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Expansion into a vacuum, also called free expansion or Joule expansion, is not the same as an adiabatic process, there is no piston and no work is done. For an ideal gas the internal energy does not depend on the volume, so conversely such an expansion does not change the temperature. And of course it's not isentropic either, since the same amount of gas with same amount of kinetic energy now can spread itself over a larger volume.
How does a ship like this burn for so long? Is there much that can be burned? I was under the impression it's mostly steel and other non-flammable materials. I was also under the impression that a ship like this is compartmentalized in sections that can be individually shut off (to deprive it of enough oxygen to keep the fire going).
Fun to think about how reality would be different if it were though.

Imagine who would be rich and why because of it.
If the bench is clean, that means there isn't any work happening. Sad he passed so soon, I'm sure I'm not the only one he inspired a love of electronics for.
That‘s such a satisfying ending of your story!
Anyone actually meet a REAL JORNIST in the last 5-10-15 years ,
that didnt turn out to be a Global LEFTIST political activist
and is willing to speak uncensored truth , even if they are fired ..............................
Paywall workaround: https://web.archive.org/web/20200714115743/https://www.nytim...

Wikipedia article on the ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(LHD-6)
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The majority of spam [that gets past various RBLs] that I receive is completely ignorant of the dash addressing that I use. It's exactly the same as plus addressing but with a dash instead of a plus.

Pharma spam, 419 scams, password leak crypto blackmail... remember that these miscreants rely on low costs to achieve their profits, so any sort of filtering is too expensive. They don't even filter out abuse@, postmaster@, hostmaster@, or mailer-daemon@.
I think the “Reddit one-upsmanship” that the parent was referring to was actually in the other direction; i.e., people “one-upping” how long it took them to read it.
Google Cloud launches Assured Workloads for Government, its government cloud
Except for HFT firms that's their margin. Companies selling stuff already have a margin.
So funny. But seriously, always be super nice to IT. They might be present during your most frustrating days but don’t make them feel the blame. They’re one of your best allies.
I’ve experienced sleep paralysis so many times that I’ve almost gotten used to it. Usually it happens when I have been staying awake for too long before going to sleep, or if I have been getting too few hours of sleep many days in a row.

Several times it has felt like someone was present. One of the first time I can remember the feeling of someone or something being present was maybe a decade ago or two or something. It felt like a dark shadow person standing in the corner of my room, by the door just looking at me while I was unable to move. Very creepy feeling.

Recently, I thought someone was sitting on top of me and pushing me very hard down into my bed. And I was like wtf, why is someone trying to murder me and I was very scared. And then I realized that lol it’s just sleep paralysis yet again. Still felt shaken for a while afterwards.

Sleep paralysis sucks, so I try to avoid it. Sometimes I get into a bad rhythm though and then it is increasingly probable that it will happen.
A lot of professional musicians aren’t paid much, so it’s not really surprising that hobbyists (who can work at all ranges of pay) sometimes have better gear.

My brother teaches guitar and he frequently sees people who’ve just started playing show up for lessons with ludicrously expensive instruments. And hey, if they enjoy it, more power to them.
There is no "battery repair" for $800. Can you give us more of the story please?
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That is a fair question. My answer is in the absence of evidence, or even any claim that Google specifically makes that X got hired because of Y Google Program and now works at Z.

I worked with two good reporters to look into this. There is no documentation one can find at https://grow.google/partners/ or at https://google.org. Those websites lead to perhaps 200 significant links, and we scoured every PDF on the sites. Also we checked LinkedIn for those who had the IT Support certs. Nothing.
Same here. So easy to pull off and re-tape if I ever need to actually see if a light is on.

If I "just" want to dim a led instead of completely cover it, you can by packs of hundreds of small circular stickers in various colours for next to nothing. I bought 400 black ones several years ago, and most leds are dimmed enough to be a lot less annoying by one of them. Some take 2-3 - especially super-bright blue leds.

