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Today I learned that cleaning a white hat can be done with bleach cleaner, but it’s important to rinse it before wearing it again. I also discovered that "oyster veneering," a woodworking technique from the late 1600s, is experiencing a minor revival despite its labor-intensive nature. Additionally, I learned that the factorial of 23 (23!) equals 25,852,016,738,884,976,640,000, which interestingly has 23 digits, a unique coincidence among factorials. I found out that medical specialists often spend less than 10 minutes with patients, and that watching TV can contribute to weight gain. Other insights included the fact that a kiss can transfer around 80 million microbes, and that bureaucracy can sometimes hinder employment opportunities. The discussion also touched on various trivia, such as the emotional sensitivity of barn owls and the complexities of gravitational lensing around black holes.
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fresh_42 said:
View attachment 317532If we meet, then LIGO can make a measurement.
I was not referring to the PF Singularity though, I was referring to the hidden USER menu in the mobile interface. There is no indication it is there until you happen to click it.

Edit: Actually, it is not just the mobile interface. Shrinking your browser width enough leads to the same effect.
 
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Orodruin said:
I was not referring to the PF Singularity though, I was referring to the hidden USER menu in the mobile interface. There is no indication it is there until you happen to click it.
Oh! We had this discussion recently and I commented: "I want to speak to the programmer!" so I missed the point.
 
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Orodruin said:
I was not referring to the PF Singularity though, I was referring to the hidden USER menu in the mobile interface. There is no indication it is there until you happen to click it.
Oh yes, there is an icon missing! @Greg Bernhardt was this not resolved recently?
 
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pbuk said:
Oh yes, there is an icon missing! @Greg Bernhardt was this not resolved recently?
I mean, not only is there a missing icon. It is displaced vertically and smaller than the other menu icons.
 
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Yeah, it's missing on my phone. But this is what it looks like on PC:
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BillTre said:
This is a board game set in pre-WWI Europe.
Probably chosen to avoid the extra complications of nuke/chem/bio weapons... :wink:
 
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I'm not too surprised. I've thought about working on a similar program for a WW II game called Squad Leader starting with just a few types of units and minimal rules. That will have to wait until I retire. :oldwink:
 
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berkeman said:
Probably chosen to avoid the extra complications of nuke/chem/bio weapons... :wink:
Sadly, you have to strike out chem in that list.
 
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fresh_42 said:
Sadly, you have to strike out chem in that list.
Yeah, I realized that after I posted...
 
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TIL: stonk, artillery fire? Don't remember learning that at Ft. Sill.
 
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Bystander said:
TIL: stonk, artillery fire? Don't remember learning that at Ft. Sill.
I believe this was slang mostly used by Canadians during WW2. I recall it from some of my books.
 
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Bystander said:
TIL: stonk, artillery fire? Don't remember learning that at Ft. Sill.
It was WWII era British army slang, I gather, although I don't know how widespread or long lasting.
 
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Ibix said:
It was WWII era British army slang, I gather, although I don't know how widespread or long lasting.
Stonking means good in English slang, a stonking good time!
 
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pinball1970 said:
Stonking means good in English slang, a stonking good time!
Yeah. My dad didn't like the phrase because he associated it with someone making fairly serious efforts to kill him. Like I say, I don't know how widespread the usage was.
 
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Ibix said:
Yeah. My dad didn't like the phrase because he associated it with someone making fairly serious efforts to kill him. Like I say, I don't know how widespread the usage was.
WW2?

Yes after a search there are a lot of applications. Marbles (origin claimed there on one site) being drunk (Oz) stock market, Artillery fire and
Not a word you hear often in the UK, not North West anyway.
 
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pinball1970 said:
Stonking means good in English slang, a stonking good time!
I thought it meant stonks!

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Drakkith said:
I thought it meant stonks!

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I had no idea of any of those other connections.
Including the stock market or darker military ones.

I put stonking with 'spiffing.' An Etonian, Wodehouse type of phrase.
"Everyone had an absolutely spiffing time."
 
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pinball1970 said:
WW2?
Yes - he'd've been 100 next year.

I agree it's not a common phrase these days in any context. I only learned of the artillery fire connotations because Comic Relief did a novelty single called "The Stonk" one year and my dad grumbled about it not sounding comical to him.
 
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I told you not to mention the war. See where we got! It doesn't go away anymore. :cool:
 
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fresh_42 said:
I told you not to mention the war. See where we got! It doesn't go away anymore. :cool:
I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it...
 
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Ibix said:
I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it...
I have such a feeling that it somehow should have changed, if outspoken, and did already, in reality, change to: Don't mention the Brexit!
 
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fresh_42 said:
I have such a feeling that it somehow should have changed, if outspoken, and did already, in reality, change to: Don't mention the Brexit!
Brexit is like the interpretations of Quantum Mechanics discussions. I read the threads that seem to follow the same lines but I come away from them with little recall or understanding of them.
 
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Cool looking water effects:

 
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Musk’s Neuralink Hopes to Implant Computer in Human Brain in Six Months

The startup awaits implant approval while already working on curing paralysis

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. aims to start putting its coin-sized computing brain implant into human patients within six months, the company announced at an event at its Fremont, Calif. headquarters on Wednesday evening.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-for-human-trials-approval-within-six-months

Who would be willing to undergo such an operation? . . .
 
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Germany and Costa Rica. New thread for the world cup?
 
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kyphysics said:
Who would be willing to undergo such an operation? . . .
People who greatly benefit from this technology.

6 months is far too optimistic, of course.
 
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mfb said:
People who greatly benefit from this technology.

6 months is far too optimistic, of course.
Yeah, I was merely thinking about risk factors. . .if I were paralyzed and could be "cured," I'd probably consider it. . .But, I wouldn't consider it if the surgery were meant to "enhance" my mental capabilities or something like that. . .at least, not without watching lots of other people do it first and observing the safety/side-effects/etc.
 
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Bull
 
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kyphysics said:
Yeah, I was merely thinking about risk factors. . .if I were paralyzed and could be "cured," I'd probably consider it. . .But, I wouldn't consider it if the surgery were meant to "enhance" my mental capabilities or something like that. . .at least, not without watching lots of other people do it first and observing the safety/side-effects/etc.
Sure, that's why the first patients will be paralyzed or have other very severe health conditions. As the technology improves we should see it being used for less serious conditions, until implants in healthy people might become an option.
 

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