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by ableal 5y ago
https://www.woodmagazine.com/wood-supplies/fasteners-hardwar... First I heard of them. Looks like that, in a pinch, a flat-head driver could turn it ...
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by ableal 5y ago
H.L. Mencken visited for the Bach choir: "I once came so near going dry in Pennsylvania, and in the very midst of a huge fleet of illicit breweries, that the memory of it still makes me shiver. This was at Bethlehem in the Lehigh Vall
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Shmoo – Al Capp's cornucopia of plenty(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ableal 5y ago
That story is probably worth its own submission, might even fly ...
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by ableal 5y ago
They started doing that some five years ago, because of tourism pressure, when Porto started getting more visitors and Lello got listed as an attraction. Otherwise they would be mobbed by people just wanting to take a picture, and could not
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by ableal 5y ago
That's some careful wording ;-) https://www.oldest.org/culture/bookstores/ As a student, I used to stock up on books and foreign magazines at that Bertrand in Rua Garret. It was most of the side of small stre
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by ableal 5y ago
Thanks. Second comment: """ I am an engineer working in the tire industry (throwaway is needed here). The Michelin "Tweel" IP was actually acquired when Michelin bought BF Goodrich 31 years ago. Goodrich developed t
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by ableal 5y ago
It's actually a decoration, like the Medal of Freedom or the Legion d'honneur
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by ableal 5y ago
I heard that Sakharov ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov ) just used two lines: - Hero of the Soviet Union - Nobel Prize
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by ableal 5y ago
Many moons ago I was browsing in the school library, just wandering around the stacks to see what was there, and came across a shelf of The Journal of Graph Theory, or some similarly named publication. I picked up one sample. The cover list
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by ableal 5y ago
Outstanding piece. Towards the end, Ken Shirrif has a good discussion around this: "[...] Still others would allow these functions to be packaged in a few chips, which would collectively make up the microprocessor.[...]" Along t
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by ableal 5y ago
Having come to note how much a new government or regime likes to blame and badmouth its predecessor, and how the media successfully makes mountains out of molehills, I wonder how much that applies to our official recorded history ...
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by ableal 5y ago
A couple of years ago the gas pumps at station nearest to my place were replaced by devices with screens that play ads with sound - so far just touting discounts with their supermarket loyalty cards. They start when someone picks up the noz
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by ableal 5y ago
Just as a note, same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19552112 """ Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014) (elastic.co) 199 points by donbox on April 2, 2019 | | 55 comments "&qu
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by ableal 5y ago
One possibility is the "highlighting" that e-readers like the Kobo perform - I've used it for proofreading. No typing, just selecting a few words or lines. It's all collected in a notes page/doc, you later look at t
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by ableal 5y ago
Native Portuguese speaker here - "indagações" (pronounced pretty close to the Latin), is an infrequently used word meaning asking questions ;-) Seems the Italians kept it around in the original spelling, too. P.S. Hey, it's E
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by ableal 5y ago
In 1981 the VAX 11-780 was an object of lust for engineering undergrads, who'd be lured by faculty with promises of access to the "1 MIPS, 1 MB RAM beast" ... The author says he re-implemented the CPU (using Verilog) on an FP
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by ableal 5y ago
> Pop quiz: out of the journals Aequationes mathematicae, Indagationes mathematicae, Inventiones mathematicae, Quaestiones mathematicae, three are mediocre and one is absolutely top-notch. Without googling can you guess which? Is the g
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by ableal 5y ago
Simplest thing was to let someone work the land in exchange for a cut of the crops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenant_farmer Sharecropping has also been pointed out as the model for things happening on the web: htt
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Kobo Elipsa Review – the largest mainstream e-reader(pcmag.com)
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by ableal 5y ago
The Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office selected two teams in March to continue their work developing transportable nuclear microreactor prototypes as part of “Project Pele.” Probably the name is about https://en.wikipedia
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by ableal 5y ago
Can confirm the first part - had the utility turn on a meter remotely, so they can turn it off too. Also, around here (Portugal) you're billed for the maximum power in your contract - it starts at 3.45 kVA, I think, with 6.9 and 10.35
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by ableal 5y ago
Column mode and trim spaces have existed in notepad++ for years, but may be a bit hard to find. I just checked, and that may have improved: both are on the Edit menu, bottom half.
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by ableal 5y ago
> one would need something like 1MW charging per every 4 cars, 10 kW per 4 cars is plenty enough. I charge overnight a 24 kWh Nissan Leaf (< 10 hours a couple of times a week), and just use a 2.1 kW EVSE to charge at a standard socke
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by ableal 5y ago
Thanks for the heads up. Just when MS started offering login form filling from MS Authenticator ... (At least for me that popped up a couple of days ago, when I used the real Authenticator app for some MS authorization in my phone.)
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by ableal 5y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/round_tuit There used to be an ASCII art version occasionally slapped on Usenet posts: "here's a round tuit, you can go ahead."
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by ableal 5y ago
In my corner of Europe (Portugal), sites can get blocked at (ISP supplied) DNS resolution. I think it's by court order, under a law passed a few years ago. Mostly for copyright reasons, and circumventable by switching to Google or sim
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by ableal 5y ago
If memory serves, Gore Vidal said something like "a famous writer will be like a famous ceramicist". Ah, here we go: https://www.npr.org/2012/08/01/157696354/gore-vidal-american...
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by ableal 5y ago
Nowadays I mostly feed the e-herd with cables like these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001139641708.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001524934944.html A small plug stays with the devic
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by ableal 5y ago
> have to pay your Spotify subscription by cash or checks. Not a good example - Spotify takes PayPal, which can be topped up from a bank account transfer, trivially done with the bank app or site. https://support.spotify.com&#

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