u/mostly_kittens
When talking about the supersonic airliner British people refer to it as simply ‘Concorde’ not ‘a Concorde’ or ‘the Concorde’ e.g. ‘we flew to New York on Concorde’ or ‘I wish I had a chance fly on Concorde’.
This doesn’t apply to other aircraft, for example we would say ‘we flew to New York on a 747’
What is the reason for this oddity? Are there other examples? Does it have a name?
I use a plug in RCD for my lawnmower and other power tools. My house is also RCD protected at the consumer unit.
Is there any point to using the plug in RCD? Does it provide extra protection? Does it make it worse? Which one will trip first?
Hi everyone, we have an echo that has a physical 3.5mm line in so it can be used as a speaker when connected to an external device such as a turntable.
We can get it to play audio by unplugging the connection and plugging it back in but we can’t find an voice command to tell it to use the external input, so once we have asked Alexa to play something else we can’t get it to switch back without unplugging the cable.
So is there a command? It’s seems crazy to build the feature in then not make it easy to use.
I'm converting an existing static library to be built with cmake. Currently I produce libraries on VS in the form libThingMD, libThingMDd, libThingMT, libThingMTd.
What is the best way of configuring cmake to produce libraries with both MD and MT run times? Is it even possible for cmake to produce VS projects with options to generate all of these types?
My existing VS solution has two separate vcproj files one for MD and one for MT.
For those in the UK BBC4 are re-showing The Silent War, episode 1 was on last night, you can watch it on BBC iPlayer.
I’m no longer involved in this but I’m still interested in the answer.
I used to live in a house, converted into flats. At some point we ousted the management company and set up our own ‘right to manage’ company to run the block.
Our leases specified the service charge breakdown, there were two percentages listed, one for the general service charge and one for major works.
One of the things we discovered is that, across the leases, these values didn’t add up to 100%. One came to slightly more than 100 and one to slightly less.
Obviously we would have problems with these numbers as there was a possibility of falling short when everyone had paid their share. Our solution was to apply a sca
I am now fully aware that the light fitting I threw out of my garage last year was probably worth hundreds of pounds.
they only knew the first bit.
The Red Cross is a protected symbol under the Geneva Conventions and it is a criminal offence under local and international laws to misuse it.
Therefore can someone remove/change the sidebar logo on r/atheism?
It would be a shame to support such an important cause by basically committing a war crime.
I'm after an image editor for Lion that's not Photoshop or The Gimp.
What would you recommend?
If I have a potential divider where R1 == R2 how do I choose the resistor value. Obviously any value will work but if I choose 1ohm the input will be heavily loaded. But what will happen if I choose 100k or 1M?
How do I work out which value to use?
