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Slight correction: I just received an advertising blow-in from Ollie's listing Hanes and other brand women's tees for $1.99 each. That's for short sleeve, long sleeve or tank top i…

Add RCS to that list.

With powder bed printers overhangs and detached captured parts aren't a problem. Try making your own from an old inkjet printer.

Or perhaps the Lisa

I mean the following more to elucidate than criticize. A minor point of clarification (admittedly rather pedantic though in line with the many comments in this discussion which rel…

Your comment does not reflect history in the U.S.A.. And judging from the GP "our day to day lives" is very much U.S. centric. Transportation: ""By 1981, all GM vehicles would be e…

Others have mentioned using spaces with an en-dash or hyphen instead of an em-dash. Having used a typewriter -back in the day- I learned to produce text like this. How I learned th…

Anecdata and another case against center-dash touch control panels -which are integrated with control units. Our 2013 Prius just had the center-dash unit crash likely due to the au…

I believe Alan drew his observation of the 'value rule' from work on ASP, Analytical Spreadsheet Package - a part of Analyst, done in the Xerox Special Information Systems Group. T…

I took up the Arkansas Black cause from my grandmother who was born in the 1800's. They are unarguably hard. That contributes to them being amazing baking apples. Unfortunately who…

As to 70's and 80's programmers knowing about printing presses I'll point out that a significant early AI program (1968-1970) was named SHRDLU. One familiar with printing history m…

Female ginkgo trees are the ones that bear fruit and hence produce the offensive odor. But branches of a male ginko tree can (rarely) change sex and bare fruit. I've never tried Gi…

Would the early United States be considered an "individulistic society"? If so then consider the continental level genocidal practices which that society consciously adopted. Remem…

I encountered the idea of the 'night watch' and in fact the three traditional military watches of the night and their relationship with historical sleep patterns around the world t…

As klyrs mentioned, university bookstores typically have a section for writing implements where one can try out pens. Additionally, every decent art supply store I've been in has h…

Most radio receivers transmit a very weak signal slightly higher than the carrier frequency of the station tuned as a result of how they enhance received signals. Look up superhete…

My favorite statement of this idea is that, "life is that which reverses entropy."

Oroboros

VistA has been a very successful open source project and is being continued in OpenVistA [1]. Originating as a software project in the Veterans Administration (named VA MUMPS) in 1…

Programmers have a wonderful solution that builds on shared presence -reducing loneliness- while enhancing focus. By using a shared screen for WFH, pair programming seems an ideal …

As far as I know the route of SARS-Cov-2 spreading in the human body isn't known beyond the change in locality of symptomatic expression with progression of Covid-19 (upper respira…

>I would say that they're not perfectly erasable and it still takes more effort to erase compared to a whiteboard. I think the biggest thing here is the size of the canvas and the …

> BUT IT IS WATER BASED. So even a light rain can wreak havoc on my notes. Water based != water soluble when dry I would suggest you try similar pens with a different ink. Staedtle…

Squawroot is another oddly beautiful parasitic plant. It relies on the roots of living trees for sustenance.

I would prefer a sunsetting scheme along the lines of tenuring objects in generation scavenging garbage collection. In essence newly created laws would be up for review after a sho…