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Every year there is an hour that doesn't exist, when the clocks spring forward from standard time to daylight savings time. We also go through the same hour twice when the clocks g…

You sometimes hear that farmers are behind Daylight Savings Time, but that's not true. Farmers are self-employed and can set their hours to be whenever they want. If they need to w…

For those of you running Windows, OneNote will allow you to text from images pretty easily.

Or you could wait until you get into your 40s and your eyes will naturally become far-sighted.

Finding how to change a specific setting on your iPad/iPhone, etc.

As an anecdote, the summer after I graduated kindergarten I worked very hard to learn to tie my own shoes, because I didn't want to be the only student in first grade who couldn't …

I don't know much about COBOL, but I did code quite a bit in Fortran. In Fortran, the first five columns were for an optional line number, so these would mostly be blank. The sixth…

I played around with BeOS a little about 25 years ago. It did perhaps the best job of remaining responsive under high load of any OS I've used.

I think about the quote that "Only Nixon could go to China" and maybe there's a corollary that "Only Clinton could balance the budget". Similar to how Nixon had the anti-commie cre…

When COBOL came out it was hyped as ending the need for software developers because it looked sorta like normal English, however it still required someone to be able to think like …

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com is a good way to search for stuff.

The movie is pretty good too. Jonathon Winters in a dual row.

India has even higher cases of diabetes and heart disease. I think their diet is quite different than America.

I recalling my experience with newspaper archives in college. It's thirty been years since I was in college, but I assume that libraries still have some kind of copy of newspaper a…

Seems like there's a whole lot of UV there already.

Supposed to prove how bad it is to live in a an unheated dwelling, maybe it is, but the subject is crazily underdressed.

In the US we have the option of 220/240 V, but I'm not aware of any corded chainsaw that use that. It's typically used by electric stoves, clothes dryers, etc. We use 110/120 Volts…

Leading shoes on drum brakes were self-energizing like the old Pedersen mountain bike brakes. With a leading shoe the pivot point is after the braking surface, so the friction tend…

In what way? It can make up for a lack of sleep?

We were still using OS/2 for some stuff in the early 2000s. The ATMs ran on it.

I always thought DOS got the backslash from VAX/VMS, a question which this article seems to avoid asking.

Or you accelerate to 35 mph basically instantaneously. That's a lot of Gs.

In the USA they have had similar rules for some motorcycle racing classes to make them more even. Sometimes a super trick bike with lots of trick factory parts gets bought for penn…

I'd be interested to see a motorcycle or bicycle go up this hill. It seems like a lot of problems are because these trucks are all so wide, they can't follow the easy line.