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QuasiGiani commented on Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?    · Posted by u/dennisy
dennisy · 4 months ago
Could you provide a small example of what you may add in a day and how you later search it?
QuasiGiani · 4 months ago
Any thing at all.

Ctrl-F.

QuasiGiani commented on Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?    · Posted by u/dennisy
willidiots · 4 months ago
I use a flat text file called "notes" on my desktop, and I leave it open in Sublime Text in a corner of my second screen. Periodically I throw a datestamp in there as a reference point. For generic "stuff that should be retained manually" it works well - easy to add to, easily searchable.
QuasiGiani · 4 months ago
This is it...

KIS

Ctrl-Effing-F

Any other trendy nonsense is time-wasting trifling foolishness.

QuasiGiani commented on The Weeds Are Winning   technologyreview.com/2024... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
kylebenzle · 10 months ago
There has not been a single plant/weed agricultural expert in the field in the last 20+ years who has said our overuse of herbicides is not a bad thing and will result in ever more resistant weeds.

I think the confusion is always the same, laymen listening to industry or company spokesmen who have a profit motives, the scientist have no such confusion.

QuasiGiani · 10 months ago
Profit motives... the very sickening sickness of The System.
QuasiGiani commented on What Is a Particle? (2020)   quantamagazine.org/what-i... · Posted by u/sblank
disambiguation · a year ago

    1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

    Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

QuasiGiani · a year ago
And away we go!
QuasiGiani commented on L.A. County sheriff’s unit accused of targeting political enemies, vocal critics   latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/scotuswroteus
QuasiGiani · 4 years ago
> ...dressed in a sheriff’s uniform to pose as a deputy to sneak a McDonald’s Egg McMuffin and a cup of coffee in to an inmate at Men’s Central Jail

Such clear proof that the article of this debacle... is nothing more than a cynically crafted advertisement for Mickey D's.

~~~~~

ETA (with, mind you, appropriate alarm & dismay at the downvote):

> “That’s what I’m telling you, dumb f—, is that clear?” Lillienfeld said. “I can’t make it any clearer than that.”

> Lillienfeld did not respond to a request for comment.

The guy is so clear(ly) nothing but a shill for McDonald's.

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QuasiGiani commented on An empirical study of obsolete answers on Stack Overflow [pdf]   arxiv.org/abs/1903.12282... · Posted by u/fogus
QuasiGiani · 5 years ago
This of course(!) sounds as if like it'll like be quite good.

But. I am more interested in the inevitable corollarial follow-up:

An Thorough & Ignominious Probing Investigation Into The Problematic Presentation Of Pseudo-Intellectual Wankery On Hacker News

QuasiGiani commented on First sighting of Majorana fermion on a common metal   phys.org/news/2020-04-sig... · Posted by u/lelf
aey · 5 years ago
> Now the MIT-led team has observed evidence of Majorana fermions in a material system they designed and fabricated, which consists of nanowires of gold grown atop a superconducting material, vanadium, and dotted with small, ferromagnetic "islands" of europium sulfide.

Material science is dope

QuasiGiani · 5 years ago
> nanowires of gold grown atop a superconducting material, vanadium, and dotted with small, ferromagnetic "islands" of europium sulfide

It's about effing time _they_ finally got their dizzy asses around to trying this, eh? I've been so frustrated over the past few decades urging this approach!

QuasiGiani commented on Public Health Responses to COVID-19 Outbreaks on Cruise Ships   cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/w... · Posted by u/herpderperator
raldi · 5 years ago
Say it with me: viral RNA doesn't necessarily mean live virus was present. Now you're going to see "coronavirus can live on surfaces for 17 days!" over and over, but we don't know that based on this study and for those using live virus, it's much shorter.

https://twitter.com/aetiology/status/1242254105155973122

QuasiGiani · 5 years ago
Yeah... Yeah! ...Yeah!

Take this (take that!) from someone interested in etiology... who then goes on to "proclaim":

"...they _may_ no longer be able to grow inside cells, _even if_..."

...maybe if...

As useless as maybe hands-down almost literally everything ev-aar-ruh said like literally possibly maybe before since and may be after even if (say it with me!) "they may".

QuasiGiani commented on Spotted water hemlock is the most toxic plant in North America   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/babelfish
deerIRL · 5 years ago
We have this growing wild everywhere in Northern Saskatchewan. I always was terrified I would accidentally touch it and die as a kid up at our cabin.

Thankfully, once you know what to look for, it sticks out like a sore thumb.

QuasiGiani · 5 years ago
Terrified?!?

Why? Simply because it'll cause you to "chew your tongue into ribbons" and "muscles start contracting so hard they can dislocate bones"?

Pussy.

u/QuasiGiani

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