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Re:Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media
on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @07:55PM (#39296466)
Dial up? That's what ruined the internet. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended...
Re:Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?
on Saturday January 07, 2023 @03:15AM (#34286206)
You're going to love this playlist from Practical Engineering [1]. Grady explains all of this much better than I could. The second video explains reinforcement and the fifth explains pre-stressing.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOHURuAf5iY&list=PLTZM4MrZKf...
Re:I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened
on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:11PM (#33456798)
For most of us, making content consistently leads to making more top quality content over time, through helping us increase our skills: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Atomic_Habits/XfFvDwAAQ...
Re:Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)
on Saturday April 30, 2022 @01:05AM (#31213477)
Re:Jumping the Air Gap: 15 Years of Nation-State Effort [pdf]
on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:06PM (#29516030)
Also interesting that "All the frameworks used USB drives as the physical transmission medium to transfer data in and out
of the targeted air-gapped networks. We have not found any case of actual or suspected use of covert physical transmission mediums,
such as acoustic or electromagnetic signals."
Re:Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books
on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @07:44PM (#29411137)
The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2, p. 144: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_World_as_Will_and_R...
Re:CA drought: Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years, scien...
on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:59PM (#28217647)
There is some investment. E.g., San Diego has had a desalination plant since 2012: http://carlsbaddesal.sdcwa.org/financial-affordability/ .
Re:Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile p...
on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:25PM (#27911678)
Germans also have been somehow ok with paying bribes: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-siemens-executive-plea...
https://www.dw.com/en/ex-siemens-manager-pleads-guilty-in-us...
In the 90s, those bribes would have been tax deductible in Germany: https://archive.is/Eit0f
Re:Making a digital clock in Google Sheets
on Saturday December 26, 2020 @12:36AM (#25541663)
To fix it, you can change cell U1 from
=iferror(regexextract(text(HOUR(A1),"##"),"^\d"),"0") =iferror(regexextract(text(HOUR(A1),"00"),"^\d"),"0")
Re:New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejecte...
on Thursday August 20, 2020 @06:13PM (#24229644)
If you only publish the positive results, you miss the context of the unsurprising results. For example, in https://xkcd.com/882/ , if the results from all the experiments in the comic were published, the public would know that the "Green Jellybeans cause acne" result is probably a fluke.
Re:Professor solves 240 computer science exam problems in 4 hours [video]
on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:48PM (#23765086)
What do you do professionally? How do you use automata there?
Re:Training Recurrent Neural Networks [pdf]
on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:05AM (#12650370)
You can just change the URL to https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ilya/pubs/ilya_sutskever_phd_the... to get valid https.