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·vorig jaar·discuss
-o is most characteristic of Australian English but English speakers over the world are familiar with "kiddo", "psycho", and now "doggo".
ouchjars
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Ironically, I'm finding this hard to read without formatting to distinguish using words and mentioning them.
ouchjars
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Alcohol does change the surface tension so foaming will be different. Ever seen a security guard shake someone's water bottle to check if it's really water?

The thing that makes beer foam stay there is the protein content. Yeast contributes some, but it's also in the grain. The foam should be less different if you compared something filtered like Heineken and Heineken 0.0.
ouchjars
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
As well as the arrows, the buttons are just positioned intuitively most of the time. We usually get two perpendicular kerb ramps rather than a diagonal one pointing at the centre of the intersection. The button for the crossing you want is the one closest to you or facing you when you're waiting at the intended ramp.

The button gets mounted on its own post if there's not a traffic light pole in the right place to piggyback off.
ouchjars
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
It even says "The correct answer was zero"!
ouchjars
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Traditional masonry construction has the same results in terms of thermal mass. More so, if it's denser and thicker. With the right shading and ventilation it's useful for both temperature extremes. See vernacular architecture in warmer/more extreme climates, or what Federation Square in Melbourne achieves with concrete:

https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2013/09/22...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWYe99ERqM

Considering active heating/cooling as well as passive, the more thermal mass we have in buildings, the better they can act as thermal batteries for surplus renewable energy.
ouchjars
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
With few exceptions, your cooking oil would have to be smoking profusely before the pan is hot enough to damage silicone. At that point it's not quite hot enough to ruin the Teflon either.
ouchjars
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
To some extent, the forced downtime is a benefit. Instantly refeullable vehicles enable fatigued driving. It's not even healthy to be sitting for that long as a passenger.
ouchjars
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Self-powered evaporative air conditioning is an ancient technology.

Air conditioning as we understand and use it today is a gold-plated band-aid over bad design. It's so entrenched you almost can't get a house built any other way.
ouchjars
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
> everyone getting the same word on the same day

Not really true as it is, being based on local time. For example, there's only a one hour period each day where someone in New Zealand and someone in Hawaii have the same word.

Fortunatly Wordle clearly signals it with a countdown timer, instead of leaving it up to the reader to figure out what "day" they mean like other daily puzzle sites or people on the internet in general.
ouchjars
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
If you could avoid getting obese with two shots in the arm and wearing a piece of cloth every time you leave the house for a couple years.
ouchjars
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
South Australia, which generated 60% of its electricity with renewables last year, is installing synchronous condensers to provide some kind of grid stabilisation. (The current conservative government is aiming for net 100% renewables by 2030 and 500% by 2050.)
ouchjars
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
The virus can't "continue from where it left off" if there's nobody left in the country infected by it.

If it turns out there were a few infections left, or one slipped through quarantine for arriving travellers, the health system has enough capacity to perform testing for anyone with even mild symptoms, and comprehensively contact trace.

This has worked for several countries.