But usually either one of the dots or electrical tape is what I want.
In Australia, where metrication is 50 years old, hardware stores typically stock both imperial and metric fasteners. It's not an issue in practice.
I don't think you can make that claim globally. Looking at India or USA
Looks pretty solid to me.

The part about brands and patents being treated as an expense is wrong though

Even stuff like website development cost can be capitalized as an asset under some circumstances

https://www.ifrs.org/issued-standards/list-of-interpretation...
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Billion dollar startup or or billions in bandwidth costs?
HNers should also watch him as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek Continues. It's a fan series that manages to perfectly recreate the original Star Trek, down to set lighting and acting style. It's truly a work of love.
Wow interesting
Grant Imahara, ‘MythBusters’ Co-Host, Dies at 49
How exactly should I go about dealing with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment under the CAN-SPAM Act?

Individuals cannot sue under CAN-SPAM Act and I don't think any state Attorney General is going to bring a suit on my behalf because they didn't accommodate a plus alias.
I really don't have a use case for one of those, but I really want one. I'd love to have vim on one of those.
> Military officers are held accountable in ways that politicians and bureaucrats (almost) never are.

"On Monday, President Trump pardoned the convicted war criminal Michael Behenna, who had murdered Ali Mansur, an unarmed, naked Iraqi, by shooting him in the head and chest."

Kindly only sip the cool-aid.
> I'd love to know what the shop markup is on those, or if they're on sale-or-return.

I'd say they were pretty expensive to produce:

> And these 2 pieces were masterfully built by Paul Waller at the Fender Custom Shop under the discerning eye of Page. They are exact re-creations of his beloved guitars!
Yes, though there was never a hot war between the Soviet Union and the US. Economic strength allowed for that kind of spending. Economic strength based on developing strong International Free Trade. Which required a lot of soft power
> It also started to behave weird as soon as there was a bit of wind.

Heh evenmy sony mx3s do this in the wind.

So is that the problem? Noise cancelling failure? Generally noise cancelling has problems with wind, air pods are the kind that probably see a lot of use outdoors.
what does "too comfortable" mean? I should choose to suffer because of outragebait on the Internet? that's crazy.
Interesting. I've tried in quite a few places and never got them accepted.
According to random internet rumors it should have roughly the same performance as the integrated GPU in the 4700U which handles Doom at reduced settings poorly but it is definitively playable [0]. To be fair Doom actually takes advantage of all 8 cores of the Ryzen. It's very possible that the Intel CPU won't keep up and bottleneck the GPU.

[0] https://youtu.be/nERBxhAUMYA

If you are truly talking about the Doom from 1993 then I think your joke is in poor taste because that game doesn't even need a GPU and can run on very old computers. Here is your answer: iGPUs are absolutely necessary for laptops and other mobile devices when your TDP budget is 15W-28W for CPU and GPU combined.
Wow good
And we started a long time ago. 1 and 2 cent coins were demonetised in 1990, $1 and $2 coins replaced notes in 1991, all notes were switched to tough washable polymer in 1999, 5 cent coins were dropped in 2006 (and most other coins were reduced in size at the same time). I also almost never use cash.

It's not like we have a low-value currency unit either (e.g. Yen). Prices in NZ dollars are usually less than double the US dollar price in the US (and our prices include sales tax and shipping to NZ).
He had the knack https://youtu.be/Dx6HojLBsnw
Good tool, but, as someone mentioned, there are a number of other factors.

1) Brand reinforcement/damage.

This one is really hard to quantify, but can mean the difference between the life, or the death, of the corporation. If the tool we choose causes some damage to the brand (like not giving us the ability to display the brand in an appropriate manner), or introduces a brand-damaging problem (like causing a particular kind of service to have an extra step or two, or even amplify customer pain), then there could be issues.

