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That's a rotating spindle, which indeed can catch a loose thread and reel it in. An oscillating cuter moves back and forth, so it unrolls just as much as it rolls, with no net pull…

> https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/about > > After high school, Alexandria attended Boston University, and graduated with degrees in Economics and International Relations (and tens …

Evolution doesn't plan ahead. Various plants got various random mutations that produce various random chemicals. The ones that were tasty to birds but disgusting to mammals for the…

Unihertz phones still do (even the tiny Jelly Star)

> and laptop Maybe start with a screen module for a Framework laptop: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13/tre... , before/instead of trying to engineer a lapto…

Relatedly, GCC/binutils still has a `.ident` assembly directive ( https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Ident.html ) and `#ident` preprocessor command ( https://gcc.gnu.org/onlin…

My daily driver is a Unihertz Jelly Star: full android 13, but on a 3" screen and it fits in a watch pocket. Probably not for everyone, but I love it and maybe you would too...

Well, is also quite possible that adding such a bug was the previous stage. Or even just having found one that you didn't report/fix...

> this obviously fails if the content is missing. It doesn't, actually - all the fetchers are [fixed-output derivations]( https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/advanced-attr…

The (beat) "drop" is genre term for a buildup of tension, sharp pause, and then suddenly resuming at greater intensity/tempo. Usually associated with EDM/dubstep. E.g. https://www.…

Now it just need to be combined with something like https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch to do a DDC/CI monitor input switch as the USB activity moves around. With a device li…

CO2 is opaque to many wavelengths ("colors") of infrared light. So when the surface would be cooling at night by radiating infrared light back to the darkness of space, CO2 blocks(…

You can dynamically link one service from another container. Choose wisely.

The texas blackout was a major factor - it hit an NXP plant that didn't manage to complete an orderly shutdown in time, and caused enough equipment damage that they couldn't get op…

Just FYI, it lives on, and there's an android keyboard app that implements it! mostly useful if you have a device with stylus, of course: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details…

Also, this function is just regex::escape https://docs.rs/regex/1.4.5/regex/fn.escape.html

I use it in Firefox regularly, and just checked and it runs in chrome too. Weird...

Unihertz still makes lots of the out-of-fashion form factors: https://www.unihertz.com/titan.html is a blackberry-esque android 9.0 device.

If you want to look at the limits of what physics seems to allow (cost practicality be damned), look at things like americansolarchallenge.org winners. They even have a multi-occup…

But heaters on thermostats will just run more if they are putting out less wattage. So across your whole population of houses, you won't move that part of demand much (maybe a few …

Right. But you can buy a stock (without knowing it was a borrowed share in a short sale), and then lend it to someone else (who intends to sell, it, thus creating another short sal…

There's actually a 3rd x86 license, that has changed hands quite a few times (Cyrix -> National Semiconductor -> Centaur(IDT) -> VIA -> Zhaoxin, I think, unless I missed a few tran…

I don't know if there's something either higher up that you'd qualify as "can readily buy", but a [Raptor blackbird]( https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html ) would han…

It depends, [CAM succulents]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassulacean_acid_metabolism ) do their gas exchange at night, and then close their stomata and do the photosynthesis du…

> And they don't even ship the CRT with the compiler any more Just in case you/any other reader didn't know: That's just because they don't consider the ucrt compiler-version-speci…