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Yeah, although interestingly the picture at Wikipedia shows 3 ranks, so the wood pieces would be about 18" long. Hmmm...

Yeah. My few minutes of research were polluted by my ignorance that a cord often has ranks. Had to redo my post. A cord, measuring...

It looks like I'll need to talk to our wood delivery guy (this is our first time getting wood for the stove in our new place). From the...

And yet another example of AI getting a key concept wrong because it doesn't understand something fundamental... I used a Google search...

In the latter part of my career, it became increasingly obvious that many data centre operations were dependent on the reliability of...

In these troubled times it wouldn't hurt to spend more time playing with your dog. It works for me anyway.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "experimentally minded books." Any good experiment still needs a good theoretical background to...

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858tb-of-government-data-may-be-lost-for-good-after-south-korea-data-center-fire/ 858TB of...

Wow, what a good, long life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darleane_C._Hoffman https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/people/darleane-hoffman...

In the paper written by Jon Wallace (SARA), it appears, from the 24-hour records, that radio astronomy is being done. That system...

I'd prefer to have some assurances that any bumps measured actually came in through the antenna feed and not some random interference or...

Looks like 'sun dogs' with the '22° halo'. Maybe the '46° halo' or the 'supralateral arc' as well, seeing how there is a secondary ring...

My apologies for using my mentor powers to post after closure, but I thought my experience might be worthwhile on this topic. First...