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What was the source of the oxygen to maintain ethyl alcohol combustion in a sealed WWII torpedo?


Curiously the default has audio output off. That is, was the little speaker icon unmuted?


Here's from 2014 with some capacity calculations [0]. "ssh private key (900 bytes): 15 feet of tape."

[0] https://heepy.net/index.php/Data_storage_capacity_of_teletyp...


If we prefer paper but relax the teletype constraint, Oleh Yuschuk's PaperBack [0] allows encoding 500 KB on a sheet of printer paper.

[0] https://ollydbg.de/Paperbak (posted various times to HN)


Circa 1980, as a hobbyist beekeeper with six hives nearby Seattle, they came down with foul-brood. (It never was certain if it was American Foul-brood or European) Duly reported and the county agent came in, sealed them, and carted them away. For an additional fee (which I paid) they would fumigate them and return just the hive bodies, but none of the frames, (some of which would contain the infected brood). Those were burned. I believe the fumigant at the time was phosphine[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphine


Shouldn't this make some initial direct reference to the author: Silvanus P. Thompson[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy


https://calculusmadeeasy.org/

The link isn’t to the front page with his name.


Ohh, this really is from 1910. And here I just thought the author was being obnoxiously cutesy with their language.


Additional small molecule pharmaceutical candidates via molecular descriptors


Well done: 3d is an option! Always wondered what emergent properties result from simple rules worlds when the dimensionality goes from 2d to 3d.


Lately in advertisements there have been a lot of circular QR codes[1]. Which often apparently present data outside of the alignment patterns. Is that merely an artistic device, or is there some standard permitting information extending beyond the square region?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=circular%20qr%20cod...


I think most of them are merely artistic, probably all data outside of the alignment patterns is just random stuff. It looks good though. [0]

Some of them however are implemented to be read by a specific non-standard reader, something such as the snap chat codes.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66837985/damaging-qr-cod...


..and curiously, with the little speaker icon 'on', it produces no audio alarm for me, (firefox 103.0.2). Whereas this[1] one produces a quite notable sound.

[1] https://www.online-stopwatch.com/countdown-timer/


These days browsers make sure there's user interaction before audio plays. The other website you linked requires a click to start the timer, therefore meeting that requirement. If Google made this timer muted by default, and you had to click unmute, it would likely work.

Ran into a related bug on a site I was working on the other day and had to learn this browser quirk the hard way.


I wouldn't be surprised if this was a "Chrome only" feature. In 2022 everything can happen.


As more of a story of external impressions, i'm from Seattle and I postdoc'ed in Germany and I got more than my share of the opinion on English from those who could speak English there (damn near 100% at a University). The first problem they had was placing my accent; they couldn't. Finally they concluded that i was some-sort of Canadian (which is pretty accurate). Then they did their own versions of U.S. accents. Almost universally these divided into New York and Texan. Their impression of the states, based on either vacationers or hollywood, confirmed their view that people from the U.S. were either loud with a Texas accent or loud with a New York accent. We decided that it was a natural sampling bias based on the overhearing of the loudness.


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