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by _moof 5y ago
> I will confess that English grammar and spelling is kryptonite for me English is an amalgamation of about five different languages from at least three different families at this point, so I think we can all be forgiven for getting th
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by _moof 5y ago
> In peace time And honestly, when was the last time of any significant duration when the US was not involved in a military conflict?
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by _moof 5y ago
This is getting heated so let's all take about 20% off there, buds, eh? That being said I've lived all over the US and traveled all over the world, and yes, LA is particularly bad, but in general I agree with OP.
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by _moof 5y ago
I'll chime in here and say I hate the weather in LA, so for me, losing that would be a plus. ;)
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by _moof 5y ago
I have a custom keyboard from WASD that is mostly* the NeXT layout, and I use Karabiner (macOS) to program it to behave like one. It's wonderful. *The keyboard in the post has | in the right place but all my NeXT keyboards had it in so
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by _moof 5y ago
Not sure if anyone heard it but I know it registered very clearly on barometers in London, so it's not out of the question.
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by _moof 5y ago
Criterion, criteria... Greek and Latin will get ya.
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by _moof 5y ago
I'm not usually a grammar guy but this one bugs me: the singular of maxima is maximum. "A local maximum," "twelve local maxima." Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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by _moof 5y ago
From the ICD: "Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterised by three dimensions: 1) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; 2) increased
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by _moof 5y ago
There are three categories of ILS. The most basic one can get you down to 200' AGL and can be flown using only the signals from the localizer and glideslope antennas. These are the 110 and 330 MHz systems, respectively. They are transm
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by _moof 5y ago
Radar altimeters are required for reduced minimums on ILS approaches.
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by _moof 5y ago
Yep, I get signal up to about 3000' AGL where I am.
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by _moof 5y ago
Pilots don't know anything about RF beyond "VHF is line-of-sight" and "use HF over the ocean." I'm inclined to listen to their (our) concerns but we don't have some special understanding of the underlying
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by _moof 5y ago
My high school physics teacher didn't tell us the kinematics equations. He had us perform experiments to find them ourselves. I learned more about science in one week than I had in all the years up to that point. (We were also allowed
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by _moof 5y ago
And when an entire society relentlessly shits on you, you're not exactly left brimming with respect for its norms.
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by _moof 5y ago
That's fair. I suppose the source of my irritation isn't just that one sentence; it's more holistic. And it's borne out of experiences living in rural areas that people from nearby cities treat like their own personal pl
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by _moof 5y ago
The "we" in that statement fails to account for the millions of people who do, in fact, do these things regularly. This failure to imagine that there are vast numbers of people whose lives are different from the author's is s
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by _moof 5y ago
Wait'll you see his hair.
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by _moof 5y ago
> Seldom do we go outside on a clear night, away from the lights of the city, and gaze at the dark starry sky, or take walks in the woods unaccompanied by our digital devices. I am so, so, so tired of people who live in cities acting l
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by _moof 5y ago
If I've understood the minified source correctly, Wordle has 2,315 words it can pick for the word of the day and 10,657 additional words that it'll let you enter.
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by _moof 5y ago
Why is there always someone eager to demonstrate a weirdly expansive knowledge of ages of consent?
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by _moof 5y ago
Yes, I'm aware, but that doesn't actually affect my objection. And no, I don't have any alternate data, and I don't feel it's my responsibility to come up with any. You're the one presenting this data set to ma
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by _moof 5y ago
One of the early papers on the Big Bang was by Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow.
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by _moof 5y ago
This chart includes Social Security and Medicare. I don't think it makes sense to include retirees in a data set when making an argument about "welfare."
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by _moof 5y ago
I had a similar experience. Much better teaching at the two-year school than at the four-year. One of my upper-level professors didn't even teach at all; he just threw us a book, said "read this," and then we didn't hear
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by _moof 5y ago
A lot of community colleges have comprehensive transfer agreements with four-year schools in the same city and/or state. You can generally avoid getting screwed on transfers if you do a little research.
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by _moof 5y ago
This is standard practice in a lot of places because bare Booleans in parameter lists don't communicate anything useful to the reader. Don't know if there are IDEs that automate it though. (In most languages one should avoid desig
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by _moof 5y ago
> the rest of their lives I have dramatically underestimated the amount of revenue one can get from serving ads on a modestly popular game that everyone will have forgotten in a month's time.
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by _moof 5y ago
Anil Dash said it better than I can: "The real web is @powerlanguish making a game for someone he loves, not smothering it in surveillance-based ads or creepy growth hacks, and limiting it so it doesn’t even try to steal more than a fe
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by _moof 5y ago
He uses Cloudflare.

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