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I've found a plain (hardback, moleskine-like) notebook with no preprinted page numbers / dates works for me. Dates are filled in when entries are made. It avoids situations where t…

Related, any recommendations on low-cost ways to start playing around with FPGAs? Boards, chips, projects?

AFAIK that usage traces back to the 1990s TV show "Quantum Leap", in which the protagonist would travel in space & time to a new place each episode. The phrase 'Quantum Leap', then…

I still miss the Trivia sections.

Have you tried using a broom?

The only downside I see for electric yard equipment is the vendor lock-in with batteries. Other than that, they work just fine. Pay up front for two batteries and a fast-enough cha…

50cm, not 10cm, but enough. TBH I thought they had 15cm, but for human-scale large object monitoring (fires, traffic, construction) 50cm is enough.

The article also says > Obviously, it was wet with the weather last week, but I honestly can’t remember any huge puddles or anything like that. It’s not like I was driving my car t…

What about the power/weight budget, esp. for the 110 ft. wingspan aircraft mentioned above?

Not live at that resolution, AFAIK. Planet has the spatial resolution but not the temporal resolution. NOAA has the temporal resolution but not the spatial resolution. Please corre…

This kind of argument-against-perfection / argument-against-absolutes is so transparently useless. It may be that I've just been noticing it more, but it seems more common lately. …

I was going to post the same thing. A moral of the story is: put a sticker on the cover of your laptop. Similarly, a bit of flagging tape[1] on luggage isn't a bad idea. Having an …

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I guess one question is: should > did not have 2fa enabled be allowed to coexist with > pretty extensive and personal data

> I wish they hadn’t changed their name from the more evocative “International Earth Rotation Service”. It used to make me think, “What if we stopped paying them and they stopped c…

About 10-20 minutes of your time, if you include the task-switching cost.

The effect of caching on Windows can be quite pronounced if you process large datasets on a machine with a large amount of RAM. If, say, you have 256GB RAM and a 100GB folder of ~1…

Same here, in Canada; it's a metaphorical use, by my reading, similar to ' will only take a second'

I tried the above method, but I didn't see any change in Windows update. What seemed to work for me was a group policy (requires local admin, and probably the non-'home' version of…

From the most biblically-named government department comes a biblical amount of data: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/ See the topo-bathy lidar datasets (or, turn on DEMs…

Wishing him a speedy recovery.