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In grad school I called mine "snot on a doorknob" - it was that "slick" / fast. The internal HD felt almost magic after slamming so many floppies.

Tools like Exact Audio Copy and cdparanoia have made it possible to do bit perfect DAE since the last millenuium.

To add to the anecdata: My most recent SSD failure happened when I did the firmware upgrade . It worked before the upgrade, the upgrade binary said 'upgrade failed' and the disk va…

I can sort of see the point in the down payment thing but PMI can eat a bag of d*cks.

I sold my first house FSBO in a hot market and the appraisal came in below what the buyer had agreed to. I had to lower the price since banks were involved. That sucked.

As far as I can tell the solution he offers is merely to put the Discussion section of the paper first, and go logically from there. I don't see how this really helps. I write lots…

You have it backwards; the cirriform clouds are mostly transparent to visible but absorb and re-emit IR effectively (cloud greenhouse effect). Low clouds tend to have a very high a…

GOES 16 and 17 are identical.

Looks like a crap article in a crap journal. In the abstract they refer to cannabis as a stimulant, which seems quite incorrect. Also the results are unsurprising and not very exci…

Same here. I still have all my physical CDs from the past 25-odd years but they are in sitting in boxes after being ripped. 99% my "TV watching" is time-shifted using the Shield, w…

And let's not forget the battery of the month club! Oh yes RS was Wonkaland for me when I was a kid. I also lusted after the CB radios they sold.

From a Reuters article: "In 2013, Foxconn said it would invest $30 million and hire 500 workers for a new factory in Pennsylvania, but that facility was never completed." So I woul…

That is tremendous, thanks for sharing. Congratulations to all the New Horizons folks! I look forward to our upcoming fly-by of the object that caused the occultation. With five di…

I'm a self-described audioweenie who has a dedicated listening room with a decent setup. It does make me sad that much new music is mastered so loud because information is lost whe…

I've been both a "toiling in relative obscurity" and "rockstar" scientist. I really didn't mind being the first one, and I don't think my earlier research was necessarily bad, but …

This is a good thing. Vaporizing/eating cannabis appears to provide little to no long-term harm to users, whereas alcoholism and alcohol related accidents cause terrible harm. And …