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Cheap Endoscopic Camera Helps Automate Pressure Advance Calibration

The difference between 3D printing and good 3D printing comes down to attention to detail. There are so many settings and so many variables, each of which seems to impact …read more
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From Project Gutenberg:

No Quarter!

by Mayne Reid

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/35670



A New Form Factor for Drones: Vertical and Coaxial
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posted on 2025.03.20 at 23:55:22 (c=0, p=4)


Harvard study: open-source has an economic value of 8.8T dollars
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posted on 2025.03.21 at 03:21:35 (c=1, p=4)




#material : consisting of matter

- French: matériel

- German: das Material

- Italian: materiale

- Portuguese: material

- Spanish: material

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AdTech CEO whose products detected fraud jailed for financial fraud

Made up revenue and pretended to use non-existent data The former CEO of Kubient, an advertising tech company that developed a cloudy product capable of detecting fraudulent ads, has been jailed for fraud.…
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Initial conditions:
m1=107.4 m2=58.7 m3=80.1 (solar masses)
v1x=-6.891 v1y=-1.531 v2x=6.943 v2y=-4.155 v3x=6.485 v3y=1.544 (km/s)
x1=1.0 y1=-23.0 x2=-32.0 y2=-17.0 x3=18.0 y3=6.0 (AU from center)
Music: Adagio for Strings – Barber




From Project Gutenberg:

Princo Vanc'

by Eleanor Putnam

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/23093




#peak : the top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point

- French: cime

- German: die Spitze, der Gipfel

- Italian: vertice

- Portuguese: pico, topo

- Spanish: cumbre

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U.K. Tourist Returns Home in Chains Like 'Hannibal Lecter' (Jasmine Venet/The Daily Beast)

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Heathrow airport is closed.

It’s scheduled to last until midnight Friday due to an early morning fire at an electrical substation in West London that powers the European continent’s busiest airport. Passengers have been told not to travel to the airport “under any circumstances” with “significant disruption” expected over the next few days.

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