TheGrassyKnoll

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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Reminded me of this recent HN article about a fruit politely called a medlar. A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (bbc.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26611413
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
https://www.aldoleopold.org/about/aldo-leopold/sand-county-a...
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Up one for the toy chicken (I'm thinking rubber chicken).
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Pretty cool, but I can't make it scroll with space bar, up/down arrows, or page-up/page-down. Hacker News seems to scroll fine. (Firefox Nightly)
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Wonder if the Ruskies ever created their own camera based on this. This must have attracted some kinda spy attention.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GBTC?ltr=1
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
> I’ll stop here and go do something productive. It was productive. Thank you.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
As a kid in school we read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Side_of_the_Mountain Gives you a little taste of surviving outdoors.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
So, if I install this, does my insurance go up, down, or get cancelled ?
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Could have spent a little more time talking about wallets. What is a wallet, some kind of file ? Is there some kind of 'wallet' protocol ? What are strengths and weaknesses of wallets ? How do wallet makers make money ? (unfortu
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Was a great tool and incredibly fast for its time. May have been the only thing fast on an 8086...
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Free government money, a free trading platform & a lot of people stuck at home.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Then I'll add to the idiocy. I think fake lawns are stupid. (/opinion)
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
When I was in elementary school, CA had 20 million people. Now we've got 40 million people. I wouldn't mind it if 20 million people left.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Try wearing a Dodger hat then.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Using Debian 9.0 "Stretch" derived Bunsen Helium. Its enabled.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
I didn't know this. This is related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7765004/tcp-connection-b...
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Kinda reminds me of the Erdos number ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number )
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Let me assure you that, in general, dogs are way better people than humans.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
I actually heard a DDG ad on the radio in the Los Angeles area (KNX 1070 24 hour news). Still love the bangs.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
He used a word I don't see very often (if ever) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenon
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Building a Leonardo da Vinci Bridge https://imgur.com/0lpS9k3
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
My 'minion' dream is to get one of those 32 core Threadrippers and actually be able to wrangle all those cores to do my bidding. (my Rust education is moving at glacial speed...)
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Another geezer here. Using Emacs since Bush I.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
But Windows IS evil...
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Me too. Its a Frontier supplied router, but I'm not seeing the 404 error. Clicking on that box doesn't reveal anything.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
> "He said he was trying to get the attention of a beautiful young woman who was a serious cyclist, and he couldn’t just ride up on a Schwinn Varsity." So, I had an orange Schwinn Varsity when I was in jr. high school. (40 poun
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Ask the Netscape people how evil they think it was...
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Thanks, its helping. Using Debian derived Bunsen Linux, Emacs (in Terminator), trying to learn Rust. Moving along at glacial speed...
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Well, 1% of a $billion is $10 million. I think I could get by on that.

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