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Why does the Cray 2 use 400 Hz power, and why generate that from motors?
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How did Atari lose money on home computers?
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Was Objective-C really a hindrance to Apple software development?
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Why was IBM BASIC so Huge?
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28
Inverse square rule for strong forces
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How does an isolated body in deep space 'know' it's rotating?
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Benchmark test that was used to characterize an 8-bit CPU?
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How were the special effects achieved for the Kraftwerk Die Roboter 1978 music video?
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How are paths of particles tracked in particle accelerators?
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What does it mean that physics no longer uses mechanical models to describe phenomena?
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Why did Michelson believe the aether was moving?
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Why, in old movies and TV series, do they always use such extremely exaggerated wheel turns when driving a car?
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How does light 'choose' between wave and particle behaviour?
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15
How use Vuforia?
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What type of interpreter were most 8-bit BASIC implementations?
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Looking for an old image of designing a CPU with plan laid out / being edited on a literal floor
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15
Why aren't rainbows more common?
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Why does the humidifier make a stove's flame orange?
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14
Position a SceneKit object in front of SCNCamera's current orientation
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13
PET space arcade game with surprisingly good graphics
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12
How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86?
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Are there any old and nowadays active Operating Systems which has only BASIC Programming Language?
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Can anyone help me identify this computer?
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12
Can a non-rotating ball have angular momentum?
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Why was Paperback Writer renamed to Pocket Writer?
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Science fiction story that ends with "Let there be light"
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Was self-modifying code possible using BASIC?
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Are there any real-life parallels to the Night's Watch and their fall from prestige?
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What is the experimental evidence that the nucleons are made up of three quarks?
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How fast were BASIC interpreters in the 80s? (Is this optimization for speed really necessary?)
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