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Last Notes npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R Ant spotting in the New Forest. She's on a mission. @nprofile…pfuj https://society.oftrolls.com/system/media_attachments/files/116/782/506/320/342/932/original/56c82ac111a7e994.jpg npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…tkx6 @nprofile…49d7 Sure, open mic nights have a place. That's still no excuse for Oasis. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…tkx6 @nprofile…49d7 Yes, but there's no need to do that in public. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…dv6u Discovery is the worst Trek. Section 31 isn't Trek at all, although it is a half-decent action film. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…r9vg @nprofile…m5vr What size are those components? It's hard to get a sense of scale from the photo. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…r9vg Is this LibReoffice or something else? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…r9vg That's the difference between fitting in my RAM and not. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…r9vg "You used C++" is your error. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…pfuj Waroboros. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…r9vg To sell, I guess, especially considering the quantity. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…r9vg Last time I opted for a digital signage signage display. The trouble with those is that they have limited support for HDR formats, and I had to rewire the internals to make local dimming work right. Now I'm tempted by the superior panels that simply can't be found in commercial displays (different requirements), and I'd also rather not pay 50% more if I can get away without it. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R I fear I may soon need to replace my TV (actually a large display). While I loathe "smart" TVs, the nice panels seem unobtainable without such encumbrance. Having read reports of intrusive ads or overlays demanding an internet connection, I am naturally cautious about getting one even with the intention of only using external sources. Are any brands/models known to be safe in this regard, ideally being usable without ever connecting to a network? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…65q8 Banking? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…tkx6 @nprofile…m43q Could it be that the people who are old today have always been right-leaning (on average), and the even older ones still more so, while today's youth sway more to the left and will remain that way as they age? Looking at a snapshot it would then appear as though people's views shift rightward as they age when in reality it is society as a whole that is drifting left. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…65q8 A parcel I sent to the Netherlands recently sat in Dutch customs for a week before being released. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…65q8 When you said you were planning on going, my thought was that it would be far too crowded and far too much booze for your liking. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…4pdu A lot of animals have innate urges that still require learning in order to be carried out. For instance, a human child will instinctively try to walk, but it takes a lot of practice to actually do it. Then there are migratory birds. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…tkx6 FIFA learns the meaning of FAFO. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…e4ry Murders being solved won't make me feel safer if they keep happening. Conversely, a low murder rate seems safer even if few of them are solved. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…8eua @nprofile…4spx I thought warranty and guarantee were the common spellings. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…as30 @nprofile…72ye Aren't you supposed to undress there? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…xlvy What happened on non-x86 platforms like PS3? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…dhvz Did you grow a beard? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…j0re @nprofile…vry2 They just announced some nice-looking hardware to be released next year. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…j0re https://wondermark.com/c/566/ npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…e4ry Galleria is Italian. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…j0re What percentage are Marvel films? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…x759 @nprofile…84g7 > Parents who share a single phone with their children. What can they do? Android supports multiple users. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…x759 10 minutes is a strange limit. They'd mostly be recording hold music for their own customer service. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…r5de @nprofile…args @nprofile…9wrc Here's some commentary from 2012. It certainly didn't improve since then. https://www.petergeoghegan.com/2012/08/14/ted-a-strange-way-to-talk-about-openness/ Now what did I miss that's causing people to talk about them in the past tense? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…fa4k @nprofile…qjxu @nprofile…avjd Is a humped zebra different from a striped camel? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…r5de @nprofile…l0c2 Regardless of the music or the attending demographic, an event of that size can attract all kinds of trouble. Remember that Ariana Grande concert? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Unless it's the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc A bit rich of the creator of C++ to be talking about good taste. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…x759 It used to be that on-site search often was so broken that using a regular search engine with "site:" was the only way to find anything, especially(!) on sites with a Google custom search box. Has this improved, or are you mainly using a few sites that somehow have working search? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…3m4j Can the cartridges be loaded with marmalade, or would that make it jam? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc It's easy when you pay neither your staff nor your taxes. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…x759 How many of those are the same company? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…t59k Those barriers to "native" speech you mention exist also within Britain and its constituent countries. The difference between northern and southern accents is obvious, but each region has its own distinctive sounds, words, and phrases that can easily confound outsiders. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Could be a tiny man. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…uauk @nprofile…x3s0 In the page footer. Just scroll to the bottom. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…3xw7 Do you know what hardware difference is causing this? Does the older phone have a 32-bit CPU (and the associated RAM limitations)? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Yes, it kind of does. The ABBA song was released a year before the Black Sabbath one, but who knows which one was written first. Could they both have been inspired by something else? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…3xw7 What were you expecting? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…fa4k Interesting, though it's obviously just a result of the model being trained on data including such responses from people. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…wsv2 Looking at the cookies that site sets, choosing "only necessary" sets a few cookies with life times of at most 90 days. Clicking "accept all" results in some that are valid for a year. The values are some encoded gibberish, but your suspicion is probably correct. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Maybe they used New York first before realising that by changing the name they might broaden the appeal. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc It does quote Batman co-creator Bill Finger on the matter: "Originally I was going to call Gotham City 'Civic City.' Then I tried 'Capital City,' then 'Coast City.' Then I flipped through the New York City phone book and spotted the name 'Gotham Jewelers' and said, 'That's it,' Gotham City. We didn't call it New York because we wanted anybody in any city to identify with it." npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Sorry, didn't mean to come across as interrogating you. Just something I've occasionally wondered about. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Either way, why do they call it Gotham when it's obviously New York? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Why did they change it to Gotham later? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Nobody knows what wasn't even suggested because they knew the others wouldn't allow it. And then there was George Martin. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc I think without the others to balance things out, they went too far in their respective directions. It was the blend that made the Beatles interesting. