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by dmckeon 7y ago
Mark Twain demonstrates the difference between “the lightning and the lightning bug”.
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A woman’s stalker used an app that allowed him to stop, start and track her car(washingtonpost.com)
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Salvaging the German High Seas Fleet Wrecks of Scapa Flow (2005)(addiator.blogspot.com)
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The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois(propublica.org)
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We replaced a failed generator with a 7500 watt gas-powered model for about US$950, including tax. Noisy, but handles most of a house (with careful load management). The fun part was finding a container for gasoline - Home Depot & abo
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by dmckeon 7y ago
Conventional roofs do not have live power and electronic components. Solar tiles (and panels) add "must not self-ignite" to the usual install requirements like "must not leak for N years". Good, fast, cheap - between goo
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> And we’re actually going to have […] ‘installathons,’ ” Musk said, which will pit two teams against each other to see who can roof one of two similar-sized/designed roofs faster. Musk reiterated later that there’s “quite a bit of
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This situation has been used as a DWI/DUI defense since the early 1990s - search for “candidiasis” in https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/Yucks/V1/msg00034.html . It is good to see both a differential test procedu
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Four: rain, green, brown, fire.
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Hmm - will the OET offer NDAs for companies, or perhaps be able to leak plans and details to prospective competitors? Staying tuned.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ocean#Climate > Cyclonic storms travel eastward around the continent and frequently become intense because of the temperature contrast between ice and open ocean. The ocean-a
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“Johnny be Fair” https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/johnnybefair.html
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by dmckeon 7y ago
Moderating a forum of a few hundred recurring posters, who nominally all want to participate in discussions of a few specified topics is usually feasible. Moderating open venues with no sense of commonality or community where anyone can ju
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We Can't Have Nice Things(mitpress.mit.edu)
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Always fun to watch video footage of factories, construction sites, etc., and pick out who is who by hat color, whether suspension system has been adjusted or not, and what stickers may show up. In the US, yellow is often entry-level, whit
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by dmckeon 7y ago
s{(Super-size)}{$1 and Super-charge} me.
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Know your primary audience. Allow for other audiences, but know who you are writing to. The audience for a science paper may be other researchers in your field, researchers in associated fields, or other fields, other scientists, or a mo
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Or you now have 299,999,700 probable negatives, and 300 possible positives to review for motive, method, and opportunity before you start looking at/for alibis.
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Institutions often want their own tribunals so that they can more strongly influence both the outcome of investigations and decisions, and the public messaging about them. The underlying goals are not justice and equity, but protection of
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Perhaps more that the apparent “reality” of an online identity could be correlate-able with opinions expressed by the identity. I would be more interested in posts by a verified identity in a forum on political topics than in those from a
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The challenge for the UI and software designers is to create interfaces that are effective, easily learnable or intuitive, and, if possible, similar to some interface the user is already familiar with, regardless of their skills.
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by dmckeon 7y ago
Cool tools to leverage human effort in effective ways. I’d love to see a “smells like homework” tag or review queue to catch the questions that sound a lot like homework assignments from first courses in programming, so willing respondents
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Transgenic Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes Transfer Genes into a Natural Population(nature.com)
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> April 22, 2019, is a prominent example, though we don’t know for sure what happened that day to cause it. Monday, 4/22, was Earth Day, after Good Friday, Passover, Easter, and of course 4/20 - so a near-perfect storm for SF.
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First sentence of the paper: > 1.INTRODUCTION For a vehicle travelling in empty space it’s momentum, as well as it’s energy, comes from it’s fuel. His, hers, its - are all possessives. This is why one should have papers for publication,
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For travelers wanting a rough-and-ready conversion of miles to kilometers, the ratio is useful: 3 miles ~= 5 km; 8 km~= 5 miles; etc. Discussion at: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/2zop5o/i_realise
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As the article & comments say: dilute bleach and water; wait a week or two for algae, moss, etc to die; rinse off detritus, and add zinc strips to the roof to inhibit future growth. Vary to protect nearby shrubs, fish. etc. Never use
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Statement from webmin here: http://www.webmin.com/exploit.html
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Backdoor Found in Utility for Linux, Unix Servers(threatpost.com)
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I would settle for a meta-recommendation service by subscription. Subscriber and housemates list 40 to 100 things they want to watch over the next few months to a year, and set a monthly video budget in money and time, and the service sug

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