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You can pyrolize the wood by cooking it in an oxygen-free environment, cooking off almost all of the nitrogen and other nutrients and leaving nearly pure carbon in the form of char…

I'm sure a lot of it is already spent in the form of reverse-mortgages on homes.

I guess you could look at paper tape as a physical manifestation of redirecting terminal I/O to text files using > and < in the shell.

Can you get gloves made from PTFE? I feel those would be the closest you could get to an "everything" glove.

Use 99% isopropyl alcohol. Add in a teaspoon of table salt -- it won't dissolve in the alcohol and will act as a mild abrasive to help remove stubborn residue. Rinse thoroughly wit…

For one thing, it could delegate to a local service. Granted, the communication to this service is probably still be over a socket interface, but at least as a purely-local connect…

or just, "The Expert Problem"

At that point just start using an SQLite database as a data format.

I always thought it would be interesting if Spacex developed a "dragon utility module". It would launch in Dragon's trunk and consist of a docking port on one end, an airlock on th…

And the form clears every time you go back/forward

A heat pump could be used to cool the water to below-ambient and inject that heat directly into the outgoing compressed air. I wonder if a system like that would be more efficient …

I believe there was a man named Armond Hammer who was the CEO of the company that owns Arm&Hammer (the baking soda company) at one point.

No, but you could blackmail a social media manager to further your cause by planting a bug in the office, for example.

from the article, apparently Wayland display servers already support multi-touch gestures.

Does anyone have a clone of the original repository?

Even if the bad actors found the same nail polish to re-apply after tampering, the pattern of glitter flecks would be different. The recipient could compare a high-resolution photo…

There are already some solutions around that try to address this on a consumer level. I recently watched a teardown for a piece of test gear that utilizes frequencies injected dire…

I was pleasantly surprised when I started my first R&D job after university. It's just like a FIRST team but everything is bigger including the robots. I don't think anything else …

Minecraft with the OpenComputers[1] mod might fit your requirements. It adds computers and robots into Minecraft that are programmable with Lua. [1]: https://www.curseforge.com/min…

What advantage does fossil have over Git in this case?

For most paywall sites like this, you can also get the full content by being quick on the 'escape' key after reloading. If you can interrupt it after the static article content loa…

That would be an interesting metric: normalized accident rates for self-driving cars vs octogenarian-driven cars.

I bet most porch pirates will have an easier time fencing a tv rather than a desk, and so would be more likely to take a TV box.

uBlock Origin seems to block all advertising on Youtube for me, including pre-roll and intermission ads in the videos. The only advertising I see on youtube these days is the spons…

SQLite has a page measuring performance of internal blobs vs external files: https://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html