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A 2022 Technology Connections video explores various ways to boil water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c

And a 2020 video about different voltages in the US electrical systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMmUoZh3Hq4


"Uncurled" by Daniel Stenberg, maintainer of curl, is a great resource for FOSS maintainers as well:

https://un.curl.dev/


Do chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) mostly banned by the Montreal Protocol count?


And lead in gasoline, and probably quite a few other things where we found a way to get similar end results with fewer annoying side effects.


A different UI to the mailing list with the whole thread on one page and diff coloring, if anyone is interested: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250319-rfc2203-seqnum-cache-v...



> In this second test, the word error rate was 43.75 percent, meaning participants identified a bit more than half of the recorded words correctly.

> [...]

> “We’re not at the point where it could be used in open-ended conversations. I think of this as a proof of concept,” [Sergey Stavisky, a neuroscientist at UC Davis and a senior author of the study] says.

The ability to produce sound without a use of a dictionary sounds awesome. It is an interesting result, a proof of concept as the author of the study says, but the title is editorialized at best and effectively clickbait at worst, because most readers will assume that "near instantaneous speech" means "clear intelligible speech and ability to communicate".


Ok, I've taken "near instantaneous" out of the title and put "proof of concept" in there, which is a phrase used by one of the researchers in the article.


> One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.

Judiciously using the muting features is required to have a good time in social media. Add "Twitter" to muted words to move past that on your own.


Also no search by episode titles.


It's covered a bit at the bottom of the article.

  Where do you find these exceedingly winnable contests?
  
  Sorry, that’s a trade secret — but it’s not any of the standard various contest aggregators out there.


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