Sentences with phrase «really old scale»

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Like many of his other efforts at this stage, your 18 - month - old is not likely to be dissuaded from scaling the crib if that's what he really wants to do.

«This is certainly one of the oldest rainforest regeneration experiments around — if not the oldest — and it's really big in scale,» says Bill Laurance, Australian laureate and expert on tropical forests at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland.

But dumping old shopping bags into a den of caterpillars isn't really a practical large - scale strategy for getting rid of the plastic.

«On a pain scale, it doesn't rank anywhere near a kidney stone, but it does make those few hours after my meals really damn unpleasant,» my 34 - year - old patient Sara recently told me during her initial consultation.

But the old adage really is true; muscle weighs more than fat, so although you will be losing body fat, your scale might not reflect the change as much.

I'm so tempted to go back (mostly because I really like the people) but I'm a out of shape 46 year old and while Crossfit can be scaled, I still felt very inadequate next to the people that could run, or even lift heavier weights.

Some argue that efforts to rethink tenure and seniority are really about making it easier to fire older teachers (who are farther up on the salary scale) and replace them with younger «less expensive» teachers.

While I did find Manga Rock pretty convenient when I tried it some months back, it didn't have the option to automatically scale pages to width or height like the older reader Mango (formerly Pocketmanga) did, which really adds a lot of convenience to reading on different sized screens.

Bought this for my parents since they're always traveling to Peru and use this really old school lever scale.

Movement is stepwise like in the old Wizardry games, and even though it's possible to turn on a «step - scale» option in the menu, it merely uses a kind of movement blur filter to weakly simulate actual movement, which really is more irritating than helpful.

I really enjoyed Patrick McCorry's talk discussing the challenges of doing cryptographic calculations on the blockchain (tl; dr very expensive function calls), Vitalik Buterin's thinking aloud on how to scale Ethereum (tl; dr make a whole new blockchain with sharding and figure out how to merge the old one later), and Eli Ben - Sasson's very accessible introduction to zk - STARK, a proposed quantum - secure zero knowledge proof, one of the few talks that I saw Vitalik sit in for.