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Every year there is an hour that doesn't exist, when the clocks spring forward from standard time to daylight savings time.

We also go through the same hour twice when the clocks go back going back to standard time.

You sometimes hear that farmers are behind Daylight Savings Time, but that's not true. Farmers are self-employed and can set their hours to be whenever they want. If they need to work longer hours at harvest time, they can just do it. They don't need to monkey around with clocks to do this.

"Big Golf" has been super active in lobbying for DST. https://businessjournalism.org/2020/10/the-stakeholders-of-d... I'd personally prefer Standard Time year round, so I can have daylight to do activities early in the morning.

For those of you running Windows, OneNote will allow you to text from images pretty easily.

Or you could wait until you get into your 40s and your eyes will naturally become far-sighted.

Finding how to change a specific setting on your iPad/iPhone, etc.

As an anecdote, the summer after I graduated kindergarten I worked very hard to learn to tie my own shoes, because I didn't want to be the only student in first grade who couldn't tie his own shoes.

When my kids went into first grade around ten years ago, they couldn't tie their own shoes, but if they had been able to, they would have been about the only kids in their grade who could. Also, very few kids nowadays can whistle compared to when I was a kid. My kids didn't have as much access to screens as a lot of kids do, but they and their peers were fairly proficient with tablets, etc.

I don't know much about COBOL, but I did code quite a bit in Fortran. In Fortran, the first five columns were for an optional line number, so these would mostly be blank. The sixth column was a flag that indicated that the line was continued from the one before, this allowed for multiline statements, by default a carriage return was a statement terminator. Like you said, all this came from punch cards.

Columns seven through 72 were for your code

I played around with BeOS a little about 25 years ago. It did perhaps the best job of remaining responsive under high load of any OS I've used.

I think about the quote that "Only Nixon could go to China" and maybe there's a corollary that "Only Clinton could balance the budget". Similar to how Nixon had the anti-commie credentials to be able visit Mao's China, Clinton had the liberal credentials to be able to cut social spending. I don't think that the budget surplus that Clinton left us was all due to social spending cuts, but he did make significant cuts.

When COBOL came out it was hyped as ending the need for software developers because it looked sorta like normal English, however it still required someone to be able to think like a programmer. The need to be able to think like a developer is somewhat reduced, but I don't see it totally going away.

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com is a good way to search for stuff.

The movie is pretty good too. Jonathon Winters in a dual row.

India has even higher cases of diabetes and heart disease. I think their diet is quite different than America.

I recalling my experience with newspaper archives in college. It's thirty been years since I was in college, but I assume that libraries still have some kind of copy of newspaper articles onsite, or do they?

Back then there were microfiche scans. I assume they're not making new microfiche scans, but do they have scans of old newspapers available on a computer? If you want to do primary source research for a history term paper how do you do it?

Seems like there's a whole lot of UV there already.

Supposed to prove how bad it is to live in a an unheated dwelling, maybe it is, but the subject is crazily underdressed.

In the US we have the option of 220/240 V, but I'm not aware of any corded chainsaw that use that.

It's typically used by electric stoves, clothes dryers, etc. We use 110/120 Volts for most appliances for safety reasons.

Leading shoes on drum brakes were self-energizing like the old Pedersen mountain bike brakes. With a leading shoe the pivot point is after the braking surface, so the friction tends to push the shoe harder against the drum. Most drum brakes had one leading and one trailing shoe.

Some motorcycles even twin leading shoes on the front (maybe even four leading shoes with two sided drum brakes). These had issues with modulation like the Pederson brakes. You also had twin trailing shoes when backing up, so you had to squeeze the brakes extra hard then.

In what way? It can make up for a lack of sleep?

We were still using OS/2 for some stuff in the early 2000s. The ATMs ran on it.

I always thought DOS got the backslash from VAX/VMS, a question which this article seems to avoid asking.

Or you accelerate to 35 mph basically instantaneously. That's a lot of Gs.

In the USA they have had similar rules for some motorcycle racing classes to make them more even. Sometimes a super trick bike with lots of trick factory parts gets bought for pennies on the dollar.

I'd be interested to see a motorcycle or bicycle go up this hill. It seems like a lot of problems are because these trucks are all so wide, they can't follow the easy line.

I'm all for reducing methane emissions, but Texas is slightly more than twice the area of New Mexico.

I guess I'm unclear on what physical concept she's getting at by multiplying vectors. Depending on which concept you're trying to calculate with your multiplication, you have dot products like work and cross product like torque.

Slovenia is actually west of Greece.

Actually, a lot of these new trucks have smaller beds than older ones, despite being larger overall. I'm sure would be much less capable of carrying plywood or a motorcycle in the back because they have cabs with generously sized back seats instead of a three across bench seat. They're basically sedans that looks like trucks, but can't do truck stuff even as well as older compact trucks.

This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azI3nqrHEXM explains why small pickup trucks can't really be sold in the USA anymore. This explains the drive to larger pickups, but I don't know what explains the drive from cars to trucks/SUVs.

We were considering a wagon when we bought our last vehicle, an SUV. The ability to occasionally carry more than five people was the deciding point. I believe crash standards prevent the selling of wagons with a "wayback" anymore.

Tom Cruise is also overweight by BMI standards.