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Naming things is hard, it's best to pick a theme and stick with it. A Columbo family mafioso I grew up near used to be in a never-ending competition with the Sultan of Brunei and t…

This company really bribed the Trump administration to relax health and safety oversight of their operations. The resulting increase in frequency of contamination by filth (feces, …

I get it, I have over 60,000 miles commuting on two wheels (Most of them on my 2003 Kawasaki ZR-7s that I have owned since new and just rode to work on Thursday), in all kinds of i…

I use it to spot check the temp of my cast iron pan all the time.

I’d suggest you read “The TSO’d Pencil” to understand the reference. Http://www.rstengineering.com/rst/articles/tsodpencil.pdf

The pencil hardness scale is commonly used to assess paint film hardness by checking what is the softest pencil that can mar the surface when you scratch it with a given force. In …

Truth. I once paid nearly $500 for a set of 17 certified, calibrated wooden pencils, with documentation showing that each one met their rated hardness levels of 9H thru 6B. And for…

Cap your meal off with a NIST 1196a standard issue cigarette? I am told they taste like drywall and taxes. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/02/nist-releases-... Perhaps y…

You could have chosen to use "Trump" instead of "Admin" and met the same character limit. But you chose not to.

Thanks, that's a lot more accurate and informative than the bowdlerized Hacker News title.

Facebook jumped the shark the instant they allowed non-.edu email domains to sign up.

Perhaps the clerk was not sullen, and just preferred to stay out of other people's affairs. You're not allowed to rent here anymore! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEEj6d3GTOU I d…

Good. Children do not belong in first class.

Fred Dibnah's BBC series "Age of Steam" is a fine overview of the development of steam engine technology and the industrial revolution in the United Kingdom. https://www.youtube.co…

Example, throttle controls on a Dogulas DC3. All engine controls forward is the typical convention for full power. (At sea level, neglecting the altitude effect on required engine …

They are commonly used on small single-engine fighter jets as well. They typically cannot be retracted once deployed, and free-fall using their own mass, so there is no actuation s…

And besides that, there is the looping parachute APU. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9452721B2/en

No, Boeing did it first with the original 777, way back in 1994. A folding wingtip was designed, the folding mechanism was built and qualification tested, the engineering drawings …

Walmart sill sells multiple brands of cassette recorders in this specific format. They sounded terrible when they were peak technology, so I have to assume they are even worse now.…

I mean, this might have been slightly impressive if he had demonstrated the use of an oscilloscope to correctly set the output level of the DAW/preamp to prevent clipping while sti…

And from a recent Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46261942

To expand on the levels of bullshittery, he initially picked “sometime in 2012” based on noting the number of elapsed days between 3 events in his life that he considered significa…

Someone wants to taste the curb! https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html

Smart TVs mostly exist to subsidize the cost of the hardware though licensing deals. We use none of the features that came with our Smart TV, and stream through an Apple TV instead…