- I was allowed one set as a kid and chose this to pose with my 1:72 Spitfire & Hurricane.
- Eric Weinstein made a good point about Trump and his use of language:
Trump was much closer to saying “The immigrants are taking your jobs.” Well, to a labor market analyst, that’s not remotely the same thing at all as saying “US employers and political donors are colluding to confiscate your most valuable rights without market-based compensation, while denigrating you as lazy and stupid, and hiding behind a veneer of excellence and xenophilia as they economically undermine your families.” But it’s much easier, isn’t it?
- > English is hard, even for native speakers. But it's also wonderful! English loves to steal words from other languages, and good writers love to choose the right word. It's like having an expansive wardrobe and picking just the right outfit for every event.
Very true. Take this passage:
‘I am called Strider,’ he said in a low voice. ‘I am very pleased to meet you, Master – Underhill, if old Butterbur got your name right.’
In an early draft Tolkien used a different word as the character was originally a hobbit, rather than a long-legged Ranger:
‘I’m Trotter,’ he said in a low voice. ‘I am very pleased to meet you, Mr — Hill, if old Barnabas had your name right?’
- I've been using pure walnut oil on wooden chopping boards. Anyone else had experience good/bad using walnut?
- Played in a thrash metal band during the Halcyon days doing covers of the likes of Anthrax and Metallica and trying our best to write original material. Performing is fun but only a small part of the experience. Our band was one of a 1/2 dozen metal/speed/punk bands in town so when not playing we would be at each other's gigs. Many of us had rented sheds for rehearsing (decked out in secondhand carpet) so could often drop in on each other. Very much a community and something overlooked.
I believe the SF metal scene and the NY scene at the time was very much the same.
- Exactly. Maybe not HN so much, but Reddit is cooked, as clever/snarky comments are what makes it fun.
- This would appear to be further validation of the "Perception is controlled hallucination" theory. Sensory input is secondary and serves only to correct our evolutionary developed predictive processing.
- When you have the electronic ticketing system already in place like Brisbane it makes sense to use it to monitor usage, so you can precisely see each journey, and better plan scheduling and expansion. For example, you would be able to see how many people pass through the two CBD stations crossing the North/South divide in the network. The new Cross River Rail expansion for example will be the first line that doesn't pass through Central.
- I think the cost saving will be realised by not having to expand the road network as quickly if they convince people to use public transport. The cost of land acquisition/resumption along with the improbability of widening some central bottlenecks like Coronation Drive, the SE Arterial and the hell-hole that is Hale Street.
Personally, the $1 commute from the Sunshine Coast has been very good. I occasionally drive in but the Bruce Hwy has been a constant process of widening each section as they barely keep up with the traffic increases.
I think what you will see is a lot more people moving out to residential areas north of Brisbane seeking cheaper housing as they can take advantage of the almost free travel. Especially if they eventually build the Rail/Light Rail through South Caloundra to Maroochydore.
- Wombats are the same. Cute and cuddly when little and one day just snap.
- Obligatory XKCD
- During Talisman Sabre 25, a RCAF C-17 air-dropped a Himars and some ADF personnel on Christmas Island, simulated a firing and then left.
Pushes the defensive line quite a bit further out from the mainland, and you could potentially cover choke points for a naval invasion from the north.
- Worked for a car insurance firm about a decade ago and the whole business ran on their Big Iron. I joined the company to work on a customer facing web UI that hooked into an API layer the server group developed to pull data from the Db2.
The callcentre however still used the TUI for all customer inquiries; it was only the customers who got a pretty interface to view their details.
Depending on which system you were logged into, you had a green screen (production) or magenta (development).
- Daddy long-legs are known predators of Australian red-backs, while the American cellar spider supposedly hunts black widows.
- Rats becoming carriers of Lyssavirus would be quite alarming.
- The sodium ion battery was invented over 200 years ago. No one needs to steal the technology, and manufacturing is basically the same.
All the research is in finding ever better combinations of anode/cathode.
Lithium mining and processing is dominated by Western countries, which is why China is incentivised to develop and manufacture sodium ion batteries. They know the game and haven't ignored it, unlike the West who ignored the geopolitical risk of China dominating rare earth processing for 20+ years.
The West should have a similar incentive despite having most of the lithium, namely supply risks for graphite, cobalt and nickel. There is a lot of research going on but mostly in Europe.
- I guess it depends on your perspective. If you're Chinese, graphite is abundant and available as 98% of processing currently occurs in China. Lithium, not so much which is why it is Chinese firms leading development of sodium ion battery technology.
As with the rare earth minerals, the supply of graphite, cobalt and nickel is vulnerable hence the designation as critical minerals by Western Governments.
- Ideally they will be used in personal electronics as sodium chloride solid state (SCSS) batteries are far safer and not going to explode or cause a run-away fire.
They also don't need some "critical" minerals such as graphite, cobalt and nickel.
- As a tool, it could be useful as a starting point (a way to get your creativity going), but the sound is completely wrong.
Early Udio generated songs when run through a stem splitter were horrible to listen to and you could hear how it was just generating the frequencies with none of the texture—like a simulation of the frequencies an instrument would produce.
At the very least they should be re-recorded with real instruments and vocals or using the existing digital tools. Slop is one word; I like to use mush, as that is what it sounds like when you really listen closely.
The bulk of that was the History of Middle Earth of which a few volumes cover LoTR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_The_Lord_of_the...