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>especially FOSS. I just wanted to log in and point out that Free Software got started at MIT.

My wife and I listened to that on a road trip and enjoyed it as well! The part that really sticks with me is how people were trying to drop weights off of the Tower of Pizza and us…

If you're interested in this, read Dava Sobel's book, "Longitude". Harrison was the archetype of the stubborn, self-educated genius that stuck to his ideas, fought the system for m…

I won't go into details but I'm dealing with a somewhat similar situation. If you love your family and want them to make decisions for you when you're incapacitated instead of stra…

Key word: ESTATE attorney. Preferably belonging to a large and well respected firm. Don't get just any attorney willing to do it, they won't be equipped for it and shit will go wro…

As a general rule of thumb, things like this are named to compensate for what they aren't. Look at the PATRIOT Act.

https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html It's a GNU project.

I felt the same way trying to use ledger. Apparently there's a way to import your CC charges from online banking CSVs, but I never tried it out. I ended up giving myself a weekly a…

I'm surprised to see a GNU project that not only hosts their code on GitHub, but also has an official Facebook community. What gives?

If you just do the date at each page header and timestamp each note to enable linking, your notes will get much easier to deal with. I actually started doing this because I'm fairl…

The author misses Rite in the Rain, which makes my favorite notebooks, they're printed with heavy, acid-free, waterproof paper. Pairs great with a Fisher pen cartridge (waterproof,…

>This kind of vehicle is meant to look big and imposing to project a certain image. Actually modern trucks got so big to get around Obama-era fuel efficiency standards.

To protect against bit flips in car fly-by-wire systems, each signal is sent three times with the 2/3 majority making the decision. This happened after the runaway Prius fiasco tha…

I came in here to mention vernier calipers, I've gotten instant respect out of more than one machinist when I pulled them out instead of the digital calipers. They're fun to use to…

Fair enough, but I think I still would have used the Al wheels. They used known defective wheels, wrecked their project, didn't cross the finish line and potentially upset a big su…

Well it very well could have if things went a little different. Bittorrent was revolutionary, but slow to adapt. Maybe if it was more user friendly, or had more browser integration…

Jesus reading this thread makes me think I should go into the courier business.

If somebody pulls strings like that for you, you need to use the aluminum wheels.

I think it was made for publishing scientific research, and you could flag the options for what you wanted checked. If you were okay without the passive voice hints, you could stil…

Yeah but think of the wealth that could have trickled down to the middle class and eventually the lower class because of that jet ferrying the rich around to distribute their money…

I did the same thing. I used to put a lot of effort into getting a perfect FLAC rip of everything I ever listened to, having them on my devices, or setting up streaming from a home…