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Today, 06:40 PM

Delvo replied to a thread How to shop for a 3-D printer in Science and Technology

Now that I've got the basic background on how this stuff works, I've started making a list of printers to compare features of (and find out what some...

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Today, 04:07 PM

Delvo replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that bugs you in Off-Topic Babbling

Ya, that is a ridiculously stupid name for a team.

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2021-Jan-23, 06:43 PM

Delvo replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

They should have a roomba with an arm on top that just flings stuff around the room.

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2021-Jan-23, 06:41 PM

Delvo replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that bugs you in Off-Topic Babbling

That sounds about right if it was sent on a wooden sailing ship.

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2021-Jan-23, 05:33 PM

Delvo replied to a thread How did we do it before the internet... in Off-Topic Babbling

Years ago, I saw a few surveys which found that Brits generally weren't incorporating the internet, or at least specific aspects of it like forums,...

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2021-Jan-19, 02:55 PM

Delvo replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that amuses you... in Off-Topic Babbling

Ah yes, the "First Ones of Sigma 9-5-7" style

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2021-Jan-19, 08:18 AM

Delvo replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that amuses you... in Off-Topic Babbling

About a year ago, my sister asked me to review a parts list that her son had come up with to build his own computer, because she knew that I had...

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2021-Jan-19, 05:55 AM

Delvo replied to a thread How did we do it before the internet... in Off-Topic Babbling

Yes. Whether the odds of that going wrong have shifted or not, the stakes when things do go wrong seem to be perceived as much higher now than...

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2021-Jan-18, 11:16 PM

Delvo replied to a thread How did we do it before the internet... in Off-Topic Babbling

As an outsider to dating and finding people to date, I notice that I've seen it go from entirely offline, to mostly offline with dating/matchmaking...

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2021-Jan-17, 05:33 AM

Delvo replied to a thread Where did the "space ambient" sound come from? in Small Media at Large

There seems to be some effort in here to try to find a way to take a music genre's name too literally. "Rock" and "rock & roll" don't require...

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2021-Jan-11, 06:29 AM

Delvo replied to a thread Trivial (or not so trivial) stuff that makes you happy. in Off-Topic Babbling

This is not really about the movie & TV franchise itself, but about people's reactions to something in it, but I need to set up what happened in the...

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2021-Jan-03, 06:41 PM

Delvo replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

"Amusement" is not supported by what is known here. Possums are often thought to be disease carriers. Right or wrong, that leads to the corollary...

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2021-Jan-03, 05:03 AM

Delvo replied to a thread What is this called? in Science and Technology

...which itself can have consequences. A few years ago I had a friend & co-worker with a 4-then-5-year-old daughter named "Janaya". At first, all I...

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2021-Jan-02, 06:52 AM

Delvo replied to a thread What is this called? in Science and Technology

Part of it is the tendency for people to think of the first letter/sound as the most prominent or important one in a word. It's behind our...

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2020-Dec-27, 07:36 PM

Delvo replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that amuses you... in Off-Topic Babbling

It is "thermo"... which is a bit odd because it's imported from Greek, and Latin already had its own words for "hot". I guess they figured that,...

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