Indeed. The quoted passage made it sound like this was unique naval terminology, as opposed to standard nautical terminology. It’s not wrong, I just thought it was worded peculiarly.
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(It’s not just the Navy — they’re called “heads” on recreational vessels, too.)
In much of California, it’s not the electric energy costs that are high, it’s the delivery/grid fees. Not that it matters as far as the electricity bill goes, but it’s worth noting.
On my recent bill I paid 16¢/kWh for on-peak electric generation and 49¢/kWh for electric delivery. (There’s a small baseline credit for delivery so it’s a little more complicated, but you get the idea.)
So if someone tries to tell you electricity is expensive because CA is a hippie state with lots of solar, I would be a little skeptical.
Sorta, but the sunrise/set are due predominantly to the rotation of the earth about its axis, not the revolution about the sun.
Get that dude some Lycra and a decked out Pinarello!
Yeah I’ve been very happy with them.
No experience with their software, but the service is great — I have an ARM SBC with WireGuard handling my tunnels, and my router does the rest (so my TV/guest SSID/personal SSID/whatever can get routed over Mullvad with no client setup). My DNS forwarders are each routed through a different Mullvad interface too.
3·11 days agoF-Zero X for N64 is, for me, the pinnacle of racing games (works great on emulation).
It’s fast, smooth, and pretty straightforward. It even had a random map mode — they were sometimes a bit funky, but it was fun when you wanted something new.
9·13 days agoYou can’t beat
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I mean, isn’t that what ringing is for—asking if they want to talk? It’s ok to decline a call.
2·14 days agoThey made the decision that would save the most lives, which is their job.
But they lied to the public, which undermines trust; IMHO this was a myopic decision.
As for the people doing what’s best for society, that’s antithetical to American individualism
Can’t speak for everyone, but Flex Alerts in California do indeed work (it’s when we’re asked to reduce energy consumption).
your faith was proven wrong with both masks and toilet paper being bought for resale at predatory prices, or just to maintain personal supplies at the expense of everyone else.
That’s a fallacy/faulty generalization — I’m not saying everyone behaves well, but from my experience, the vast majority do. The pandemic for me was a time where I really felt like we looked out for our fellow people, at least locally.
I feel like people who don’t like salads really just don’t like salad dressing (and vice versa, I guess).
Smother those salads in a simple red wine vinegar and Dijon + EVOO dressing and I’d be plenty happy.
In 2020 they recommended against face masks for non-healthcare workers. My understanding is that they did this to conserve masks for healthcare workers, as did the WHO. IMHO that was a really shitty thing for them to have done. Presenting all the facts and pleading with the public would, I think, have resulted in higher trust in them as an institution, ultimately saving lives, but that’s just my opinion I guess.
But yeah, completely agree that even then it was more or less well meaning, as opposed to now.
2·14 days agohttps://www.superbowl-ads.com/1997-tabasco-mosquito/
Best ad ever IMHO (sorry for funky link, YouTube if you prefer).
No dialog, no rampant consumerism (hot sauce is a necessary food), no sex/sexism, no emotional manipulation.
20·15 days agoAlso, 1.21GW is famously used in Back to the Future.
5·15 days agoDoes you school library lend out laptops for this sort of thing? Or, can you remote into a library/lab computer for this?
I would definitely opt for a dedicated machine, running the recommended OS, no VM, as others in this thread have said. It’s one thing if it’s for a homelab, but for coursework…not what I’d be comfortable with.
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That almost makes sense, but pi radians = 180°
Right, a triangle “has 180deg,” like I said.
in which case π÷n is infinitesimally small. In other words, substituting infinity for n would be incalculable
That’s not how limits work. Substitution is not the same as taking the limit.
infinite and infinitesimal numbers are impossible to express rationally.
That’s not true at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1/2_%2B_1/4_%2B_1/8_%2B_1/16_%2B_⋯
It’s not about colloquialism or language
Having one word (or phrase) with two meanings is a property of language.
Link(s) in post contain punctuation and break, at least on my client. Here’s the codeberg link (working);
https://codeberg.org/BobbyLLM/llama-conductor