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What I love most is that Hannah Fry didn't get into the Cambridge undergraduate(?) math program (maths programme for you Brits) but became a math professor at Cambridge. Go Hannah!…

It depends. My indoor-outdoor cat only catches small animals if they run between her paws. But she did chase a rather large raccoon around the house once, as I did. In my suburban …

Huh? I'm a native English speaker and the sentence looks OK. Advances have demonstrated... The NLLB part is an adjectival(sic) phrase that modifies the noun "Advances". Hopefully I…

>Actually faking the existence of billions of people would require a global conspiracy orders of magnitude more complex than anything in human history. No true. All that is require…

I've used Nova Launcher for years (don't know if I'm paid), but I'll be happy to pay for an ad free version. I know there is a long history of companies buying another company for …

I am very happy with the software that powers my Hyundai Tuscon hybrid. (It's a massive system that runs the gas and electric engines, recharging, shifting gears, braking, object d…

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You get what you pay for, one way or another. I prefer to pay in cash rather than in eyeballs, so I use Kagi. No regrets.

Hmmm. What about the pencil shavings? Makes me wonder if the story is true.

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The demofox.org page I see has blue text against a black background - unreadable. No other web page I can recall has this color combination.

I bought a Hyundai Tucson plugin hybrid after a Toyota dealer wanted $8000 over list for an equivalent RAV4.

Massachusetts is #20 in total tax burden by state in 2023.

Funny how people are willing to deny benefits to others while claiming different benefits for themselves. Me thinks you'd feel differently if, say, a fund were created to compensat…

California is #12 in total tax burden in 2023. ( https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur... ) Maine, Vermont, Iowa all havae higher total tax burdens than Cali…

This bill is a gift to the Russians and the Chinese! Now they will be able to read anyone's communications, and do you think they are going to stop encrypting their communications?…

I love this advice! I know it works. Just as George Santos.

\begin{rant} Immanuel Kant (I paraphrase liberally) said the Golden Rule was not enough to decide if an action was ethical or not. One also had to answer in a positive way the ques…

Thank you.

What is pfsync and why do I care?

Examples, examples, examples! Just today I failed to find an example of mounting multiple drives as one Btrfs filesystem. Plenty of how to create Btrfs filesystem examples. But how…

If gravitational waves come from several sources, then are there rogue gravitational waves like in the ocean? Another source described the ordinary gravitational waves as "deafenin…

"Understanding How We Learn" by two cognitive scientists. https://www.learningscientists.org/books

Use a Japanese-style toilet bidet. Bolt-on, cold water ones are less than $50. (You get used to the cold water, surprisingly.) Warm water ones, less than $100. Top-of-the-line (ent…

"Only original data are stored in the vault; no copies are allowed anywhere" means no backups. As a user, I don't want that; I want my data to be available independently of the phy…