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by quercusa 1y ago
Toastmasters has someone assigned to count these when someone is making a speech but the bell is next level.
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by quercusa 2y ago
There's nothing quite like the sound of a flicker hammering on a downspout at 4 am!
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by quercusa 2y ago
> TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh That's the Mad Magazine Knuth speaking: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-enduring-art-of-computer-p...
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by quercusa 2y ago
So, better than Caillou?
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by quercusa 2y ago
I have to imagine that Tolkien would have been delighted to discuss how to translate LoTR.
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by quercusa 2y ago
Here's at least one of the tools for achieving synchronization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchroscope
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by quercusa 2y ago
Very cool. I loved Velvia...
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by quercusa 2y ago
> It seems we traded color for quality sometime mid-Century. As well as convenience for quality. 35mm -> 126 -> 110 -> Kodak Disc
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by quercusa 2y ago
It's usually processing in something other than the native chemistry (e.g., E6 in C41) https://thedarkroom.com/cross-processing-film/
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by quercusa 2y ago
What's the migration path? Clean install?
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by quercusa 2y ago
I once worked in the US for a Japanese company that had their manuals "translated" into English and then sent on for polishing. Like the parent, it would be mostly " a bunch of phrases that were grammatically correct, but did
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by quercusa 2y ago
Unfortunately not available in the US.
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by quercusa 2y ago
They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description , thought the 5ft 9in man.
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Beyond the numbers: PM2.5 is not PM2.5(airgradient.com)
5 points by quercusa 2y ago|0 comments
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by quercusa 2y ago
Once again, Douglas Adams was ahead of his time: Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the histor
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by quercusa 2y ago
My wife was affected by this. When she applied for the $100 credit, she was told it could take up to three weeks to get the credit form.
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by quercusa 2y ago
Wasn't that AWS Quantum Ledger, which is closing down at the end of July?
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by quercusa 2y ago
I had a great time at VCF East 2024 looking at South American clones and talking to these guys: https://arjorge1987.substack.com/p/mi-experiencia-en-fotos-d...
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by quercusa 2y ago
It's kind of disconcerting to see the "black establishment" (aldermen, churches, etc.) on board with this. Do they really think this is a good idea? Is it that they received enough donations to make them think so?
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by quercusa 2y ago
If you're going to sneer in public at those you consider below you, you should do it correctly. 'trailpark' should be 'trailerpark' or maybe 'trailer-park'
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by quercusa 2y ago
And just how expensive is a bubble sextant?
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Mt. Wilson observatory wildfire webcam(youtube.com)
4 points by quercusa 2y ago|0 comments
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by quercusa 2y ago
These people must read a lot of Dan Brown books: I am Damon Green, a leading literary agent...
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by quercusa 2y ago
> several great places in Portland R.I.P CoffeePeople
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by quercusa 2y ago
> I think the concept of a ubiquitous language is excellent. Everyone should standardize on a common set of vocabulary. We even took it so far as to have a dictionary of our business domain terms. It's so obvious in hindsight that
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by quercusa 2y ago
The 'Magazine' sample is quite relevant for the audience.
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by quercusa 2y ago
That seems like a reasonable heuristic for books from the mid-70s on, but before that they were usually really good books.
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by quercusa 2y ago
Most people I know who were once called 'handicapped' did not like being called 'disabled'
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by quercusa 2y ago
Portland has a history of impressive wooden buildings: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/world-largest-log-cabin-por...
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by quercusa 2y ago
There's a HeathKit one up on Ebay now: 'Heathkit TC-3 Tube Tester'

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