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Linear Clock

Posted by not_a_boat on Sunday February 09, 2025 @12:26PM
from the commons.wikimedia.org dept.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picadillycircuslinearclock.jpg

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Information Hazard

Posted by not_a_boat on Friday January 24, 2025 @03:49PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hazard

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Why is zero plural? (2024)

Posted by not_a_boat on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @08:33PM
from the ell.stackexchange.com dept.

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/352455/why-is-zero-plural

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ErgoWarp Keyboard

Posted by not_a_boat on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:13AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/pseudoku/ErgoWarp

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Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies

Posted by not_a_boat on Thursday January 16, 2025 @08:59AM
from the build-your-own.org dept.

https://build-your-own.org/blog/20251015_db_in_3000/

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Are Golang slices dynamic arrays or fat pointers? (2024)

Posted by not_a_boat on Friday January 03, 2025 @12:36PM
from the build-your-own.org dept.

https://build-your-own.org/blog/20241125_go_slice_surprise/

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Photographing Art

Posted by not_a_boat on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @09:09AM
from the zedshaw.com dept.

https://zedshaw.com/blog/2017-12-30-photographing-art/v

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Pepper's Ghost

Posted by not_a_boat on Saturday December 28, 2024 @11:35AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

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Browservice: Browser as a Service

Posted by not_a_boat on Thursday December 19, 2024 @05:52AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice

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Apollo Operations Handbook [pdf]

Posted by not_a_boat on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @06:34AM
from the ibiblio.org dept.

https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/SM2A-03-SC012-ApolloOperationsHandbook-Spacecraft012.pdf

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Games and the Fear of Death

Posted by not_a_boat on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:33AM
from the shamusyoung.com dept.

https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1828

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Determine if a random string sounds like English?

Posted by not_a_boat on Monday September 23, 2024 @11:10AM
from the stackoverflow.com dept.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/92006/how-do-i-determine-if-a-random-string-sounds-like-english

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Why Function Keys F1 to F12 Are Useful

Posted by not_a_boat on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:06PM
from the xahlee.info dept.

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_function_keys.html

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The Nazis' Desperate Attempts to Curve a Bullet

Posted by not_a_boat on Sunday September 15, 2024 @10:23AM
from the popularmechanics.com dept.

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Blood-Loving Birds of the Galápagos

Posted by not_a_boat on Friday September 13, 2024 @01:58PM
from the nhm.ac.uk dept.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-vampire-finches.html

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Mutex vs. Semaphore: How to implement them

Posted by not_a_boat on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @05:33AM
from the softwareengineering.stackexchange.com dept.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/340284/mutex-vs-semaphore-how-to-implement-them-not-in-terms-of-the-other

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List of films featuring miniature people

Posted by not_a_boat on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @07:33AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_miniature_people

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Conversion to Grayscale

Posted by not_a_boat on Sunday September 01, 2024 @08:22AM
from the entropymine.com dept.

https://entropymine.com/imageworsener/grayscale/

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Modelling Time Travel in Fiction

Posted by not_a_boat on Friday August 30, 2024 @04:10PM
from the qntm.org dept.

https://qntm.org/models

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Microsoft Games in 2001

Posted by not_a_boat on Saturday August 10, 2024 @04:10PM
from the webdesignmuseum.org dept.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/microsoft-games-2001

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Undark and the Radium Girls

Posted by not_a_boat on Monday August 05, 2024 @01:50PM
from the damninteresting.com dept.

https://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/

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Frutiger Aero Aesthetic

Posted by not_a_boat on Sunday August 04, 2024 @01:11PM
from the frutiger-aero.org dept.

https://frutiger-aero.org/frutiger-aero

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Users Love Change: Combatting a UX Myth

Posted by not_a_boat on Saturday August 03, 2024 @10:38AM
from the nngroup.com dept.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/users-love-change/

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Do Penguins Have Knees? (2019)

Posted by not_a_boat on Monday July 29, 2024 @12:10PM
from the penguinsinternational.org dept.

https://www.penguinsinternational.org/do-penguins-have-knees-and-other-frequently-asked-questions/

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Misleading Graph

Posted by not_a_boat on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @07:47AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleading_graph

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Vertical-Align: All You Need to Know (CSS)

Posted by not_a_boat on Friday July 05, 2024 @11:23AM
from the christopheraue.net dept.

https://christopheraue.net/design/vertical-align

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Projectile use by non-human organisms

Posted by not_a_boat on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @03:56PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectile_use_by_non-human_organisms

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Faxes from the Far Side of the Moon

Posted by not_a_boat on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @07:20AM
from the damninteresting.com dept.

https://www.damninteresting.com/faxes-from-the-far-side/

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Engineering the Penguin Pool at London Zoo

Posted by not_a_boat on Monday May 06, 2024 @10:51AM
from the vam.ac.uk dept.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/engineering-the-penguin-pool-at-london-zoo

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