On the plus side, it could also significantly fortify a brand, by doing things like having the brand appear in places that were disregarded, or considered "out of reach," or it could amplify the advantages of a brand-connected service.

Branding is a "dark art" to many literal-minded folks like engineers, but it is unbelievably valuable. It should always be considered, when thinking about things like this.

This morning, I had this demonstrated to me in a visceral manner. I made an order yesterday, and asked for expedited delivery. When I made the order, it said the expedited delivery would arrive today, but when I received the confirmation, it said the order would arrive tomorrow.

Sound familiar? Amazon is notorious for this nasty little trick. Most of the time, it's Prime Delivery, which means we don't really have much room to complain.

It wasn't Amazon. I won't name the corporation, but it is one that is synonymous with extremely high (arrogant, even) quality.

This silly little trick, with a cheap, third-party item, caused brand damage with a loyal customer that has spent six figures with them. I won't drop them, and the world won't stop turning because I won't get my item until tomorrow, but the simple fact that they did the "shipping bait and switch" on me, means that I'll never use them again for this kind of purchase.

That's brand damage.

To add insult to injury, when I tried contacting them about it, I had to run the gauntlet of what I call the "AI Picador," which throws as many roadblocks as possible in your path, before allowing connection to a human.

This workflow ensures that I will be steaming mad before I get to the human, and it's all I can do to avoid venting to them (it isn't their fault -it's their bosses').

2) Staff morale.

Will bringing in the service reinforce or damage staff morale? It may help folks do their jobs a lot easier (good), or it may result in a lot of folks losing their jobs (bad, or very bad, depending on many factors, like how the layoffs are done, and how the folks that remain are treated).

3) Dependence/Addiction

If bringing in a dependency ties us to a corporation/language/toolset, is that good or bad? It may be quite good, if it's a good service, and a good corporation, but it could also be incredibly bad.
> It's a fucking high end product

They're not, they're disposable earbuds. Even if they work perfectly they need replacing every 2 years for battery capacity.

Not saying I agree with it, but this is what they are and people are more than happy to pay for it.
I too sometimes experience sleep paralysis. The first time it is indeed terrifying -- in fact I thought I was dead, and was surprised to still be conscious.

But over time I learned to kind of enjoy it. It's a funny situation where you're totally aware and yet can't control anything in your body. It's like being a pure spirit!

I can now then stay in that state for some time, and then choose to either fall back asleep, or wake up entirely. But waking up demands a huge force of will, like "pushing" consciousness out of your mind and into your body. Usually I simply let go.
I really wish FastMail would add an option to use a minus instead of a plus since most forms properly handle minuses, but many do not properly handle pluses.
That would depend on the specific VPN ToS.

Afaik the worst they could do is cancel your service/subscription because the c&d letter is addressed to the owner of the connection, which in your case would be the VPN company.
Owls can fly almost in total silence, peregrine falcons can hit close to 250 mph, eagles can spot a tiny mouse from tens of thousands of feet...

Mother nature is wonderful and terrifying at the same time. Suddenly I am feeling sad for sitting in front of a screen for 8-10 hours a day instead of being out and enjoying what nature has to offer :(
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Practical reality in 2020 is different than whatever the intended design was. There is no possible way to pay with a fraction of a penny.
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I spent the last semester teaching online. As a teacher it was not as fun. Also its a lot harder because you have to always be prepared for technical issues. What I found was that small class sizes are key. Additionally multiple monitors is a huge aid when teaching online.
Blue LEDs are infuriating.

