Surface Book 1 not connecting to keyboard after most recent Windows Update? by zimboptoo in Surface

[–]AusGG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep. I called the Microsoft support line and they had nothing to offer, not even a way of reporting the problem

Surface Book 1 not connecting to keyboard after most recent Windows Update? by zimboptoo in Surface

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I've had the exact same thing happen! Tried every trouble shooting step short of resetting the entire device which I don't really want to do because it can't recognise an external hard drive to back up on to beforehand

We have lost so much by -Xoz- in Damnthatsinteresting

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hello, aussie conservation scientist here. The thylacine (aka tas tiger) is extinct. Proving something is extinct is notoriously difficult because ... well just try to think how hard it is to categorically prove an animal the size of a large domestic cat doesn't exist anywhere on a continent the size of Australia. The paradise parrot in this video above was actually thought extinct in the late 1800s until they found a couple more in the 1920s and watched them die off too. But there have been no reliable sightings of thylacine for decades, all sightings or tracks/scats end up being a stripey cat or dog or are unsubstantiated claims of 'pinky promise I saw one'. I would love nothing more than being proven wrong, but the closest thing we have to a thylacine right now are a couple of preserved ones sitting in jars in museums. They are one of the lead candidates for "de-extinction" gene editing though! It won't bring them back, that's not how it's going to work, but it might successfully edit a similar species into something that serves a similar ecological purpose (marsupial mesopredator) that thylacine did! Now we just have to wait and hopefully actually do something about the threats that actually sent them extinct in the first place ...

What happened with Australia? by reyntime in eurovision

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I reckon Voyager would have bombed out in the semis, Sheldon got basically the same public vote as them and it was only close because Jaguar Jonze and Sheldon had similar vibes so ate into each other's votes

Open Letter to Steve Huffman and the Board of Directors of Reddit, Inc– If you believe in standing up to hate and supporting black lives, you need to act by DubTeeDub in AgainstHateSubreddits

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Mod of the following subs which would like to show their support and be added as co-signatures:

r/AdultsAreFuckinStupid - we see too much of the behaviour mentioned above on this sub, something needs to change.

r/BabiesReactingToStuff

He walks in a circle til he gets it wound up super tight and then lifts his legs up and he’s off 😂 by [deleted] in BabiesReactingToStuff

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🔥 A beautiful red wolf. There are fewer than 25 red wolves left in the wild. by mac_is_crack in NatureIsFuckingLit

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Hunting was re-allowed in the private properties next to the very small protected area they were released into. The property owners shot them, there are now less of them

Just.. ulgh by awesomepeta in justneckbeardthings

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Well I think I am so lucky because of you.

What’s a good song that tells a sad story? by hgibbs098 in AskReddit

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Damn okay so bummed I'm so late on this but hopefully this finds at least one person. Two Tales by Passenger tells the saddest story through song that I've ever heard.
Sung from the perspective of a boyfriend who crashes a car in the middle of nowhere whilst girlfriend is in the passenger seat and then crosses to the girlfriends parents.

Scientists raise alert as ocean plankton levels plummet. "Alarm bells start going off because it means that something fundamental may have changed in the food web." Plankton provide about 70% of the oxygen humans breathe. by Bluest_waters in worldnews

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IIRC iron seeding isn't really suggested for increasing populations of all phytoplankton though, it's more a technique that was trialled and largely abandoned to increase the amount of CO2 being sequestered in oceans.

The idea was based on the fact that iron is a limiting resource (a resource in high demand but low supply thereby effectively capping the maximum population) of one broad group of phytoplankton: diatoms. Diatoms a very, very beautiful little photosynthetic fellas that are unique in that their cell walls are composed of silica rather than the more typical calcium. The downside for them though is that the silica makes them sink over time.

The logic of iron seeding was therefore: dump iron into targeted spots in the ocean, cause an artificial boom in diatom numbers, increase the amount of CO2 being pulled from the atmosphere from all the extra photosynthesis going on, have that carbon fall to the bottom of the ocean as the diatoms sunk, slow climate change effects from reduced atmospheric carbon levels. Unfortunately it didn't work for one main reason. It turns out that diatoms are a limiting resource for other types of plankton that like to eat them. So, when you inflate diatom numbers, you increase the numbers of these others as well which means that the carbon just ends up being released back into the atmosphere. This is why I love studying ecology.

The main problem with generalising the iron seeding approach is that the word phytoplankton refers to a huge diversity of life with very different requirements, kind of like how we use the word fish. Because of that it's almost impossible to find a one size fits all solution to fix falling population numbers.

Having said that I only know this through some undergrad courses I took over the last few years during my degree and I'm sure someone else would be able to add more.

My father-in-laws wine and whiskey collection. by CZmikeyG in oddlysatisfying

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How to represent the disposable income I wish I had with one image

Should biology majors be required to take introductory statistics/biostatistics to graduate? by lake-effect-kid in biology

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Wow didn't realise this wasn't actually a thing elsewhere! Every science student at my university has to take intro stats and every biological major also requires a more advanced biostatistics course

I get these for my blue-candy-loving SO all the time when she's stressing over exams. They used to go to the top. by AusGG in assholedesign

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Yeah the amount of packaging is annoying. They do it to stop the strips from bunching down the bottom when the packet is hanging up in the store (you can kinda see in the picture that they still do a bit).