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by litoE 2y ago
NASA has a much lower tech solution at Cape Kennedy: it's a wall that is slightly off vertical. You are strapped into a harness and lifted off the ground so your body is horizontal and your feet rest on the wall. The angles are calcula
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by litoE 2y ago
February 1, 1971. I arrived in Manhattan from South America. On one of the streets (I forget which) there were several official-looking parking signs that read "Do Not Even THINK of Parking Here". Every time I've visited Manh
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He built miniatures of LA buildings for fun. Guillermo del Toro is his fan(laist.com)
2 points by litoE 2y ago|0 comments
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by litoE 2y ago
I listened to the recorded message Matt Blaze links to and, as a native spanish speaker, what struck me most was that the female voice had such a distinctive Cuban accent. She does not pronounce it "Atención, Atención", but rather
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by litoE 2y ago
Not surprisingly, empty.
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by litoE 2y ago
In 1999 we bought a house. It had a locked safe embedded in a wall and the seller did not know the combination - the house had belonged to his parents who had passed away. When we started remodeling the house we used a jackhammer to pry the
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by litoE 2y ago
Procrastination is a good thing. Don't put it off until tomorrow.
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by litoE 2y ago
At the race track, the "smart money" always places its bets just before post time, and never months in advance.
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by litoE 2y ago
In Chile in the 1950s they had a 48-hour work (and school) week: Monday through Saturday. However, it was common for people to just not show up for work on Mondays, jocularly referred to as "celebrating Saint Monday's Day",
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by litoE 2y ago
I can feel my mind going, Dave.
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by litoE 2y ago
There's also the htp processor that handles the same problem. It has macros (equivalent to #define) file inclusion (equivalent to #include) and conditionals (equivalent to #ifxxx) but is better suited for HTML than the C preprocessor.
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by litoE 2y ago
A fundamentalist is a man who does exactly what God would do, if only God could understand the facts of the matter.
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by litoE 2y ago
The room at UCLA where all this happened is now preserved as a museum. You can see the IMP he describes among other memorabilia. Third Floor of Boelter Hall.
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Why Leopold and Loeb Committed Cold-Blooded Murder in the 'Crime of the Century'(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by litoE 2y ago|1 comments
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by litoE 2y ago
A century ago, two Chicago teenagers killed an acquaintance named Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The case captivated the nation and continues to fascinate the public today
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by litoE 2y ago
When I was a kid I had lots of warts on the back of my hand. My mother took me to her cousin, a respected dermatologist. He said that Plan "A" was the "witch doctor cure": I had to steal a banana (buying it would not wor
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by litoE 2y ago
Turning $10 into $100 is difficult. Turning $10M into $100M is inevitable.
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by litoE 2y ago
What are "fish pasties"?
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Protecting the Darkness in Chile's Atacama Desert(undark.org)
49 points by litoE 2y ago|12 comments
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by litoE 2y ago
That's one week before my birthday. Do you think you could push it back 7 days?
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by litoE 3y ago
How do you kill rats with dry ice?
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by litoE 3y ago
I wonder how much of the increase in fatal accidents is due to the increase in mobile phone use by drivers. The improvements in SS4A do not seem to address this.
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by litoE 3y ago
So much for "I'm a free speech absolutist".
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by litoE 3y ago
I recently found out my second grade teacher in Chile in 1954, Miss Irene K., was part of the Kindertransport. She was sent as a child from Germany to England so she had an English education. She then emigrated to Chile. I have never forgot
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by litoE 3y ago
Her card was used 510 times over 5 months? Do the math: she must have been reselling the gas.
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by litoE 3y ago
My mother-in-law has had a Mercedes for four years. It has a self-parking feature. She still doesn't know how to use it and probably never will. She couldn't possibly assign a function to the left scroll wheel either. And she&#x27
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by litoE 3y ago
Even the Roman Catholic Church that uses the Gregorian Calendar has moveable dates: Easter Sunday always falls on a Sunday and not on fixed day of a fixed month. On the other hand, Christmas day is always on December 25. Go figure.
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by litoE 3y ago
"An oral contract is not worth the paper it's written on." (Samuel Goldwyn)
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by litoE 3y ago
There are also religions that require you to rest every 7th day. Having those two leap days would be anathema to them.
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by litoE 3y ago
60 years this month. Started on a Standard Elektric Lorenz ER-56. 3,000 words of memory each holding 7 decimal digits. Programming was in machine language - we didn't even have an assembler. That made hair grow in your chest (female pr

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