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by quercusa 3y ago
Wish we could see the control center video of the team when this was confirmed.
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by quercusa 3y ago
In the event of early boot failure, the only recourse seems to be to abandon the process, and leave the Mac in DFU mode. I wonder what the official phrase behind "DFU" is?
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by quercusa 3y ago
Still happening in the Free Church of Scotland. They have psalters with pages split horizontally, so you have the words at the top and the tune at the bottom.
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by quercusa 3y ago
Correct link: https://gizmodo.com/the-best-way-to-call-a-cat-1850410085
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by quercusa 3y ago
The sonar sensor looks like the one from the Polaroid SX-70, another wonder of that age.
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by quercusa 3y ago
They are very well done. We used a 4x5 with a Polaroid back in a college Physics of Photography class (which was a blast). The creamy, grain-less images made going back to enlarging Tri-X even more painful.
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by quercusa 3y ago
Coat the outside of your grilled cheese with half butter and half mayonnaise (mixed). It's spectacular.
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by quercusa 3y ago
There's a WSJ piece on this topic in today's edition. Experts say it's generally OK to leave butter out on the counter for three weeks. Who takes three weeks to go through a stick of butter???
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by quercusa 3y ago
Yes, yes it is. For all their objectively bad qualities, I really hat them because they set off my allergies like nothing else.
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by quercusa 3y ago
I'm sure they'll replace it with something better suited... eucalyptus, maybe?
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by quercusa 4y ago
Thanks for scanning and posting this!
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by quercusa 4y ago
I had some serious rocket-lust as a kid over the Estes Saturn V.
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by quercusa 4y ago
Learned about this on HN a few months ago. Less than 20 minutes to set it up with a cheapo USB KVM switch and it works great. I have a Model M keyboard plugged into a PS/2-USB adapter and the switches don't even confuse the keyb
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by quercusa 4y ago
It's always a good time to re-read the Saltzer, Reed, and Clark End-to-End Arguments in System Design paper. "A too-real example" triggers a certain degree of paranoia.
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by quercusa 4y ago
Book recommendation: A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 by William Trotter. It's a very engaging account.
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by quercusa 4y ago
I have a standing desk that I use up about a third of the time. But if there's something that requires a lot of concentration, it always seems to work better if I lower it and sit.
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by quercusa 4y ago
This seems to be aimed at Scrivener's niche. What advantages do you offer? https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview
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by quercusa 4y ago
I use to love hearing Sylvia Poggioli say her name.
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by quercusa 4y ago
PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
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by quercusa 4y ago
This would probably be more effective with even a few examples of what they consider to be false.
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by quercusa 4y ago
As it currently stands, qualified immunity means that officers are immune from lawsuits unless their behavior (e.g., beating the hell out of a guy to whom you never identified yourself) has previously been found to be unworthy of immunity
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Wooden stop-motion samurai film(youtube.com)
3 points by quercusa 4y ago|0 comments
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by quercusa 4y ago
How Are Places on the Moon Named? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/how-are-pl... Planetary Names: How Names Are Approved https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/Approved
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by quercusa 4y ago
I haven't seen anything from them yet - do they say anything about forwarding addresses?
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by quercusa 4y ago
'HM' ?
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by quercusa 4y ago
As others have recommended, check out Douglas Tallamy's Bringing Nature Home . He's an entomologist and sets out a very clear connection between native plants, native insects, and the larger ecosystem.
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by quercusa 4y ago
Deer densities are much higher than historical averages and, when hungry enough, they'll eat just about anything. You can see this in wild areas with lots of deer - there's almost nothing growing less than about 7 feet off the gro
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by quercusa 4y ago
We went through this 20 years ago when it was IE6.
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US faces new threat from Canadian ‘super pig’(theguardian.com)
8 points by quercusa 4y ago|1 comments
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by quercusa 4y ago
Are there any current national Democrats who would be to the right of Carter?

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