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Can anyone comment on why this was downvoted? Is it not true? Even though sharing secrets with the Soviets would have been different from sharing them with Israel, if it was unsanc…

In Salt Lake City, Utah the trams are free in the downtown area. You only have to pay if you ride it outside of there. That seems like a nice way to do it. People who wouldn't norm…

Even completely prerecorded scripts can keep them on the phone for over 10 minutes. There's a funny series on YouTube, "Lenny", where they just play a recording of an old man who k…

For the US the parent said it was 200k migrants in one month. That's 2.4 million/year, or 0.7% of the population.

Unshortened link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078ZM3F8G

I immediately did some searches to see if I could find prints, or even high-quality images of some of the pieces. Alternatively, I think it could be fun to try to recreate the work…

Somewhat related, there's a series of German videos made for kids that show how a car is manufactured. It's mostly the bodywork and assembly, not engine stuff, but it's still a goo…

$200k is about $1200/month for the mortgage, taxes, and insurance.

Wouldn't you assume that closed-source products would generally have a competitive advantage against open-source products? Especially for products where most of the contributions t…

Are you sure those are the same bulbs? The ultra efficient versions sold on Amazon have reviews going back to 2017. Supposedly the Dubai-style bulbs were only available in Dubai ev…

But that Arduino tooling and all the libraries, tutorials, etc. wouldn't exist if nobody had bought Arduinos. If I'm just buying a few boards for personal projects I like to suppor…

Uniscuit would be bread. Biscuit translates to "twice cooked" in French. This is similar to biscotti which translates to the same thing in Italian. Fun fact that many French and It…

I've heard stories from relatives about a funhouse like that on Coney Island. Supposedly there was a dark maze section with clowns that would walk around and shock you. As I got ol…

It doesn't look like they are building risk into the playgrounds, as much as they are building the feeling of risk. which isn't necessarily a bad thing. This seems like a compromis…

Given that companies in China are blatantly selling forgeries of US gold coins[1], it appears that they aren't too worried about the consequences. Though maybe it would start to at…

Tiny Tapeout 3 submissions are now active. Design your own chip and it will be added to a large chip containing everyone's submission. Physical chips will be created of the final c…

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dqsgxLyl5E

Even an ESP32 is probably more powerful than every single one of those computers, with the exception of the GameCube. You can emulate NES games on that micro-controller.

Do you mean they just pronounce the "eur" part like in French? Or do they actually say day-rye-eur? It would sound really weird to pronounce the word like in French.

And here's a list of countries ranked by median income based on data from the World Bank. The US is "only" 5th by this measure. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/m…

Were the duration of the phases shortened? The quote makes it sound like the duration was kept the same, just that the following phase started before the end of the previous phase.…

That's not at all what he meant. He was saying that in both cases the stunt man is getting injured, but in the case of digital it doesn't look better than CGI, so at that point why…

Captured by Robots also did this, but his look like humanoid robots and have conversations with the singer which are part of the act. The type of music isn't for everybody (or most…

I love nomographs. My favorite is this Van-der-Pol nomograph that calculates asphalt stiffness for different temperatures, penetration amplitudes, and loading rates. https://www.re…