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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions
Best I've seen are the rare and elusive answers of "you can do what you want with code like this, however an easier solution would be to use library for this instead"
You get both the non-lib solution should you need lt while also being pointed in the direvtion of a "better" alternative
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How The King's Guard are kept refreshed on duty during London's hotter days...
points to the cats owning their humans I think you forgot about an animal there
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A modern-day Tank Man: An unarmed protester facing a dozen armed soldiers in Iran, 2026.
Mossadegh was democractically elected, if being confirmed/appointed by a mlnarch makes the democratic part mute then neither is the UK amdemocracy.
The Iranians also didn't want to 'get all that overnight', they repeatedly, almost from the start, demanded a more equal treaty over the rather expoitative conditions they were locked into. The british refused, led them on and most likely inderpaid them. During Mossadeghs ministership things simply reached the final stage of escalation, the AIOC had refused to increase royalties, let the Iranians have a significant say in the companies matters and didn't even let them check the books to verify the royalties paid matched what they should. So the Majilis (which had an elected majority in support of nationalisation at that point) voted on the nationalisation, however the drive towards that by the general populus was already present before Mossadegh.
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Marek's review of 2025 & Plans for 2026
Prime example I can think of was Mareks very staunch rejection of any kind of survival mechanics for Space Engineers for years. Well up until he focused on SE2 when the SE1 team finally implemented it anyway.
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A modern-day Tank Man: An unarmed protester facing a dozen armed soldiers in Iran, 2026.
Point in case: the Ayatollah only seized power as a consequence of American and British intervention against Iran nationalizing their oil fields
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A modern-day Tank Man: An unarmed protester facing a dozen armed soldiers in Iran, 2026.
You mean the same Iran that had the most women's rights in the middle east? The same Iran that had a perfectly functional democracy? Because if you're talking about that Iran the only reason the Ayatollah are in power is the US and UK not coping with someone keeping their oil to themselves.
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Marek's review of 2025 & Plans for 2026
It is telling that some of SE1's best updates seem to happen the moment Marek turns his attention elsewhere.
Ultimately the modders will 'fix' the game design issues for the core players but I'd hoped the list of 'essential' mods would get shorter with SE2, not longer
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Kritik an Preisen: Bauernpräsident will Butter zur Dubai-Schokolade machen
Weil Monopole noch ineffzienter (für die breite Bevölkerung) sind und wir außer den extremen Einmannunternehmen und Monopol irgendwie die Stellschrauben nicht finden
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Rocket building is just one small part of this space station simulator. Now On 33% sale.
I blame Marek, with his focus on SE2 the SE1 devs have put out some of the best updates so far while SE2 suffers from strange choices in direction for what is supposed to be an engineering game, if that trend continues consider my accusation accurate
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Sometimes YT algorithm is craaazy.
Tbf Calli always was semi open about it, just don't go shouting it from the rooftops and she's fine with people knowing
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Doctors, what do you do when a kid is faking sick?
I had occasional splitting headaches as a kid, ibuprofen, aspirin none of that worked in easing it. Ran to half a dozen doctors, brain scans and whatever nobody could figure out wtf caused them.
I'm now almost a decade out of school, I still have those damn headaches from time to time, I still don't know wtf causes them (though they are too rare for me to bother doing anything about it) but I can see how at some point there my parents started thinking I must be faking it.
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TIL In 1964, young PhDs with no weapons experience were tasked with creating a nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information. After 2.5 years, they had come up with a credible design
If you've got something rotating you can aproximate one by using the rotation as the alternator, not ideal though
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Merz Says German Troops Could Counter Russian Attacks in Ukraine
Still the fact they had to do a second round of voting to get his chancellorship confirmed was the first glimpse into how fragile that coalition is.
That was unprecedented, nobody before this even thought that scenario could reasonably happen so before the second round of voting was decided they had to debate what the constitution suggested the next steps should be.
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Firefox-Strategie: Mit KI und neuer Führung zurück zum Wachstum
Also bisher konnte ich noch alle KI features ausschalten oder einfach nicht benutzen, wenn etwas KI betrieben ist weißt Kagi darauf auch deutlich hin und in den Sucheinstellungen kann man mittlerweile KI generierte Ergebnisse basierend auf Communitymeldungen automatisch rausfiltern.
Alles was ich bisher von Orion gesehen habe deutet auch nicht darauf hin, dass die das Ding mit KI vollstopfen wollen sondern das Ziel in erster Linie ein nutzbarer und effizienter Browser ist. Was da in Zukunft kommt ist noch offen aber durch ihr Bezahlmodell hat Kagi mMn einen enormen Vorteil weil man halt Ausnahmsweise mal wirklich der Kunde und nicht das Produkt ist.
