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by litoE 3y ago
Just out of curiosity: do the flywheels actually stop and rotate slowly in either direction or is it just an artifact of the video?
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by litoE 3y ago
Pick a date, any date.
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by litoE 3y ago
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-how-ancient-rom...
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by litoE 3y ago
I was a tenure-track professor at a major US University (whose name I do not wish to remember). I was good at it too. But, because of my pay, I also qualified for financial assistance from the Federal and State governments. I quit when I wa
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by litoE 3y ago
I bought my Moka pot in October of 1971 for $4.99, new. It has been in continuous use since then, with the only maintenance being the replacement of the rubber gasket. Try that with your Nespresso.
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by litoE 3y ago
I have seen recent photographs of the 1970s crash site in the Andes. It's shocking to see how little snow there is now because of global warming.
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by litoE 3y ago
I find it fascinating that, even in countries that have used metric for centuries, humans still prefer non-decimal fractions of the base units: my mother would buy 1/2 a kilo of ham or 1/4 kilo of butter for example. Her cooking r
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by litoE 3y ago
The original article is not about the anonymity in the blockchain per se, but about the first person who made it explicit and published papers describing it, over "a decade" ago.
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by litoE 3y ago
"Procrastination is a good thing. Don't put it off until tomorrow" (Ellen DeGeneres)
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Ask HN: Why is my web server being attacked?
38 points by litoE 3y ago|44 comments
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by litoE 3y ago
> My favorite hack is bridging a congested hotel 2.4GHz network to my own personal 5.8GHz network, which benefits everyone if you are a family about to light up 5-10 more devices. I do the same thing. It's failed only once: the &#x2
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by litoE 3y ago
That is why programming languages used only the first 70 or so columns of each card. The last few columns were ignored and you could punch a sequence number. If you dropped your deck of cards you could take it to a sorting machine that coul
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by litoE 3y ago
I vote for the image viewer and editor IrfanView. GIMP may be more powerful in the hands of a pro, but doesn't beat IrfanView for ease of use.
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by litoE 3y ago
"The New Yorker" magazine uses umlauts to mark the different pronunciations of doubled vowels. The write "cöoperate" to distinguish the way you pronounce its double o from the sound of the double o in "chicken coop&
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by litoE 3y ago
I find the contortions needed to do base 2 with my fingers too cumbersome. On the other hand, base 6 is really easy. Each hand only needs to do the usual 0-1-2-3-4-5 arrangement and you get to count from 0 to 35(6^2-1).
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by litoE 3y ago
According to George Burns, "once you get to be 100 you have it made because very few people die past age 100".
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by litoE 3y ago
Back in the day (I haven't checked lately) if you bought a round trip ticket from, say, LA-NY-LA, the price was significantly lower if you stayed in NY over the weekend because the airlines assumed that if you didn't stay for the
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by litoE 3y ago
So if I have this stack of 25% off the coupons that the original "Bed Bath & Beyond" was famous for, can I expect "Bed Bath & Beyond" to honor them?
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by litoE 3y ago
My 8th grade science teacher showed us this back in 1960: he had one of us do a handstand and drink water from a cup using a straw with no choking or gagging.
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by litoE 3y ago
Procrastination is a good thing. Don't put it off until tomorrow.
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by litoE 3y ago
Plus, he's a really nice, down to earth guy. I met him once a few years ago at a soccer game our grandchildren were playing in, and spent 20 minutes just chatting with him.
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by litoE 3y ago
Will I pay a price if I prise the prize from your hands?
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by litoE 3y ago
I remember flying PSA between Oakland and LAX in 1972. $16 each way and you could pay the flight attendant after boarding. The "meal" was a choice of "coffee, tea, punch or boullion".
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by litoE 4y ago
I have a pool with a pool cover. It hardly loses any water to evaporation, and the cover heats the water so I don't use my gas burning heater either. The only problem with the cover is that I need to keep a small pump on top to drai
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by litoE 4y ago
Ashton-Tate. They were one of the three largest software companies in the world (together with Microsoft and Lotus) in their time. Then they shipped Dbase IV v1.0, that was full of bugs. Instead of focusing on fixing them and shipping a v1.
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by litoE 4y ago
The longer a slide rule the more precise it is - you get mode decimal places. But it also become less convenient to use. That's where the circular slide rule comes in: a 4 inch diameter circular slide rule has the scales on its rim, wh
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by litoE 4y ago
Can I keep my red Swingline stapler?
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by litoE 4y ago
You sit in your car and guard it like a hawk: usually there are not enough charging stations, so if you leave your car and go into the convenience store you run the risk of someone disconnecting your car to charge their own.
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by litoE 4y ago
I got a siringe for free at the local drugstore. It's used for giving liquid medicine orally to infants. It has no needle of course, but it works on my fountain pen.
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by litoE 4y ago
I dont't get it. In the picture, each tile is composed of 8 identical quadrilaterals. So why don't these quadrilaterals constitute a simpler shape that can tile a wall and never repeat?

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