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HF radio reflects off the ionosphere's F-layer, located about 100-200 miles up. To get from Chicago to Frankfurt requires several hops between the ionosphere and the earth's surfac…

"Encrypted" is too strong a word. But the code talkers needed a way to represent English that didn't have a natural Navajo equivalent. So they developed a vocabulary of 411 Navajo …

> But as I said, things are changing. So far we're moving the "backend" stuff to .Net/C#. Delphi and C# share a chief architect, Anders Hejlsberg, who left Borland for Microsoft in…

Yes, Tom Scott is one talented YouTuber. See, for example, his video on microwaving frozen hamsters back to life[0], in which he interviews the 101-year-old J. E. Lovelock, the sci…

Right below the author's comment, "Regardless of a grid’s size, the current flowing through it oscillates in perfect synchrony, at exactly the same frequency, throughout the whole …

It's not useful for mag tape or wire recordings, but archaeologists have available a technique that can date artifacts like campfires, pottery kilns, and burned out adobe houses wi…

Apparently, as the GP points out, the article author meant to write asterisk where he wrote plus. uint16(50_000) * uint16(50_000) is uint32(2_500_000_000), which turns out to be in…

The Library of Congress claims† to host 21 petabytes of digital content. That would take†† a little over a minute and a half to send over the link described in the article, assumin…

From 1897 to 1953, New York City operated a pneumatic tube mail transport system. It consisted of 27 miles of tubing connecting 23 post offices and carried 95,000 letters per day, …

The Russian site also appears wide open. Example: https://yandex.ru/video/search?text=navalny%20putin%27s%20pa...

In the US, we have ZIP+4, which appends an additional four digits to the five-digit ZIP code. It's mainly used by bulk mailers, as part of qualifying for reduced postage rates. Lik…

I just do ZZ, if I want to save the buffer, or ZQ if I was just looking, or I messed up (I'm a vim newbie).

> It's already absolutely impossible to send someone a link to a pdf you've found through google, this would make it impossible to send any link. Do you have an example of that beh…

A few years ago, the IRS came after Boris Johnson, then the mayor of London, now the PM, for taxes on the gain from the sale of his house in London. He was born in NYC, you see, ma…

Voting does work with JS disabled, just not well. The page reloads and re-renders with the UI changes (up-down buttons hidden and unvote link added). However, the reload takes noti…

Mac OS versions prior to OS X used ':'. Mac OS X, initially released on 24 March 2001, uses '/', like other Unix-derived systems. Also, like other unices, OS X uses '\n' as the lin…

It seems the article's author won the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for 'using fluid dynamics to probe the question "Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?"' The prize announceme…

> Always hated the name of that store. It sounds like a euphemism for Planned Parenthood. Back in 1994, Bezos wanted to call his new company "Cadabra," as in the magic incantation …

I have an American Express Blue Cash Preferred, with a $95 fee, and a Fidelity Rewards Visa, with no fee. The AX card rebates 6% on groceries, 3% on gas, and 1% on everything else.…

>Nobody but Red Hat makes any money off the Linux kernel. You forgot about Canonical. But the real point is, in the wild, the Linux kernel predominates. Every Android user is a Lin…

Holy crap! 1123 comments and the damned article link doesn't work! Might someone have something to hide? http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xrEsOXE... Judge for y…

>Basically, don't worry about it. Mark Twain said, “Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born — a hundred million years — and I have suf…

I'm sure GRU possesses the technical chops to put in place safeguards to guarantee against ever connecting other than through the VPN. They should do that and then hire Kaspersky t…

It appears the old site is https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ , and the new site ("in early beta") is https://softwaredaily.com/ . The two sites appear to contain the same set o…