quercusa

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   by quercusa 3y ago

   I remember getting a Bic 4-color pen as a kid - it was very exciting.
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   by quercusa 3y ago

   Ordered lifting string from them to fix some cellular shades. However, it's hard to push string (through the cells) as you'll need to do if it broke . I borrowed a bodkin from my wife and it was the perfect tool.
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   by quercusa 3y ago

   TheBat! - a pretty slick email client for the late 90s
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   by quercusa 3y ago

   Good advice for 1985: Allocate four digits for the year part of a date: a new millennium is coming. David Martin Norristown, Pennsylvania
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   by quercusa 3y ago

   > They have had lots of things they stopped doing I have wondered if leadership didn't understand the Gartner Hype Cycle, because a lot of projects seem to get killed after the investments but before significant success was even p
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   by quercusa 3y ago

   Curiously missing: "inflation-adjusted"
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   by quercusa 3y ago

   As a realist, Lewis would likely agree with in real life it's just as likely that a faction of corrupt self-serving incompetents end up taking over the entire system. And that's why he'd have little interest in 'rev
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   by quercusa 3y ago

   Wait for Spring and find some yellow-capped 2L bottles of Coke. Those are Kosher for Passover so they don't contain any grain (corn), just cane sugar.
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   by quercusa 3y ago

   As well they should be.
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    Previously (215 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35664219
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    Follow-up: https://www.404media.co/devternity-fake-speakers-eduard-sizo...
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    If you don't have an X account: https://nitter.net/GergelyOrosz/status/1728177708608450705
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    See the section Long, long ago
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    “It shows that the inertial reference systems that act as dead-reckoning backups in case of GPS failure are no backup at all in the face of GPS spoofing because the spoofed GPS receiver corrupts the IRS, which then dead reckons off the cor
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    Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks(vice.com)

    6 points by quercusa 3y ago|2 comments
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    Moby Dick is a great book, but it's a mistake to make 16-year-olds read it. I've heard of many people reading it 30 years later and really enjoying it.
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    I moved to a role supporting a team that had been told that huge numbers of things were "impossible" by a brilliant guy given to migraines. If you asked him on a good day, he could do anything. But on a bad day he just wanted you
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    Agreed - perhaps the most comprehensive README I've ever seen.
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    So not really global, is it?
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    Yeah, I'd like to see the measurement locations.
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    I picked up Crypto during a four-hour visit to Milwaukee back in the 90s during what was a yet-to-be-detected outbreak. It was very unpleasant.
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    > All the while, the bird was zipping along at 90-170 km/h (56-106 mph). Given that these birds generally cruise at 10-60 km/h (6-37 mph), at his top speed I assume the higher speed is "across the ground" but it&#x27
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    I think this is an example of what the technique shown in the video produces: https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/blake/images/gm_379057... (from https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibit
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    Patience and concentration are key! It takes a long time to develop the eye-hand coordination to execute what you envision and it only takes a moment of inattention to ruin things (e.g., cutting a line 'forward' that should be rev
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    Australian Government [to be] Exempt from Own Online "Misinformation" Laws(reclaimthenet.org)

    3 points by quercusa 3y ago|0 comments
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    It's a "heads I win, tails you lose" test.
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    I installed it.
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    I've got a Dell Vostro V5510 (i7, 32GB RAM) that's been rock-solid running Ubuntu and only cost ~ $1000.
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    > OS/2 PPC included a full fledged PC emulator, which supplied a virtual x86 CPU as well as common PC hardware Was x86 emulation built into PowerPC or would this have been all software?
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    by quercusa 3y ago

    This guy chases down lost apples on old farmsteads: https://www.carolinacountry.com/departments/departments/feat... https://applesearch.org/