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> I like it! I just wish it weren't fixed. Now there's just a bar I'm ignoring that's obscuring part of the useful information.

The old UK sci-fi television series, Blakes 7, which aired in 1970's had this as one of their predicted technologies. Entire portions of machinery would regenerate after being expl…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light

This was covered.

Worse than that, I used to be very knowledgeable about a topic and having not played the game and not scored any points, it was too frustrating to answer questions there. The unfor…

I have home edition, it is set to reboot in the middle of the night. The laptop goes to sleep or hibernates when I go to bed, one or the other, the update is still pending when I s…

Have you tried to read a page on facebook without an account? It's intended to be an almost unusable experience. On loading a page, I get a modal popup obscuring all content insist…

Make that 7km, at 7km/hr, 3 times a week and I believe you hit the sweet spot of the Danish study that came out a couple of years ago. If I recall correctly, it monitored ~20000 pe…

I used the arc archiver mentioned by others, back in the 90's if not earlier. I've probably still got archives on a disk somewhere.

The article was about some woman who was unhappy and quit her job, and had some resources to fall back on. I am sure lots of points can be projected onto it, but the long and the s…

When I programmed in university pre-2000, I used gopher in place of google. Applicable matches were limited to source code file search, which gave examples of function calling out …

Did you read the article? It mentioned unlimited guests to meals, with an open bar. As well as something like a gym washing service. It's clear in the article that there were more …

Back before decent search engines, there was gopher or ftp search. I used to search for function names or some part of some API in gopher (or ftp search), and find source code in p…

Regarding: > Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected. I often find that when I follow Facebook links, I get a login page, r…

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I quit drinking coke zero on purpose for months at a time, and come back to it, just to appreciate it again. At no time have I ever thought it tastes sickly sweet. Of course, diet …

Lot's of dependencies are used that they do not own the rights to do this with. Not practical.

There are comments" rel="nofollow">http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80875">comments on one of the Amiga communities most popular forums by a Olaf Barthel, a developer who mode…

Similarly, back when I used to maintain Stackless Python and do merges in from mainline Python, my benchmark was to only have the same set of failing tests post-merge for the same …

All my different devices have shoddy software. From every smart phone I've bought to smart televisions and not so smart satellite decoders and bluray players. None of them have sou…

The copenhagen study is one that stays with me. Over a period of 35 years, and ~17000 people, there are some interesting charts showing guidelines to optimise jogging for longevity…

From what I recall, the results in a study showed that the primary care giver of an alzheimer's patient was more likely to get alzheimer's themselves. The argument against transmis…

If you have multiple google accounts like the gmail website in a browser on a PC, you can switch between them by just choosing the account from the google accounts menu. Tremendous…

I was wondering this myself, there's about 9 wifi connections around the samsung "smart" tv I use.

> ..., while people not writing asynchronous code can pretty much ignore it if they want to. I don't think this is strictly true. If there is code which is available only in async …