quercusa

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   by quercusa 4y ago

   And once again, those who did not learn the lessons from Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma will add their names to the list of formerly-dominant companies.
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   by quercusa 4y ago

   Same. I suspect the prof wanted students to think of components as their mathematical models, not using any analogical sense. You can only do that when you have the mathematics to do so.
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   by quercusa 4y ago

   I think that there are many people who don't recognize it as a joke and pass it on as great wisdom. I was also pretty old when I realized the tautology.
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   by quercusa 4y ago

   Don't know if it still works the same way, but "rubber stamping" used to be real - everybody would stamp a document with their 'hanko' [0] (name stamp). Those who were not completely on board would make their stamp
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   by quercusa 4y ago

   > there is a high penalty for making mistakes I experienced this working for the US arm of a Japanese company. To report a bug would cause the programmer to lose face, so we had to waste a lot of time going through all kinds of contort
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   by quercusa 4y ago

   Here are a few excellent books worth considering: The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading , Meir Sternberg The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism , Berlin and Freedman Poet and Peasant and Through
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   by quercusa 4y ago

   Essential Craftsman is a great watch - highly recommended.
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   by quercusa 4y ago

   I saw one start maybe twice. Knowing my dad I suspect the battery was always dead.
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   by quercusa 4y ago

   What kind of sprays - Afrin type (oxymetazoline)? The dependency on those can be pretty awful. My ENT prescribed Azelastine, an antihistamine nasal spray that has worked wonders for me. It appears to raise the threshold for allergic reac
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    I tried it and I agree. (I've learned Greek and Hebrew via classroom instruction.)
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    We used to have one that would hover in front of our kitchen window when the feeder (at the other end of the house) was empty.
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    I have several Estwing hand tools that never fail to delight me when using them.
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    Could you use a PCMCIA wifi card in it?
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    A $100B Lesson in Why Building Public Transportation Is So Expensive in the US(vice.com)

    2 points by quercusa 4y ago|0 comments
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    One of the tricks the microwave system used was zig-zag routes, to prevent signals from hitting towers past the intended target.
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    They were [0]. From the older, amazing long-lines.net site. 0: https://long-lines.net/tech-equip/coaxial/4000mi-trench.html
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    Embrace the power of 'and'.
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    As mentioned in the article, the instructions are just plain misleading/wrong. Shutting down the app does not cause a refresh. Shut down and restart and you'll get another pop-up in 6 hours.
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    If I remember chem class correctly, -nol indicates an alcohol (ethanol, methanol...)
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    TIL Although GNU readline maintains a kill ring (clipboard), which works much like Emacs’s kill ring, it’s not shared with your system’s clipboard, nor any other instances of GNU readline. It is, in effect, local to the process you’re runn
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    After a Decades-Long Ban, San Jose's Lowriders Are Ready to Cruise Again(atlasobscura.com)

    1 points by quercusa 4y ago|1 comments
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    If my code ran on the Mars helicopter I'd never be able to shut up about it.
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    I had to learn the hard way about circuits like the superbuffer here, and even more so the H-bridge: real components are not ideal, switching times are not zero, and until you learn that lesson you'll be releasing a lot of smoke. G
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    "Feargal Sharkey... the singer?" I doubt I've heard A Good Heart in 30 years but it's still a great song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Der6SkXRk
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    The bass strings are wound with copper wire so that the mass is much higher and the resonant frequency much lower.
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    This is a great video. Vast quantities of HF...
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    Not to speak for an Anglican, but the 39 Articles state: XXVIII. Of the Lord's Supper. The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another, but rather it is a Sacrament
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    In the US, I think propofol has largely replaced diazepam for colonoscopies. Whether that's what you had, this sounds like your experience: > Subclinical doses of propofol produce anterograde amnesia, characterized by an early failu
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    Comcast would like a word...
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    by quercusa 4y ago

    The implication is that, in some strange sense, the outside of a black hole was the same as the inside, like a Klein bottle that has only one side. The moment Cliff Stoll has been preparing for!