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And the windows keep getting smaller, the beltlines higher, the seats more cramped, though I don't have statistics to back up any of that.

I can do it in half a bit

The school speed limit there is 15 mph, and that wasn't enough to prevent an accident. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/child-struck-waymo-near-... https://maps.app.goo.gl/7PcB2…

Don't take him to the MoMA he'll need his stomach pumped.

If you use the predefined HTML tags you also get whatever default styling the browser decided is appropriate.

"the default is a dollar" There is no default price.

Do you mean my message inbox isn't supposed to look like this? https://i.ibb.co/mFhdGkbH/Samsung-Google-Android-Messages.jp... This has been a problem (for others) for years and ap…

How do they clean the blocks in a foam pit?

I went to a party today at a park. Google maps wanted me to drive my car on the walking path to the picnic pavilion. Here, you can get the same directions: https://www.google.com/m…

When I was a kid I loved "Dinosaur Time" by Peggy Parish (and illustrated by Arnold Lobel). Originally published in 1974 it ends, "Dinosaurs lived everywhere for a long time. Then …

Yes, dB is a mess and if we could do it again we ought to use something more explicit like just annotating the units with log10 such as log10(W). Then it's easy to use other conven…

How else are you supposed to know that you've grown since highschool if you can't reread Catcher in the Rye in a different light?

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudyard-kipling/just-so-st...

I noticed this too. I did much better covering up two of the disks and looking at them one at a time, or comparing pairs of disks.

Yes that's right. The manufacturing cost in the US would have to be $46 or less to undercut the import. So ignoring tax changes, something like... A Made in USA shoe that sells for…

Trying to summarize the summary for myself From a $100 shoe that sells for $76: - $24 goes overseas (22 cost, 2 freight) - $8 goes to the US gov't (3 import, 2 Nike tax, 3 Footlock…

For when you feel a sneeze coming on: - Want to sneeze? Look at a bright light. - Don't want to sneeze? Scratch your ear.

Well these are the colors they define: --primary-color: hsl(var(--hue), 50%, 90%); --pre-primary-color: hsl(var(--hue), 50%, 95%); --secondary-color: hsl(var(--hue), 50%, 10%); --t…

A tip for 10 years from now: take the picture with diffuse backlighting and you can easily blow out the background completely. For example, a sheer curtain in front of an outdoor w…

You're not reading it right. The labels overlap, they are not disjoint.

I wrote a kaleidoscope simulator. You know, a virtual tray filled with hundreds of little plastic beads of various shapes and colors that tumble around when you press the keys, wit…