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Is there a specific temperature and exposure duration at which freezing would be effective? This approach has been used against certain other molds.

Was there a technical reason for not using corrugated ducts in the concrete, maybe because it's a shelter?

I guess that's why the two most important suppliers of OLED panels for PC monitors (LG and Samsung) are rearranging their subpixel to use LCD-like RGB stripes: https://www.heise.de…

Any thoughts on how this might be different from existing products like GC Tooth Mousse (CPP-ACP-based, recommended by our children's dentist)? A paper from 2011 on the topic: http…

Thanks for your insights. I did change my mind about the need for a BOM (though not about the need to be able to parse/skip it if present). In a future where everything defaults to…

Makes sense, thank you. The observation about false positives for UTF-8 tending to zero helps understand. So I will vote for UTF-8 without BOM from now on (while encouraging parser…

In a pure UTF-8 world we would not need it, sure. I get that point. But what do you want to do with 40+ years worth of text files that came after 7-bit ASCII, where they may coexis…

Even the Amiga with its 8-bit text encoding was 40 years ago. Are you saying that for some radical reason modern apps on any platform should refuse to process a BOM? Parsing (skipp…

I like your answer, and the others too, but I suspect I have an even worse problem than running Windows: I am an Amiga user :D The Amiga always used all 8 bits (ISO-8859-1 by defau…

Nice article, thank you. I love UTF-8, but I only advocate it when used with a BOM. Otherwise, an application may have no way of knowing that it is UTF-8, and that it needs to be s…

My oldest son is 5, and I am having some of the same thoughts. What system did you do the demos on in the 1990s? Might a "classic" system like that not be the "contained" environme…

Thanks for the feedback. The page [1] has been updated to clarify this detail. The documentation is installed with the package (Help menu, or press F1 to open it), but if you would…

While PC floppy drives are mechanically the same as Amiga floppy drives, the controller that is attached to the drive is different. The controller used in PCs can't handle the stre…

Every demoscene production featured in Amiga Forever was included with permission from their creators. Credits are in the documentation. Please name one demo that you think should …

A century ago engineer Luigi Stipa did experiments with several flying wing aircraft designs. Here is Stipa-Caproni's "intubed propeller" from the 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

It was good to read "Why not AsciiDoc?" in their FAQ: https://markdoc.io/docs/faq

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