[HN Gopher] A Nerd Cool Miscellanea
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       A Nerd Cool Miscellanea
        
       Author : dcminter
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2021-07-30 10:31 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | DiggyJohnson wrote:
       | I love the word "Miscellanea". Thanks for sharing.
        
         | dcminter wrote:
         | If you like that word you might also enjoy "vade mecum" meaning
         | a handbook from the Latin "go with me"
         | 
         | A term I first encountered in the fictional "A murderer's vade
         | mecum" in one of the Dorothy Sayers detective novels.
         | 
         | https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/vade_mecum
        
       | k__ wrote:
       | @Finger_Fudge I can see your comments, but they're marked [dead]
        
       | Finger_Fudge wrote:
       | Can anybody see my comments? Does Hacker News shadow ban new
       | accounts?
        
         | justusthane wrote:
         | Your comment was marked dead (until I vouched for it). If a
         | comment is dead, by default people can't see them unless they
         | have "showdead" turned on in their preferences.
         | 
         | Your first two comments are not dead, your three most recent
         | are (were).
         | 
         | I'm not sure why. You might email hn@ycombinator.com
        
       | whatshisface wrote:
       | > _Casimir effect_ > _using 'free' energy borrowed from nothing_
       | 
       | Vacuum energy pressure, like gravity, will bring the two plates
       | together, but pulling them back apart will take energy (again,
       | just like with gravity or even a spring), and so doesn't show
       | much promise as a perpetual motion machine.
        
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