I remember the days when blue LEDs were too expensive to use in consumer products... Wish it was still like that.
Apple offers battery replacement at a fixed price for MBP at their service centres, and the price is $129-$199 in the US depending on which model.

https://support.apple.com/mac/repair/service

MacBook Pro Out of Warranty
16-inch MacBook Pro $199
15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display $199
13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display $199
15-inch MacBook Pro $129
13-inch MacBook Pro $129
17-inch MacBook Pro (Vintage) $179

MacBook Air Out of Warranty
13-inch MacBook Air $129
11-inch MacBook Air $129

MacBook Out of Warranty
12-inch MacBook $199
Yeah, been playing with proxmox on my homelab, put it on an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (6 cores, 12 threads), with 32gb of RAM and it's been running great with containers for when I want to fool around. Fantastic piece of software that has matured well.
> Admiral Sobeck said sailors on board said that [the fire] had started in a cavernous open area used for storing trucks and amphibious vehicles used by Marines and that it may have been fueled by heavy-duty cardboard boxes and other materials in storage
Is it clear what this "special access" is? After touring the landing page of Amazon's Neighbors app it's not clear to me how this affects privacy. It could be as benign as a message board moderator position. Don't mistake me for saying that this is okay, I think this is dystopic, but I fear it will be hard to convince people with a Ring device that this is dangerous.
> Part of the dream presented to the potential wealthy industrialists, who were the demographic for the sale of the Landseaire, was that a successful man could fly anywhere and still have a pretty girl prepare his meals for him or serve him drinks. While today this would be considered downright sexist, in 1950 it was considered the dream of every man.

Idunno, still sounds like living the dream to me.

I do wonder though, what the death/injury rates would be in this sector of general aviation, it seems extremely fraught.
Was he giving you access to his account? I can't see any way that inviting you to register your own account could let you affect his ratio.
There's the Toonie though, $5 in coins is just 3 coins.
The problem, just as in cancer, is not detection. It's what to do once you find it. Many aneurysms/cancers that could be found will turn out to be harmless, and the risk of harming someone physically and/or psychologically from unnecessarily treating them is not negligible. There isn't much we can do for aneurysms unless they are obviously immediately threatening.
Trump's an anomaly and I've heard a lot of military members are very upset by his intervention with Gallagher.
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A lot of journalism now days seems to consists of just regurgitating tweets
the people who walk around in tourist towns matter as far as correct mask wearing is concerned, the people at home don't.
GST exists in a bunch of countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GST

The coins probably narrow it down though.
Electrical tape for complete blackout, and little small black dot stickers for LEDs you want to dim instead of completely cover.

For the black dot/circle stickers, just search for "black dot" on Amazon. The 6mm / 1/4 inch ones tends to fit neatly over most LEDs.

The electrical tape is easy enough to remove and reattach or replace for the rare occasion I actually need to see an indicator light.

I thought I'd need to remove it more often when I "snapped" and put electrical tape on every device in my living room a while back, but I've yet to remove a single bit of it. I'm sure I'll have to now and again, but it's worth the hassle.
In philosophy, this is called the “Newton’s flaming laser sword problem”.

Did Newton have a flaming laser sword?

Sure, he could have had one. But we have no evidence today of that, so for the context of our discussion, let’s ignore it.

And this is where spiritually collides with Newton’s flaming laser sword. But I want to believe that newton had a flaming sword, therefore I want the discussion to be about how this laser sword influenced his writings.
You'd be surprised how many young adults are not aware of basic things like if your sink does not have a garbage disposal you should not dump large chunks of food down the drain, or that you should replace your dish sponge periodically. Certainly these are things that could be easily learned, but I do think there is a lack of awareness (or caring) about basic procedures on which cleaning products to use when, etc.

I have seen recent college grads go over a year without washing/changing their bed sheets. In one case I found a couple dead bugs under the sheets. It may be pure laziness but in that case they are also feigning ignorance.
This was not an expected headline to read this morning.

