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The major proponent was also known as Thomas Midgley Jr.: Accidentally The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived[0] Leaded gas, CFCs, and accidentally created a machine that ended his …

Old trade beads can sometimes be found, old stashes and caches. Pony beads, seed beads, and others. They were traded/used as "money". The Hudson's Bay Company brought millions of t…

My Grandfather was around in the early days, had a ham call sign from the early 1930s and was involved in the Manhattan Project as a senior non-scientific engineer. He was also inv…

I don't mind music-on-hold as much except when they break with a human voice at intervals saying inane things such as "your call is important to us. Thank you for holding" Which ma…

An interesting alternative "reverse" take on the Pomodoro technique.

the buttons jumping up and down when correct or incorrect is jarring on my smaller screen, forcing a constant space there or moving the message would be a smoother UX, in my opinio…

So does Time Team, and they're back making new episodes. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtpbubYLW2fdf9ySyCS0f...

>> As of 2025, he also teaches mathematics at Rudgers University. In the second sentence. Not even run through an AI grammar-checker?

I personally have been using "Auto Tab Discard" for years. It works perfectly for me, and you can set a group of tabs to not unload. It has a ton of options. I have ~320 tabs open …

Dendrochronology (dating cut trees via counting rings/size/ratios) has its own subjective interpretations, and different databases that don't always line up.

I ended up on Debian/XFCE. Lightweight enough and I've worked out how everything works and have it customized 100% to my workflow.

I remember seeing women on the sides of the highway in one part of town gathering plants to eat, there's plenty of edible stuff out there, and my parents telling me they were refug…

I think I saw some of your work at a few Dead shows in ~1992

The hate for the GDPR I read of is actually about the "allow cookie" popups that aren't needed at all are are just a form of protest by those individual sites because they are stor…

Absolutely! It was a game changer for me. No more OOM with 16GB RAM

I worked in a place where the waitresses tipped out to the kitchen, and everyone got some of the money - including the dishdogs. It was a union (UFCW) restaurant. Cheap health insu…

Glad I saw this - I thought it was some local issue. Amazingly laggy for me with firefox/Debian 12. I restarted firefox thinking it was the problem, apparently not. Very high CPU u…

In this particular case they seem to pull from https://www.maxmind.com/en/home There's a bunch of IP/GPS and physical address lookup sites, services, and databases out there.

Thanks for those book recommendations. I'm always interested in discussion or reactions to Heinlein. >particularly the ones where he sets out to kill a Heinlein book Interesting st…

Presenter Tony Robinson, from Time Team, Blackadder, and others has a whole series on hiking ancient Britain. Here's a playlist, it's got the ridgeway and many other interesting pl…

Ah, presented by Waldemar Januszczak. He's produced quite a few great videos and series.

We ran through the Andrew S Tanenbaum OS book and implemented most of MINIX in two semesters in the late 90s at evergreen state, the basketweaving prototype

I have a system running Debian LTS for ~2 years, with Firefox ESR. No complaints, no nightmares. So far it's just working!