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Re:Higher Multipoles of the Cow on Thursday September 03, 2026 @10:50AM (#49550682)
There was a rather well-known French study.

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

Re:Every Fucking Website (2020) on Friday August 14, 2026 @11:30AM (#49300133)
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.
Re:We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:37AM (#48294164)
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.
It's weird to see starlings listed as endangered. We seem to have no shortage of the darn things in the US.
Re:A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory on Thursday April 23, 2026 @01:25PM (#47878554)
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Bernstein is an enjoyable read on this.
Got trapped in an Amway pitch in my teens and have been inoculated against such things ever since.
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.
Re:Artemis II returns to Earth, splashdown in four hours on Friday April 10, 2026 @06:07PM (#47724234)
Splashdown expected 8:07 EDT
Re:You Can Just Print an Air Purifier on Thursday April 09, 2026 @10:38AM (#47704367)
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-...

Re:301M Records Exposed: The HIPAA Breach Epidemic on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:34AM (#47364257)
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

Envisioning an update to https://xkcd.com/221/
Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle on Monday February 02, 2026 @02:23PM (#46860057)
SoftICE was like magic back in the day.
Re:The Enchiridion by Epictetus on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @02:46PM (#46785397)
Still thinking about those three black olive slices?
I work with hospital IT people at customer sites. Can confirm that the positions seem to require neither extensive knowledge nor effort.
Re:Anyone have experiences with Audio Induction Loops? on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:00AM (#46541815)
> set up by someone who at least half knows what they're doing.

Finding someone like that is hard for many churches.

Re:Short Little Difficult Books on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:36AM (#45967628)
Moby-Dick really is a great book. If you want a dolphin-sized taste of Melville, try Billy Budd.
Re:My six stages of learning to be a socially normal person on Monday November 17, 2025 @02:42PM (#45957368)
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.

Re:Epson MX-80 Fonts (1980 Dot Matrix Printer) on Thursday August 21, 2025 @10:01AM (#44972905)
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.

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"
Re:Lessons from That 1834 Landscape Gardening Guidebook on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:44AM (#44248178)
Landscape gardening (as well as thermodynamics) plays an important part in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia, which is excellent.
In N. Florida I think it was Malathion.
Re:HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux on Monday June 02, 2025 @10:50AM (#44159423)
GIMP would like a word...
If only they'd perch side-by-side!
Re:A straight line teaches machines to learn on Thursday May 08, 2025 @10:46AM (#43926552)
This (housing prices) example seems really familiar. Was it used in Andrew Ng's original Coursera ML class?
Those of a certain age will remember this as the premise of the Six Million Dollar Man episode Death Probe (S4E13).

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