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by quercusa 5y ago
And we thought the 1996 Dilbert 'Head Cubicle' was satire. https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-09-15
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by quercusa 5y ago
And pathos; don't forget the pathos!
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Nixon’s War on Drugs: targeted blacks and anti-war activists(aei.org)
4 points by quercusa 5y ago|0 comments
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Wilfred Thesiger's The Marsh Arabs is a fascinating look at the natives of the marshes. It appears that the marshes may be recovering to some degree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Arabs
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by quercusa 5y ago
"If your geoglyph lasts more than 500 years..."
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by quercusa 5y ago
I've started, if I wake up in the middle of the night, thinking of a 'prime-looking' number, then trying to factor it. Sometimes I discover interesting connections, other times I fall back asleep - either is a win.
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by quercusa 5y ago
AWS has a service called S3 Object Lock that provides a WORM model: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/protecting-data-with-am...
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by quercusa 5y ago
You might like DJ Bolivia's Music to Code By , which seems to run about 132 bpm: http://djbolivia.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-to-code-by-volum...
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by quercusa 5y ago
> if the law too often leads to unjust results, it will be changed. But since it will only be used against 'bad' people, no problem.
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by quercusa 5y ago
I suspect this bit didn't endear them to the FCC either: HobbyKing had told the FCC that it had no notice of the Commission’s authorization requirements; that the Fifth Amendment relieved HobbyKing of its duty to respond; that the for
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by quercusa 5y ago
I grew up on the East Coast, so my first trip to Big Basin Redwoods State Park [0] was awe-inspiring. I'm glad to see this tree surviving so far from its preferred environment. [0] http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=540
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by quercusa 5y ago
Volunteer! See if your local animal shelter needs someone to walk dogs, clean cages, or measure out food. Your local food bank probably needs someone to sort donations or make up boxes. You'll be doing something valuable and it's
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by quercusa 5y ago
I was once involved in towing a car using a partially-inflated water bed as a 'bumper'. We got there!
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by quercusa 5y ago
There are true RNGs that use a physical source of randomness such as resistor noise [0] feeding into a comparator. Most of the things like mouse movements can be random(ized) but tend to be really slow (few random bits per second). Psuedo-
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by quercusa 5y ago
I have not read his work on Ecclesiastes ( The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes ), but Robert Alter's other translation projects have been excellent. He tries to not just translate the sense but also the 'feel' o
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by quercusa 5y ago
This is a great point: > You have to have a very strong ability to route around the person on the other end of the phones preconceptions of the world and get the right answers anyway. Back in the day, I would get called in to support a S
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by quercusa 5y ago
The $500,000 threshold is, IIRC, for companies that don't have a 'nexus' in California. As of a few years ago, having a single remote employee in California was enough to create a nexus, causing you to be treated as a Califo
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by quercusa 5y ago
> Seriously how often do you wonder why you just remembered, said or did something? This has me thinking of the "plate o' shrimp" scene in the movie Repo Man .
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by quercusa 5y ago
The novel Blindsight , by Peter Watts, explores exactly your quandary. Highly recommended.
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The Consciousness of Invertebrates(lithub.com)
96 points by quercusa 5y ago|68 comments
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This made me smile: > As many of us home computer users begin transitioning to the IBM PC with its 16-bit Intel 8088 CPU and new IBM PC DOS operating system, we need not bid farewell to our CP/M programs.
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by quercusa 5y ago
I still miss browsing at Computer Literacy in Sunnyvale and San Jose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Literacy_Bookshops
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by quercusa 5y ago
If you are ever in Portland (OR), it's worth a trip to the Bonneville Dam and Fish Hatchery to see Herman the Sturgeon: https://www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/visitors/bonneville_ha...
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by quercusa 5y ago
You'd think Blue would have prepared for small boat suicide attacks less than two years after the USS Cole attack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing
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by quercusa 5y ago
When I did it (long ago) I think there was a cone weave as well. I started off thinking that test was a poor representation of what riding was actually like, but came to understand that for a quick test, it probably mapped pretty well to ba
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The Consciousness of Invertebrates(lithub.com)
2 points by quercusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by quercusa 5y ago
Very useful - thank you!
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by quercusa 5y ago
> for folks currently holding clearances just reading that story could put them in hot water. Can you elaborate on your last point - why?
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Programming languages infosec professionals should learn (2019)(blog.erratasec.com)
2 points by quercusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by quercusa 5y ago
These days, I think 80% of email validation is just catching 'gmial.com'

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