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I may have blown the math, but the last time I calculated I figured there were about 35 Starlink satellites above the horizon at my latitude. Looking into the suburban early night …

Just a note, if you want a special whimsical typeface, there are any number of talented folk on fiverr and similar that will make you one. Well worth it. For the cost of a lunch I …

It sounds like this corresponds to an atmospheric contraction. They are lowering to avoid extending the lifetime of possible debris, but that also probably means the regular lifeti…

At 45°N latitude, I keep mine nearly vertical year round. I used to adjust them 4 times a year for more optimal production. There are issues beyond angle of incidence. Being nearly…

I dried three red oak trees using a dehumidifier kiln. ( 4'x4'x16' 1" pink insulation foam box assembled with packing tape with a household dehumidifier and fan inside. Very low te…

Bucket seats. I need a bench seat so I can take my wife and dog. Ah, there's the problem. You have violated Pauli's "spouse/dog size exclusion principle". You need to either have a…

Don't be boring. A quick triage with an AI and a spot check suggest that the guitar solo at the end of Hotel California has just about the right number of notes (depending on how m…

Probably because you don't find a list from the EPA. The two categories are very similar, they are sort of aimed at the same result but have slightly different criteria. e.g. the E…

For the EPA, "likely carcinogen" means: • There is evidence of carcinogenicity in animals. (Multiple, consistent studies) • The substance is shown to directly or indirectly cause c…

Does one not suppose that a fair bit of this is the trial and starter doses that they give to doctors? Surely the drug company values them at list price for purposes of a business …

Another interesting variant of "annotations are the star" is "But What of Earth?" by Piers Anthony. It's an old school sort of sci fi story, but the publisher rewrote it in the pub…

I'm not sure "bad" is required. As a person responsible for maintaining a harbor in Lake Michigan, I am allowed to move 1 cubic yard of material a year, by hand, with a shovel (las…

I went to the Hertz used car site and couldn't find anything close to the $17k in the screenshots used for all those news articles. They are mostly around $30k.

I married into toaster moguls. When they sold out in '97, domestic toasters had been infeasible for years already. And this was for a company where all the knowledge, equipment, an…

"Funny" regulatory story on those. They are not legal in the US since the regulators decided they were fire extinguishers and then compared them to the rules for fire extinguishers…

Do people in the UK use cash? I was in London for a week before I finally needed to get some cash to pay for a contractor for illegal services (a forbidden historical tour), later …

Around here folk call it the "Three D" strategy. Delay, deny, die. If the insurance company can put off your procedure long enough you might die and then they don't have to pay for…

For me it is still airflow noise. I can’t really hear my compressors. But this is one of those blind men and elephant things. If you live in detached housing with space between hou…

Best case, they get to test the new sound dampening, armored pad, armored pad cooling, igniting all the engines on the pad, booster launch, staging, booster fly back, booster desce…

It looks like the patent the court found infringed is EP2575366 https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2575366B1/en "Signaling of coding unit prediction and prediction unit partition …

The DOJ wants them to allow electronic submission of applications to PERM jobs and to publish these jobs anywhere they publish other jobs. Apple agreed to this and to train their r…

The early DEC terminals did not reflow on switching.

I've written ANSI terminal handling before. The original VT100 paper manual that came with the terminal is a nice start, because the complexity hadn't really happened yet and peopl…

Unfortunately, reading the code would be a felony for me. I sort of feel that if Apple makes it a felony for me to do the obvious and fully sufficient thing, then maybe they need t…

Great! Let's have a year of no new developer features and everyone sits down and documents the existing code. And not just "Peter the intern no one wants" typing in "This sets the …