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by quercusa 5y ago
Try https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-ident... - they solve this kind of thing all the time.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Thanks!
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by quercusa 5y ago
It never occurred to me to wonder what streaming services use for their sources. Do they send an intern over to Best Buy to pick up a Blu-Ray?
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by quercusa 5y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29557688
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by quercusa 5y ago
I'm glad to hear you are in therapy; that's a good start. Have you had a medical workup? Can you go to your therapist twice a week? It sounds like you have a lot to work through. Can you bring your SO to therapy at least once
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by quercusa 5y ago
A vote for Crawford as well. His Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work is a gem.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Were you by any chance near Philadelphia? The native pronunciation is weird for other Americans: something like "wooder".
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by quercusa 5y ago
That's good advice. The apparently effortless prose of a Wodehouse or McPhee is only achieved through a lot of work.
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Chinese scientists develop AI ‘prosecutor’ that can press its own charges(scmp.com)
2 points by quercusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by quercusa 5y ago
Ordering that one right away; it's taken me decades* to figure out how my loving (AFAICT) parents set me up for problems in personal relationships. * I may be slow in this regard.
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by quercusa 5y ago
I've got a P2715Q - great monitor and apparently full DDC support.
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by quercusa 5y ago
I've found PictureThis to be great for identifying plants. They claim to cover 100+ countries. There's a premium version but I just opt out by hitting the Cancel button at top right of the screen. It's been able to ID plants
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by quercusa 5y ago
The first word I got was 'scrotal', which is a real word.
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by quercusa 5y ago
It's also the name of a not-very-exciting town in California (Gilroy's less-glamorous neighbor).
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by quercusa 5y ago
Along the same lines, Edward Tufte recommends Josef Albers's book Interaction of Color , which teaches that there's no absolute colors - it's all relative. Magazine piece on Albers and his work: https://www.sc
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by quercusa 5y ago
Harlan Ellison described it in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream .
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by quercusa 5y ago
The naegleriasis infection has been documented in Australia in 1965, Czechoslovakia in 1962 to 1965, USA in 2003, 2011, 2013, 2020, and 2021, and Pakistan in 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri
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by quercusa 5y ago
Likewise - that's a mistake you'll only make once!
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by quercusa 5y ago
Life-changing for me too - highly recommended. It's kind of weird and a little unpleasant at first, but has significantly reduced my allergy symptoms.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Mine's from June 10th 1987 - they may have been on the same pallet. If you've only spilled coffee in it once you must live a charmed life!
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by quercusa 5y ago
I've the similar Kershaw 'Tactical' Blur for 12 years; they are great knives.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Estwing Nail Puller: https://www.estwing.com/products/estwing-nail-puller Perfectly designed for the task and good-looking too.
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by quercusa 5y ago
For Soviet-era black humor, it's hard to beat the 2017 movie The Death of Stalin .
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by quercusa 5y ago
Are there any parents who want their kids being taught that? It seems to be preparing them for a lifetime of innumeracy and being the patsies of those who do know math.
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by quercusa 5y ago
I saw BB at Shoreline in the mid 90s. More than anyone else I've ever seen, it was clear that his priority was that the audience have a good time. We certainly did.
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by quercusa 5y ago
I worked in optical storage in the 90s. Then and now, the storage technology of the future!
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by quercusa 5y ago
I usually pick some topic to do a deep dive on; I want to hear someone say "I don't know." If they can't or won't do that and just try to fill in with BS - that's a really bad sign.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Could be, but[0] suggests native populations were replaced by European varieties. Dogs were present in pre-Columbian America, presumably brought by early human migrants from Asia. Studies of free-ranging village/street dogs have ind
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by quercusa 5y ago
This sounds like it was carefully crafted by a lawyer: “We received no funds from Google for the project,” a spokesperson for Automattic said when asked if the company was compensated as a partner in this effort. There are ways to be comp
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by quercusa 5y ago
Would the standard feral dog color suggest an origin someplace sandy?

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