Are you thinking of Oldsmobile?
I probably saw this first on HN, but here is is anyway: The 404 page for the Catholic diocese of Pittsburgh features the Catholic patron saint of lost items: https://diopitt.org/404
I always liked the way she sang "I'll Tell Me Ma." Most versions I've heard are upbeat. Hers sounded like she was an onlooker, not a participant - the kid no one would play with.
From what I remember reading, when they sent code over telegraph wires, dit and dah were distinguished by the time between clicks. Each one required two clicks to send, but the clicks were closer together for a dit. You…
I'm a non-coding lurker here, but the only thing that ever motivated me to write my own program was to solve the newspaper anagram puzzle, "Jumble", faster than my wife. I wrote it in Basic, then re-wrote it in assembly…
grammar: "cost-prohibited" should be "cost prohibitive" Hope you can edit the page :)
In 1966, at age 18 I came home from the first year of college very tired. No amount of sleep made me feel rested. Everyone, including me, thought I had mononucleosis. I tested negative for mono and my family doctor said…
I hope so too. I recognized the symptoms (in myself) as soon as I started reading the abstract. --- from the link cdrini posted above, which is a Guardian article by one of the authors of the study in the original…
Are you thinking of Oldsmobile?
I probably saw this first on HN, but here is is anyway: The 404 page for the Catholic diocese of Pittsburgh features the Catholic patron saint of lost items: https://diopitt.org/404
I always liked the way she sang "I'll Tell Me Ma." Most versions I've heard are upbeat. Hers sounded like she was an onlooker, not a participant - the kid no one would play with.
From what I remember reading, when they sent code over telegraph wires, dit and dah were distinguished by the time between clicks. Each one required two clicks to send, but the clicks were closer together for a dit. You…
I'm a non-coding lurker here, but the only thing that ever motivated me to write my own program was to solve the newspaper anagram puzzle, "Jumble", faster than my wife. I wrote it in Basic, then re-wrote it in assembly…
grammar: "cost-prohibited" should be "cost prohibitive" Hope you can edit the page :)
In 1966, at age 18 I came home from the first year of college very tired. No amount of sleep made me feel rested. Everyone, including me, thought I had mononucleosis. I tested negative for mono and my family doctor said…
I hope so too. I recognized the symptoms (in myself) as soon as I started reading the abstract. --- from the link cdrini posted above, which is a Guardian article by one of the authors of the study in the original…