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quercusa··on Higher Multipoles of the Cow
There was a rather well-known French study.

[0] Python, Monty (1975), Monty Python and the Holy Grail

quercusa··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
If the site happens to be a discussion site that starts with 'R', clearing cookies will let you through for a while. In Brave, there's a setting to do so when you leave the page.
quercusa··on Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]
A fun game to draw your own iceberg: https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html

First seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26201160

quercusa··on We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin
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··on Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland
It's weird to see starlings listed as endangered. We seem to have no shortage of the darn things in the US.
quercusa··on A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Bernstein is an enjoyable read on this.
quercusa··on The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
Got trapped in an Amway pitch in my teens and have been inoculated against such things ever since.
quercusa··on I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to
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··on Artemis II returns to Earth, splashdown in four hours
Splashdown expected 8:07 EDT
quercusa··on You Can Just Print an Air Purifier
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··on 301M Records Exposed: The HIPAA Breach Epidemic
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··on I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus
Envisioning an update to https://xkcd.com/221/
quercusa··on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
SoftICE was like magic back in the day.
quercusa··on The Enchiridion by Epictetus
Still thinking about those three black olive slices?
quercusa··on Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
I work with hospital IT people at customer sites. Can confirm that the positions seem to require neither extensive knowledge nor effort.
quercusa··on Anyone have experiences with Audio Induction Loops?
> set up by someone who at least half knows what they're doing.

Finding someone like that is hard for many churches.

quercusa··on Short Little Difficult Books
Moby-Dick really is a great book. If you want a dolphin-sized taste of Melville, try Billy Budd.
quercusa··on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
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··on Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act
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··on Epson MX-80 Fonts
From the page: The EPSON MX-80 printer was a commercially successful product in the early 1980s.

That's quite the understatement - they were everywhere.

quercusa··on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature
The quality of the docs doesn't matter if the customer won't read them: "We'll set up a Teams meeting and you can tell us what to do"
quercusa··on My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
If you were wondering about the pelicans: https://baynature.org/article/ask-naturalist-many-birds-beac...
quercusa··on Lessons from That 1834 Landscape Gardening Guidebook
Landscape gardening (as well as thermodynamics) plays an important part in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia, which is excellent.
quercusa··on War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America
In N. Florida I think it was Malathion.
quercusa··on HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux
GIMP would like a word...
quercusa··on How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
If only they'd perch side-by-side!
quercusa··on How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent
This (housing prices) example seems really familiar. Was it used in Andrew Ng's original Coursera ML class?
quercusa··on Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry
Those of a certain age will remember this as the premise of the Six Million Dollar Man episode Death Probe (S4E13).
quercusa··on A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs
Toastmasters has someone assigned to count these when someone is making a speech but the bell is next level.
quercusa··on How to Recognize Woodpeckers by Their Drumming Sounds
There's nothing quite like the sound of a flicker hammering on a downspout at 4 am!
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