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Comment teenager (Score 1) 19

as a kid, i built one of dave mao's presses. it's deceptively simple for what it does.

it's basically a stack of belleville washers leveraging a pair of tongs.

you can create different pressures depending on the way you stack the washers, which are essentially springs.

i didn't have the cash for the diamonds, but it worked. if i kept it, i could probably buy diamonds for it.

Comment Re:"A" in "Awk" is for "Aho" (Score 1) 48

I discovered awk just before perl hit the streets, when I first tried perl it was like awk on steroids.
I continued to use awk as well as perl, right tool for the job and all that.
Just a month or so ago I whipped up an awk script but I had to google for some syntax refreshers, been too long for the appropriate synapses to survive.
Sorry, just havin a senior moment...

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