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This engineered wood table has metal inserts like this one fitted on the side and back boards, near the corners. Each board is 10 mm thick and the insert doesn't show on the other side of the board (the side facing outwards). I can also see an insert on the board that forms part of the chest of...

This cardboard box has a little tab on the big tab that keeps the "lid" flap closed by fitting into a slot on the flap. The little flap helps you to pull the big tab out of the slot more easily when you want to open the box. This reminded me of "servo tabs" on certain aircraft --- little tabs...

If Archimedes and Galois can make the list, then maybe so can someone who is generally in contact with the scientific zeitgeist around the discipline of their breakthrough, rather than growing up on a pre-contact intellectual island. In that case, how about Janos Bolyai and Ramanujan?

"Airplane-Shaped Kids Xylophone Toy - 8-Tone Percussion Instrument " . .. A winged instrument?

I will look up more info on pulse config and see if there is something that helps, thanks.

I am running Audacity on a Raspberry Pi 5. I am following the steps given here https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_linux.html trying to record in Audacity a stereo track playing in Chromium browser. This sound is concurrently being sent to a speaker via...

Or the pane is made of sugar glass.

I see that this post has been read by at least four "" minded people.

Won't it also waft the alcoholic smell all around?

As one does, I geeked into the "que" rabbit hole and googled up whether this is related to a similar word in Persian and Indian languages.

How traffic jams can result from subtle instabilities in the collective behavior of drivers, and how a few control-theory-savvy drivers can stabilize traffic and avoid jams.

Sorry... X is displacement and Y is force. (If it was the other way round, there would be some interesting hystereses type things going on I guess)

What materials can I try in order to get a curve of displacement versus force that looks somewhat like this.. (of course, there would be a small kink around the origin where the ends of the rubberband are closer together than its length, which is not shown here). I am looking for something...

"Today I Learned I was not on the Today I Learned thread".