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Wow, cool. How did you go about assembling it? brought

Nothing big or special. I punched some holes into the bottle and made it drip onto the towel that was wrapped around the box that contained our snacks etc. Had a fan pointed to the towel. That is all. Evaporative (heat) loss is the keyword. What made me remember this, was the fact that I was in between about 2000 hackers who probably all thought about this.. but that I was (afaik) the only one who actually did it. In…

Swamp cooler is the term.

Re: Ask HN: Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery

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College / Certification Hack. I took A+, Network+, and Linux+ and got transfer credits for 3 linux classes, 1 networking and 1 hardware class, spending only a few hundred dollars and saving several thousand, shaving time off my time to graduate and having several certs to show for it.
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