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Meh! We only need it for like 2-4 weeks a year, a fan works adequately. The nine months around that we need heating, which every home has.

Well, that was depressingly bleak. It is even AI generated.

You loosely have two major types of Ocs that are popular: English Vessel Flutes (aka "pendants") and "little geese" (aka "Japanese-fingering" or "traverse")... Pendants typically h…

Hello, Ocarina maker and long time player here! Ocs are unfortunately almost always significantly louder than recorders...

Hi, Ocarina maker here! This is a genuinely interesting idea, and some Ocarina like the Goslings do have a double keying with a single finger. Sadly with English Vessel Flutes (4/6…

When this was written there was a clearer divide between people with higher educational training, qualifications and interest and those without.

Some of us use chromatic tuners to fast (lazy) check our CNC speeds and feeds. 1/4Hz matters to me, go Korg!

xml-rpc.php paid for my pool... but I freely admit to a degree of "because the scanner said so".

In 2024 the word "Hacker" means someone who begs rich VC companies for money... This is sadly not the correct site to find advice on doing naughty things with computers.

The elephant in the room: People who have gotten over the K8s learning curve almost all tell you it isn't actually that bad. Most people who have not attempted the learning curve, …

This article assumes a lot more self-determinism than is available in practice to most people. Beyond that many of us have been running on fumes for years, I can't lose ten extra h…

Posting a nonsense job to accrue CVs and a call-list of details is a common tactic used by the people tasked with building the internal candidate database.

At some point an arbitrary conspiracy theory will be shown to be true; and the title of this article will have to change to read "Reducing people's belief systems through dialog wi…

Humanity is possibly racing to it's own destruction by making a buck along the way. Humanity is possibly about to breed home appliances that pathfind our way to greater knowledge t…

Imagine working this hard to track down people sharing ideas, that you didn't work to produce or fund in the first place, in order to punish them for not giving you a financial cut…

I am highly reluctant to use type casting as a mathematical function!! I was burnt by early languages struggling with this problem... Even modern languages still have issues with t…

Leetcode is about proving you can give up huge chunks of your time to learn about the current industry fads, useless to life though they may be: This is unfortunately a vital work …

I failed FizzBuzz the first time someone gave it to me in an interview... The specific failure was that I first attempted to solve by using repeated subtraction. The guy kept askin…

There is a method where you piece the glass together supported in investment, (a type of ceramic casting plaster), by building it up in layers. You tightly pack it and put it in th…

This is actually kind of an awesome idea, printing overhang has been a issue with printer adoption, and greatly limits some of the parts you can fabricate. I hope this becomes main…

Open Source is, by and large, intended by the creator to donate their ideas to benefit humanity as a whole; many people feel that using their thing to help strengthen an (ethically…

Auth in 2000 was "here, have a Cookie". Auth in 2024 is ... not that anymore.

What if Bob and Alice and Charlie all had a hand in developing invention X... suddenly we would find ourselves just redefining companies.

Budget is likely a large contributing factor.