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by zafka 3mo ago
Hi, I have made quite a few "Ocarinas", but not designed for musicians, but rather curio collectors. I started to look into making well tuned ones, but for the place and time i was in, it did not seem worthwhile. I am getting
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by zafka 3mo ago
This interesting! We entered my Mom into this study. Next month she will be 98. I think her habit of exercising contributed a lot, but the good (lucky) genetics are there too. She used to get carded well into her 30s.
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by zafka 4mo ago
It might be childish, but I did laugh at the Ben Carson aside.
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Pirsig on: What he did and did not write (2022)(lithub.com)
3 points by zafka 4mo ago|0 comments
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by zafka 5mo ago
I have to say that the reworded title is what made me read the article. It is almost poetic. I could see it being a title of a campy movie.
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by zafka 7mo ago
Hmmm, Now I need to find out where my copy is hiding. I really need to reorganize the books again. I savored this for a while, but have not gone through the entire book yet. Sort of like War & Peace - books that everyone must read befor
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by zafka 7mo ago
Hi, I sort of wandered into my career. I started in telecom due to a co-op, and then jumped to a cool job making computers for blind people that was both closer to my home, but also offered the opportunity to see many parts of the busin
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by zafka 7mo ago
I am curious(because I get stuffed up a lot also) Do you know what is causing your stuffiness?
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by zafka 7mo ago
When I was a kid, I scavenged a hunk of cable "Ma Bell" had left behind. I spliced together a quarter mile pair of wires to connect the neighbors house to mine and hooked up a battery and microphone on one side, and a speaker on t
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by zafka 7mo ago
I know I am biased both by my education and my chosen path . My first computer class was pascal based,my second course was intel based assembler. These were both in community college. When I started my degree in Computer Engineering, the mi
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by zafka 8mo ago
I was turned on to Chock full o' Nuts years ago, and have never turned back. I will drink any coffee in a pinch, but for great mild coffee I stick to Chock full o' nuts in my french press.
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by zafka 8mo ago
What jumps out at me is the use of the "constant currency" term. I do not think I have seen that before - Admittedly, I do not study a lot of financials. Is this something that we are going to see a lot of now, due to devaluation
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by zafka 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things This book - or its later editions, should be required reading for ALL engineers and designers. Actually for their managers as well.
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Humans Near top of list of monogamous mammals(theguardian.com)
2 points by zafka 9mo ago|0 comments
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by zafka 9mo ago
I wonder if what seems like much higher margins in coffee allow for more articles like this. While I want what they are saying to be true, I wish I did not have to pay $15.00 for a 26 ounce can of coffee.
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by zafka 10mo ago
Thanks for your data points. They are quite encouraging. I was blessed with the ability to remember way more information that most of my peers. Now that I have lost some of that ability, I still retain quite a bit, with slower retrieval ti
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by zafka 11mo ago
You can pick up Silicon Carbide grit pretty cheap online ( impure moissanite ). I have several tumblers, but have yet to finish the process of making polished gems- but it is still on my bucket list :). I have made lots of "sea glass:
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by zafka 11mo ago
> If you look at what happened to experiments with feeding house cats an altered diet in just a few generations. Can you point to a reference?
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by zafka 1y ago
I will second that. While I do have a computer Engineering degree, I am really more drawn to the stuff posted here outside my areas of expertise. I also like to hear what highly proficient folks have to say about current events and trends -
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by zafka 1y ago
I love the idea of 15 years in my 60s, I guess you are do the calculations in Hexadecimal.
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by zafka 1y ago
If you want to see a website from that era see: http://zafka.com While a few changes have been made, the "style" remains unchanged.
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by zafka 1y ago
Anyone know much about current state of the art for using this for fusion? Sounds like China is planning to mine it from the moon.
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Helium 3(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by zafka 1y ago|3 comments
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by zafka 1y ago
I worked a summer job at a factory that made box cars. 10x10 or larger sheets of 1/4 inch plate steel lifted on stacks with chain hoists, box cars tacked together, then put on a large rotisserie, so it could be turned as all the seams
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by zafka 1y ago
My wife is a retired nurse ( American ), she uses that term when referring to such pregnancies.
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Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman(wvutoday.wvu.edu)
205 points by zafka 1y ago|152 comments
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by zafka 1y ago
Right before I came to this article, I watched a video about Alpha fold determining the structure of almost all proteins, and the mention of other programs working on other forms of crystal structures( Magnets, superconductors) I am staring
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by zafka 1y ago
Nitinol has been haunting me since 1977 or so. It is such a cool alloy. When I first heard of it, very little had been done with it, and now it is used in many areas. I have yet to come up with any killer use of it on my own though......
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by zafka 1y ago
This does bring back fun memories! My favorite application was to make the game of ping pong a little more random. Small amounts scattered across the table would result in puffs of purple smoke and the ball changing direction.
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by zafka 1y ago
Howard, Where in FL? Shoot me an email sometime, my email is in profile. Regards, Jim

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