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Now I want Apple Crisp

"While in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is."

"While in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is."

I don't know why you are being downvoted, sharecropper is exactly the right metaphor.

Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine. Changed my eight year old life in 1962. I wanted to work with computers and electronics from that moment. Oh, and all the Tom Swift Jr series. …

I think "I, Pencil" would blow Odell's mind.

That reminded me of this video of NDT describing the size of the electron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6kjY6ppJRE&t=71

DoctorOetker's most recent theorem?

Because we are near full employment and they now have jobs to lose? From this morning's Washington Post: "For the first time, most new working-age hires in the U.S. are people of c…

Yes! That was the first thing I thought of: "I don't understand how it subtracts"

Johnny Armstrong, the Hypersonics Combined Test Force Chief Engineer for Air Force, until his retirement in 2012, passed away just last week. He worked in hypersonics from the X-15…

The EPA has a website that displays a network of radiation sensors in the US: https://www.epa.gov/radnet Hope you never need that information.

None of what I've read today on his passing have mentioned this interesting story of the rescue of his employees from Iran during the revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_W…

I really enjoyed the whole Giant series by Hogan. Star Trek Voyager had an episode with the idea of an ancient saurian species that left earth many millions of years ago. https://e…

Literally true

I don't normally have trouble swallowing but a couple of big pills I take daily would give me trouble. A trick I learned recently was to turn my head to the side as I swallowed the…

This site on ethics routinely deconstructs the problems at Snopes: https://ethicsalarms.com/?s=snopes

The problem with BCI, eyegaze or speech control systems is how slow they are. There can no delay in a fast paced game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTfa0gh2WVg

I've been burned by their dropping features and services too many times to ever gamble on them again.

I filter anything with the word "unsubscribe" into a separate folder, then add a few filters to handle the exceptions. What is generally left in my inbox is stuff directly mailed t…

Way better UI.

Potassium can also help. Sadly, caffeine is a major contributor to PVCs for me and I miss it.

Seeing an oscilloscope displaying a Lissajous pattern when I was eight years old was one of the things that sparked my interest in electronics. In 1962, by cracky!

By brother collected these as a kid living in Charlevoix and threw a bunch into Lake Champlain, nearly a thousand miles away, in the hopes of trolling some future geologist. My bro…

This rationalization is a slippery slope. "Good works" does not entitle one to behave unethically. Seems close to these two from the Ethics Alarms website list of Unethical Rationa…