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🔗 Immovable Ladder
The Immovable Ladder is a wooden ladder leaning against the right window on the second tier of the facade of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem. The ladder rests on a ledge and is attached to a window owned by the Armenian Apostolic Church. The ladder is a symbol of inter-confessional disputes within Christianity. Its presence in its current location signifies the adherence to an agreement among six Christian denominations, who collectively own the church, not to move, repair, or alter anything in the church without the consent of all six denominations.
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- "Immovable Ladder" | 2024-08-28 | 49 Upvotes 9 Comments
🔗 Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
Eazel was an American software company operating from 1999 to 2001 in Palo Alto and then Mountain View, California. The company's flagship product is the Nautilus file manager for the GNOME desktop environment on Linux, which was immediately adopted and maintained by the free software movement. As the core of Eazel's business model, it is an early example of cloud storage services in the form of personal file storage, transparently and portably stored on the Internet. Renamed to Files, this application continues to be a centerpiece of some free Linux-based desktop environments.
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- "Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup" | 2024-08-27 | 147 Upvotes 65 Comments
🔗 Four Stages of Competence
In psychology, the four stages of competence, or the "conscious competence" learning model, relates to the psychological states involved in the process of progressing from incompetence to competence in a skill. People may have several skills, some unrelated to each other, and each skill will typically be at one of the stages at a given time. Many skills require practice to remain at a high level of competence.
The four stages suggest that individuals are initially unaware of how little they know, or unconscious of their incompetence. As they recognize their incompetence, they consciously acquire a skill, then consciously use it. Eventually, the skill can be utilized without it being consciously thought through: the individual is said to have then acquired unconscious competence.
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- "Four Stages of Competence" | 2024-08-26 | 16 Upvotes 7 Comments
🔗 Lockheed CL-1201 nuclear-powered transport aircraft concept
The Lockheed CL-1201 was a design study by Lockheed for a giant 6,000 ton nuclear-powered transport aircraft in the late 1960s. One envisioned use of the concept was as an airborne aircraft carrier.
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- "Lockheed CL-1201 nuclear-powered transport aircraft concept" | 2024-08-25 | 23 Upvotes 2 Comments
🔗 Bum Farto
Joseph "Bum" Farto (July 3, 1919 – February 16, 1976) was a fire chief and convicted drug dealer in Key West, Florida who disappeared in 1976.
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- "Bum Farto" | 2024-08-22 | 119 Upvotes 29 Comments
🔗 Trautonium – a German synthesizer invented in 1930
The Trautonium is an electronic synthesizer invented in 1930 by Friedrich Trautwein in Berlin at the Musikhochschule's music and radio lab, the Rundfunkversuchstelle. Soon afterwards Oskar Sala joined him, continuing development until Sala's death in 2002.
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- "Trautonium – a German synthesizer invented in 1930" | 2024-08-15 | 12 Upvotes 4 Comments
🔗 Rhumb Line
In navigation, a rhumb line, rhumb (), or loxodrome is an arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant bearing as measured relative to true north.
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- "Rhumb Line" | 2024-08-15 | 17 Upvotes 4 Comments
🔗 Venix is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system
Venix is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system for low-end computers, developed by VenturCom, a "company that specialises in the skinniest implementations of Unix".
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🔗 British Amateur Television Club
The British Amateur Television Club (BATC) is the world's largest television technology club; it has members in the UK and all around the world and is a non-profit making club run by an elected committee of volunteers for the benefit of its members. Membership is open to all who are interested in television, amateur or professional, indeed the club has many members who work for major broadcasting companies.
🔗 Honeywell 316
The Honeywell 316 was a popular 16-bit minicomputer built by Honeywell starting in 1969. It is part of the Series 16, which includes the Models 116 (1965, discrete: 4 ), 316 (1969), 416 (1966), 516 (1966) and DDP-716 (1969). They were commonly used for data acquisition and control, remote message concentration, clinical laboratory systems, Remote Job Entry and time-sharing. The Series-16 computers are all based on the DDP-116 designed by Gardner Hendrie at Computer Control Company, Inc. (3C) in 1964.
The 516 and later the 316 were used as Interface Message Processors (IMP) for the American ARPANET and the British NPL Network.
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- "Honeywell 316" | 2024-08-15 | 15 Upvotes 3 Comments