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Recently read that if you are going to be using an LED bulb in an enclosed space, buy bulbs designed for the high temperature, otherwise you WILL get premature failures in bulbs that will last for years in ordinary lamps.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=led+bulbs+enclosed+fixture+ra...


Alternatively, there are now much more efficient bulbs available. If they're passing A under the new EU Energy Label (from 2021) they'll barely be warm to the touch.

For a time there were automatic transmission cars with push buttons. I think it was a 1950s/60s Great Idea. If I remember you had to reach around the steering wheel to access them.

Never used one but it fell out of favor.


Most news reports also give the percentage change as well as the point difference. That began about 20 years ago.


> (upper) middle class people

It reflects a great change in Western society, which really began to flourish first in the Netherlands, where the merchant and industrial classes began to be dominant, and were growing sick of pretending it wasn't true.

Mostly in Britain these days, we see the final pretenses of the nobility on display.


Holland is really where the wealthy merchant class first became dominant in Europe--and was generally not subservient to the nobility as in other other countries.


Rembrandt could put life into rich people's portraits in ways few were ever able to match.

Besides the Night Watch, this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt_-_De_Staal...

known in English by various names, such as Syndics of the Drapers' Guild. These portrayals are anything but stuffy.

One writer said, if you take Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, for music, Rembrandt was more than that for painting.


Yeah I just don't 'see that' in them. Like I said I'm far from an art connoisseur.

So what I said is my opinion alone :)


His degree was for work that the books used, not for the books themselves.

That doesn't mean that the books might well have been half nonsense.


Input in Morse by space bar, output by LEDs.


After the novel itself ends, there's quite a bit of additoinal material.


Sent Morse by one of the LEDs like Caps Lock.

Nowadays 99% of laptops don't have those LEDs.


> people writing passwords down

Which is better, a strong password written down, or better yet stored a secured password manager, or a weak password committed to memory?

As usual, XKCD has something to say about it: https://xkcd.com/936/


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