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Are you talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction_motor ?

The prediction aren't for total extinction events or even events where the internet wouldn't be around. Also, it' just a silly site provided for our entertainment.

I damaged an embedded development board by walking across a carpeted room before touching it. When I touched it I heard, felt, and saw the zap and one of the IO ports was stuck aft…

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We already make ammonia from the nitrogen in the air.

I don't think it's that strange. Most people are happy to have their views supported even if it's by means that they would call terrible if used against them.

I have pasteurized milk straight from a cow in different ways and it is different than raw milk. I prefer the flavored of the pasteurized, but all of them are much better than regu…

Lots of dangerous things are sold, and raw milk isn't anywhere near the top of the list.

On my POWER9 system it took 45 minutes.

I’ve enjoyed https://www.metalevel.at/prolog but I’m not a Prolog Programmer.

Just because spending is rising doesn't mean people are buying more things. Prices have increased, so people can be buying fewer goods and still spending more.

This is not directly relevant, but Power ISA 3.1 (from May 2020) has 128 bit division operations (vdivuq and vdivsq) with a maximum latency of 61 cycles. I don't have access to a P…

remember that we're on x86 here, which is a big-endian architecture While I wish this were true, x86 is little-endian.

If it's for gambling, why isn't it mentioned anywhere? Why are there no mentions of games using these devices?

It should be "physically based" since it's about rendering based on how light works physically, in the real world. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physically_based_rendering

Bookkeeping is about recording financial transactions. Bookmaking is taking bets.

Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of changes made to his books to update them for more modern audiences? His books were the first I heard of being updated for that reason an…