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc None of the Beatles were half as good on their own as they were together. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…85f4 @nprofile…htaz High-speed USB 2.0 (480 Mbps) doesn't do that. You can even disconnect the ground wire completely after the initial handshake, and it keeps working. You can of course still get 8 kHz interference via power supply modulation or other routes as the USB processing happens in bursts. It's not particularly difficult to keep it well below audible levels, but some designs really cut all the corners. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…3xw7 Well, underwater speakers exist, but they are a bit special. Maybe look for something intended for use outdoors or around pools. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc [email protected] did. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…j0rk @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…vq3a The original question was how to filter out the non-English posts, but apparently blocking me was easier than reading the thread. Probably good riddance though. Such people are tiresome. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…kna6 That's from a cautionary poem about a kid playing with matches. They had us read it in German class 30-something years ago. https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/19Jh/Struwwelpeter/hof_7607.html npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc I thought that was exactly what we did. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…xtm5 One should never love a company, for the company has no love but for itself. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…fa4k @nprofile…xrxy Is there anything I can bounce my WiFi off of to reach the access point when I'm in the back garden? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…uauk How much have you learned though? My impression of Duolingo is that the approach works for learning the very basics, but beyond a few weeks of use, very little progress is made. I think, and I'm not alone in this, that translating short phrases back and forth isn't particularly conducive to learning. Their approach to grammar is also one that I find frustrating, but that could be a matter of personal preference. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc I use the Stylus extension. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…vq3a With the web client, this bit of extra CSS hides the non-English ones from that account: article:has([title="[email protected] "]):not(:has(.status__content__text[lang="en"])) { height: 0px; overflow: hidden; } Setting "display: none" for some reason makes Firefox chew 100% CPU. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…vq3a The posts seem to be tagged with the language of the book. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…vq3a Tusky shows the language code next to the date below expanded posts. I guess it's part of the ActivityPub metadata, but maybe it's not rendered in the HTML display. https://society.oftrolls.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/465/945/947/596/494/original/0703425ad60fdcca.png npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…vq3a The posts seem to have the correct language attribute, so you could filter by that if your client supports it. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…fa4k England is a bit stricter than Scotland, I think, but most legal residents can vote in local elections. In general elections (Parliament), only British and resident Commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. Voting is also very easy. Polling stations are numerous, and there's hardly ever a queue. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…f0eu Adams' Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is a pretty good representation of all things "smart" too. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…args These are some of the weirder ones in my collection. https://society.oftrolls.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/336/968/114/602/808/original/367de7cea39103bd.jpg https://society.oftrolls.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/336/968/251/599/848/original/9449ecd85bbc3cb2.jpg https://society.oftrolls.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/336/968/154/249/301/original/89cbeb31399adba8.jpg https://society.oftrolls.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/336/968/222/364/827/original/039a42363feebcf8.jpg npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…mkea @nprofile…2yv8 Stereo or surround mix? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…args I didn't know that. Which part? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R J Edgar Hoover founded the FBI with the goal of hoovering up criminals and dumping them in the Hoover dam. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…args Won't the generators catch up with this with additional training on such images? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…args A landlord (hopefully) provides ongoing upkeep of the property, and that is worth something. Obviously, many of them demand a disproportionate amount of money for what they provide. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Because then they can't be parsed as floating-point numbers, of course. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…x759 @nprofile…gsu3 Make the big battery an external box that plugs into the charging port just like the AC adapter. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…9u60 Remember Hanlon's razor: Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Something mumble something Mozilla Corporation is distinct from the Mozilla non-profit. No, I never understood that bit either. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…9u60 @nprofile…hujc I've heard of such incidents, but I don't understand how it's possible. Isn't hair dead matter once it leaves the follicles? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…9u60 @nprofile…hujc Short of falling asleep in a bucket of bleach, how does that happen? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…ccu8 After the Very Large Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope, will there be a Ludicrously Large Telescope? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Has Scotland generally got a lot better lately? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc > what they did with Lord of the Rings. Pretty visuals that fail to quite make up for a plot that manages to be simultaneously empty and irritating? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Now you'll miss posts about perfume and card games. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc Clicking that Chinese Wikipedia link somehow redirects to the English page. Might have something to do with it. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…hujc If you want your code to stand a chance of running (mostly) unchanged in decades to come, your choices are C, Fortran, or Perl. Python is good for a year, maybe two if you don't do anything exotic. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…9u60 Has the response (if any) to a petition ever been anything other than "lol no"? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…args Try bigger spiders. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…fa4k @nprofile…r429 They no longer issue BRPs. It's all e-visas now. If you have an old BRP from a previous stay, supplying the number could help the processing. The VFS website is horrible. The domain and various URL parts need to match both the country you're in and the country you're applying for a visa to. Sometimes their internal links have the wrong country and need to be adjusted. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…apfl Aluminium conducts heat very well. Doesn't seem like a particularly good choice for a shield. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…apfl @nprofile…9u60 Ring mains are a bit weird though. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…x759 Doesn't sound much different than people insisting on European GDPR laws applying to American companies. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…args What about this one? https://www.johnlewis.com/la-cafetiere-cast-iron-3-cup-teapot-600ml-black/p111538293 npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…9u60 Any good? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…args I don't know how you think this "should" be proved, but to me it's trivially obvious due to symmetry. npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @nprofile…x759 How does a typical website NOT "operate" in ALL countries? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R @npub1zdp…vqv8 First We Take Manhattan? npub1fpvvdt8a8qakms6s5wwy95ff0rkcfg2jfel0jgqh5sklklz5qr0sdez4jk Mans R Never throw away stuff that might one day be useful. Just this week, I made use of a random metal bracket that's been rattling in a junk box for years. I don't remember where it came from, but it was just the right size for what I wanted to do.