Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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I've decided Big Bean is right, he did create a telescope, fair play. Right, print out a picture of the geezer with the gen on his achievements and bloody well stick it on there!
You'd be failing Sir Isaac Newton memory if you don't do this.
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I just looked at Wikipedia. That's my source. What do you think the point of the poster is? Influencing secondary school kids is an area I don't know anything about.
That said, I do admire some of the calculations done by hand by mathematicians of the past. For example, the search for big primes before computers.
Johnson's work included calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for Project Mercury spaceflights, including those for astronauts Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American in orbit, and rendezvous paths for the ApolloLunar Module and command module on flights to the Moon.[4] Her calculations were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, and she worked on plans for a mission to Mars. She was known as a "human computer" for her tremendous mathematical capability and ability to work with space trajectories with such little technology and recognition at the time.
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I would guess that that particular poster is aiming to show a selection of mathematicians, some of which students could identify with to some degree - i.e. not just dudes with wigs. There's obviously room for other posters - perhaps how you get from Pythagoras through Descartes and Newton to Johnson or one just about Newton. Brian is probably better qualified to comment on the effectiveness of posters in a classroom
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Comically, wikipedia lists one of Descartes' greatest achievements as inspiring Newton. I'll leave it there before I come across as a crazy obsessive.
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Too late.
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The display on my fridge has randomly changed to Fahrenheit. Had a minor panic before I realised it is very unlikely that the inside of the fridge is 20 degrees warmer than the outside.
Currently engaged in random button jabbing to get it back to civilised units (ideally Celsius but I would accept Kelvin as an improvement)
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has it had a software update to make it Brexit compliant?
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[Wrong thread] It cheers me up that my 30-year-old fridge doesn't have anything more complicated than a plug and a mechanical thermostat dial that goes from 1-5. [/wrong thread]
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Modern fridges are much better. Food keeps longer and the freezer doesn't need defrosting. Whilst I agree that a lot of modern tech provides things I don't want, fridges are pretty good.
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Simplicity in a crazy technological age, nice.
Laying a plastic milk container flat in the fridge because of space, it leaking and then cleaning it...
There's more, forgetting this happened and noticing a horrible smell in the kitchen which was followed by naisel investigation. Dragged the fridge out to find the milk had leaked through the defrosting drain hole and collected in a container at the back. The stinking mess wasn't far off a block of fookin cheese!
To add to the further annoyance (this isn't trivial anymore) the container couldn't be removed and cleaned.
The milk container wasn't opened, the seal was on. Well, it should have been on.
Laying a fresh/new milk container flat in the fridge is now banned!
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What is a naisel investigation? Is it something .en over 50 should be getting regularly?
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Maybe it's something to do with mysterious blue fluff.
Oh, no, that's a naivel investigation.
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Jeez, I'm getting to see how Rick felt.
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You can tell us how much you earn (in terms of how many digits) if you want to get the full experience.
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I'm curious as to how food keeps longer, if the only factor is the temperature range of the various parts of the fridge. (This isn't a dig - I'm genuinely curious if there's some modern magic going on.)
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Yes, it's temperature range. Also, if the temperature range is constant you can have a lower temperature, so our fridge is 3 degrees throughout. If you set yours to that level, you would just get frozen stuff in various places. Therefore, you're likely to have a higher average temperature with the result that some places in your fridge e.g. the door will be quite high.
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A six figure salary is a pretty wide range, so it was helpful to indicate the percentile.
Strikes me as being a relatively volatile industry actually. There used to be someone on here called "Headhunter" and I dimly recall him* saying something about fairly wildly differing incomes year to year.
Probably the nature of the eat what you kill environment leads to a certain perspective on life.
*Assumption on my part
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Thanks. Given how relatively little I store in the fridge (it's only a 'standard small' one, not one of those modern monoliths), I just set it above where things start freezing in the main compartment. Cooked meat dishes are fine for up to a week (well, at least for my digestive system). Any fruit/veg stuff goes in the salad drawers at the bottom. Seems to work well enough for me.
I can see that something more consistent and fool-proof when scaled up to family size would be an advantage.
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I have two fridges (I know, liberal metropolitan elite)
The new one is much better, tells you the actual temperature rather than just a meaningless number from 1-5 and maintains a much more consistent temperature. It also has fancy led lights so you can see what is in it.
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Unless one is a wine fridge, I don't think that is very metropolitan, so you can relax. My rural relatives have multiple fridges and freezers, because they need to store a couple lambs and things like that.
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But does it tell you when you are low on certain items and then automatically add them to your food order?
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One is mostly food, the other is mostly booze and pickles.
To be fair, I would never have been ale to fit two fridges in the kitchen of my London flat.
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Now I am confused. Isn't pickling a way to preserve things without refrigeration?
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Most Koreans have a kimchi storage fridge.
Almost everything lasts longer in a fridge.
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Didn't work for Boris Johnson. Or maybe his mistake was coming out again.
I still remember watching an episode of BBC's 'Beyond The Clouds' where it featured a Chinese village way away from the electricity network, where all the food for the winter had to be grown and preserved before winter, simply not to starve, and they used the old methods of pickling, salting, and desiccation... IIRC, they cut parsnips into amazing shapes which they then hung from drying lines to be desiccated by the wind & sun. Rather makes one grateful for even the simplest fridge.
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We have a fridge, a freezer, a fridge freezer and a chest freezer. We didnt realise the previous owner was leaving the fridge and freezer behind.
We somehow managed to use them, only less efficiently than before.
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Next you'll be telling me that there was life before the invention of fridges.
As an interesting aside, the London Canal Museum is housed in an ice warehouse. Ice used to be shipped in from Norway and distributed around London to help preserve stuff.
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I also remember the 'meat safe' (just a small mesh cupboard) in the larder in my (vaguely posh) great uncle's house (it also had servants' bells with the display in the kitchen). I can only assume that the cooked meat was eaten within a day or two, and with a toilet and bucket not too far away.
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My work phone insisting there's moisture in the charging port and refusing to charge. Tried all the fixes I can but as I can't switch it on due to a dead battery I can't clear the USB cache. Pretty sure there's no moisture in it as it hasn't been out in the rain and the house shouldn't be humid enough to cause an issue.
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