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by baruz 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/ You know which one.
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by baruz 1y ago
I did the same thing, used setq and set ' before I did :r and saw the “define” verbiage. > assumed to know the difference :m for the manual and it’s under Comparisons
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by baruz 1y ago
An earlier Gen X reporting in to agree with this eloquently-written comment. I only want to add that my Silent parents never tried to sell me on the Baby Boomer dream retirement, having been raised by Lost Generation parents still shell-sho
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by baruz 1y ago
That was not Gen X saying that—we don’t say anything, like our Silent parents—we just sulk in our rooms playing grunge to relieve the overwhelming dread and to root out whatever ear-worms Clear Channel has been feeding us. Baby Boomers were
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by baruz 1y ago
I wonder whether TFA author never saw it again because the fifty-minute bookers wised up and started booking the extra ten minutes or whether the ten-minute stand-up pirates finally got a talking-to.
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by baruz 1y ago
I remember that decision and am still indignant about it. Why should the government give private land to a different private party? If the government is going to take it for public use, I can see the reasoning, but using eminent domain to t
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by baruz 1y ago
Huh. It was grayed out for me as well, but I have no recollection of having had to look up moles, Avogadro, or even chemistry-related topics in Wikipedia for at least several months.
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by baruz 1y ago
> Who decides Councils formed by the currently accredited schools decide. > what right The government started relying on these accrediting bodies with the GI Bill in 1952. They did not want the GIs to spend the money on bad educations
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by baruz 1y ago
You probably got auto-spellchecked, but it’s “charism,” without the a.
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by baruz 1y ago
That is not a big leap as American evangelicals typically do not think of Catholics as Christians, full stop.
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by baruz 1y ago
“Are you the coming guy” in English sort of lapses into comedy that was absolutely not intended. or was it?
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by baruz 1y ago
You probably know this, but ancient Greek does not use auxiliary verbs to the extent that English does, as it uses inflection to encode tense, mode, and aspect information. The prosdokōmen could be interpreted as present indicative (“are we
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by baruz 1y ago
Not modern. Outsiders coming into the language (even for modern Greeks—the diglossia TFA mentions between spoken and written language in English existed for 1500+ years in Greek) find particles difficult to grasp, and the dictionary definit
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by baruz 1y ago
I assume you’re joking, but θεωρίᾱ does mean a “looking at” or “a beholding” or “contemplation” from the verb θεωρέω, “to look at” or “observe.” Aristotle liked to use it for speculation or “theorizing” in the mental sense, but apparently t
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by baruz 1y ago
Lest anyone take this article at face value, please note that it was published in _Speculative Grammarian_, “the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics.” The range of meanings for the Gr
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by baruz 2y ago
Quick note: the article states that some tellings of the myth behind the dye say that Hercules did it. Actually, that was (probably) a case of interpretatio graeca , in which the Greeks identified Heracles with the Canaanite Melqart, “King
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by baruz 2y ago
If your parents are anything like mine, they probably put them away for safekeeping in a place prone to flooding, mold, and mildew.
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by baruz 2y ago
I nowhere wrote that TFA said _Magic_ was their first thing; I merely expanded on matters TFA only mentioned in passing.
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by baruz 2y ago
Peter Adkinson’s fondness for _Dungeons and dragons_ and his Internet savvy was mentioned but not really expanded upon. In fact the first product that Wizards of the Coast produced was not _Magic: the gathering_ but a supplement for role-pl
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by baruz 2y ago
They said that the work was a Greek Epicurean work, but described it as finding fulfillment in the pleasures of life. The Greek Epicureans were of the opinion that avoiding pain and suffering was the object of ethical philosophy, which is n
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by baruz 2y ago
It’s an issue with all metaphorical language. You want to compare it with one thing (irresistibility of the call, as TFA) and some non-zero percentage of your audience makes a different association (lured to their doom, as your interpretati
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by baruz 2y ago
Does this not imply that /u/bell-cot had been a graduate student in mathematics? > If I could give my many-decades-ago younger self some advice for math grad school
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by baruz 2y ago
> no house of cards As I understand TFA, from a formalist’s perspective, this is not necessarily the case. People were building on swathes of mathematics that seem proven and make intuitive sense, but needed formal buttressing. > _act
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by baruz 2y ago
This is the the talk by Dr de Frutos—Fernandez that Dr Buzzard mentions at the end: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QCRLwC5JQw0
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by baruz 2y ago
Your link to the Usborne books is dead—this works: https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books
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by baruz 2y ago
That’s the point of the analogy. Even though scientists in the USSR discovered certain elements, the US did not refuse to “use” them. But for pharmaceutical compounds like bromantane, this isn’t the case. An anxiolytic stimulant discovered
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by baruz 2y ago
I loved this series and his procedural city. His death was a great loss for the recreational programming and gaming community.
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by baruz 2y ago
I believe user mjd is Mark J Dominus, ie, Perl-lover. Check the OP.
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by baruz 2y ago
Gold foil can be beaten to under 2 micrometers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_leaf
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by baruz 2y ago
Universities began as medieval guilds (Latin universitas = guild corporate body) around cathedral schools, composed of teachers (in the northern cathedral schools) or students (in Italy). The university’s grant of a masters degree would all

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