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by smoyer 7y ago
OT: I think H&M has better ways to be evil - https://www.salon.com/2015/03/22/the_slave_labor_behind_your...
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by smoyer 7y ago
I think the umbrella guy was a genius ... part of the problem with repairing "your favorite umbrella" is a lack of parts. Umbrellas tend to be fragile and his operation really only worked because of volume. He seemed to be repai
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by smoyer 7y ago
I usually try to find a recipe to cook that uses the rendered bacon grease before it gets too old. We don't generally fry our food so I'd love to know how you store and filter the cooking fat between uses.
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by smoyer 7y ago
The maxim "reduce, reuse, recycle" is well-known in our house-hold but, as the article points out, the reduce part is hard. Many don't realize how little actually ends up recycled but a recent trip to Cuba was informative. C
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by smoyer 7y ago
True ... ground in this instance could be a confusing word. I guess choosing an NPN transistor led me to choose that word but it's really more about the emitter being negative with respect to both the base and collector (kind of wordy
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by smoyer 7y ago
An NPN transistor, when saturated, is like a SPST relay where one side of the coil and one of the contacts are internally connected to ground. You don't however end up with isolation between the input signal and output signal in eithe
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Curta Calculator Type I scaled at 3:1(thingiverse.com)
1 points by smoyer 7y ago|0 comments
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by smoyer 7y ago
I've got a beautiful 2001 Mercedes-Benz ... it drives well, avoids all the trendy stuff but still has too many electronic components (most recently I had to replace the computer board that decides whether you should be able to shift).
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by smoyer 7y ago
I like watching the ground ... can we have a glass-bottom plane?
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The Missing Cryptoqueen [audio](bbc.co.uk)
1 points by smoyer 7y ago|0 comments
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by smoyer 7y ago
I had (and used) an Amstrad PenPad for a number of years (until I replaced it with a Sharp Zaurus 5000D which ran Qt on Linux). The down-side to both was a lack of connectivity!
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by smoyer 7y ago
Interesting ... they heavily recruited my daughter who's a senior in high school and looking to go to business school in supply-chain-management. She applied to GW but it was her last choice and she was accepted everywhere she applied
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by smoyer 7y ago
Hey GW ... I hear that "Don't Be Evil" is available again and seems like it would be suitably generic. On a more serious note, I'm on staff at a relatively major university having spent the previous 30 years in private i
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by smoyer 7y ago
Plus the latest versions of Edge are built on Chromium ... are they going to advertise against that too?
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by smoyer 7y ago
Cable TV started as a way for people in mountainous areas to get signal to their sets ... not as an ad-free alternative to broadcast TV. At the time, over-the-air networks were received by the cable TV companies and sent down the wires (co
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by smoyer 7y ago
The blackbirds have to show down to refuel.
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by smoyer 7y ago
I think you meant the minute hand? The hour hand moves 0.5 degrees per minute. I also think your parent comment meant arc-minutes.
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by smoyer 7y ago
Monotony? ... for some reason I never had a problem playing Risk in college even though it would last all night (or more). Playing a six-hour game of Monopoly was only fun for the first couple of hours.
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by smoyer 7y ago
Cool to see the Tafl games in this article! Being part Welsh, I've researched and (tried to) played "tawlbwrdd" with a printed paper board and a few coins. I'm thinking about turning a maple tree (and a bit of black wa
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A Tutorial on Countable Ordinals (2010) [pdf](dpmms.cam.ac.uk)
48 points by smoyer 7y ago|4 comments
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by smoyer 7y ago
Still bearish on Uber stock
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by smoyer 7y ago
So we know there were catastrophic bugs in the 737 Max, they've found additional bugs that haven't been catastrophic yet and now we hear that the Starliner also has software bugs. I'm going to order a copy of "The Mythi
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by smoyer 7y ago
I think these are awesome ... I've got an application for a very low duty-cycle device (operates for seconds each hour) and, paired with a suitable capacitor (or super-capacitor), I can completely pot the entire system in epoxy, mount
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by smoyer 7y ago
yacy has support for additional crawlers. But I was thinking of something more radical ... let the indexes be peer-to-peer with an IPFS storage back-end, but build at least the generic crawler as a browser plugin that also performs searches
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by smoyer 7y ago
I'm not either but I believe what you've stated to be true and am skeptical that he actually hung himself.
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by smoyer 7y ago
Hire you based on that? ... there might be a tad more to the process than that!
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by smoyer 7y ago
Are we irrigating our crops with Brawndo yet?
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by smoyer 7y ago
But if you marry this with some sort of personal FoF transponder, you might actually avoid a lot of friendly-fire incidents.
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by smoyer 7y ago
I've only been to two places that I deemed (at least) kid-unfriendly ... in general, you never know who in the crowd of tourists might be part of the LGBT+ community. And while the federal government (in the US) provides accurate asse
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by smoyer 7y ago
That would require broad adoption of Indian products and services outside of India.

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