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Re:How Boston City Hall was born
on Sunday December 22, 2024 @03:59PM (#42489043)
Sounds like one solution would be to apply a sealant that looks like bare concrete.
Re:Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of ma...
on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:50PM (#41397098)
Caltech - where your best just isn't good enough.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixieza/79223350
Re:30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 8% for the first time since 2000
on Thursday October 19, 2023 @09:05PM (#37950987)
It is amazing how much less time it takes to pay off a 30 year mortgage if you increase the payments 10%. The first good many years are paying mostly just the interest.
Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch
on Monday May 09, 2022 @06:47PM (#31320870)
I have a very cheap plastic one with a dial, which works amazing well for the cost (<$10). I don't remember where I bought it, but it looks like this one:
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-900003
Re:Big cars are killing Americans
on Saturday January 01, 2022 @09:53PM (#29765299)
Kinetic energy is a good measure for a baseball, because essentially all of the kinetic energy is being transferred from the small object to you.
Kinetic energy is not a good measure for a car or B-52, as after the collision the large object has essentially the same kinetic energy, and a very small fraction has been transferred to you.
A bicycle is more toward the small object side, as a pedestrian is going to absorb a good fraction of the kinetic energy of the rider, which is much larger than the kinetic energy of the bicycle itself.
Re:Generating Coherent Noise Using Fourier Transforms
on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:01PM (#27440743)
>> Taking the FFT, modifying frequency amplitudes
Re:Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree
on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:13PM (#25129919)
AMA95 is one of the few Caltech classes that I still think about, mostly because it was not useful. Almost all of my other classes have been useful over the years.
I wish that the math sequence for non-math majors had included linear algebra instead.
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NASA-Developed Ventilator Authorized for Emergency Use
Re:State of JavaScript 2019
on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:18PM (#21836919)
>> makes sure to walk the trainees through the confusing states you can get into,
>> then we explain what happened, why, and how to correctly get out of them
Re:First all-electric seaplane takes flight in B.C.
on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:42PM (#21776850)
You have to convert the wood to charcoal to burn hot enough for a blacksmith forge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal
I highly recommend a visit to Plimouth Plantation to anyone interested in 1700's era technology: https://www.plimoth.org/
Or Old Sturbridge Village for 1800's era technology: https://www.osv.org/
Re:The 40% Keyboard
on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:47PM (#21590339)
I don't travel with an extra keyboard, but I do take a mouse.
An external mouse is so much better, and hardly takes up any space.
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Kerbal Space Program 2 - delay until after Mars 2020
Verilog for all proposed RISC-V bitmanip instructions
Re:Why a mock doesn’t work
on Monday August 05, 2019 @01:26PM (#20616096)
The talk that you link to: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/tdd-original/
Ian Cooper reminds what was Kent's original proposition on TDD, what misunderstandings occurred along the way,
and suggests a better approach to TDD, one that supports development rather impeding it.Top apps freelancers need to run a successful business
Re:Bankrupt Maker Faire revives, reduced to Make Community
on Friday July 12, 2019 @12:38AM (#20418214)
"Table saws in use in the United States: Estimates range between 6 million and 10 million... in any particular year, about one table saw in 229 will be in an accident that sends someone to the emergency room." https://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/table-saw-injury-...
Re:Choking game, also known as the fainting game
on Monday July 01, 2019 @12:45PM (#20327176)
>> bet it's considerably higher than per hour of cruising around on a motorbike..
"Haaf was described as an experienced skydiver with over 1,200 jumps and was a frequent visitor to Skydive Cross Keys" https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/south-jer...
Re:Most Bike-Friendly Cities on the Planet
on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:37AM (#20305418)
Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Antwerp, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Oslo, Paris, Vienna, Helsinki,
Bremen, Bogotá, Ljubljana, Berlin, Tokyo, Taipei, Vancouver, Montreal, HamburgMost Bike-Friendly Cities on the Planet
Re:Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:28PM (#20235116)
Fun for foreigners (both in Tokyo area):
Itabashi Station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itabashi_Station
Iidabashi_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iidabashi_Station
(the major difference you hear is the long ii, rather than the t/d difference)
Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them
Re:Learning Chess at 40 (2016)
on Friday June 14, 2019 @12:44PM (#20184395)
>> last few times I tried to play chess, my mind would just drift off designing a program to do it so I wouldn't have to bother.
I do find a good game of chess to be enjoyable, though.
Re:Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, try
on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:15PM (#20106696)
>> without `go fmt` "fixing" itAnd this line should be indented relative to the 'happy path' lines!