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dustycat

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About dustycat

A random person on the internet.

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    Comment #18843273

    I have no medical qualifications, so take this for what it's worth, but I was told by a psychiatrist specialising in child development disorders that excessive hand-washing is one …

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    Comment #18836598

    This has nothing to do with 50/60 Hz ripples, the point of having a personal power transformer is to isolate from high-frequency noise.

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    Comment #18781021

    Audio amplifiers already contain transformers, large capacitors, and rectifiers.

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    Comment #18774083

    Thank you for the link. Could people who have studied it answer whether it is similar to the code here?

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    Comment #18751224

    Python did not have a genesis at Google. It existed before Google did. JavaScript was written by Brendan Eich as the browser-side scripting language for the Netscape browser, origi…

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    Comment #18580290

    Science (academic work) is a career for many people, rather than a vocation. Rewards include high status, stable income, opportunities to travel, long vacations, etc. You can say i…

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    Comment #18580227

    I am curious how many people the author has taught mathematics to. It doesn't seem a good idea to jump into writing a textbook teaching mathematics unless one has experience of tea…

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    Comment #18579606

    The thing I can't understand is why on earth would anyone want to leave an organisation like the European Union?

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    Comment #18556029

    Same old, same old: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

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    Comment #18530503

    People have been trying to set up web-based academic publishing for at least twenty years, and they've failed. The obvious explanation is that it does actually cost money to publis…

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    Comment #18465438

    People who are interested in vacuum tube technology might enjoy the following youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrCarlsonsLab

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    Comment #18369325

    It's testing how antimatter and matter interact gravitationally. It isn't possible to test how antimatter and antimatter interact gravitationally, because only single atoms of anti…