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  • Weirdly enough, .Net works relatively well on Linux (at least the core components). Parts of the framework are even various degrees of open sourced.

  • No. This is spin for some audience -- although I don't know who.

  • Is there a "government" version or similar, where security is paramount? Like, how does MS sell windows 11 to the navy or whatever...?

  • Sometimes people get caught up trying to find exact matches for software, when instead it's a combination of tools that gets the job done on another OS. The annoying thing is learning new toolsets -- but it's only annoying until you know them.

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  • Everytime I hear the words "dark web", I feel I'm listening to am radio news or something designed to scare pensioners. Oooh, spooky cybercrime.

    That said, fuck narcotics dealers.

  • As with all research papers published out of China, you take their numbers with a grain of salt. They report approximately 2000 cases per year of mesothelioma, and of those, only 15% are definitively asbestos exposure related. So about 300 per year. Of those cases, over 80% are asbestos industry (improper safety measures for repeated occupational exposure).

    Compared to fire related deaths prevented, it's probably a good trade for China. Probably.

  • Show my a neighbourhood pulverized into fine dust by any of the above -- even the concrete. The physics doesn't make any sense. The closest thing we have to this is wartime bombing, and then asbestos is likely your least worry. Anyway, you're entrenched.

  • Unless said hurricane, tornado, or flood grinds the material into a fine powder then you go around the neighbourhood snorting it -- then if bound properly, it is just as safe (or dangerous) as fibreglass insulation.

    I'm not saying fill everyone's attics with powdered asbestos or something.

    We use dangerous products all the time. For example, mercury in florescent lighting. But we regulate and generally speaking things are quite safe. But for whatever reason, as soon as anyone hears the word asbestos they freak out and no amount of explanations regarding safe handling will suffice.

  • It's pretty unlikely the homeowner is bulldozing the house themselves. So likely it's handled by professionals.

    Epoxied asbestos is approximately as dangerous as epoxied fibreglass -- add some dust suppression and have at it.

  • Probably about 4mm across.

    Needs some baked beans for scale. One baked bean spider in size.

  • I'm pretty sure we could go back to using it, with more precautions in place, better binders, etc. Hell, it's still used in many parts of the world, and it occurs naturally all over the fucking place. But, alas, lawyers would have to stop salivating at every mention of the word.

    In geoscience, we started using the word asbestoform to describe minerals with fibrous habits so we don't get lawyers showing up to destroy all of our rock samples and turn every geoscience facility into a superfund site.

  • It'd be interesting to try to figure out if you were taught wrong, or remember wrong. Memories tend to drift over time, but it's possible your college did you a disservice and taught you wrong... Not important. Nevertheless, I hope you're having a great day someplace that is either 21, 69, or 295 ;)

  • Where were you taught this? It's pretty much incorrect.

    It is true that particles at higher temperatures have higher kinetic energies. But their velocities are so far away from light speed (usually) that relativistic effects like time dilation are entirely irrelevant.

    For reference, the surface of Pluto is about 40K. Some of the other dwarf planets a little further out are in the 21K range. Liquid hydrogen (used in many rockets) is 20K.

    69K is slightly warmed than liquid nitrogen (63K), and that is incredibly commonly used all over the world. And warmer than Pluto ;)

  • It's a system of linear equations that has an intersection point. It may not be exactly at 575, but they do intersect. Solving the equation gives 574.589, depending on how many decimal points you round to. So 575 is accurate enough within integer rounding.

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  • I didn't build it. Just renting it for Thanksgiving weekend (Canada) with the family

  • I'll play devil's avocado.

    There are some genres that were effectively created by the Japanese gaming industry (Nintendo and others). Pokemon and monster hunting/battling. Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest and JRPGs. Hell, I'd even say visual novels (like Steins;Gate and others). Japan has been hugely successful at exporting these genres that were already domestically successful. And so they became the reference standards.

    But if you were to look at racing games, or flight sims, or dozens (if not hundreds) of other categories, you'd see that they've failed to break into these genres with any significant effect. Not because they don't have the technical skills, but rather, they don't fall into their niche.

    Cherry picking Mario and Zelda is unfair.

  • Damn, I actually loved that temple.

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  • I used to have a roommate and we had this funny schtick. He would walk into the livingroom and ask a question. If he saw me take a deep breath, he knew I was about to launch into a long-winded lecture on the topic. So he'd see the inhale and pre-empt: "nevermind" and walk out.