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Is this question for schoolwork?

A minor generational / cultural difference... Mark Twain (1897): "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." Dolly Parton...

A cord is a volume of firewood or pulpwood. You can stack your logs on site for transport, where 4' length may make more sense: Also...

You are welcome to visit me, but I will not be visiting you. Most people who come here do not want to leave.

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...