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Reliability of Plumbing Fittings - Threaded vs. Compression - CTG Technical Blog  

Failing to Learn From Previous Sri Lankan Farming Disasters – Myles Power : In a speech to the House of Commons, Churchill paraphrased Santayana when he said “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it”. This phrase has always stuck with me as far too …

Science News - How We Know What Happened Millions of Years Ago: Science, Humanism, Religion, Secularism and Atheism, with a little bit of politics now and then. Ken Ham, along with other Creationists frauds, have managed to convince their child-like followers that asking "Where you there?" of scientists who try to talk about the past

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Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage : Introduced in 1978, the revolutionary Intel 8086 microprocessor led to the x86 processors used in most desktop and server computing today....

Inside the HP Nanoprocessor: a high-speed processor that can't even add

Ken Shirriff's blog: A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-... : In the Apollo Moon missions, the Saturn V rocket was guided by an advanced onboard computer system built by IBM. This system was built fro...

1541 Commodore Drive Schematics /pub/cbm/schematics/drives/new/1541/

Nicola's MAME Ramblings: Completed, at Last : As you'd probably noticed, the pics in the previous post are of the Bubble Bobble custom MCU. Despite being one of the most popular gam...

List of accidents and incidents involving airliners in the United Kingdom | owlapps

Understanding old British money - pounds, shillings and pence

31 different types of screw nuts. 1 – Low hex nut, Standard DIN 936 – DIN 439Finish: polished, white zinc plated, bricromatized 2 – Hexagon castle nut with high crown, DIN 935/2000Finish: polished, white zinc plated, bricromatized 3 – Hex flange spherical nut Finish: polished, white zinc plated, bricromatized 4 – Double hex nut Finish: polished, white zinc plated, bricromatized 5 – Hexagon castle nut with low crown, DIN 979/2000Finish: polished, white zinc plated, bricromatized 6 – Hexagon castle nut without crown, DIN 979 Finish: polished, white zinc plated, bricromatized 7 – Hexagon nut class 6, DIN 934 Finish: polished, white zinc plated, bricromatized, hot dip galvanized 8 – Hexagon nut class 8, DIN 934 Finish: polished, white zinc plated, bricromatized, hot dip galvanized 9 – Hexagon nut class 10 (hardened), DIN 934 Finish: polished, white zinc plated, bricromatized, hot dip galvanized 10 – Flange hex nut, DIN 13-6h-class 6 – DIN 6923 Finish: white zinc plated 11- Brass hex nut F...

Gold Chat: A History of Gold Controls in Australia

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: JET ENGINES : In the strict sense all gas turbines are gas generators. Their hot gases are expanded either through a turbine to generate shaft power or th...

The Right-Wing Doesn't Want to Talk About Christian Atrocities, So Let's Talk About Christian Atrocities: History is full of atrocities committed by Christians for Christ, against not just other religions but against Christian themselves.

lukewarm manifesto: A repudiation of spelling nazism: Tuesday 27 December 2011 There was a time when I probably would've proudly identified as a spelling nazi. I think I first heard the te...

Five years on, the Flint water crisis is nowhere near over :  As the Michigan city’s water emergency lurches on, pipes are still being replaced—and public trust remains low.

Here Be Dragons: Reverse Engineering with Ghidra - Part 0 [Main Windows & CrackMe]: Welcome to the first part in a tutorial series on reverse engineering with Ghidra! This series will be focused on using the newly released tool from the NSA

Andrew Sullivan’s weekly trifecta. Part 2: Transgenderism in athletics and sexual attraction « Why Evolution Is True : The second issue that Andrew Sullivan takes up in his New York Magazine column this week is that of transgender athletes and transphobia. The inspiration for his piece was the actions of Martina Na…