Wistar

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601.
by Wistar 5y ago
Tsundoku, a favorite addition to my vocabulary. I learned it here on HN sometime in the past two years or so. I identify strongly with the meaning of the word as did my father although I doubt he ever knew the word.
602.
by Wistar 5y ago
How do you know a government funded these? And which government? These seem to be from institutions all over the world.
603.
by Wistar 5y ago
I have a fairly high-end gas cooktop, dual electric ovens and a frickin' amazing Breville/PolyScience Control Freak induction burner. The Control Freak is considerably more precise than the gas cooktop. I have increasingly been us
604.
by Wistar 5y ago
Don't know if it is related but, here in the Seattle area, I noticed yesterday that lump Dungeness crab meat at the local market has risen to $55/lb from about $30/lb two-three weeks ago.
605.
by Wistar 5y ago
Yes! I have difficulty with some blue signage and especially with certain intense blue LED lights as they seem to vibrate to my eyes. I also find it hard for me to read the text in blue on the small, scrolling LED signs common in storefro
606.
by Wistar 5y ago
Better be really well-engineered as the the string tensions on a conventional grand piano ranges into the low 10s of tons. Yamaha pianos, for example, are around 20 tons.
607.
by Wistar 5y ago
The documentation introduction is where the name confusion is mentioned. https://doc.kerberos.io/
608.
by Wistar 5y ago
At Microsoft, it was easy to see which teams were in crunch mode: the closed doors had "email only" signs on them.
609.
by Wistar 5y ago
Or free for non-commercial.
610.
by Wistar 5y ago
That is not only underrated but huge.
611.
by Wistar 5y ago
Wow. Impressive research and write-up. "Getting working greyscale turned out to be very very hard. "
612.
by Wistar 5y ago
In the concert piano world, 5mg of Inderal (Propranolol) is a common pre-performance dose. My doctor, who treated a lot of Microsoft folks, told me that he prescribed a lot of Inderal for those who did a lot of public speaking.
613.
by Wistar 5y ago
Atop this crap is that, whether Pro or Home sku, MS account or local, the user is set up by default as an admin account.
614.
by Wistar 5y ago
I am married to a teacher who works in a district with absurd, heavy-handed IT policies imposed with no nuance or regard for the needs of the teachers. Simply researching curriculum on the school network has become very difficult in the pas
615.
by Wistar 5y ago
We had a seat of Prisms, the pre-Houdini offering from SideFX, purchased solely for one job. I found it inscrutable and the documentation was… well… it seemed as though the writer(s) just gave up even trying to explain anything.
616.
by Wistar 5y ago
I ran a Softimage house in the mid-to-late 90s and we had SGI Indigo workstations and a Dec Alpha mental ray render farm of about 30 machines or so. There were certain renders, scenes, particularly anything with ray marching or volumetric
617.
by Wistar 5y ago
It was transporting marijuana?
618.
by Wistar 5y ago
A bit of a tangent but… well… interesting. "Thailand, to combat bad Thai food around the world, creates robot ‘e-delicious’ tasting machine" https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191047-thailand-to-comba...
619.
by Wistar 5y ago
Nowhere, man.
620.
by Wistar 5y ago
I remember it differently as not a "lab leak hypothesis" but a claim that the virus was not from nature but was a man-made virus, to wit: "I can present solid scientific evidence to our audience that this virus, COVID-19 SARS
621.
by Wistar 5y ago
Teacher's choice of curriculum and how, and when, subjects are taught are ever more regimented and regulated.
622.
by Wistar 5y ago
BFF.
623.
by Wistar 5y ago
Baseline reset.
624.
by Wistar 5y ago
There is also the PIREPS (Pilot Reports) system where pilots report actual weather conditions as encountered by an aircraft in flight. Some aircraft have automated weather reporting systems (AMDAR). https://www.skybrary.aero&#x2F
625.
by Wistar 5y ago
Is the weather pamphlet system owned by the airport bar business?
626.
by Wistar 5y ago
I bought one of those Staedtler holders but none of my pencils fit. Maybe I am doing something wrong.
627.
by Wistar 5y ago
It'd be really cool if the sharpener tapped and threaded the stubs.
628.
by Wistar 5y ago
Very much its own UI that didn't follow (the admittedly somewhat loose) established conventions. Right-clicking to select and other weird stuff. I got used to it but it really required a lot of playing around to begin to associate the
629.
by Wistar 5y ago
Yes. I was there at the time. Only time in my life I was consumed by near crippling anxiety was dealing with ranking/review process at MS. It all seemed so pointless to me. And toxic.
630.
by Wistar 5y ago
And wasn't that just a wonderful change?

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