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English Wine Cask Units(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by AceyMan 1y ago|1 comments
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by AceyMan 1y ago
"I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow." — Abraham Lincoln
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by AceyMan 1y ago
> Personally, I think we've started on a path to self-destruction that can't be reversed. Do you mean, 'we' as in the US, or 'we,' as in humanity? [either way, I'm not saying you're wrong :( ]
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by AceyMan 1y ago
and 90% of that 5% are the CFOs. As Scooby Doo would say, "Rotsa ruck!"
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Inverted Jenny(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by AceyMan 1y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 2y ago
But that's not the whole playbook. Consider Luigi Mangione as one recent case study/implementation.
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by AceyMan 2y ago
I always argue that the Wright Bros are the USA's greatest engineer(s).¹ Planes today still use the same design (in fact, the Flyer is even better—a twisting wing is more efficient than ailerons, but we haven't figured out how to
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by AceyMan 2y ago
Blue Jeans Cables was what I switched to towards the end of my serious audiophile days. Before that, I was set up with StraightWire mostly, but I respected Kimber Kables, though I never ended up getting any of their goods. Now tonearm cable
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by AceyMan 2y ago
As a guy who follows industrial mishaps, this is a mind-blower.
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Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by AceyMan 2y ago|1 comments
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by AceyMan 2y ago
As I understand it, the gotcha with aluminum is: there is no such thing as non-fatiguing stress — whereas, say, steels, have a range of elasticity where it can operate and not lose strength (or get cold-work hardened). With aluminum, any fl
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by AceyMan 2y ago
My indoor (non Transitions™) multifocus² glasses are CR-39¹. I'd used the same material for my outdoor/sports/driving frames but it's higher density caused them to slide down my nose during activity so the next pair I op
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by AceyMan 2y ago
+1 your Cayenne We just got a clean 2013 Honda CR-V (loaded LX-L model) and it's got buttons & knobs (and dial gauges!). Really nice car, it feels like a Lexus inside. There is a small touchscreen, but it's mainly for the XM r
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by AceyMan 2y ago
When you're math nobility you get to buy at retail a house that's destined to be famous.
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Walter Rudin House(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by AceyMan 2y ago|2 comments
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by AceyMan 2y ago
To me, is just a regular word. I searched on Kagi only to be sure I was spelling it correctly. It was nice to find the entry. But if you go up the graph to squeezed, they don't have this tense. So, atm, this is the reference usage, as
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Squozen(en.wiktionary.org)
2 points by AceyMan 2y ago|1 comments
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by AceyMan 2y ago
> become a low voltage electrician You must have missed that part. I worked for an engineering firm that did low voltage design (Network / A-V). The people who installed our plans weren't just high school types, trust me.
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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet [Wikipedia](en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by AceyMan 2y ago|1 comments
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by AceyMan 2y ago
One of the most interesting biographies in mathematics, and I read E.T. Bell's seminal book multiple times in my secondary education.
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by AceyMan 2y ago
relevant citation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect?wprov...
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by AceyMan 2y ago
obligatory citation (this was on HN a little while back) https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/11/03/metrics/
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by AceyMan 2y ago
It wasn't "the USA", it was our incoming president, who everyone knows speaks for no one but himself.
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by AceyMan 2y ago
Ahh, so we just need an RPN variant of LLMs to avoid any ambiguity .
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by AceyMan 2y ago
I love the 'nick handle' I've seen used on some of the socials discussing these events over the past two or three days: The Adjuster. It's just so ... right.
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by AceyMan 2y ago
If it carries the "machine gun" ability with it, it's like ... The Enchanted Seer of Automatic Firing. It turns a 'plain gun' into a machine gun, and there are almost no other ways to do that. So it seems like calli
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by AceyMan 2y ago
H.L. Mencken wrote it down well before Orwell. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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by AceyMan 2y ago
Could it be because red hair people require additional anesthesia for equivalent effect, which perhaps they don't get at their dentist, resulting in more pain: Ergo, they're scared of visiting their dentist.
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by AceyMan 2y ago
> most people can't touch type, While, statistically, that may be strictly true across the population, I suspect, in the main, people who are in an educational environment where note taking is a requirement can touch type . I don&#
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by AceyMan 2y ago
I fired Spotify when they signed Rogan to that ridiculous contract, and I switched to Apple Music. Great UX, great audio quality. Not prefect, but better than what I left behind.

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