MengerSponge

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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
Million, billion, and trillion sadly sound kind of the same when you talk about it.
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
You can spoof the wireless signal if you don't get coverage. There are surely more and better Android options, but I used Clock Wave to set a clock from Germany back in the US. https://cw.rzapps.com/ It's really c
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
We could write instructions like literature. Maybe we could call it "Literate Programming"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
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by MengerSponge 2mo ago
Funny thing is "normal" for me is either a double minus (--) for TeX or the HTML –
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
It's agonizing because it's hard. It's captivating because it's possible.
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
Sounds like you'll appreciate my favorite related bit of typographic dash pedantry, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-... If you want to be official about things, use the en dash to
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
Bro. The Acropolis is a temple.
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
They saw Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, but didn't really get it.
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
Also about destroying the government's investigative/enforcement capacity. USAID's destruction was ideological, but protecting Tesla and SpaceX was existential.
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
They learned from Scoble's glasshole picture https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/yes-you-can-w...
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
It's already hard to tell, because chunky sunglasses don't change in volume much when you add electronics and optics. You kind of have to know what you're looking for to clock even these: https://www.ray-ban.com&#x
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
I've seen videos of flock cameras installed improperly (missing a breakaway device) right next to roads. The city must be able to remove unsafe devices! https://highways.dot.gov/safety/local-rural/maintenance-
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
I'm curious what those conversations in Meta sound like: A> People are calling our omnipresent surveillance technology "Pervert glasses" B> Are the people who wear them perverts? A> Most probably aren't.
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
They care about rheology because that expertise enables fracking, and they're smart enough to understand that you have to fund basic science to get (valuable) applied science.
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
It's horrifying. I don't remember acid rain or CFCs and the hole in the ozone layer, but I'm good enough at pattern recognition to see it playing out again. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
Doesn't a fiber tether give its drone desktop-class computing?
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
"Is you taking notes on a criminal f-cking conspiracy?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZLoMrRgFFE
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
Calculus exists, but analytic solutions generally don't. Gaudi's chains and weights serve as an incredibly elegant mechanical computer that were only surpassed in the last few decades by CAD. Designers used mechanical splines unti
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
There's a frozen custard shop in my town. They sometimes do silly things like including raw sliced strawberries that just turn into ice shards, but their vanilla and chocolate absolutely beat the pants off anything I can find in the gr
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
Do they have an insignia or patch? Can we buy it?
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
That's prior art if there ever was prior art. It's just unicode U+1D54F
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
AC is far more efficient than most heating methods, but there isn't the same level of censure applied to traditional heating technologies. If you listen, people talk about AC like it's inherently polluting, like it's somethin
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
CSAM?
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
Good idea! Nothing bad could possibly come from advocating for centralization of academic assessment! Let's give more authority to a handful of private publishers who adapt their curricula to the whims of Texas! It's not just beca
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
There are schools with severe penalties for cheating (Army/Navy, Haverford, Davidson), but most aren't set up for that. Professors didn't self-select to be prosecutors, and we didn't spend decades becoming world experts
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
Understanding 90-95% of someone else's proof is much easier than writing your own ;) It's hard to verify that you understand someone else's work at 100%, but it's reasonable for an expert to tell once they've built
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
The reasons for not marking it are ignorance and fraud. Both are terrible looks for an academic.
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
If it's a new article it should say something new. You can save your reader's time and your own effort by quoting some of those words, or by citing all of them. That trims almost 500 superfluous words from your paper, and what&#x2
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
Course credit is not the same as professional certifications. You can apply past expertise/work to as many different certifications as you can manage. Submitting previously graded work for a new course wastes your own time. It also was
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by MengerSponge 3mo ago
Shades of "You can't go to the sun! You'll burn alive!" "Duh! That's why we're going at night!"

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