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==== 2021-12-07 ====
  * https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2020/03/whats-money-mule-scam - What's a money mule scam?

==== 2021-11-18 ====
  * https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1686299 - very good explanation of what makes a number transcendental.

==== 2021-11-08 ====
  * Came across this nice little piece of software called unison-gtk . It is a GUI application to synchronize files between two machines. Slick and intuitive GUI.
  * https://packages.debian.org/stable/unison-gtk

==== 2021-11-05 ====
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71EU8gnZqZQ - Python Flask Authentication Tutorial - Learn Flask Login
    * Easy to follow, high information density.

==== 2021-10-24 ====
  * https://simple.wikipedia.org/ - Simple Wikipedia for children and adults who are learning English.

==== 2021-10-23 ====
  * The Sun accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. \\ Ref:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
==== 2021-08-14 ====
  * https://phys.org/news/2021-08-technique-seamlessly-ammonia-green-hydrogen.html - Novel technique seamlessly converts ammonia to green hydrogen

==== 2021-07-27 ====
  * https://www.youngpioneertours.com/north-korean-traffic-girls/ - North korean traffic girls

==== 2021-05-28 ====
  * A Trump administration rule requires hospitals to post their prices in public, but the penalty for noncompliance is just $300 a day.\\ Ref:- https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-and-walmart-have-an-rx-for-healthcare-the-cure-wont-be-easy-11622194240

==== 2021-05-17 ====
  * https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-warns-children-susceptible-virus-variants-shuts-schools-2021-05-17/ - Singapore is going to close schools as the new strain affects kids.

==== 2021-05-13 ====
  * Use date +'%-M' to get the current minute without a leading zero (ex:- 8 instead of 08). Compare this with date +'%M' which pads it by 0 (ex:- 08 instead of 8).

Ref: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/79371/removing-leading-zeros-from-date-output

Use case: In https://github.com/KamarajuKusumanchi/.mycd/blob/master/mycd.sh, I needed a way to check if the current minute is in a given range. If the current minute is padded with zero then bash is interpreting it as an octal number which leads to problems if the current minute happens to be 08 which is not a valid octal number.


==== 2021-04-23 ====
  * You can use rclone to mount google drive as a local folder on a Debian Linux machine and then use unix commands such as mv, cp, rm to modify it. \\ https://ostechnix.com/how-to-mount-google-drive-locally-as-virtual-file-system-in-linux . \\ It supports other cloud providers such as Amazon S3, Dropbox.


==== 2021-03-09 ====
  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_inventions | List of inventors killed by their own inventions]] (wikipedia.org)






==== 2021-02-22 ====
  * Vitamin D is used to kill rodents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_toxicity#Use_as_rodenticide

==== 2021-02-21 ====
  * https://linux-hardware.org/ - a project to anonymously collect hardware details of Linux-powered computers over the world and help people to collaboratively debug hardware related issues, check for Linux-compatibility and find drivers.
==== 2021-02-19 ====
  * https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html - shows the solar system to scale. It gave me some perspective on how far apart the planets really are.


==== 2021-01-10 ====
  * The author masked a pin on an old Mini PCIE WLAN card to get it working on a modern laptop.\\ https://gsid.in/using-old-mini-pcie-wlan-cards-in-modern-laptops/

==== 2021-01-08 ====
  * Haven, the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt health care, is disbanding after 3 years - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/04/haven-the-amazon-berkshire-jpmorgan-venture-to-disrupt-healthcare-is-disbanding-after-3-years.html

==== 2021-01-03 ====
  * There are soap bars made out of stainless steel which eliminate smells like onion / fish / garlic.\\ https://www.amazon.com/s?k=stainless+steel+soap