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IMHO 'dead bug' used to refer to transistors, ICs etc soldered upside down, but it's true that lately it's used more generally. I would call this 'free form' soldering, since there's no dead IC in sight.
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Is Atari still the old Infogrames? Or did the brand change hands again?
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The Empire’s New Clothes (and Everyone Else’s Too)
(newlinesmag.com)
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Old-school virus-writing e-zines
(spthvx.github.io)
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What you're seeing are not 'scan lines'. This pattern is typical for a color vector monitor and is visible on real hardware (source: I own a Tempest arcade machine). On a monochrome vector monitor, like an oscilloscope or Ast
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> Owned by the Danish firm DEME Group, the vessel is one of the few on the planet capable of installing GE Haliade-X wind turbines that are the size of a skyscraper into the ocean floor. It doesn't matter but DEME is Belgian not Dan
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In the waters off Massachusetts, a hunt for foreign ships building wind farms
(bostonglobe.com)
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This summer I was bicycling for a while behind two (combustion engine) BMW touring motorbikes, and they were so quiet I think my clunker bicycle may have been the noisier of the three. I thought about thanking the riders, it really makes a
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The Philosophy of Supersymmetry
(math.columbia.edu)
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> (SP) <-- (SP)+2 Typo I think, should be '-2', since that stack grows downward.
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[1975]. Funny concluding paragraph: "Both theories of anesthetic action and the evidence cited in this report suggest that the nitrogen concentration in atmospheric air causes a measurable performance decrement in man, that the "n
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I'm struggling to think of a way in which either individual or team earnings could possibly be lower now than in the 90's.
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Scènes à Faire
(en.wikipedia.org)
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An/DRC-8 Emergency Rocket Communications System
(en.wikipedia.org)
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Common wire-to-board, wire-to-wire connectors, and crimp tools
(mattmillman.com)
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Belgian endive is another vegetable grown in the dark. Vertical farming, no LEDs needed, harvest in 25 days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPr06HDnttU
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Usarcent tests phone app that detects unmanned aerial systems
(army.mil)
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I saw this a few days ago on an arcade collector's forum (not based in the US), and the majority reaction was disbelief. People seemed to think it was a hoax. That thing is museum quality. I wonder if it's due to those suburban ga
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Tuxedo Junction
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I was wondering about the domed base of some of the bottles. Luckily there's a 'Bottle Bases Page': https://sha.org/bottle/bases.htm > It may appear that the steep rise or pushed-up portion of the bas
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Pigeon: Predicting Image Geolocations
(arxiv.org)
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Link to supplementary notes with tables containing more countries: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs418...
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EU is not one (cinema) culture.
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Remembering Walter LeCroy
(teledynelecroy.com)
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Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field (2013)
(frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com)
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1962 film featuring the PM-1 radar-powering nuclear microreactor in Wyoming
(whatisnuclear.com)
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AWG = arbitrary waveform generator
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DIY 3 Point Bend Testing GlowStitch LEDs
(hackaday.io)
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Who Swims with the Scientist?
(nybooks.com)
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This new 2011 Swiss Fruit logo is obviously influenced by Apple's 1977 design. How could it not be? There's a clear likeness and good luck finding a graphics designer in 2011 who hasn't seen the Apple logo before. The old Swi
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