Thorry84

I remember when I bought an 40MB hard drive back in the day. (Yes, megabyte, not gigabyte) And I labeled it "WOWSOBIG", because it was huge for me. When I bought a 32" flat screen when those first released I thought that was big. Now even the TV in the bedroom is a 48" and that just the small secondary TV. One of my neighbors across the street has a TV as big as his wall, I can watch his TV from my window.

Funny how perspectives change over time.

You know you are in for a good time when you get to the chapter called "Sexual connotations".

I'm not an expert on the field, so I've read the paper, but am not qualified to draw conclusions from it. But as I read it, the focus is more on the role of ritual and religion in the making of the iron. And the transfer of knowledge through this process and hypothesize the addition of the burning of bone is actually beneficial.

However they do not approach this from a material technology standpoint. So I would love for someone with knowledge on this point to chime in. It's very interesting if the people back in the day knew how to make low carbon iron and the little bit of carbon they did add came from the burning of the bones. But as I see it the burning of the bones is more a ritual kind of thing and getting all of the carbon out of the iron is the harder thing to do, not putting the carbon in.

Is this actually true? Because all the YouTube videos I've seen of people trying to make iron in primitive ways have the issue of too much carbon in the iron. This causes the iron to be very brittle and hard to work. The trick about making good steel is to get just the right amount of carbon.

I've really enjoyed Total War: Three Kingdoms. It's one of the best imho

Wack with me? Like a circle jerk kind of situation? I'm in!

I have had a lot of fun with seamless coop, but still by far most of my hours in FromSoft games has been offline single player. I want to be immersed in the world and the story. Not read the 50th Try finger but hole message, not fight with the UI because people leave messages on switches and not be invaded by 12 year old sweaty players invading and reminding me I still haven't gotten gud.

I think Nightreign will be cool, but just like Helldivers 2 I'll probably get bored within 30 hours and never play it again. And as with most online games, only the really fanatical fans will still be playing after a year or so. So if you do come back with zero skills and no memory of the game, you're in for a bad time. And once the game is dead, it's dead. No dusting off an 15 year old game and doing another run for fun, like I love to do with Souls games.

They used to be used for pacemakers back in the 1970s, however since technology has advanced they have been phased out. Pacemakers don't really require an insane long battery life, because they are already very energy efficient, so a simple lithium battery lasts a long ass time. The patient also gets regular checkups where the pacemaker is replaced every so often, just to be sure it keeps functioning. These checkups are important for many reasons, so they will continue to be needed.

Modern batteries are very very good. I use these little lithium coin cells to power temperature sensors around the house. They last about 1 year, cost only a couple of buck and send their data (temperature, pressure, humidity) every 30 secs over Bluetooth.

Betavoltaic batteries with the exact same specs as this "new" one have existed for over a decade as well. This is just hype for the sake of hype.

For people that don't know, this thing outputs 100 microwatts. That's just about enough to get an ants dick up. These batteries have a very very niche use and I don't know why the media keeps hyping these. They have been around for decades and except for some very specific uses, they are just expensive and impractical.

I take it you are a Total War player?

They are just setting this man up for failure. And at his home race as well. Terrible.

PSA: Chiropractors aren't doctors, they aren't better than any other "alternative" healer and at worse are conmen and can fuck you up permanently. Don't ever go to chiropractors.

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