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iefbr14

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    Comment #49213133

    I use a bird feeder with peanut butter for birds. Nothing falls to the ground below and it is relatively mouse safe if you hang it from a string. And the birds love it.

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    Comment #49146786

    Not more than 2 seconds he did. The other guy (in somewhat better physical shape) made a good stretch though :)

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    Comment #49122182

    I find it a bit strange that they regard glass as a waste product which it is not. Furthermore, if the working component is silicon then you can just as well use sand instead of gl…

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    Comment #49097808

    Fish eggs often travel long distances by sticking to the feathers or legs of waterfowl I have been told at school long ago.

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    Comment #49049307

    Unfortunately the video link points to https://example.com/docs

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    Comment #49049071

    It reminds me a bit of the toolbar mania in the nineties :)

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    Comment #48701020

    It is still on air, playing a message that they stopped broadcasting on that freq. (at least 30 minutes ago)

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    Comment #48576760

    Looks very much like the Samsung I still have. The best mobile phone I ever had.

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    Comment #48397971

    There is probably still a lot out there but with the current state of the ('free') search engines you won't find much. I am painfully reminded of that every time I have to look for…

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    Comment #48300725

    Stopped watching within 10 seconds thanks to the flickering screen border.

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    Comment #48109462

    Same way I got here

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    Comment #48034485

    They use it in the drones they build for Ukrain. Typical european..

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    Comment #48034264

    Wouldn't it be easier to use Starlink or am I missing something?

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    Comment #47878455

    BR 14 (IBM assembler) Because it has a utility named after it. Hence my name.

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    Comment #47452446

    The title immediately made me think of the September Song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWc8g6-N7cE

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    Comment #46933268

    FWIW, when I used windows (up to 7), I always used Notetab.

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    Comment #46848360

    I wish it was only cars, but unfortunately this decay in-the-name-of-progress is in everything nowadays.

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    Comment #46759263

    Very good documentary about Donald Bickler made by his son.

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    Comment #46663575

    Also about olivetti: Olivetti & the Italian Computer: What Could Have Been. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfMxcrN90PE

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    Comment #46470449

    In the demo there is a cut in the video where the needle abrubtly stops. The cut is visible because the lighting is slightly different.

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    Comment #46364118

    The damage from a frozen water line in your house can be a lot more than $4000. We had them when I was still a kid in the sixties and I did not like it at all. Jumping in a warm be…

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    Comment #46229897

    Nice, however the mentioned github link ( https://github.com/loganwilliams/passive-acoustic-listening ) does not exist (anymore?).

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    Comment #46141841

    Nice, but the left-right movement goes opposite to my intuition.

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    Comment #45858773

    For nostalgia sake. It's from the computing period when there was a great influx of good idea's but still a huge shortage in memory and storage.