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Sounds like one solution would be to apply a sealant that looks like bare concrete.

Caltech - where your best just isn't good enough. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixieza/79223350

It is amazing how much less time it takes to pay off a 30 year mortgage if you increase the payments 10%. The first good many years are paying mostly just the interest.

I have a very cheap plastic one with a dial, which works amazing well for the cost ( https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-900003

Kinetic energy is a good measure for a baseball, because essentially all of the kinetic energy is being transferred from the small object to you. Kinetic energy is not a good measu…

>> Taking the FFT, modifying frequency amplitudes Modifying amplitude and phase. In the time domain you can't modify frequency amplitude without modifying the phase. If you modify …

AMA95 is one of the few Caltech classes that I still think about, mostly because it was not useful. Almost all of my other classes have been useful over the years. I wish that the …

>> makes sure to walk the trainees through the confusing states you can get into, >> then we explain what happened, why, and how to correctly get out of them Is this something you …

You have to convert the wood to charcoal to burn hot enough for a blacksmith forge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal I highly recommend a visit to Plimouth Plantation to anyo…

I don't travel with an extra keyboard, but I do take a mouse. An external mouse is so much better, and hardly takes up any space.

The talk that you link to: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/tdd-original/ Ian Cooper reminds what was Kent's original proposition on TDD, what misunderstandings occurred along t…

"Table saws in use in the United States: Estimates range between 6 million and 10 million... in any particular year, about one table saw in 229 will be in an accident that sends so…

>> bet it's considerably higher than per hour of cruising around on a motorbike.. I would imagine so as well. "Haaf was described as an experienced skydiver with over 1,200 jumps a…

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Fun for foreigners (both in Tokyo area): Itabashi Station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itabashi_Station Iidabashi_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iidabashi_Station (the maj…