Drafty windows and the knapsack problem
The windows of my apartment are old and drafty, so I wanted to use one of those plastic window insulation kits to better insulate the windows. So I measured all four of the windows:
The windows of my apartment are old and drafty, so I wanted to use one of those plastic window insulation kits to better insulate the windows. So I measured all four of the windows:
Dang, kde-open5 is slow sometimes. What’s going on?
Suppose we have a string like this:
Lately, the update-mime-database step of installing Debian packages has been taking way too long (on the order of three or four minutes).
Human minds have a bad habit of polishing their work until the seams are invisible. It’s akin to movie magic or stage illusions.
OpenSCAD is a wrapper around OpenCSG, a constructive solid geometry library. It works reasonably well for producing STL files from geometric primitives.
“Last Week Tonight”, comedian John Oliver’s TV show, recently discussed how the US does torture and why it doesn’t work.
I almost made this change to my about:config:
The curvature of Earth’s gravity field is approximately 8 centimeters per kilometer. This produces horizon effects even within a single large building.