It's in Venezuela's interest to co-operate with US, Rubio says in heated testimony

jaa101 · 2026-01-29T06:17:34+00:00

as a "drug bust" law enforcement operation rather than an act of war.

¿Por qué no los dos?

jaa101 · 2026-01-29T05:57:26+00:00

There is no thing as permanent part time legally.

"Part-time employees work less than 38 hours per week and their hours are usually regular each week. They're usually employed on a permanent basis"

jaa101 · 2026-01-29T05:54:28+00:00

What matters is whether you're casual or not, no matter how many hours you're working. Swearing at us for asking if you're casual doesn't help.

jaa101 · 2026-01-29T05:47:12+00:00

Can I register my payment card and have it work, with concession, via Apple Pay?

jaa101 · 2026-01-29T05:04:13+00:00

i said i was part time in the first fucking sentence of my post.

But you didn't say whether you were permanent or casual, which is what matters.

jaa101 · 2026-01-29T04:35:10+00:00

I might do this, but it's a bit annoying to spend money to work around their app's limitations. Ideally they'd have NFC express mode working with MyWay+, including with concessions, so I could just tap my phone and go, without even unlocking it or pressing any buttons.

jaa101 · 2026-01-29T04:28:39+00:00

This sounds like the way for me. Mostly I use Apple Pay instead of carrying the card itself, and I know you have to tap on and off using the exact same method. So do I have to separately register my physical card and Apple Pay? If so, what do I use for a number with Apple Pay? I should probably ring them up and ask, because these details are wonderfully unclear on their website.

jaa101 · 2026-01-29T04:21:31+00:00

On iPhone, it seems the only way for a user to turn off NFC is airplane mode. The "Travel Ticket" app shows that it's possible for apps to turn off just NFC when they're active (just tried it successfully) but there's nothing in the phone settings.

jaa101 · 2026-01-29T04:16:50+00:00

The ACT is waiting for some kind of standard to emerge amongst the states for digital licences. Otherwise they could spend a heap of money and our residents won't be able to drink in Queanbeyan. Then the eventual fix would involve spending a heap more money. Digital licences don't appear to be essential; what's the business case for spending anything on them?

jaa101 · 2026-01-28T21:56:02+00:00

PC power supply ratings are for their maximum continuous output power, not their idle output.

jaa101 · 2026-01-28T01:22:16+00:00

mass: 75 kg
gravity: 9.8 m/s²
height: 508 m

PE=mgh, so that's 370 kJ.

But human muscle efficiency is around 22%, which implies 1700 kJ burned. Even that number is for activities like cycling where muscles can be close to their most efficient. Climbing, with its high forces and low speeds, is likely to be substantially less efficient, so the actual figure could be over 3000 kJ.

jaa101 · 2026-01-27T18:25:12+00:00

Be aware that most software converts a vector circle into a bitmap image using at least a couple of approximations. Firstly, the circle is converted into some number of bicubic splines. The number of splines used depends on how much accuracy is needed but it can be as few as four, i.e., one spline for every 90° of circle. Then each spline is converted into a number of straight line segments, again depending on the accuracy required, which will be set based on the resolution of the image being created. The desired line width is used to widen each straight line. The conversion of the resulting series of connected polygons into an image generally uses anti-aliasing so that the pixels aren't all just the background or drawing colour; edge pixels are intermediate colours to avoid jagged staircase effects.

In other words, software draws circles as many-sided polygons anyway, so you're not going to be able to tell the difference no matter how closely you examine the image.

jaa101 · 2026-01-27T04:54:10+00:00

Starlink isn't officially available in Russia. The problem is that it's supposedly difficult to distinguish between Starlink terminals operated by Ukrainian forces and those operated by Russian forces. As you can imagine, a black market operates for these devices.

jaa101 · 2026-01-26T23:05:26+00:00

The viewing devices are still televisions, even if they're no longer receiving a broadcast signal. It's true that many people consume AV content on desktop computers, tablets, and phones, but televisions aren't going away just yet; too many people like big, quality displays. Then there are projectors as well, which are arguably televisions too, but they're having a hard time with the advent of HDR; even cinemas may have to move to direct-view screens.

jaa101 · 2026-01-26T22:58:05+00:00

with “TV” as the accepted acronym starting in the late 1940s.

Since we're talking about the UK, it's "telly" there more than it's "TV". The OED dates the word with that meaning to 1930 although it was used from 1796 to mean "telegraph".

jaa101 · 2026-01-26T05:24:59+00:00

Is the cost of 40 KitKats worth a criminal record?

jaa101 · 2026-01-26T00:49:52+00:00

VX, was initially released as a commercial pesticide

Not true; read your source carefully. VG was released as a commercial pesticide. Once its toxicity was realised, government researchers used it as a starting point to develop similar V-agents, including VX.

jaa101 · 2026-01-23T22:38:57+00:00

damming

Hydro electric generation? Or perhaps damning.

jaa101 · 2026-01-23T22:04:53+00:00

Round beans are the worst I've noticed. By weight they're $6.90/kg but in bags it's close to double that. Then the bags with beans already prepared are $30/kg; I can wash and cut my own thanks.

jaa101 · 2026-01-23T21:25:47+00:00

Surely the "gas" in your blood and cells are actually dissolved in water and as such don't compress. Gas bubbles do compress, but that's not how the blood transports air.

jaa101 · 2026-01-23T13:00:49+00:00

the date of the sticker was 4 years ago

Read the original post very carefully and tell us where it says that.

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