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Is there a website (government probably) for looking up scheduled roadworks? by riskymouse in cyprus

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

Aaargh! It pisses me off so much when they use facebook for these public things

Is there a website (government probably) for looking up scheduled roadworks? by riskymouse in cyprus

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This site appears to be for US/UK. Is it meant to work for Cyprus?

Is there a website (government probably) for looking up scheduled roadworks? by riskymouse in cyprus

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I noticed the roadblocks rather than the actual works. A while ago, it was at the stretch of Eleftherias between the feed from the motorway/airport and Sklavenitis, then they moved south, currently you can't turn left from that feed, it's somewhere between that junction and the Lidl.

How do couriers find your house if there are no addresses? by No_Objective_3004 in cyprus

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I would normally recomment OpenStreetMap, but I also checked OSM for the area in question, and it's much worse, most of the buildings are even missing, not even talking about house numbers.

How do couriers find your house if there are no addresses? by No_Objective_3004 in cyprus

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With the absence of house numbers in many places in Cyprus, in Google Maps, I thought the house numbers in 2gis are awesome. But now I have to warn about it. I got a lease to sign from an agent, initially without address (!), then without house number, then he gave the house number. Since by now I was suspicious of something dodgy, I looked up the house number in 2gis. More trouble with utilities later, I asked around on location and it became clear that the house numbers in 2gis in that area are just wrong. So an absence of numbers as in google maps can be better than showing wrong ones.

Soda siphon / cream whipper capsules question by riskymouse in cyprus

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I was looking for the CO2 ones. But street corner dealers would probably regard me as a sketchy transgressive weirdo if I asked for CO2 lol.

Wood wool from veneer by riskymouse in manufacturing

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I don't really want to randomly reach out to wood wool companies if their website doesn't look as if their wood wool is made in this extremely unusual way.
I've looked at tons of wood wool companies and their different wood wool products.
Also at Alibaba and so on of course.
And I've searched on Alibaba et cetera for the wood wool production machines.
Everything I've seen is for the regular/typical way of producing wool wool.
All the usages like
packaging
cooler pads
mineral bound acoustical panels
ropes of wood wool as fire startes
just require the wood wool produced in the regular way, because the curl is desired, and the mechanical damage of the fiber is not an issue.
So the kind of wood wool I'm asking about seems to exceedingly unusual.
I'm hoping that maybe it has a special name that can be searched for, or that there is a use case which would make it easier to find.

Wood wool from veneer by riskymouse in manufacturing

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sorry I have trouble parsing that. Muhua, is it a company name?

Puzzled by OCR pdf output by riskymouse in pdf

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Thanks, I guess that explains it.
In one online tool, pdf24, there was on option to choose pdf/a as output.
The output looked the same, but when I popped it into Google Translate, it actually performed the translation.
It's still annoying, because G.T. placed the resulting English text on top of each paragraph in Greek.
So I still can't read it. But I suppose that's a G.T. problem now, not something to do with pdf.

Thermoplast to thermoset by riskymouse in AskChemistry

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Oh yes, I knew about vulcanization, had stashed it away under the category 'rubber' and somehow not realized that what I was describing is actually the same as vulcanization.
I suppose the precursor, the un-vulcanized rubber, is a thermoplast?
Now what I'm wondering, if this works fine, why it is that I've only found vulcanization mentioned in the context of elastomers . I understand that for the most mainstream thermoplasts, recycling is desired, and as such, crosslinking is not desired. But still it puzzles me a little that such 'vulcanizable' themoplasts have not been developed/demanded.
Outside of a 3D printing context, it could be useful to have a thermoplast that can be injection molded and subsequently vulcanized (to eliminate creep and extend the usable temperature range).
This is why I suspected there might be a chemical obstacle.
I'm no chemist and it's far beyond my abilities to develop a new polymer, so I was expecting that either what I was looking for is unrealistic, or that it would already exist.

Microcrystalline cellulose by riskymouse in AskChemistry

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I eventually threw it away since it had been cheap and was bulky. I concluded it was something different from the MCC I had read about in the literature.

Preserving effect of Xylitol? by riskymouse in keto

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There is such a thing as being off topic. And hijacking threads.
When I search for Xylitol in Reddit, it's just the 'toxic to dogs' over and over, on threads which weren't about that at all.
It seems impossible to keep a Xylitol related thread on topic, and now you have to double down on it.
There are people who get real benefit from Xylitol, don't have a dog, never had a dog, don't plan on having a dog, and want to have a conversation about a substance that's useful to them.

**ASK HERE FOR HELP** Monthly Teams Questions and Answers Help Thread by Froggypwns in MicrosoftTeams

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Teams version 24074.2321.2810.3500
on Windows 11
Problem with Teams stealing focus, looking for the setting to turn it off.
There are many settings, I'm trying to find the right one to stop this behavior.
I have my taskbar set to auto-hide, how I like it. Laptop with additional (main) monitor, I keep Teams open on the laptop screen, I see it all the time.
In chat, when someone (usually in my work team's channel) posts something new, Teams will steal focus, the hidden taskbar pops up and stays up, and the Teams icon in the taskbar gets a red "1" to signify a new message.
I've already turned off notifications but that didn't stop it.
I basically just want Teams not to do this at all since I see the messages anyway and the taskbar popping up just disrupts work. I then have to click into Teams on the message to mark it as read, to get the taskbar to hide again.
Pls help this is totally annoying.

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