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#BBC Paul goes to hospital with suspected broken jaw w.st/JyvN3
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If you commit sabotage on your job, you should naturally stay at your work.


Finger counting. computus compilation, Lorsch 9th century. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1449, fol. 118v.
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in reply to Dragoncello Aufsmaulsuppe

It’s how you count up to 36 with just one hand. The source also explains nothing.
There’s a difference of half/fully kinked fingers (1 vs. 7).
There are several of that fingerings that I can’t do – either they practiced a lot, or folks had different fingers at that time… 🙃
And I don’t know if left/right hand is significant.
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#BBC 'Oh no, what's he done?' - Brook bowled after reverse sweep attempt w.st/UksX6
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#BBC Mancini, sibling rivalry and wanting to excite fans - the Yaya Toure story w.st/bnTtd
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Reverse-Engineering the Intel 8087 Stack Circuitry

Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for the longest time, something reserved for people with big wallets. This began …read more
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Lou Cannon, Post reporter and preeminent Reagan biographer, dies at 92 (Adam Bernstein/Washington Post)

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From Project Gutenberg:

The Leader

by Murray Leinster

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The blurring together of games really is something. "gotta stay clear of the water or I'll get hypothermia" in a game that has no such mechanic...
in reply to Vistl 🎭

constantly pressing the "tilt head" button instead of the "interact" button, to get the real creature experience


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