BastingChemina

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[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Next time you see a plane imaging two hooks in the middle of the wings, a crane lifting up the plane with these two hooks and shaking it.

This give you a good approximation of what the forces in the plane are, and once you picture that you might think that there is no way the plane can hold up in this situation. Yet it does.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 months ago

I think it's more that the doctor was struggling to insert it, so he offer the local anesthetic only to make his job easier.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

Oligarchs as well, see the Murdoch family.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

It was defined as

one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris.

The stick of metal in Paris is just so people don't have to do measure the distance between the north pole and the equator each time they want to check their measuring tool.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago

As a related story I had a discussion with a guy that worked as head of security for a big watch manufacturing company in Switzerland (think about handmade watches worth several $10k-$100k)

He spotted some of the watchmakers casually going back home with watches in their pocket without any documentation about it, saying that they wanted to do some of the work at home. He stopped that of course.

He quickly got a call from HR explaining to him that a talented watchmaker is almost impossible to replace, they can go knock next door to another manufacturer and be hired at whatever salary they ask for. On the other hand It's much easier to find a replacement for a head of security.

So I imagine a talented wizard would be like the watchmakers, the lab could be highly secured but with blatant security breach because the wizard cannot be bothered.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

Ce n'est pas la même chose.

Le chocolat belge c'est des chocolats pralinés, fourrés, c'est tout un travail de transformation du chocolat.

Alors que les suisses travaillent la simplicité du chocolat. Ils font des tablettes simples qui mettent plus en valeur le cacao lui même.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

It depends on the type of rock, a lot of old houses in Europe have exposed stone walls and the dust is not a problem.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

I like St Lucia's flag, quite unique but stays simple enough. 🇱🇨

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

It's not just for my home server but for EOL or other issues I used bitwarden emergency access options for passwords. Of anything happens to me my wife can request access to my vault and if I don't deny it in a certain timeframe she will have full access to it.

I did that after my brother in law got in an accident and fell into a coma. I'm very grateful he had all his password saved in chrome on his unlocked laptop because if not it would have made the period insanely more difficult for my sister.

Simple things like paying the bills would I been insanely more difficult and stressful and you don't need extra stress in this period.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If people want to see one in action there are using one in guedelon in France. It's a castle being built only using techniques from XIVs century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BBhzrXw1sQ

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago

I have the ifixit screwdriver kit and one of the bits is a Sim card ejector. Does it count ?

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

For people who want to try it there is a free instance managed by the team there : https://cryptpad.fr/

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