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English is read from left to right. This works well for right handed people who write with their right hand and don t end up getting pen ink all over their hands like lefties do because you move your hand over the words you just wrote. Maybe that s just me. Anyway, we read from left to [ ] The post Quicker reading first appeared on More rants of a dead man .
Photography exists. Cameras are cheap, you can get a nice one in a kid s toy form and take zillions of high quality photos and store them on super cheap sd cards. And you can print them on a cheap color printer. Life certainly has moved on from the days of painting portraits. And yet people [ ] The post Painting first appeared on More rants of a dead man .
So I had this thought the other day.Food establishments have some fixed costs and some variable costs, I m sure lots of businesses fall into this category. But food providers like restaurants are in an interesting position, they provide food. I know little about the restaurant business so maybe my numbers are way off, but I [ ] The post Almost free food first appeared on More rants of a dead man .
Apparently I wrote this in 2019 and never hit publish. cut here or at least it is unnecessary it makes all the numbers artificially go up so you feel better about big numbers it allows you to pay off your 30 year mortgage with cheaper money than today s money. but you ll notice the [ ] The post inflation is a bad idea first appeared on More rants of a dead man .
This is really obvious in retrospect, but I didn t realize it until I saw it happen. VMs boot faster than real hardware. I have a proxmox machine and it s really fast and it can shutdown and restart a vm in a few seconds, which I always marvel at. I initially chalked it up to being [ ] The post vms boot faster first appeared on More rants of a dead man .
It occurred to me that internal combustion engines must burn a lot of energy pushing valve lifters against the pressure of the valve springs. Seems like a lot of effort. I d think there would be some kind of solenoid/actuator that controlled the valves directly, and you could avoid the whole cam and timing belt thing. [ ] The post A better engine. first appeared on More rants of a dead man .
I think git is a technological marvel. I think it very well suits the problem it was designed to fix: lots of random people contributing random junk to try and get it into the linux kernel, and for that it is great. But everybody else uses git too, apparently private companies, which never quite made [ ] The post I just thought of a neat way to avoid git conflicts first appeared on More rants of a…
Before the humans showed up, the earth was here soaking up sunlight. For hundreds of millions of years, the sun sent its energy to the earth where it turned into things like plants and trees and eventually animals. All the trees and plants died and mushed into the ground and this went on for an [ ] The post The earth is a giant battery. With one charge. first appeared on More rants of a dead man .
I don t usually forward videos because I don t like being inundated with oh you HAVE to watch this! so I don t want to do it to other people. But if you re interested in the moon landing hoax, this is worth a watch. I love the moon landing hoax. I think it s a great testament to [ ] The post An interesting idea for why time travel doesn’t exist. first appeared on More rants of a dead man .
I went to the doctor yesterday, and he s a good guy, he s smart, very knowledgeable calm, very robot-like in his questioning to diagnose whatever ailments you might have. I d say he s a very good doctor. But his job is to file paperwork. To be a doctor nowadays, there s so much regulation and so much fighting [ ] The post Doctors and programmers first appeared on More rants of a dead man .