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dt_rsp··on A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)
Similarly, Jack London's /People of the Abyss/
dt_rsp··on GM plans electric van for business users
Perhaps relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ2Eo6wl5r0

dt_rsp··on Ask HN: Coping when your client is an asshole?
Timely. From today:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/life-tip

dt_rsp··on Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
I remember playing xtron in the office maybe 20 years ago.

https://screenshots.debian.net/package/xtron

dt_rsp··on Google gives Wikimedia millions
A similar vintage, but slightly younger than everything1 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2g2 / https://www.h2g2.com/
dt_rsp··on HeidiSQL – GUI client for MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL
I like DBeaver. YMMV.
dt_rsp··on The little black book of scams (2016)
That's the one.
dt_rsp··on The little black book of scams (2016)
I was hoping it included the fiddle scam from American Gods.
dt_rsp··on Italy’s olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads
I remember reading this some years back, about horizontal resistance rather than vertical resistance.

http://sharebooks.com/system/files/Return-to-Resistance.pdf

I was unable to find a whole lot more information on the subject at the time.

dt_rsp··on London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’
Leaving it to stand works for chlorine, but not for chloramine, which a lot of tap water is treated with now instead. One would have to check with one's supplier.
dt_rsp··on Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music
A bit like Anthem in Dirk Gently.
dt_rsp··on Better Database Migrations in Postgres
I have taken to using DBeaver. The overall experience is really nice.

I don't like that you have to toggle your "Active database" rather than just opening a new window with a new connection to a different database. If that annoys me much more then I plan to try SquirrelSQL and then retry Postage.

I never understood the hate that pgAdmin3 received, I liked it a lot. V4 though is a mess.

dt_rsp··on Why nature prefers hexagons
Jürgen Tautz's "The Buzz about Bees" mentions this.

It says the bees build cylindrical cells around themselves initially, but then raise the temperature of the wax to 37-40 degrees C, when the wax is warm enough to flow into the hexagonal shapes.

(Pages 172-176)