I, like so many others, was shaped by Grant as a kid. It’s a sad day :(
I've been using "Microsoft 365" since 2012, outlook w/ a custom domain and all the grandfathered features. The +tag has always been supported, and I can't really tell what the difference between "Office 365" and "Microsoft 365" is, since the latter appears to include the former, if not identical.
Something similar happened to me a couple of times. Now I already get used to it but the first experience was quite terrifying.
I woke up in the middle of the night from a lack of air and just felt that there was someone outside. It didn't move, it made no sound, it did nothing. It just was there - a black creature behind the door watching my weak attempts to break free and begin breath. And this feeling of helplessness was perhaps the worst.
I worked for an electronics testing lab for several years and used about, um, maybe 20 pairs of different headphones. Bluetooth sucks and most people’s implementation of it sucks even more. Maybe I have bad luck but almost all Bluetooth devices I have used have been absolute garbage without apple’a OOB pairing.
I have the same setup, with not very many different directories (most just comes to my inbox), since my email load is pretty manageable. I find the most spam by far comes from an address checked in to a public git repo, with my actual (public) github email a distant second and everything else pretty much nil.

The only non-public email so far that has resulted in a lot of spam was the one I gave to the animal shelter when I adopted my cat. (I count unsolicited advertisements as spam.)
They replace it for free until they don't.

See top comment on this thread:

> Wow. I've had this same problem for months. I spent over an hour on the phone with Support just trying to describe the problem, until they came to the conclusion that there was absolutely no way to send me new ones or to have me send them my broken ones...because I live in Puerto Rico. The week prior, Apple had sent me a new cable for my phone in 2 days flat, yet when I had a problem, there was nothing they could do about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23826526

Or this one:

> A couple days later I started to notice the right airpod is rattling. I've used up my warranty now so would have to buy a new pair if I want this fixed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23830886

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edit: instantly double downvonted without any replies for demonstrating anecdotes that shine a bad light on Apple. Stockholm Syndrome exhibit A. This is why people take any Apple user input with a grain of salt. They tend to try to shrug problems under the carpet as if these facts would cause them physical pain.
In fairness, if I remember correctly, the bullet myth was testing the narrow condition of "shot straight up into the air" such that the bullet would be returning at terminal velocity and no longer be on a ballistic trajectory. Whereas, most people struck by bullets fired into the air are probably being hit by bullets that are still on a predominantly horizontal trajectory.
SOoo much electrical tape around my house covering LEDs and displays. Products are designed in isolation - where one crazy-bright blue LED might be tolerable (in the bright testing environment). But get a house full of devices, and that's a lot of LEDs.

The one that annoys me the most is my thinkpad. Apple made the slow, gentle "heartbeat" indicator when your laptop was asleep. It was a unique, delightful touch... for a while. Then everyone copied it (making it far less unique and delightful) - except they made the blinking faster, and the light red?!

Then Apple realised it was annoying and useless, and got rid of it... but everyone else kept them.

Thankfully there is electrical tape.
I'll add that my Bose headphones have also always have trouble in the wind. That's to that there not be something wrong with the airpods/bose, but Sony's have a distinct advantage
Like you say, it's not visible. We are forcing children to sit idle and pretend to listen to the teacher, which is an entirely unnatural thing for to them to do for several hours per day.

I would argue that children would actually learn a lot more social skills by interacting in this "disruptive" and "slacking off" kind of way, especially nowadays where children are otherwise locked up at home by overprotective parents. Those skills are far more valuable than whatever trivia the curriculum is mostly made up of.
American currency isn't paper. It's more akin to cloth than anything else. And you can go swimming with 300 in bills in the USA. They are not going to melt and will be just fine even if submerged for hours.

There are absolutely better materials to use, no argument there. But US paper currency are not even close to being fragile.
I remember about 20 years ago one of our PM's was also a semi pro musician (violin in a Jazz group) - commenting that his second best bow was worth £1200-1500.

But he was a fairly high end player as his group had a residency at the Balmoral during the Edinburgh festival
Exchange was originally an X.400-based groupware system, SMTP support was somewhat of an afterthought. Exchange has a long history of not implementing SMTP properly with protocol violations and proprietary payloads (TNEF) and headers (e.g. Thread-Index)