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Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant on Thursday August 29, 2024 @03:44AM (#41388343)
Similarly, Jack London's /People of the Abyss/
Re:Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:31AM (#19206500)
I remember playing xtron in the office maybe 20 years ago.

https://screenshots.debian.net/package/xtron

Re:Google gives Wikimedia millions on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:03AM (#18976794)
A similar vintage, but slightly younger than everything1 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2g2 / https://www.h2g2.com/
I like DBeaver. YMMV.
Re:The little black book of scams (2016) on Monday December 10, 2018 @10:34AM (#18648575)
That's the one.
Re:The little black book of scams (2016) on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:48AM (#18588680)
I was hoping it included the fiddle scam from American Gods.
I remember reading this some years back, about horizontal resistance rather than vertical resistance.

http://sharebooks.com/system/files/Return-to-Resistance.pdf

I was unable to find a whole lot more information on the subject at the time.

Leaving it to stand works for chlorine, but not for chloramine, which a lot of tap water is treated with now instead. One would have to check with one's supplier.
Re:Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:57AM (#15959299)
A bit like Anthem in Dirk Gently.
Re:Better Database Migrations in Postgres on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:02AM (#15236121)
I have taken to using DBeaver. The overall experience is really nice.

I don't like that you have to toggle your "Active database" rather than just opening a new window with a new connection to a different database. If that annoys me much more then I plan to try SquirrelSQL and then retry Postage.

I never understood the hate that pgAdmin3 received, I liked it a lot. V4 though is a mess.

Re:Why nature prefers hexagons on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:42AM (#14941057)
Jürgen Tautz's "The Buzz about Bees" mentions this.

It says the bees build cylindrical cells around themselves initially, but then raise the temperature of the wax to 37-40 degrees C, when the wax is warm enough to flow into the hexagonal shapes.

(Pages 172-176)