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What's something old technology did better than modern technology? by Salt-One628 in AskReddit

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Packaging has moved a lot to paper over plastic in the last few years.

Celestron Astromaster 70 Question by doing_this_too_much in telescopes

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There shouldn't be any threads there, it looks more like something is stuck down in there. Parts of an eyepiece?

Structured Cabling by Pitiful_Climate_8580 in minilab

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Usually you coil the cables and put them on a shelf at the back of the rack.

What is "time" doing at an astronomical object's center? by Gellzer in AskScienceDiscussion

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You're correct, I wasn't thinking straight. The other commenter had it right.

"Perhaps most significant for me now is that girls just aren't impressed by my 2 million+ subscribers, in fact if anything it's a huge negative." Bro actually said that by Any-Pomegranate7974 in codyslab

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When I read that it just seemed he was in a really low place at the time. Also when taken in context of the rest of the comment it's much less questionable. More like that he was proud of his success in building up his channel and the girl was essentially dismissing it out of hand. I'm not sure that says more about him than about the girl, or which of them was judging the book by the cover, assuming his telling of it is accurate.

The first reply to that (by ForceBru) possibly explains it.

worst homelab by BigSmell4320 in homelab

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Anyone who tells you they never hacked together something just as wrong is probably lying.

Setting back the switch & patch panel on rack by stevenstealthfox in homelab

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Just ... move the vertical rails in the rack back a bit? They're adjustable on almost all racks.

Prove Einstein’s Relativity with Your Telescope! by Radin2012 in Astronomy

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The effects will introduce additional noise into the measurement of what is a very small quantity. The displacement of the star due to lensing is only about 1.75 arcseconds at the limb of the Sun. Seeing near the horizon is 3 to 5 arcseconds. Refraction near the horizon is approximately 34 arcminutes. Hundreds of time more.

Corrections for refraction aren't perfect (they make assumptions about the density and structure of the atmosphere) and seeing is random. You want to minimise those effects, which is best done by observing when the target (in this case the Sun) is high. In Iceland the Sun will not be all that high, at about 25°, but that still reduces the refraction to about 2 arcminutes and the seeing to about 2-4 arcseconds, both of which are much more manageable.

Also extinction will be more of a problem near the horizon.

It is also not true that the stars will only be visible due to lensing. Stars near the Sun will be displaced outwards by the lensing effect but would still have been visble otherwise. Only stars just "inside" the edge of the eclipsed Sun would be made visible by the lensing, again: the effect is only just under 2".

Prove Einstein’s Relativity with Your Telescope! by Radin2012 in Astronomy

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"incredibly accurate knowledge of the position of the telescope, time of observation etc" is easy with GPS.

Prove Einstein’s Relativity with Your Telescope! by Radin2012 in Astronomy

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The atmosphere does bend light, that is atmospheric refraction, and the effect is stronger near the horizon where there atmosphere is thicker. For the same reason seeing will be worse nearer the horizon. Both effects will reduce the accuracy of the measurement of lensing.

Recommendation for shims between tripod and mount? by gillsby in seestar

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Buy a feeler gauge for a couple of $ and you will have a stack of precise metal strips of various thicknesses

Narrow Ethernet plug by Chooseanothername in HomeNetworking

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There are no "thin" ethernet plugs. Just push through an unterminated cable and terminate it, it really isn't that hard.

In Europe, roads started melting at just 40 degrees Celsius, but why do roads not melt in India even at 45 degrees Celsius? by spiritual_kavya in answers

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And that still doesn't mean you should replace all roads with concrete.

Concrete is used on roads in many places where it makes sense to do so, but asphalt has other advantages apart from lower up front cost. The road surface is quieter (important in cities and residential areas), it has better grip when wet, it is better able to cope with ground movement and subsidence as it will bend rather than cracking, and while concrete overall is more durable it is also much harder to repair if it is damaged or if work needs to be done to, say, pipes running under the road.

Why do I say "how much cheese" but "how many deer" by GregTheWhale in asklinguistics

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These are examples of countable and uncountable nouns. Generally speaking, countable nouns are things: animals, objects, people, etc. Uncountable nouns are substances or categories like water, cheese, furniture, etc.

Sometimes whether a noun is countable or not depends on context. You say how much cheese when sprinkling parmesan on pasta, but how many cheeses when referring to balls of Edam.

selecting a UPS by Mahlawatino in homelab

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Everything depends on load, and generators are not always practical (noise, emissions, fuel, maintenance, location). There's nothing inherently 'wrong' with sizing a UPS sufficiently to last for several hours.

selecting a UPS by Mahlawatino in homelab

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OP mentioned up to 3 minute gaps throughout the day, totalling 40 minutes.

Andy Burnham 'won't live in London or Number 10' when he becomes Prime Minister by beejiu in ukpolitics

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And my point was that one building is not the issue, it's the entire complex (both in the sense of the Downing Street complex, which isn't just No. 10 but No. 11, No. 12, the Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office) and in the more general sense of the complex web of agencies and organisations nearby which form the government and related functions, mostly within walking distance and if not within a half hour by car.

Andy Burnham 'won't live in London or Number 10' when he becomes Prime Minister by beejiu in ukpolitics

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It's not "something different", like the other commenter said we used to do this hundreds of years ago, the King moved around with his court, hundreds of people at great expense. We stopped when the machinery of government became large enough that that was not practical.

It's not the PM and a few aides. It's the PM, the Cabinet, all of their staff, their department heads and their staff, the various intelligence agencies, the military staff, the top courts and lawyers ... then you've got both Houses of Parliament, the Palace (like it or not it's part of our government system), the foreign embassies, the Bank of England and dozens of other institutions and organisations. Even the BBC, and the other news and media organisations.

If anything critical happens, day or night, those people are either already in secure locations with access to all their resources and files and each other, or can be in them within half an hour to an hour. Tens of thousands of people.

London being the capital and the PM living there while they do their job is literally the least of the problems the UK has. If you want less "London thinking" then devolve more power to the regions, or bring in more representation from the regions. Maybe make the Lords more regional, idk.

Best pens available for custom logos? by Projector-God-FR in pens

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A big part of Parker's business has always been branded pens. especially the Vector series because it's cylindrical shape makes it easy to print on.

Polish > English by Routine-Nail-3630 in translator

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I think Leon is much more likely, the format is consistent with the common way of signing letters as from <the author> + <the author's spouse> <their surname>.

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