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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:Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, ...
on Friday August 07, 2026 @01:31PM (#49213700)
A fun game to draw your own iceberg: https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html
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.
Re:Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland
on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:24AM (#48135055)
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.
Re:The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
on Thursday April 16, 2026 @05:34PM (#47799782)
Got trapped in an Amway pitch in my teens and have been inoculated against such things ever since.
Re:I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to
on Monday April 13, 2026 @10:29AM (#47752516)
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?
Re:I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Ma...
on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @02:47PM (#47156815)
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?
Re:Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
on Saturday January 10, 2026 @01:07PM (#46568267)
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:Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safet...
on Monday October 13, 2025 @02:55PM (#45572022)
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...
Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources
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.
Re:The SSO Wall of Shame – Vendors that treat SSO as luxury feature
on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @06:15PM (#44956765)
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:Simon Willison's Lethal Trifecta Talk at the Bay Area AI Security M...
on Saturday August 09, 2025 @03:36PM (#44849431)
If you were wondering about the pelicans:
https://baynature.org/article/ask-naturalist-many-birds-beac...
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.
Re:War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America
on Monday June 02, 2025 @03:12PM (#44162010)
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...
Re:How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @12:08PM (#44108289)
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?
Re:Images of Soviet Venus lander falling to Earth suggest its parachut...
on Friday May 02, 2025 @04:11PM (#43874142)
Those of a certain age will remember this as the premise of the Six Million Dollar Man episode Death Probe (S4E13).