focus less on debating and more on convincing people to join our beliefs. Debate, discussion, and persuasion are in fact different skills. This is the main thing to take away from this. There was a good thread on reddit the other day where people had to defend political stances o...

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They don't ask me that yet, they know I couldn't enchant butter to cut more easily, let alone a sword to cut butter better.

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I must've been in Whiterun 3 hours before I heard about anyone's former adventuring habits.

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I've just entered Tamriel for the first time with Skyrim SE and... well, I might be playing on a 5 year delay but I won't start quoting the guards. I'm enjoying it immensely.

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I agree, Plasma Man. It rankles. I feel like I've gone to the dentist with a set of perfect teeth and they're saying "well we're only taking your teeth out, we could remove the whole jaw" and I'm lying on their recliner thinking "my fucking teeth are fine!" I've asked my MP if, i...

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I've acquired a 7 year old through dint of going out with someone who already had a kid. Turns out I'm alright at looking after kids. I daren't hold a baby though, I don't know how the fuck they work. I'll cross that hurdle when I get to it.

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SolkaTruesilver wrote:I am just sad that old online porn videos will probably never be backed up and forever be loss.

Porn will become an oral tradition.

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They tried that, remember? Oblivion? Bandits in Daedric Armor demanding 100 gold from you. Er, nope, I haven't played any TES games, and it doesn't sound similar. At all . Raiders establishing some kind of settlement isn't a good reason? Obviously it wouldn't be the only way of progressing enemies ...

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pseudoidiot wrote:I made a feathered friend at the zoo!

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I made a feathered friend at a hawk walk (note bells and jesses)!

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Flawed argument, I hear this one all the time about music. I think that caused you to miss my point. I'm not making any argument of bad vs good, but good vs capitalism. Bigger audience, broader demographic, more money. "The key to failure is trying to please everyone." Music doesn't fall ...

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It's not always nostalgia that explains why older games have better stories either, I would say it's largely due to the industry growing and companies figuring out where the money is. Same thing happened in other mediums, in different ways but under the same principle. TV turned to reality shows, j...

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Voiced NPC/not seeing the exact thing your character will say... seems more "this is who you are" than previous fallouts. (1 - someone sent to save the vault. 2 - their child trying to save the village. 3 - child of an NPC, the most definite backstory to your character, but the character o...

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Firstly, the latter bit, the alt text drama - from an incredibly laymans POV there is a great need of someone to manage PR, HPMoR is actually quite a good bit of PR. From an outside view looking in a lot of what's being debated sounds like wanking, and entertaining as it is to watch, the incentive f...

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Things that died iirc were that car project I mentioned... the guy's son annoyed the person that owned the unit and they got a completely unusable curfew on power tools there... Meanwhile, I've got a job as a trainee composite laminator. Which means I genuinely can say to people "I make F1 car ...

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Izawwlgood wrote:Exley maneuver.

You keep saying this, but I can't find what it is, but it sounds useful. Can you explain?

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May be worth it if the wobble gets unbearable (snap happy), if you're that desperate to take the extra stuff out there...

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Over 3000m/s into the atmosphere. I think 19.1 may be one of the final builds when you can do that :p

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