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Here and there, this and that.
The major proponent was also known as
Thomas Midgley Jr.: Accidentally The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived[0]
Leaded gas, CFCs, and accidentally created a machine that ended his own existence.[1]
[0]https://allthatsinteresting.com/thomas-midgley-jr [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
Old trade beads can sometimes be found, old stashes and caches. Pony beads, seed beads, and others. They were traded/used as "money". The Hudson's Bay Company brought millions of them to this continent.
My Grandfather was around in the early days, had a ham call sign from the early 1930s and was involved in the Manhattan Project as a senior non-scientific engineer.
He was also involved in the development of radar/microwave comms after the war.
He and colleagues did the same - warming their hands in front of microwave antennae.
He developed and later died of some unknown neurological issues related to nerve transmission in the early 1990s. He had been exposed to so many different possible dangers that it's impossible to tell.
After he died I helped clean out and save/donate the double-garage full of ham equipment and home-built telescopes - one was ~.75metre diameter and ~3 metres long, just huge - I was just a teen and let most of it go as my grandmother didn't care by then.
There were also many containers of classified documents, related to WWII and after. Those were appropriately dealt with.
I've always HAD microwaves but have been aware of the issues. I'm a ham as well and still occasionally use the morse key he gave me when I was 7. Still miss him, he taught me so much.
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I don't mind music-on-hold as much except when they break with a human voice at intervals saying inane things such as "your call is important to us. Thank you for holding" Which makes me think the call has been answered. If there's not actual call queue information, just play music so I can ignore it and continue working without that NOP interrupt.
An interesting alternative "reverse" take on the Pomodoro technique.
the buttons jumping up and down when correct or incorrect is jarring on my smaller screen, forcing a constant space there or moving the message would be a smoother UX, in my opinion.
So does Time Team, and they're back making new episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtpbubYLW2fdf9ySyCS0f...
> As of 2025, he also teaches mathematics at Rudgers University.
In the second sentence.
Not even run through an AI grammar-checker?
I personally have been using "Auto Tab Discard" for years. It works perfectly for me, and you can set a group of tabs to not unload. It has a ton of options. I have ~320 tabs open right now, for multiple projects and only ~5 are loaded.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...
Dendrochronology (dating cut trees via counting rings/size/ratios) has its own subjective interpretations, and different databases that don't always line up.
I ended up on Debian/XFCE. Lightweight enough and I've worked out how everything works and have it customized 100% to my workflow.
I remember seeing women on the sides of the highway in one part of town gathering plants to eat, there's plenty of edible stuff out there, and my parents telling me they were refugees. Must have been in '74/'75 and I was a wee lad. In a Southern state. My parents were PhDs from Berkley and UCLA who got positions in the south so it was a weird time and place. For everyone.
I think I saw some of your work at a few Dead shows in ~1992
The hate for the GDPR I read of is actually about the "allow cookie" popups that aren't needed at all are are just a form of protest by those individual sites because they are storing and selling personal information including IP addresses.
If you aren't engaged in those practices then there's no need for any GDPR annoyances for users.
I may misunderstand, I'm in America currently.
Absolutely! It was a game changer for me. No more OOM with 16GB RAM
I worked in a place where the waitresses tipped out to the kitchen, and everyone got some of the money - including the dishdogs. It was a union (UFCW) restaurant. Cheap health insurance and 2 weeks paid vacation after 2 years, 4 weeks paid after 7 years. Not bad benefits for restaurant work. This was a while back though.
Glad I saw this - I thought it was some local issue. Amazingly laggy for me with firefox/Debian 12. I restarted firefox thinking it was the problem, apparently not. Very high CPU usage as well.
In this particular case they seem to pull from https://www.maxmind.com/en/home
There's a bunch of IP/GPS and physical address lookup sites, services, and databases out there.
Thanks for those book recommendations. I'm always interested in discussion or reactions to Heinlein.
particularly the ones where he sets out to kill a Heinlein book
Interesting statement, I'm grabbing those books now.
Presenter Tony Robinson, from Time Team, Blackadder, and others has a whole series on hiking ancient Britain.
Here's a playlist, it's got the ridgeway and many other interesting places. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL72jhKwankOhU9PaMnSMA...
Ah, presented by Waldemar Januszczak. He's produced quite a few great videos and series.
We ran through the Andrew S Tanenbaum OS book and implemented most of MINIX in two semesters in the late 90s at evergreen state, the basketweaving prototype
I have a system running Debian LTS for ~2 years, with Firefox ESR. No complaints, no nightmares. So far it's just working!
I'm updating to bookworm on my daily driver laptop today - testing the full system backup now.
I've had minimal issues recently with debian but decades of debacles (not just debian, everything from RSX-11 to windows server) have made me cautious. So exhausted with wasted time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_the_End_of_Time
Is a great read, Star based plasma intelligence and the travel to the heat death of the universe.
101 In Oregon used to have at least one in every tiny town, haven't been out that way in a while but I found some amazing deals on some old and rare books.
Same here, it was a great day discovering that back in the early 90s
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote some great global disaster novels as well. Footfall and Lucifer's Hammer.
Available on archive.org. https://archive.org/details/mutant59plastice00pedl
Has some hilarious and also frightening writing. It's pulp fiction so don't expect greatness but worth a read for sure.
I ordered a magtape of MINIX from the back of the AST book, but never got it running even after going through getting a tape reader. Was highly dissapointing as I saved up my allownace as a 15 year old to buy the tape.