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by quercusa 6y ago
Anecdota: Mixed-age groups of home-schooled kids (e.g., at co-op events) tend to just play, with the older ones typically watching out for the younger kids, whether they are siblings or not. Mixed-age groups of formally-schooled kids begin
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by quercusa 6y ago
Yes, but he was paying $387.79/mo before the emergency. Maybe an average rate to smooth out summer costs?
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by quercusa 6y ago
I wonder if he uses electric resistance heat? Seems unlikely - most places in Texas need A/C to be livable, so I'd expect people to have heat pumps.
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by quercusa 6y ago
Imagine telling management you wanted to hedge for a 7-σ event. Lots of luck...
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One Texas Resident Still Has Power, but His Bill Is Now over $8k(newsweek.com)
31 points by quercusa 6y ago|32 comments
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by quercusa 6y ago
ClickyKeyboards.com maintains a database of old Model M keyboards where you can find the siblings of yours. I've got a 1987 and a 1989. https://www.clickykeyboards.com/model-m-archive-project/
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by quercusa 6y ago
Anyone use a 'alternative energy supplier' (e.g., not the local power company, who you do pay for the transmission). Are your per-kWh prices fixed or do they float?
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by quercusa 6y ago
The landing animation video (2/3 way down in article) is really amazing.
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NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week(spectrum.ieee.org)
300 points by quercusa 6y ago|105 comments
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by quercusa 6y ago
> how hostile some tech folks are towards the idea of journalism I don't think they are hostile to the idea of journalism per se . It's the current practice they object to.
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by quercusa 6y ago
Color definitely sets expectations. But I assume the red-tinted white wine was served at red wine temperature, which would give it a very different set of flavors.
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by quercusa 6y ago
In 2001, it was Scott McNealy : https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200108/df20010808.jp... If you are not familiar with Dr. Fun: Don Knuth Finally Sells Out https://nerocam.com&#x2F
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by quercusa 6y ago
Gussie Fink-Nottle smiles.
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by quercusa 6y ago
I think Chapter 96, The Try-Works , is an amazing piece of writing: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/777/chapter-96-the-t...
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by quercusa 6y ago
The identification part seems pretty slick. I'm curious about the "curtailment" part - if a bird is heading toward the chopper, what can you do? Slamming on the brakes on 100m+ blades seems... intense.
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by quercusa 6y ago
FYI, "It uses Tuft CSS, inspired..." should be Tufte.
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by quercusa 6y ago
I was thinking the elevator scene at the end of The Blues Brothers.
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by quercusa 6y ago
A book recommendation: Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Babiak. Lots of good material on recognizing the situation. But once you do, the advice is simple: get out.
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by quercusa 6y ago
The latter is mostly true. I can look back at events that revealed just how toxic things were, but there always seemed to be something (maybe the interesting part of the job, maybe somebody in worse shape) that kept me from processing the
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by quercusa 6y ago
Same story for bacteria and stomach ulcers.
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Reuters: Suspected Chinese hackers used SolarWinds bug against US Finance Ctr(reuters.com)
15 points by quercusa 6y ago|1 comments
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by quercusa 6y ago
Once the race for the exits begins, the price will drop the way it rose.
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by quercusa 6y ago
FDIC is for banks. SIPC (of which RH is a member) is for brokerage houses. https://www.sipc.org/about-sipc/
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by quercusa 6y ago
I had a SaaS vendor that followed that trajectory. The technical team was very dedicated but the president didn't even pretend to care about existing customers. The cost of leaving was assumed to be so high that he said out loud that t
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by quercusa 6y ago
I used to much thicker ones - is that what you have in mind?
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by quercusa 6y ago
It used to be buggy but I've been using it now for months and haven't had any problems.
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by quercusa 6y ago
...which requires you to login to see any details.
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by quercusa 6y ago
This seems like an echo from 15 years ago when LargeCorps couldn't be bothered to update their server code to not require IE6.
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by quercusa 6y ago
Interesting timing. Today's WSJ has an article: "Dropping WhatsApp? Nostalgia Drives Users to ICQ" WhatsApp users around the world who are worried about the company’s shifting policy on data privacy are flocking to rival mess
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by quercusa 6y ago
A consideration of the Japanese saying "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down": https://www.tofugu.com/japan/conformity-in-japan/

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