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Current speed cube record appears to be 2.76s. Has anyone ever sorted a randomly shuffled deck of cards in under 3 seconds?

Trademarks. And the patients generally don't have a pronunciation key. Doctors prescribing might not, either.

I have a long-standing email address that forwards to an email system that I run. The operator of the forwarder switched to using Microsoft's mail infrastructure some years ago and…

There are three classes of Google stock. By voting rights, they have 10x (founder stock), 1x (trading as GOOGL), and 0x (trading as GOOG). The class with 10x voting rights does not…

How are you handling bowling shoe rental?

And it's no doubt smaller-than-typical furniture so the rooms look more roomy..

Update as of 7:53am PDT: "The rollback of a recent change did not resolve the issue and we are continuing to investigate multiple mitigation paths. Estimated bill updates remain pa…

For history here, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe Zimbabwe redenominated its currency three times in 2006, 2008, and 2009, dropping a total of 25 trail…

The Postfix mailer has allowed recommended default behavior to evolve using its "compatibility_level" parameter: https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#compatibility_level https:/…

you think they won't figure out how to hotwire the steer-by-wire controls?

Some of the debris from a collision may end up in an orbit with a higher apogee, perigee will necessarily still be at or below the altitude of the last collision and will be subjec…

It won't be centuries. starlink satellites are in low orbits and will deorbit in a few years at most if bricked; to stay in orbit, they use ion thrusters to counter drag from the v…

128MB of memory, not 128GB.

It would appear that this has worked as they haven't had to insert leap seconds for quite a while.

Once the birds are in orbit, satellite internet is vastly superior to fiber in speed of deployment. Fiber requires custom engineering at the city block level and a single rotten ut…

I (an American) once arrived in a hotel room in Finland, sleep deprived after a long couple flights, flipped on the TV and saw a game of Pesäpallo. Made me wonder what I was seeing…

It's not a scam. It's the difference between annuities (longevity insurance) and savings. If you wanted all pensions to provide a death benefit in addition to the annuity you'd nee…

Sounds like "Respect for the Aged Day" doubles as "Audit the Pensioners Day".

Smart bomb targeting is more of a subset of the tech required for precision landing. Smart bombs just need to get to the target coordinates. A reusable rocket needs to get there wi…

They haven't stopped but they don't happen immediately. Detailed census records are published 72 years after they were collected; the last release (of 1950 census data) came out in…

The scope of who is allowed to continue using it sounds like it is aligned with other US export controls (like ITAR and EAR).

When such systems are hooked up to a web page they often will ask which contact should receive the reset code (Pick one: "send text to number ending in -1234" "send text to number …

Was hoping it was a new font.

There is spare capacity on the Crew Dragon for an extra astronaut or maybe two on return. They'd rather not have to use it but NASA took steps to enable it when Soyuz MS-22 suffere…

There are normally-open air-tight hatches between modules. Various utility connections and air ducts are normally run through the open hatches so it would take a bit of work to dis…