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The Inadequacy of House Burping

greenbuildingadvisor.com
1 points·by quercusa·il y a 2 mois·0 comments

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

arstechnica.com
4 points·by quercusa·il y a 10 mois·2 comments

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quercusa
·le mois dernier·discuss
One nice thing is that the Polish church records are in Latin (with Latinized names), so I've been able to find and read birth/baptismal records for my wife's ancestors from the 1800s.
quercusa
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
It's weird to see starlings listed as endangered. We seem to have no shortage of the darn things in the US.
quercusa
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Bernstein is an enjoyable read on this.
quercusa
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Got trapped in an Amway pitch in my teens and have been inoculated against such things ever since.
quercusa
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I haven't been in decades but there seemed to be the world's highest concentration of candle shops. Maybe people are looking for fancy candles.
quercusa
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Splashdown expected 8:07 EDT
quercusa
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
If you go the old school "filter taped to box fan" route, be sure to add a shroud for the corners, as blade tip turbulence there actually causes reverse air flow. See the article by the 'R' of Corsi-Rosenthal.

https://www.texairfilters.com/how-to-improve-the-efficiency-...
quercusa
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
The attack on Stryker used Microsoft InTune to remote-wipe all of Stryker's systems. If you can wipe a system, could you also drop code on it exfiltrate data and credentials?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346091
quercusa
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Envisioning an update to https://xkcd.com/221/
quercusa
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
SoftICE was like magic back in the day.
quercusa
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Still thinking about those three black olive slices?
quercusa
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
I work with hospital IT people at customer sites. Can confirm that the positions seem to require neither extensive knowledge nor effort.
quercusa
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
> set up by someone who at least half knows what they're doing.

Finding someone like that is hard for many churches.
quercusa
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
Moby-Dick really is a great book. If you want a dolphin-sized taste of Melville, try Billy Budd.
quercusa
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
This is one heck of a hook:

> I was one social notch above children who were so pitiable it would be rude to mock them.
quercusa
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
Coleman won the 'Slants' case at SCOTUS, so he's the real thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matal_v._Tam

https://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/legal-publications-ron...
quercusa
·il y a 11 mois·discuss
If you were wondering about the pelicans: https://baynature.org/article/ask-naturalist-many-birds-beac...
quercusa
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
> 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 it seems completely foolish to do anything else.

I started doing this after working on ANSI/ISO standards. It feels like a hassle until there's an 'ah-ha' moment where (e.g.) everyone realizes that what Group A called 'foo' was what Group B thought was a reference to a 'foo', and not the thing itself.
quercusa
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
- AT&T will usually pay all of the arbitration fees (with some exceptions).

That could get pretty expensive for them quickly.
quercusa
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
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/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jp...