mauvehaus

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by mauvehaus 5d ago
In the early nineties in elementary school I lived in Belgium, and went to a summer camp where we programmed with Logo in a localized French version. I had played with Logo on Apple IIe's in the US, and thought it made sense that in a
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by mauvehaus 6d ago
Bike shops have yards of that stuff in the late winter/early spring. At least Trek shops do, dunno about others. Trek uses it to tie stuff onto the frame in the box to keep it all from rattling around.
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by mauvehaus 7d ago
Depending on just how uninclined to rewatch The Odyssey you are, you may enjoy the hell out of Emily Wilson's review. For a taste: "It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmick
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by mauvehaus 7d ago
This is awesome and I love it! Congratulations, and welcome to realizing that once you can make things, you can make exactly what you want, regardless of whether it's practical or economical (as you discovered). If you have a partner,
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by mauvehaus 9d ago
I love that La Fontaine is named in tribute to Marcel Duchamp[0], even if calling a splash-free urinal a fountain would seem a bit confusing on the surface. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
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by mauvehaus 12d ago
We can't all be wizards at everything, as evidenced by the electrical "surprises" I keep uncovering in this house I own that was built by a plumber.
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by mauvehaus 12d ago
The solution is left as an exercise for the reader. Giving away more would spoil the fun for the curious!
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by mauvehaus 12d ago
I love that seemingly random trades that we largely take for granted have these case studies that result in awards for things us muggles never think about. A garage I went to subscribed to a trade magazine for towing and recovery companies
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The sextant as backup navigation tool for astronauts(bbc.com)
4 points by mauvehaus 12d ago|0 comments
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by mauvehaus 14d ago
A Prius isn't taking off from a stop under strictly ICE power. The electric motor in the transmission lowers the load on the ICE, certainly enough to let the engine oil pump generate operating pressure before it's really under loa
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Why robotic pizza makers are failing(bbc.com)
7 points by mauvehaus 20d ago|0 comments
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by mauvehaus 21d ago
Ground products are also what lets us make more efficient use of the animal. I took my first deer a couple years ago, and had it cut by a local guy. I got back 60 pounds of meat, of which about 30 was ground[0]. Supposing cows yield a bette
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry dies at 80(bbc.com)
2 points by mauvehaus 21d ago|1 comments
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by mauvehaus 23d ago
Oh man, I just listened to an episode of Decoder Ring about why making classical realist sculptures in the US is a challenge. It gives some interesting context about the rejection of realism in the post-war West: https://podcasts
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by mauvehaus 26d ago
Before the beginning of June is mud season, and the Green Mountain Club asks people to stay off the trails to protect them. Before mud season, it's winter, which is an altogether different adventure entirely. https://greenmo
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by mauvehaus 27d ago
My partner's place of employment has a fiscal year ending June 30th and a use-it-or-lose-it vacation policy. We are hikers who live in the northeastern United States, which means we're inevitably planning a backpacking trip to use
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by mauvehaus 29d ago
There's a crag in MA where the access is specifically conditioned on the crag not having a guidebook or the routes being recorded in an online database. I don't know of any violence occurring over any of this, but I know there hav
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Why one name will appear 4 times on Vermont's Republican primary ballot(vermontpublic.org)
3 points by mauvehaus 1mo ago|0 comments
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by mauvehaus 1mo ago
Not by much. A mile is 1000 paces, or 2000 steps [0]. 10000 steps is 5 miles, 10km is 6.2 miles. Walking on flat, paved surfaces, I do about 1850 steps per mile of distance[1]. I have a pretty long inseam, so I'm not surprised that I&#
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by mauvehaus 1mo ago
That's in Connecticut and it's older than London, Ontario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut
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by mauvehaus 1mo ago
They what?! Can we please get a link to this to read more?! And yes, I have the same Google as you, but I'd love a link to your preferred telling of the tale of how the Soviets nuked a gas well fire just a couple years before I was bor
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
> All 21 pelican-bicycle images, across all seven labs, face right. No other animal/vehicle combination does that. > However, facing right is common: 60% of all 1,008 images do it. How common depends on the animal and the vehicl
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
Counterpoint: I always found WERS to be a slightly broader interpretation of adult contemporary programming than the commercial stations. My goto was WUMB, which is out of UMass Boston, and played a consistent format (folk and Americana, I
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
Because multi-family buildings (required for higher density) come with more complicated ownership models. Owner occupied triple deckers in Boston, for example, often come with their own condo associations because there needs to be some way
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
Approximately no one on the US home front had to fear harm coming to them from a Mitsubishi product. This stands in rather stark contrast to the experience on the British home front: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/secon
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
> Why does 911 even exist? Because liquor stores get robbed sometimes, but they aren't usually found in the middle of a national forest.
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
It's more that if you're that far off the beaten path, you'd better be prepared to hunker down and live with any kind of emergency that comes up for several hours up to a couple of days anyway . Which, for the record, is my
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
What harm are you worried about coming to in the middle of a national forest that having the internet could possibly save you from? You're in a van, for heaven's sakes. You can roll up the windows, lock the doors, and/or driv
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
I find this usage less objectionable than the education jargon. It suggests that we all have a latent understanding of the turboencabulation principle just waiting for the right activity to force air into its ballast tanks and make it pop a
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
In my brief and abortive foray into education, I discovered that they friggin' love to use "surface" as a verb. As in: This activity surfaces an understanding of the turboencabulation principle for learners. Or somesuch. It&#

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