ableal

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Why is train-seat fabric so ugly?(bbc.com)
3 points by ableal 6y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 6y ago
Now that we have electric vehicles with torque from 0 rpm, and regenerative braking, we can go back to straight roads ... (Just the other day I was observing that zigzag roads up/down mountains were probably a consequence of engines un
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by ableal 6y ago
"So now I dug out my pad of coding forms and wrote one line on it, this time including the missing comma. I took it back to Maria and asked her to make me a new card." The luxuries of a pro ... (although further down the page he
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by ableal 6y ago
That would make a good topic by itself, especially if anyone could toss in expected results (e.g. like the calculations in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler )
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by ableal 6y ago
Thanks, that was interesting. I skipped to the first linked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit Highlights: "[Pic of 12h orbit] Usually the period from perigee +2 hours to perigee +10 hours is used to tra
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by ableal 6y ago
https://www.cringely.com/2020/05/11/jeff-bezos-cant-lose/ [Considering Amazon breakup or ...] John Malone of Liberty Media could advise Bezos on ways to keep Amazon together yet gain much of that additi
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Tracking Stock(investopedia.com)
1 points by ableal 6y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 6y ago
I'd plump for this one: "Capacitor complaints - Why I never really understood capacitors..." http://amasci.com/emotor/cap1.html Something of the kind was around here recently. I'd guess most people
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by ableal 6y ago
This work seems to have made much cheaper a couple of those "nines" for the logic correctness metric.
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by ableal 6y ago
The second Laplace quotation in their paper is rather pithy: "The mind, like the sense of sight, has its illusions; and just as touch corrects those of the latter, so thought and calculation correct the former. (Laplace, 1825, p. 91)&
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by ableal 6y ago
Jonathan Schwartz, last CEO of Sun Microsystems, in March 2006: "Frankly, it’s been tough to convince the largest enterprises that a public grid represents an attractive future. Just as I’m sure George Westinghouse was confounded by t
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Microsoft: Official Windows package manager. Users: Not a package manager(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by ableal 6y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 6y ago
I echo the experience with "two cheapo media computers with Win10, 2GB RAM, 32GB MMC hard drive. They've been working BRILLIANTLY". I have a couple of 2013 or 2014 vintage Asus T-100 TA (tablets with detachable keyboard) arou
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by ableal 6y ago
Two notes: - https://orgmode.org/ - Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system. - The main style element here is the max-wid
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by ableal 6y ago
Probably the package would need to be over 1cm tall to withstand that. (I think that the electric power guys get "30kV/cm" etched into their brains - the field strength at which sparks start to fly between conductors separate
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by ableal 6y ago
The funny part is that it was a pretty common look for 1997. They even tastefully refrained from the "under construction" image. The other common look was the simple document, such as https://cr.yp.to/djb.html
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by ableal 6y ago
Yep, he's probably started cheerfully doodling Smith charts by now ... (I used Smith charts a couple of times in school, but did not inhale.) P.S. Just hit search for 'Amateur Radio "Extra" license curriculum', and
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CMU Robotics Prof. Breaks Down Robot Scenes from Film and TV (Wired, 20m video)(youtube.com)
30 points by ableal 6y ago|2 comments
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by ableal 6y ago
> Many of its users were using terminals Perhaps an example will be more vivid. In the eighties most people who were on the internet worked on a 24 line by 80 column terminal. Some people used Emacs buffers as a predecessor to multiple w
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by ableal 6y ago
> Public perception I'd say you overestimate that. Perhaps 0.01% of the public knows that Keybase exists and has a bad opinion of Zoom security. Expert's opinion is important, but does not automatically become general perceptio
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Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures [Good data plots](ft.com)
1 points by ableal 6y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 6y ago
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wi2hPnT...
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NASA will license its FDA-approved ventilator to manufacturers for free(engadget.com)
2 points by ableal 6y ago|0 comments
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Caricatures of Nazis and the number four (and letter Г) in Russian(blog.plover.com)
8 points by ableal 6y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 6y ago
> on this planet Location was not specified ...
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by ableal 6y ago
It's somewhat like the phrase "it beggars belief" - it means that 'belief' is left in a very poor condition, begging alms ...
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by ableal 7y ago
If you mean Jorge Luis Borges, sadly no Nobel for him. P.S. Local press had an item about an "International Writers Committee" naming Borges for the 2018 prize posthumously: https://www.dn.pt/lusa/comite-inter
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by ableal 7y ago
Good point. I suspect carriers tolerate scammers because they're good for the bottom line.
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How Long Will It Take to Develop a Coronavirus Vaccine?(newyorker.com)
1 points by ableal 7y ago|0 comments
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Agnotology – the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ableal 7y ago|0 comments

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