quercusa

37 ms·

541.
by quercusa 6y ago
Good point - I'd forgotten that! But I've never gotten 10+ characters ahead on SSH.
542.
by quercusa 6y ago
No,that would probably preferable; there's a bad GUI too.
543.
by quercusa 6y ago
My wife works at one. The horrible Oracle CRM* may be the least bad system they have. *AFAICT, each keystroke has to be sent to Redwood City to be individually massaged and returned.
544.
by quercusa 6y ago
There is something very cool about a 747-Short with a 2.5m telescope looking out a hole in the side: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/overview/index.html
545.
by quercusa 6y ago
There's something quite like this in US law. If you are citing a case in a legal brief, you need to make sure it hasn't been overturned along the way, so you 'Shepardize' it. From Wikipedia [0]: Shepard's Citations
546.
by quercusa 6y ago
There's a old Dilbert to that effect. Wally: "I'm going to write myself a minivan!"
547.
by quercusa 6y ago
Gestures are apparently very important for Thought Leaders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBKX-6Gz6A
548.
by quercusa 6y ago
> "DO NOT SPEAK WITH YOUR HANDS PRIVATE!" Could that have been part of learning to use your voice in a noisy (battle) environment where you may need to communicate with people who can't see you?
549.
by quercusa 6y ago
You'd probably want to do that on heavy stock or cardboard, with big squares to minimize weighing errors. That's what lab assistants are for, right?
550.
by quercusa 6y ago
'Evangelical' has become so tenuous that it doesn't really identify much anymore, e.g, https://ftc.co/resource-library/blog-entries/carl-trueman-th...
551.
by quercusa 6y ago
On the same note, you are better off making a few large donations instead of spreading a bunch of small ones around that get eaten up by overhead.
552.
by quercusa 6y ago
The York RR museum is an excellent place to spend a day.
553.
by quercusa 6y ago
> And when you poke binary into the 6502 and program it to add 2 and 3, and execute that operation and, having ascended that ladder with your own hands, see in your mind’s eye the shift registers rippling and the gates flipping and the
554.
by quercusa 6y ago
Which one do you like?
555.
by quercusa 6y ago
I think the textbook (i.e., The Innovator's Dilemma ) model for a disruptive technology is specifically one that starts out looking like it only competes in a different (typically lower-value) market, right until it's eating your
556.
by quercusa 6y ago
My dad owned a picture framing shop for decades. I wondered why such an article would be on HN.
557.
by quercusa 6y ago
The whole museum is fantastic, but walking into the fourth hanger and seeing the Valkyrie takes it up a notch. The planes are fantastic but the highlight for us was talking to a former F-4 pilot about techniques for dodging SA-2s. Highly re
558.
by quercusa 6y ago
I think kstrauser's comment makes the proper distinction between what someone does and what they think .
559.
by quercusa 6y ago
Once you have a rad-hard CPU, what do you do for the RAM, some super ECC?
560.
by quercusa 6y ago
From the article: “ The situation in the United States is that to get a response, the need must be somewhat overplayed ”
561.
by quercusa 6y ago
That was the analog version; this is digital.
562.
by quercusa 6y ago
How Do We Know That Epic Poems Were Recited from Memory? https://daily.jstor.org/how-do-we-know-that-epic-poems-were-... Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14640519
563.
by quercusa 6y ago
There have been such studies* of at least the first two, showing that pre-literate people are far better at memorizing ( e.g. , long epic poems) than literate people. * Yes, citation needed. Searching...
564.
by quercusa 6y ago
The Golgafrinchans laughed when they shipped off the Telephone Sanitisers. That didn't work out so well, did it?
565.
by quercusa 6y ago
When our second was 15 minutes, we knew "This one is different." 22 years later, still true.
566.
by quercusa 6y ago
In the US NE, Aldi is replacing the old dark stores with nice new bright stores with good selections.
567.
by quercusa 6y ago
I worked across the street from Weird Stuff in Milpitas during the mid 90s. It was an awesome place to kill lunch time.
568.
by quercusa 6y ago
That does seems like kind of a strange thing to say. Raptors may not sit in the native trees but they certainly depend on the food chain below them that needs the natives. Doug Tallamy's Bringing Nature Home makes a convincing case f
569.
by quercusa 6y ago
> GraphQL is unashamedly the new SOAP ...may not be the advertising you think it is.
570.
The Challenge of a Fair Trial for Chauvin(startribune.com)
4 points by quercusa 6y ago|0 comments

More ›