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> Unfortunately this stunt is functioning as free publicity for this firm, because it's getting written about... Yeah I suspect a lot of their cases going forward will be on contin…

It's already the start for Night of the Living Dead .

It might be a fun project to create a UI for use with low refresh displays. Maybe have config options for super low refresh rates, color calibration for the new eink displays and a…

Personally I love the feature, but I really feel like window managers/desktop environments should be handling window tabs. Imagine your desktop handling all tabs across all program…

I read somewhere that he even programs on paper and punches it into a computer when he's done. As for myself, I definitely understand the problem he's describing. I catch all my fl…

You should talk to some teachers who've been teaching since before 2010. They almost all say that kids got noticeably dumber around the time smartphones became common. They also sa…

It was in an Economist article sometime around December; unfortunately I canceled my subscription because of their screen-hijacking ads, so I'm not able to find it. Problem was, Uk…

I'm a bit of a nerd for hand tools and I've the same book for axes, and another for hand files lying around somewhere. Around this time these tool companies had a huge array of des…

People are getting screwed every which way so any change seems like an opportunity for improvement. Even Ukraine was excited to see Biden leave office so they could at least have a…

Something worth saving in a programmable calculator, like Naismith's Rule [1] or calculating the day of week for any date [2]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naismith%27s_rule 2:…

Nitpick? No. I'm kind of a fan of Mason and Dixon and I think it's a great story.

Just curious, were they able to purge or scrub the smoke from the cabin? Seems like a battery fire in a closed space like that would be a lung hazard.

One notable exception to this was Jeremiah Dixon, of the Mason-Dixon line. From Wikipedia: > "Jeremiah Dixon, happening upon a slave driver mercilessly beating a poor black woman. …

Vitamin D deficiency has also been linked to cancer, specifically colorectal IIRC. Also people who had D deficiency were more likely to have problems with COVID.

The base units of the metric system are often not very ergonomic. Why is a meter so damn big? And why is a gram so damn small? I can barely detect a gram. And a meter is frickin hu…

Muni utilities get treated with kid's gloves by courts though. I have direct personal experience of a muni burning nearly a quarter million acres, destroying over 500 homes and ~10…

Heat is the real killer for LEDs. Most LEDs sold for home lighting do not have very good thermal regulation, possibly as a planned obsolesence "feature".

> with intelligence comparable to dogs Pigs are thought to be closer to toddlers in intelligence and they can use tools without any human help. Personally, I never eat them. Too we…

It goes back at least to Plutarch: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/plutarchE.html There's speculation that this was derived from an earlier Erisian mystery cult, but how i…

I've begun to notice the number five a lot. I was reading Tammy Wynette's wiki page the other day and noticed that it appears quite a bit -- born May 5th (5/5), married five times,…

Thanks for the heads up! Just ordered one.