AKALib's Profile
Gender: Male
Occupation: Scientist
Groups: SciTech, Classic Poetry Group, Covid19 support group on Daily Kos, Community Live Bloggers
Diaries published: 1404 (63 days since last diary on Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 05:06 PM PST)
Comments posted: 37344 (63 days since last comment on Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 05:28 PM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 6536
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Most Recommended Diary: XKCD "Fifteen Years" - of surviving cancer, 91 comments, 327 recommends
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As you must be aware, Airbus has grounded and ordered software updates (downgrades actually) for ~6,000 A320 family aircraft — more than half its global fleet — in the middle of this busy holiday weekend - after discovering that bit flips in the flight...
by AKALib
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on Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 05:06 PM PST
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The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft was successfully launched yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan; it transported NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev to the International Space Station...
by AKALib
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on Fri Nov 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM PST
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Randall Munroe, creator of the XKCD comic strip, published this comic yesterday titled “Fifteen Years.” This comic is the fourth one in a series since 2012 - 2012: Two Years, 2017: Seven Years 2020: Ten Years 2020: Fifteen Years Parts of the previous...
by AKALib
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on Tue Nov 25, 2025 at 03:45 PM PST
with 327 Recommends
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November 23 is celebrated as Fibonacci Day.�Because 1123... is the beginning of the Fibonacci sequence
The nth Fibonacci number is the sum of the previous two Fibonacci numbers, starting with 1,1.
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by AKALib
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on Tue Nov 25, 2025 at 03:00 PM PST
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“Loyalty to the Constitution"” —�these are words either foreign to the trump regime or they want to intimidate the nation into submission that loyalty to trump trumps Loyalty to the ...
by AKALib
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on Tue Nov 25, 2025 at 06:35 AM PST
with 71 Recommends
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As we speak, U.S., Ukrainian and European officials are meeting in Geneva to discuss the disastrous "28-point peace deal." From www.nytimes.com/… Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, Mr. Trump’s special envoy, were meeting on Sunday with...
by AKALib
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on Sun Nov 23, 2025 at 05:41 AM PST
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- Tōshi Yoshida : Autumn in Hakone (1954) Good evening, Kibitzers! I hope everyone is set for the holiday, and not needing to travel ...132 comments 27 Recs
- I generally consider origin stories for superheroes to be the best offering from each franchise, and Iron Man, for me, is no exception. Here is an excerpt from Roger Ebert's review: With "Iron Man," you get a glimpse into the depths. You get the...10 comments 8 Recs
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