Year: 2020
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Potential Safety Flaw in Home Depot HDX brand wire shelving units
Asbestos undergarments? Check. Lawyer-proof socks? Check. Here we go. I got a small safety lesson over the weekend I wanted to share. Officially, it’s about an extremely common design of wire-rack shelving units, but the real safety lesson is to double-check the workmanship of load-bearing products with a critical eye, because the manufacturer may not…
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Tim Tears It Apart: SunGrow Betta Heater, a Sketchy Preset Aquarium Heater
Spoiler alert time. Did you know there are ferrous metal composites with arbitrary Curie points, extending down to room temperature and even below freezing? You never know where a teardown of a theoretically boring product will lead. Seriously, take more stuff apart, it’s good for you. I’ll spare you the lengthy story of the goldfish…
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Other Utricularia for aquascaping besides UG
Utricularia graminifolia (UG) is a popular foreground plant for planted aquariums, with grass-like leaves that eventually form a lush green carpet over the substrate. It is considered anywhere between easy and impossible to grow, and has some special needs that make it not a beginner’s plant. However, there are a whole range of Utricularia that…
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Disable automatic reboots on Windows 10 (maybe)
Look, I get it, updates are important, and so is installing them timely. But after waking up this morning to find yet-another overnight job lost to an automatic reboot, it’s the last straw. To afford nice things (you know, like computers), I need to do my job, and that requires actually using my computer and…