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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.

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.

Splashdown expected 8:07 EDT

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-...

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/

SoftICE was like magic back in the day.

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.

set up by someone who at least half knows what they're doing.

Finding someone like that is hard for many churches.

Moby-Dick really is a great book. If you want a dolphin-sized taste of Melville, try Billy Budd.

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.

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...

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"

If you were wondering about the pelicans: https://baynature.org/article/ask-naturalist-many-birds-beac...

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.

GIMP would like a word...

If only they'd perch side-by-side!

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).

Toastmasters has someone assigned to count these when someone is making a speech but the bell is next level.

There's nothing quite like the sound of a flicker hammering on a downspout at 4 am!

TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh

That's the Mad Magazine Knuth speaking: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-enduring-art-of-computer-p...

So, better than Caillou?

I have to imagine that Tolkien would have been delighted to discuss how to translate LoTR.