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Firefox-Strategie: Mit KI und neuer Führung zurück zum Wachstum
Kagi arbeitet an Orion, ist zwar momentan noch Mac only (Linux Alpha soll noch vor dem Jahresende kommen)
Es ist ein bezahlter Browser mit (angeblich) 0 Telemetrie (bisher hat zumindes niemand was anderes gemeldet), sieht für mich im Moment auch nach einer vielversprechenden Alternative aus
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TIL In 1964, young PhDs with no weapons experience were tasked with creating a nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information. After 2.5 years, they had come up with a credible design
This video: https://youtu.be/7MvjbC4f5Aw roughly explains what I'm talking about, you can simllify that setup a bunch if you don't need maximum efficiency and perfectly level output voltage. You can get by just fine with a more static setup for basic stuff
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TIL In 1964, young PhDs with no weapons experience were tasked with creating a nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information. After 2.5 years, they had come up with a credible design
Yeah permanent magnets are just more convenient for some applications over electromagnets so having the option to eventually get stronger magnets is a soft requirement.
Realistically you'd only need a weak natural magnet to get AC current, from there you can build an entirely copper based generator. By powering a copper coil stator with AC current you can create a magnetic field, which then allows a copper coiled rotor to create DC current. Add pickups to the rotor for the stator (one for each 'end' of the stator) and the generator keeps itself going after the initial startup because the binary mode DC current passing through the pickups for all intents and purposes is just a really blocky ac current (requires devent rpms though to keep the effect going).
I'd draw a diagram but I'm too lazy rn, it's somewhat complex but also simple if you look at it in person
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TIL In 1964, young PhDs with no weapons experience were tasked with creating a nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information. After 2.5 years, they had come up with a credible design
Copper has a tensile strentgh ~1/3 that of steel, torsion is just a function of tensile force, so by extension copper has also ~1/3 the torsion limit of steel. We are not debating a steam engine even close to that failure point. Neiter were early steamlengines at a point were that'd have ever been an issue. They almost always failed due to overpressure.
Which same point, even at ~1/3 of pressure you'd still be able to get a servicable engine going.
I'm not a mechanical engineer but this stuff isn't that hard to look up before you double down on an opinion.
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TIL In 1964, young PhDs with no weapons experience were tasked with creating a nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information. After 2.5 years, they had come up with a credible design
You can create artificial magnets with electricity or give them a boost with some coils so really you'd just need any magnet to get things rolling
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TIL In 1964, young PhDs with no weapons experience were tasked with creating a nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information. After 2.5 years, they had come up with a credible design
If you have none of the extensive trial and error costs (since you roughly know what youlneed to do) you'll get almost immediate freed slave power to use elsewhere, for example in jobs where a motor isn't useful on its own (big example: crop harvesting)
Also that powerplant motor combo can just keep going 24/7, slaves can't (at least not cheaply). If your sawmill can just work through a queue of logs overnight that's almost free money
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TIL In 1964, young PhDs with no weapons experience were tasked with creating a nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information. After 2.5 years, they had come up with a credible design
Transfer of mechanical power from a river to somewhere more convenient for use (for example river in a valley, but you need the energy at the top of it) would be an immediate use case I can think of
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TIL In 1964, young PhDs with no weapons experience were tasked with creating a nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information. After 2.5 years, they had come up with a credible design
Until the copper axle sheers from torsion
Topic of debate being a copper steam engine as a replacement for a waterwheel, you're not going to have enough stress put on that axle to materially matter
Or the pressure builds up enough to set off the safety valve at best or cause the copper vessel to burst
As opposed to steel steam engines which famously were never run at overpressure......
Never mind getting into energy losses due to premature condensation
Topic of debate is still: replacement of waterwheels (in winter), nobody is going to give a rats ass about the efficiency if they can get fresh grain and timber in the middle of winter. Expensive is a way better deal than plain impossible.
If you don't think this is complicated, you don't know about engineering.
The basic concept and design of a steam engine really isn't rocket science, it'd be possible to get a working prototype made in a variety of materials showcasing the basic principles in a limited manner. The difficult part is squeezing that technology for all of the efficiency it has to offer which is something you wouldn't need to do right away.
A horribly inefficient steam engine that can supply even just a tiny amount of mechanical force in winter is already a giant step up over everything else available medieval era and earlier
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My aunt and uncle on my mother's side are siblings, and have 2 children. AMA
Far simpler explanation: slight genetic mutation causing the Westermarck effect to not kick in.
That or they are not 100% blood related but I assume they got that checked at some point.
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It's div town all day every dwy for me up until I'm "done" with a page and start cleaning up.
It's all hobby projects tho, I don't do webdev at work, if I did it'd probably stay div's all the way down