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by dmckeon 6y ago
Similar growth patterns occur in calcite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helictite but the effort of reproducing and documenting with water ice is impressive, and much more reproducible.
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Ah, facepalm! Fords are much more accessible. Here is a rundown on two large national groups: https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46185&showal... There also appear to be a number of state/regiona
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Generally, find a club, or group, or forum that specializes in whatever vehicle you have. But, Fred & Augie only made 444 Duesenbergs, so I would start with the ACD museum to get a recommendation for someone who could look it over for
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Much of the recent complaining is due to concentration of near-ground routes as a side-effect of the NextGen routing system. http://soseastbay.org/jet-noise-in-a-nutshell-nexgen/ https://www.faa.gov/nex
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A salesman, an engineer, and a programmer drive a rental car up Pikes Peak. On the way down, the brakes fade, and the one driving manages to skid to a stop in a cloud of dust at the edge of a precipice. The salesman wants to call for a to
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Oakland is improving recently, to some extent: https://www.portofoakland.com/press-releases/biggest-contain... The really interesting changes will be in the ports on the US Eastern seaboard which planned to take adva
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Why? Because fear is known to be an effective sales tool. Just ask a very successful marketer of car alarms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa#Business_career
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Remote propulsion by ablation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Came across this explainer site the other day: Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example http://sscce.org/
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by dmckeon 6y ago
There was a post office in New Mexico that had collected over 100 misspellings of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pojoaque,_New_Mexico
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by dmckeon 6y ago
In the HTML version: s/21:26:39/21:36:39/ to agree with the PDF & spoken text.
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The English prevailed then, but the New Englanders also prevailed in the wake of the American Civil War, when the public school education model was introduced by people from Massachusetts, and textbooks tended to reflect a Northern view of
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by dmckeon 6y ago
If you travel to places where you might want people searching for you from the air to notice you amid many square miles of search area, a signal mirror is remarkably effective. https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/survival&#x
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Trapping an entire sounder of feral hogs is apparently a better choice than trying to shoot a few of them, as any hogs not killed will repopulate quickly: https://www.uaex.edu/publications/pdf/MP534.pdf
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Tell: “in search of easy pray” spellchecking != proof reading.
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Was expecting something fully automated: generate a 3-d plot of the game board, download to a controller that acts like a 3-d printer, with dozers as the “print” heads. Well, Cat’s 100th anniversary is a few years away - we can hope.
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> There is a ton of offshore oil in Southern California There was a lot of offshore drilling before 1969, before blow-out protectors were required, until one big spill at the cusp of the environmental movement turned most of the Californ
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Here is a place (San Agustín sump) that takes 3 weeks to get to from the cave entrance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_Huautla
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Save this as a bookmark/shortcut/tool javascript:(function(){var%20newSS,%20styles='*%20{%20background:%20white%20!%20important;%20color:%20black%20! important%20}%20:link,%20:link%20*%20{%20color:%20#0000EE%20!importan
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by dmckeon 6y ago
> If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write ...
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by dmckeon 6y ago
> many high-value art thefts in the past ten to fifteen years has been the potential for stolen works to be used as collateral linked to drug deals. This is alluded to, twice, but not explained. Is this a form of money laundering, or a
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by dmckeon 6y ago
A claim with well over 1000 exceptions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_positions_filled_by_pr...
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Hope the default settings are better than the MyShake app for iOS, which IIRC helpfully defaulted to notifying one of all quakes near 0 latitude, 0 longitude. It would be nice to have a settable low threshold so one could become familiar w
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Questions to Ask a Techie on a Date(pcmag.com)
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In the USA, 10-year census records since 1790 and immigration records are great resources. The LDS church has done a lot of work microfilming many church and government records that remain available, and has had volunteers transcribing and
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by dmckeon 6y ago
> Why there are only right footprints and no left footprints? Walking around the edge of a lake, with the lake to the walker’s right, and softer/wetter ground under the right feet?
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Biologists create new genetic systems to neutralize gene drives(phys.org)
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There is a "Close Similar Tabs" extension for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/close-similar... Personally, I usually prune a window with many open tabs, usually created after
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by dmckeon 6y ago
So Isidore, encyclopedist and patron saint of the internet, is also the inventor of special characters? How appropriate.
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by dmckeon 6y ago
Indeed. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24396780

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