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What took so long?

The answer that's always missing is what hardware can be disabled to prevent the data from being harvested/transmitted/available in the first place?

Kai's Photo Soap and Kai's Power Goo. Or anything by Kai. Especially the little tools like the texture explorer and fractal generator. The user interfaces were refreshingly unique.…

Perhaps RSS wasn't built for the average user.

Why do you believe what you believe is true? Independant study? Easiest possible explanation? Herd effect? Fear of standing out? It's rare that you can change another persons mind.…

Within the last year, a guy did a writeup on his DIY electrical panel circuit monitoring setup. It allowed him to very accurately measure power consumption of everything in his hou…

The Lumber Stretch here: http://www.modestomassagetherapy.com/stretching.html The second one, start off in a Jesus Christ pose, scoot your feet toward your butt while keeping your …

After 3 decades of once or twice-a-year back injuries (that took a few weeks to heal), in 2015 it didn't ever get better. MRI revealed bulging discs and herniation causing sciatica…

"...that if someone disagrees with them, the person is just stupid or doesn't know enough." Believing that smart = right, thus, less smart = less right.

For any given approach, with a circular runway there's exactly one point tangent to the runway to land. Landing short or long isn't an option. Things are conventional because they …

> I don't see why a human has to do this. Because a human driving the plane has a vested interest in surviving the landing. A person who writes buggy landing software, or an operat…

Yeah - make a huge rotating disc of a runway that rotates at a constant speed, so the pilot can stick the landing at whatever radius has an angular velocity equal to groundspeed. T…

Don't take advice from anyone without skin in the game, for they have no tangible downside to being wrong.

I work with a lot of environmental data coming from disparate sources. .csv is like the lowest common denominator of data formats.

+1 for the No Agenda podcast, by John C. Dvorak and Adam C. Curry. They watch the news (so you don't have to!) and each week they de-construct the biggest stories from around the w…

The best "tool" available is the No Agenda Podcast. Hosts Adam and John present national and global issues as portrayed by mass media, and systematically DECONSTRUCT the stories. T…

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