quercusa

5 ms·

1.
by quercusa 14d ago
There was a rather well-known French study. [0] Python, Monty (1975), Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2.
by quercusa 1mo ago
If the site happens to be a discussion site that starts with 'R', clearing cookies will let you through for a while. In Brave, there's a setting to do so when you leave the page.
3.
by quercusa 1mo ago
A fun game to draw your own iceberg: https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html First seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26201160
4.
by quercusa 4mo ago
One nice thing is that the Polish church records are in Latin (with Latinized names), so I've been able to find and read birth/baptismal records for my wife's ancestors from the 1800s.
5.
by quercusa 4mo ago
It's weird to see starlings listed as endangered. We seem to have no shortage of the darn things in the US.
6.
The Inadequacy of House Burping(greenbuildingadvisor.com)
1 points by quercusa 5mo ago|0 comments
7.
by quercusa 5mo ago
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Bernstein is an enjoyable read on this.
8.
by quercusa 5mo ago
Got trapped in an Amway pitch in my teens and have been inoculated against such things ever since.
9.
by quercusa 5mo ago
I haven't been in decades but there seemed to be the world's highest concentration of candle shops. Maybe people are looking for fancy candles.
10.
by quercusa 5mo ago
Splashdown expected 8:07 EDT
11.
by quercusa 5mo ago
If you go the old school "filter taped to box fan" route, be sure to add a shroud for the corners, as blade tip turbulence there actually causes reverse air flow. See the article by the 'R' of Corsi-Rosenthal. https:&#
12.
by quercusa 6mo ago
The attack on Stryker used Microsoft InTune to remote-wipe all of Stryker's systems. If you can wipe a system, could you also drop code on it exfiltrate data and credentials? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=473
13.
by quercusa 7mo ago
Envisioning an update to https://xkcd.com/221/
14.
by quercusa 8mo ago
SoftICE was like magic back in the day.
15.
by quercusa 8mo ago
Still thinking about those three black olive slices?
16.
by quercusa 8mo ago
I work with hospital IT people at customer sites. Can confirm that the positions seem to require neither extensive knowledge nor effort.
17.
by quercusa 8mo ago
> set up by someone who at least half knows what they're doing. Finding someone like that is hard for many churches.
18.
by quercusa 10mo ago
Moby-Dick really is a great book. If you want a dolphin-sized taste of Melville, try Billy Budd .
19.
by quercusa 10mo ago
This is one heck of a hook: > I was one social notch above children who were so pitiable it would be rude to mock them.
20.
by quercusa 11mo ago
Coleman won the 'Slants' case at SCOTUS, so he's the real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matal_v._Tam https://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/legal-publications-ron...
21.
Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources(arstechnica.com)
4 points by quercusa 1y ago|2 comments
22.
by quercusa 1y ago
From the page: The EPSON MX-80 printer was a commercially successful product in the early 1980s. That's quite the understatement - they were everywhere.
23.
by quercusa 1y ago
The quality of the docs doesn't matter if the customer won't read them: "We'll set up a Teams meeting and you can tell us what to do"
24.
by quercusa 1y ago
If you were wondering about the pelicans: https://baynature.org/article/ask-naturalist-many-birds-beac...
25.
by quercusa 1y ago
Landscape gardening (as well as thermodynamics) plays an important part in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia , which is excellent.
26.
by quercusa 1y ago
In N. Florida I think it was Malathion.
27.
by quercusa 1y ago
GIMP would like a word...
28.
by quercusa 1y ago
If only they'd perch side-by-side!
29.
by quercusa 1y ago
This (housing prices) example seems really familiar. Was it used in Andrew Ng's original Coursera ML class?
30.
by quercusa 1y ago
Those of a certain age will remember this as the premise of the Six Million Dollar Man episode Death Probe (S4E13).

More ›