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andrewducker) wrote2022-12-08 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2022-12-08 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 08-12-2022
- 1. Support for Independence hits 56%, 51% of people to vote SNP (53% if it's a defacto referendum)
- (tags:scotland independence polls )
- 2. Transphobes are now attacking...The Samaritans.
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake suicide )
- 3. BBC plans to switch off broadcast TV and move to internet-only programmes
- (tags:bbc thefuture streaming broadcasting )
- 4. Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
- (tags:genetics dna prehistory )
- 5. The Art Game and the Money Game and how the ending of Minecraft was set free
- (tags:games art money copyright Microsoft contracts )
- 6. Sats: MPs and peers fail tests for 11-year-olds as campaign groups call for overhaul of 'high-stakes' exams
- (tags:exams children politics )
- 7. First UK coal mine in decades approved
- (tags:UK coal environment globalwarming )
- 8. Europe First: Brussels gets ready to dump its free trade ideals (because the USA and China both already have)
- (tags:Europe China USA trade )
- 9. Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved. Here's what you need to know.
- (tags:vaccines pandemic )
- 10. AI learns to precisely manipulate individual atoms
- (tags:ai atom physics research )
- 11. How Many Fundamental Constants Does It Take To Explain The Universe? (26, at the moment)
- (tags:physics )
- 12. People expect identical twins to be *really* identical
- (tags:twins genetics statistics )
- 13. Humans are surprisingly poor at picking up cues of aggression in dogs
- (tags:dogs behaviour psychology )
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11) But if you measure something against other things, you're using the other things as the unit. I've seen lots of discussion of sub-atomic particles measuring their masses against the proton (the best-known one, I guess). "The neutron has a mass slightly greater than a proton," e.g. In that case, your unit = 1 proton.
13) Yes, but it does mean I flee the room in terror on encountering any dog that's not lying placid in the corner. It's worse when the owner says, "He doesn't bite." Yeah, that's what they all say, and I'm not waiting around to find out. Fortunately I don't know many people with dogs any more, and those who do know to keep them away from me. When I was a child, almost everyone had a dog (no cats, literally: I never met a cat till I went to university), and it was agony.
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It depends enormously on how old the TV is. If it's old, then it probably requires adapters and fiddling and stuff. This issue gets treated lightly mostly because newer TVs increasingly have all of that built-in -- you just connect to the wifi and go.
(Which still doesn't mean it's trivial. It took me a minute or two to set up my mother's TV, but I wouldn't want her to try to do it herself.)