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by fdavison 2y ago
Now I want Apple Crisp
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by fdavison 6y ago
"While in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is."
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by fdavison 6y ago
"While in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is."
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by fdavison 6y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted, sharecropper is exactly the right metaphor.
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by fdavison 7y ago
Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine. Changed my eight year old life in 1962. I wanted to work with computers and electronics from that moment. Oh, and all the Tom Swift Jr series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_D
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by fdavison 7y ago
I think "I, Pencil" would blow Odell's mind.
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by fdavison 7y ago
That reminded me of this video of NDT describing the size of the electron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6kjY6ppJRE&t=71
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by fdavison 7y ago
DoctorOetker's most recent theorem?
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by fdavison 7y ago
Because we are near full employment and they now have jobs to lose? From this morning's Washington Post: "For the first time, most new working-age hires in the U.S. are people of color" https://www.washingtonpost.
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by fdavison 7y ago
Yes! That was the first thing I thought of: "I don't understand how it subtracts"
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by fdavison 7y ago
Johnny Armstrong, the Hypersonics Combined Test Force Chief Engineer for Air Force, until his retirement in 2012, passed away just last week. He worked in hypersonics from the X-15 to the X-51 Waverider. https://www.edwards.af.m
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by fdavison 7y ago
The EPA has a website that displays a network of radiation sensors in the US: https://www.epa.gov/radnet Hope you never need that information.
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by fdavison 7y ago
None of what I've read today on his passing have mentioned this interesting story of the rescue of his employees from Iran during the revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Wings_of_Eagles A mini-series was
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by fdavison 7y ago
I really enjoyed the whole Giant series by Hogan. Star Trek Voyager had an episode with the idea of an ancient saurian species that left earth many millions of years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Origin
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by fdavison 8y ago
Literally true
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by fdavison 8y ago
I don't normally have trouble swallowing but a couple of big pills I take daily would give me trouble. A trick I learned recently was to turn my head to the side as I swallowed them. This video on youtube also describes different tec
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by fdavison 8y ago
This site on ethics routinely deconstructs the problems at Snopes: https://ethicsalarms.com/?s=snopes
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by fdavison 8y ago
The problem with BCI, eyegaze or speech control systems is how slow they are. There can no delay in a fast paced game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTfa0gh2WVg
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by fdavison 8y ago
I've been burned by their dropping features and services too many times to ever gamble on them again.
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by fdavison 8y ago
I filter anything with the word "unsubscribe" into a separate folder, then add a few filters to handle the exceptions. What is generally left in my inbox is stuff directly mailed to me that deserves attention. 90% of the stuff in
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by fdavison 8y ago
Way better UI.
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by fdavison 8y ago
Potassium can also help. Sadly, caffeine is a major contributor to PVCs for me and I miss it.
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by fdavison 9y ago
Seeing an oscilloscope displaying a Lissajous pattern when I was eight years old was one of the things that sparked my interest in electronics. In 1962, by cracky!
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by fdavison 9y ago
By brother collected these as a kid living in Charlevoix and threw a bunch into Lake Champlain, nearly a thousand miles away, in the hopes of trolling some future geologist. My brother does stuff like that.
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by fdavison 9y ago
This rationalization is a slippery slope. "Good works" does not entitle one to behave unethically. Seems close to these two from the Ethics Alarms website list of Unethical Rationalizations: 21. Ethics Accounting (“I’ve earned t
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by fdavison 9y ago
Plus your card is half-way back to your wallet before the first call is even made when you swipe it, but with the chip, you can't retrieve your card from the machine until the transaction is done. Even if the transaction took exactly
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by fdavison 10y ago
Sites like Snopes or FactCheck.org are not immune to their own political biases: https://ethicsalarms.com/2016/07/31/bye-bye-snopes-youre-dea...
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by fdavison 10y ago
Made me tear up a bit. When I was ten, Popular Electronics was the first magazine to which I subscribed. I remember how excited I was when the May '65 issue was waiting for me when I got home from school.
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by fdavison 10y ago
Steve Gibson of GRC.com is a "health hobbyist" and has been experimenting with various Sleep Formulas, with some success, which you might find interesting: https://www.grc.com/health/sleep/healthy_sleep_
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by fdavison 10y ago
I do software consulting in building automation and control systems, but mostly I build a mouth operated game controller for quadriplegics called the quadstick. That has been the most fun thing I've ever done.

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