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> I would really love to have someone summarize how we "oversaw" Japan and Germany as opposed to Afghanistan. Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, bad as they were, still had tradition…

The outrage machine need fuel!

Years ago, I listened to the G. Gordon Liddy radio show. The most hilarious incident was when he had the famous political humorist Mark Russell on his show. Russell was in-studio a…

With the check held in escrow, it makes cheating harder. The contractor knows that the money has been paid by the company and won't be withheld after the job is done. The company k…

-Selling a business built over decades

"Nice channel lineup you have here, it would be a shame if something happened to it."

You can get a serology test to see if you have covid antibodies. It really defeats the purpose of the double-blind.

Answering my own question, this would be the first two volumes of William Manchester's "The Last Lion", a comprehensive biography of Winston Churchill.

What is the best written or most inspiring book you've read this year?

The math doesn't look too good, at least in the US. There are currently about 100,000 vaccinations a day in the US. Ignoring the vaccines that need two doses, vaccinating 300 milli…

The great thing is that the next time this happens, a vaccine can be created equally quickly.

I doubt that Elon is done making money.

It would work at night, too.

UEFI is much like MS-DOS. It is capable of loading programs from the FAT filesystem into memory and running them. The entry point, EFIMain() is passed a couple of pointers that poi…

A good companion book on the subject, "The German War", is about the German 'home front' during WW2. Very readable, one neat anecdote was how security agencies like the Gestapo wer…

Not a book, but https://fpga4fun.com . I've looked at a few FPGA books, and have not seen a really good one yet.

About twenty years ago now, the Arizona legislature put a referendum on the ballot that would have adopted switching between standard time and daylight savings time. It lost by abo…

In the US, "Congress" is both the House of Representatives and the Senate, not just the House.

My suggestion is to only wipe your butt the first two times during the prep. After that, use a shower nozzle (or a bidet) for the other dozen bowel movements...

It seems to me that splitting google up is wishful thinking. If they split google into a dozen small search companies, one of them will eventually become larger than the others thr…

We went with that plan at my HOA for some of our water lines. They replaced a corroded and failed section of pipe, repressurized the line and POP! went the next section... Two or t…

Sorry, I don't know how popular it is with respect to similar solutions.

My favorite is the python-based Urwid library at http://www.urwid.org . It was a little hard for me to wrap my head around it at first, but once you get it, you can write TUI appli…

> How does the retimer recover the underlying clock if the signal is (say) all zeroes for an extended period of time? Data is encoded such that all-zeros or all-ones doesn't happen…