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by blahedo 9y ago
I wondered the same thing, but this guarantees not starting with a 0, which I could imagine breaking some people's idea of what a passcode should look like.
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by blahedo 9y ago
Reading the comments here reconfirms that I had a good idea not using the FB app on my phone—using inside Firefox it is, of necessity, less pushy. If you want to use FB messages without the crapfest, note that using the url mbasic dot fa
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by blahedo 9y ago
I double-take every time I see some fiction where some supposedly real person uses a capital letter for "dumpster", because seriously nobody does that, but apparently there is actually a Dumpster brand and the company that owns it
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How a board game about bitter legal struggles became a bitter legal struggle(theoutline.com)
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by blahedo 9y ago
Like reading a book or watching a video? The point of a lot of "flip the classroom" strategies (roughly a superset of the "active learning" ones) is precisely that there are many ways other than lecture of acquiring bac
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by blahedo 9y ago
English is indeed a crap shoot, but it's not entirely fair to put French in that bucket as well. Much as you describe for Polish, there is a highly consistent set of writing-to-sound rules for French that you can learn quickly. Frenc
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by blahedo 9y ago
My problem is that I like having full and exact file sizes, and I like that they really make order-of-magnitude differences stand out in a listing (by taking up an extra column); but if I look at a number longer than five or so digits it&
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Wisconsin company holds 'chip party' to microchip workers(chicagotribune.com)
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by blahedo 9y ago
I did the laundromat thing for four years in grad school, then ten years in various units with in-house washer and dryer, and then back to a laundromat for the last six years. It was undeniably convenient to be able to wash something on a
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Chicago Pokemon Go fest has major server problems, refunds all tickets(chicagotribune.com)
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by blahedo 9y ago
It's good, really, that this article focussed on Tinsley. I saw a talk by Schaeffer about ten years ago, just as he was finishing up solving checkers, and it was an astonishingly depressing talk. He invested his whole life —decades—
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by blahedo 9y ago
I'm also a little curious about what happened about a century later—the line drops by about 90% for another decade or so in the mid-1400s. It's the only other significant drop in the chart (other than a single outlier datum in th
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by blahedo 9y ago
> as opposed to cash, which is much slower with people counting out amounts and cashiers counting out change I can't really let that comment stand. Cash transactions go way faster than credit card transactions in my experience.
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by blahedo 9y ago
Ohhh that totally makes sense. That image really illustrates the point well, too! Thanks!
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by blahedo 9y ago
That's just an artful aside; he then brings us back to the real reason he's bringing it up, which is the transit system pattern rather than the station itself. (And, the transit system pattern is not uncommon but also not quite u
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by blahedo 9y ago
One particularly cool aspect of the letter: you can see a late stage in the evolution away from the letter thorn (Þþ) in English. In the transcription in the article it's transcribed as 'y', and at this point it was no longe
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by blahedo 9y ago
Can someone explain the statement about the length of the cables (in the section starting about 2:48) that they'd stretch from Beijing to New York if laid end to end? It seems so obviously false (there's, what, a few dozen of the
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by blahedo 9y ago
This is the brilliant fact underlying nearly all accessibility work: in addition to the people with documented permanent disabilities that are the official beneficiaries of such developments (and regulations where those exist), there are ho
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Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says(theguardian.com)
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by blahedo 9y ago
This was my observation as well, but even more importantly, in the given examples they're naming a value to get this benefit, but then never actually referring to the value by name . This is contorted at best.
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McMansion Hell Shut Down After Zillow Threatened Website Author(buzzfeed.com)
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by blahedo 10y ago
About fifteen years ago, I had a housemate who was from Italy, and she thought the milk I bought (standard US whole milk) was gross and, she said, "tastes like cheese". I had already been exposed to shelf-stable milk on a previou
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British teenager points out major error in the data NASA collects from the ISS(sciencealert.com)
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by blahedo 10y ago
> it's not even customary This is thoroughly false. It is so customary in the US that it has been baked into the minimum wage laws: in general, the federal minimum wage is $7.25, but for waitstaff and some other "tipped&quot
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by blahedo 10y ago
I wonder if this article (from 2015) has now become obsolete? I notice that the OSM of that location[0] appears to indicate that Ziegelstraße now dead-ends just before the relevant intersection, and the Bing satellite maps, though difficul
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BBC Tells Facebook About Child Porn on FB, FB Reports BBC to Police(gizmodo.com)
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How smartphones' barometers can help predict thunderstorms(theatlantic.com)
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by blahedo 10y ago
I got that one ("allah", presumably), but was stuck on these three: evaluate mocha expression
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by blahedo 10y ago
So you're saying that we need a category of workers to agree to refuse certain working conditions, but as a group so that individual compromisers don't undermine the action? ...but we don't need unions?
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A bug in fMRI software could invalidate 15 years of brain research(sciencealert.com)
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