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Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.

  • she acts like an authoritative figure on everything. Worked for Kneel de Grass...

  • Sabine is a very bright and well-informed lady. I enjoy listening to her trash the well-paid real grifters. They've started attacking back? That figures. I guess hearing that you've been under-performing for decades makes it hard to stay focussed on the string theories and the 'new particle!' theories.

  • Nope. I chose to go to school and paid to get educated, not to get grades and piece of paper. No cheating, no cramming ... I would only have been paying to cheat myself.

  • Seems to me you'd be better off with a circuit that up-converts 20 to 100 Hz sounds by a factor of 20, putting them into a range you can hear. That would not have to be a complicated circuit, and no doubt they're already out there.

    Or it could convert sounds in that range into something that amplifies those frequencies and vibrates against your skin instead (a 'skin speaker') ... probably easier to make than a converter.

  • A music lover since the day I was born ... and I've heard it all ... I've never heard any 'dark music' per se. If by music you mean music with lyrics, that's different.

    There's no such thing as a 'musical shadow'. Jung's 'Shadow' consists of psychological parts ('garbage pit') you're not aware of because you're hiding them from consciousness (for various reasons). What 'you consider' isn't a part of it.

  • I've always preferred to choose from the options offered by my Distro's repository. I might not install that -exact- version (prefer to install where I can easily back things up).

  • If your reasoning is entirely based in evidence available to everyone else, that's about as trustworthy as you can get. The less people know about it (or the more they've already been misinformed about it by people they -did- trust), the more likely they will not follow your reasoning.

    That, for example, is why it took Tesla years to get anyone to help him build the first AC motors and generators ... including Edison. Most either knew little about it or were already convinced that it couldn't be done.

  • I check a hatfull of old links -every day- (a sort of hobby), and am constantly surprised to see all they've stashed away there.

    Recommend their browser extension for that. If you come across a page that fails to load, it will tell you if it -knows- people have asked it save a copy. If not, and you paste the failed URL into the 'Search URL' box, there's about a 2 in 3 chance you will come up a winner.

    If you land on a working page that you really like, and it doesn't have a memory of it, it will -usually- save it for you if you click on -Save Page Now-. Yeah, that's YOU backing up the good stuff.

    Lately I've seen stuff going back as far the late 90s. One of my most-useful extensions... and there's a lot out there worth saving!

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  • I see quite a bit of humanity in many answers. Keep in mind a sample of people who choose to hang out here instead out there in the rat races (e.g. the Big R)

  • Are you say its only the water temperature that matters, then? Is yer last name 'Kelvin' by any chance?

  • That's the trouble with electrics ... once you buy one, you feel compelled to use it to get your money's worth, ammiright?

    Anyway, a true purist wud NEVER use an electric, wud tha? It'd been over a nice smoky hearth to give it that tang, like figgy puddin'.

  • Sooo ... that'd be bad, then?

  • I've doon thot several times now. And so I -almost always- remember to check that the left digit on the timer is one.

  • In the US, if you go to the store and ask where are the tea towels are, they'll look at you funny, then suggest you look in the T-shirt department.

    I'm not a commie, and if god forsook me, how would I know?

    OTOH, I still mostly only drink Red Rose and Tetley, and given enough steep time ... say 10 or 15 minutes ... they're not so nasty. And I was born -next- to Canada, so I can't be -too- disabled.

  • 10-cent bitcoins

  • Three reasons I can think of.

    • Americans don't drink much tea. And soo...
    • Not many stores carry electric kettles.
    • Microwave tea.
  • It's so unbelievably cold out there, gases tend to liquify, liquids become solids.

  • That needs to be done with a combination of hardware and OS. The hardware needs to allow setting the maximum analog audio voltage delivered at the audio outputs. The OS needs to let users make that choice and then enforce it.

    Of course, more highly-compressed audio will still sound louder. For that you'd need to be able to measure the average delivered voltage and compensate for it. Also easy to do in hardware. Audio has always been an after-thought in consumer electronics (since TV's came along anyway) and computers have continued that tradition.

  • Back to the days when there were only a few TLDs... like .net .org .com. I'd then campaign for a law that disallowed any income-seeking behavior ... adverts, tracking, cookies, porn, scams, promotion, surveillance ... everywhere EXCEPT .com. Break that law, you lose your business and your servers, the CEO does serious time in jail, and noone working for that company is allowed back on the net anywhere until forever.