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  1. > One of the references on Wikipedia’s Elevator Paradox page is a paper written by Donald E. Knuth dated many years prior to his simulator. A side-effect of that research experience may have been a lasting interest in the intricate details of elevator systems.

  2. The Maintainers 2019-04-16

    The Maintainers is a global, interdisciplinary research network that takes a different approach, one whose conceptual starting point was a playful proposal for a counter-volume to Isaacson’s that could be titled The Maintainers: How a Group of Bureaucrats, Standards Engineers, and Introverts Made Technologies That Kind of Work Most of the Time. Network members come from a variety of fields, including academic historians and social scientists, as well as artists, activists, engineers, and business leaders. All share an interest in the concepts of maintenance, infrastructure, repair, and the myriad forms of labor and expertise that sustain our human-built world.

  3.  -e      Exit  immediately  if a pipeline (which may consist of a
     single simple command),  a subshell command enclosed in parentheses,
     or one of the commands executed as part of a command list enclosed by
     braces (see SHELL GRAMMAR above) exits with a non-zero  status. 
    
     -x      After expanding each simple command, for command, case
     command, select command, or arithmetic  for  command,  display
     the  expanded value of PS4, followed by the command and its
     expanded arguments or associated word list.
    
  4. Stock Parts

    • Left+Right – Omron D2FC-F-7N
    • Middle – E-Switch TL3315NF160Q
    • Middle Tilt – Panasonic EVQ-P0E07K
    • GKeys – Alps SKQGABE010

    Upgraded Parts

    • Left+Right – Omron D2F-01F Japan
    • Middle – Alps SKQGAAE010 (Has the same actuation force of original, the one linked in the guide is 1N instead of 1.6N)
    • Middle Tilt – Omron B3M-6009
    • GKeys – No better replacement Alps SKQGABE010
  5. One Thing Well 2018-02-28

    A collection of software, applications and scripts that /do one thing well/ :)