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yuserx | 10 months ago | on: Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations

Possibly won't be very popular in all of the US: Urinals seem to be optimized for maximum noise (in some parts of Europe for minimum sound). Different design objectives. Or in some Southeast Asian countries, regular (small) toilets are optimized to be able to be flushed with a single bowl of water: Standing in front of them will almost always spray in all directions (but hot temperatures will usually take care of it quickly enough).

yuserx | 1 year ago | on: Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread

Very young children like to watch it (because there is movement) but not necessarily voluntarily (children's programming stops early in the evening and then this is shown until the next morning). While some people behind the show had done great TV in the past, I would not allow my kids to watch it (too uninspiring, to put it mildly).

yuserx | 1 year ago | on: Wolfram Notebook Assistant

The use of 4 times "leverage" (and forms of it) in a single article is somewhat disappointing (discounts real technical content)…

yuserx | 1 year ago | on: Standing desk might be as bad as sitting all day

Some 30 years ago we integrated that by simply putting the laser printer in the opposite corner of the room. Nowadays it's fan or A/C remote, coffee machine, fridge, charger, 2nd mobile phone, etc., placed across the room or office...
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