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by Tao3300 3y ago
It's an excellent book. I hope he's remembered more for that than for CatB.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
A mental hospital probably isn't a good place to pick up a language, especially if everyone is convinced you can't speak sensibly and your teeth are gone. [Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/s
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by Tao3300 3y ago
He's been silent on the site and his blog for that long. Activity on gitlab seems to indicate that he's still alive though https://gitlab.com/esr
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I have an even less popular opinion that license exams should involve a simulator portion where 5-10% of the time, an unavoidable freak accident occurs and you fail. In my head, people would calmly walk away from this, and it would serve as
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> salmoning Riding against the traffic in a one-way bike lane
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Looking at it today and I just realized it's a slipknot with some jammed in it to keep it from slipping. Kinda blew my mind there.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I love the I Ching for divination. Not in the "tell me my fate!" sense, but as a way to use randomness as a means to look at things differently. It's like Oblique Strategies but even obliquer.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Not me. I'm keeping my traps and my words so I can keep using them tomorrow.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I've started the same habit. Practicing Chinese Button Knots today.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I love Grog's site. I wanted to buy the app but apparently my Android version is too new :(
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Mutton: The Other Red Meat Rabbit: The Other Other White Meat
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Yeah, "mutton" is not a nice sounding word. It feels like a portmanteau of "mutt" and "(better than) nothin". It's already French, which rules that out (thanks for nothing, Normans!) Maybe Spanish? Añojo?
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by Tao3300 3y ago
It's in LinkedIn style
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I maintain that the rest still hinges on that observation. See other reply in thread.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> the rational number don't have the concept of the 'next' number either. Yet the rationals are Countable. That's literally the same thing. What is counting if it isn't being able to say what the next thing is? D
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by Tao3300 3y ago
What's "real" about π? It's a tool. Circles are useful, but there aren't any.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> because there is an infinite quantity of irrational numbers between any two given rational numbers Indeed, you've grasped the core of it. There's no rule you can write for irrational numbers such that " b is the next nu
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by Tao3300 3y ago
We are a way for the universe to know itself. Carl Sagan
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Exactly. To which I'd add, this is a topic that inevitably brings out sputtering grumpitude.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I don't agree with the commentator, but I think with extreme pieces like this any and all interpretations are on the table. Challenging and disruptive things aren't always handled eloquently or reasonably, otherwise they wouldn&
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Exactly
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by Tao3300 3y ago
We're the lizard people planet that appears to be a chimp people planet.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Never underestimate the power of doing it for fun.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> users pretend to have fantasies about taking officer's service weapon. Why is this a trend...
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Sartre on Anti-Semites
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by Tao3300 3y ago
It's not.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
More policy preaching from ultra-white northern countries that don't let anyone in. It's such a tired trope...
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Now it's all tied up in a mixture of promoter/venue/ticketing relationships that I don't understand. You can't avoid dealing with these bastards now. Pearl Jam tried to once and had to cancel the tour.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
It seems I forgot enough Latin to not be misled.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Who the heck is SA writing for? Children know this.

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