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Factoring random numbers is becoming a bit boring lately, hours and hours of CPU time without a winning. Perhaps I should return to the hobby of finding prime numbers again, just like factoring, it makes a good electric heater...

#TIL Since it has happened many times in the last two decades, the Wikipedia article "Earth" contains a warning to the editors:

> ⚠️ DO NOT REPLACE THIS PAGE WITH 'Mostly harmless' EVER. (now it is: Humorous references to Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are inappropriate content for this article.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Earth

#TIL #Gentoo's news reader says "No news is good news" if all entries are read. A perfect Easter Egg - true in a literal sense - the news reader is only here to alert people about potentially disruptive upgrade, and the notice itself is probably also a shout-out, originally from the influential nn(1) Usenet reader.

Soldered a 0402 resistor on a 0805 pad - lost the 0805 version on my workbench, cannot find it anymore but happens to find a 0402... Kind of ironic, a tiny 0402 is here to power a huge through-hole LED, who knows the much-hated 0402 resistor can be handy too. 🤣 #electronics

#TIL National Semiconductor's line of audio power amplifier chips is called "Boomer"... It's hilarious in 2020 🤣 #electronics