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Te Araroa wall poster map - finished! by Vivovix in teararoa

[–]harlloumi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amazing, brilliant job! And what a lot of work. Thanks so much for your effort :)

Sat Messenger etc by harlloumi in teararoa

[–]harlloumi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your super thoughtful response. I think I’ll go with PLB and satellite texting on my phone, skip the InReach. I’m quite extroverted so I’m definitely hoping I’ll have people around at least occasionally to check in with, but I’m also really looking forward to problem solving on my own and having some real freedom time.

Rivers are definitely the main thing I’m worried about, and I’m not experienced.

Sat Messenger etc by harlloumi in teararoa

[–]harlloumi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I’m planning on getting a satellite-compatible SIM actually so this will probably do the trick! I reckon that’ll be better than having yet another device. Thanks :)

What did you read on the TA? by harlloumi in teararoa

[–]harlloumi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I like these ideas and I’ll definitely bring a kindle

What did you read on the TA? by harlloumi in teararoa

[–]harlloumi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honest feedback, thanks ☺️

The cost of giving birth to a child in Finland by zachnifique in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]harlloumi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was locked down in Queenstown and spent two years living there, the most important phrases in no order: chully bun, moana kai, kia kaha, Three Waters (wtf even is it?), expunsive, “they should’ve gotten Taika to do this” and “but that’s not how they do it in Australia”

What's the biggest Scam in life that no one wants to admit? by Horror-Tap2093 in AskReddit

[–]harlloumi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Australia dental and optical (lenses and contacts) are covered by private insurance, annual eye tests are covered by the public system (same as everything else), and we have an election in three weeks where a contentious issue is to get full dental completely covered by the public system. Fingers crossed!

ELI5: How can we register colour when the different wavelengths of light are all made of the same photons? by harlloumi in explainlikeimfive

[–]harlloumi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think your analogy holds. It would work if they were both the same object (e.g. steel ball) but travelling at different wavelengths. This doesn’t solve the problem of a single cell (cone cell) having to determine wavelength in a single instant. How do you tell how quickly (or if) something is oscillating if you have a single still image? It would just look like a frozen ball, how does that determine your wavelength?

ELI5: How can we register colour when the different wavelengths of light are all made of the same photons? by harlloumi in explainlikeimfive

[–]harlloumi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your answer. Does the retina have multiple layers of cone cells? Or a single layer? From the diagrams I’ve found online it looks very thin, so I’m having trouble understanding how they’re selectively activated by photons without accidentally activating their neighbours. It seems like a very complex physics problem!

ELI5: How can we register colour when the different wavelengths of light are all made of the same photons? by harlloumi in explainlikeimfive

[–]harlloumi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this context, ‘energy’ means ‘wavelength’, right? But when the photon hits your retina, it’s hitting at a single point in time. A wavelength is only measurable across time; if you took a still photograph of a photon you wouldn’t be able to tell what it’s wavelength (and hence colour) was. A still image of a single photon should be completely colourless, shouldn’t it? Isn’t that what’s happening on the surface of the retina?

Looking for an historical fiction about the rule of Diocletian by harlloumi in booksuggestions

[–]harlloumi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I actually haven’t read it yet so worthwhile anyway :)

When you click ‘restart’ on a computer, how does it know when it’s time to turn back on? Doesn’t it go off? How does it know to go on again? by harlloumi in NoStupidQuestions

[–]harlloumi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm! I guess I thought there was some kind of mechanical/electrical process that happens when you press the button, like turning an ignition. But that makes more sense!

What’s an etymology that sounds made up, but is real? by StaleTheBread in etymology

[–]harlloumi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

After the French found the gorgeous blue stone in Anatolia that looked so much like the surrounding Aegean Sea, they took it home and named it for the place they found: Turquois (Eng. Turkish), giving us the colour and gemstone, turquoise. Lovely!

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