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Video game crash of 1983

Posted on 2020/06/26 by Carl Robitaille

TIL, the Nintendo Entertainment System [NES] helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983. https://t.co/0BPSAolDnG No wonder Nintendo plays such a big role in video game industry.
— nixCraft 🐧 (@nixcraft) June 26, 2020

Reported COVID-19 Cases in Québec

Posted on 2020/06/26 by Carl Robitaille

Today’s update. There’s a beautiful consistency in the numbers. pic.twitter.com/tA7oNVMv6Y
— Steve Faguy (@fagstein) June 26, 2020

The Disappearing Black Disk

Posted on 2020/06/25 by Carl Robitaille

Astronomers think this black hole collision may have exploded with light

Posted on 2020/06/25 by Carl Robitaille

Astronomers think this black hole collision may have exploded with light

Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation

Posted on 2020/06/25 by Carl Robitaille

Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation

New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles

Posted on 2020/06/25 by Carl Robitaille

New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles

“It starts with a closed loop — any kind of curvy path that ends where it starts. The problem Greene and Lobb worked on predicts, basically, that every such path contains sets of four points that form the vertices of rectangles of any desired proportion.”

Healthcare: Canada vs US

Posted on 2020/06/25 by Carl Robitaille

Amid America's #COVID19 disaster, I must come clean about a lie I spread as a health insurance exec: We spent big $$ to push the idea that Canada's single-payer system was awful & the U.S. system much better. It was a lie & the nations' COVID responses prove it. The truth: (1/6)
— Wendell Potter (@wendellpotter) June 25, 2020

Ways to apply thermal paste

Posted on 2020/06/25 by Carl Robitaille

I found this on imgur: some ways to apply thermal paste and the result
By henriquesantosbr#Homelab pic.twitter.com/BT0l4PWQ2b
— Frank Denneman (@FrankDenneman) June 24, 2020

Disease, Governance

Posted on 2020/06/25 by Carl Robitaille

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— Claude Garcia (@ClaudeAGarcia) June 25, 2020

A slice through a cylinder creates an ellipse. when unrolled, it creates a sine wave

Posted on 2020/06/25 by Carl Robitaille

a slice through a cylinder creates an ellipse. when unrolled, it creates a sine wave pic.twitter.com/Mrl5Gcd3A4
— Matt Henderson (@matthen2) June 25, 2020