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by blahedo 2y ago
My sister and I were talking about this recently (at a funeral in our family). We're in our 40s, and people older than us had largely been to a dozen funerals or more by their teenage years, while people younger than us often went to
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by blahedo 2y ago
Timur Latypoff's page (elsewhere in this thread but also: https://latypoff.com/tree-calculus-visualized/ ) shows a graphical view of this; you get to lists first —easy because tree structure is native here—and th
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by blahedo 2y ago
Just spent a bunch of time with this and had a couple insights that might help (particularly if you have some familiarity with the lambda calculus or formal semantics and are trying to get a foothold on this): - I had to go down to the OC
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by blahedo 2y ago
Funny thing about house numbers: they have their own validation problems. For a while I lived in a building whose house number was of the form 123½ and that was an ongoing source of problems. If it just truncated the ½ that was basicall
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by blahedo 2y ago
Depends; your example (乇乂ㄒ尺卂) would be a truly stupendous coincidence if it were the only extant example of something and the Chinese characters just happened to be arranged in that way, but would be much weaker evidence if you had gone m
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by blahedo 2y ago
I bet it's North America bias—we roll our time changes across the continent one TZ at a time, at 2am local time (which also explains why the default is "/2").
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by blahedo 2y ago
Also, generally, the Great Lakes region. I've been thinking for decades now that when the big water fights get underway in the Southwest, the late-21st century megalopoleis of North America are going to be Chicago, Toronto, Milwaukee,
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by blahedo 2y ago
Wait times in the US are also ridiculous. A couple years ago I tried to make a doctor's appt, at the clinic where I was regularly a patient, and had decent insurance, but it was for check-up stuff and to ask some questions. I called
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by blahedo 2y ago
It's not a new problem. "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend th
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by blahedo 2y ago
They've survived since the bronze age . They're not rotting away to dust any time soon.
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by blahedo 2y ago
Did all this arise because multiple smaller towns with their own survey grids got absorbed into the city at some point, or did the different alignments happen within an already-extant Minneapolis?
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by blahedo 2y ago
Chicago has that, but only in some directions. The south and southwest suburbs continue the city numbering out for a long way; the northwest suburbs all have their own numbering. I think most of the north suburbs are also on their own (bu
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by blahedo 2y ago
Yes, by evolving banks to solve some of the problems of lugging around lots of cash and/or stuffing it in a trunk in your house. And assuming you are known at your bank and/or can (eventually) prove your identity there, you don&#
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by blahedo 2y ago
> while cyan (#00ffff) is nominally halfway between blue and green, most people's thresholds, averaged over monitor calibrations, imply that cyan is classified as blue Yes, because (at least for me) the thought went "well tha
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by blahedo 2y ago
Man oh man, I remember wanting an Atari so bad in the mid-80s—my friends, at least the ones with older siblings, had 2600s—and my parents managed to get me a 5200 right in the window where that was the thing they were selling. And nothing
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by blahedo 2y ago
> Can you elaborate on what would be bypassed by "patrolling?" Well, we saw this play out in the last couple years in Texas—they set up their laws so that abortion enforcement was performed by civilians (i.e. not cops, not th
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by blahedo 2y ago
In Chicago (I assume also other places) the leading bus will sometimes announce "after this stop this bus will run express to Western" (or wherever) "if you need a stop before then, transfer to the bus behind this one".
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by blahedo 2y ago
I'm remembering the ISBN switch, which I thought would throw off some older systems—and it probably did, but it took so long to happen that the transition ended up being pretty smooth. The key element was that for a solid ten years or
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by blahedo 2y ago
Another piece of elegance: by putting the uppercase letters in the block beginning at 0x40 (well, 0x41) it means that all the control codes at the start of the table line up with a letter (or one of a small set of other punctuation: @[\]^_)
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by blahedo 2y ago
> A 45 yr old grandparent is an able-bodied helper. A 65 yr old is a dependent.... What are you even talking about? My mother's parents were 74 and 76 when I was born and they were routinely my caregivers several times a week (
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by blahedo 2y ago
My Happy Hacking Keyboard—which I bought comparatively recently, maybe 2017 or so—uses a mini-USB connector! Really solid piece of hardware, and I guess they just didn't see a need to update a design that worked.
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by blahedo 2y ago
This is really a different notion of "density" than the gp is talking about---it averages over the whole country, including a lot of very empty areas.
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by blahedo 2y ago
Not disagreeing with the overall point here, but there definitely were some high schools with computers and programming classes by then---my mom was teaching programming (FORTRAN) in a Chicago high school starting in 1967. I think she wa
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by blahedo 2y ago
> I can tell you the last time I had to write a singly-linked list implementation though. October 17th, Nineteen Ninety Never. The point of writing (and working with) linked list implementations in a CS2 course is not because linked li
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by blahedo 2y ago
The German is "die Brüder Grimm" and early English translations preserved that order, which is unusual but not completely unknown in English; then it stuck.
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by blahedo 2y ago
I don't buy tickets from them. I'd like to go to shows, and I do go to some smaller shows where I can buy tickets directly from the venue. But I don't support Ticketmaster. So I go to less shows than I like. ...does that
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by blahedo 3y ago
Hey Pascal! > Spivak pronouns Yes, also formative (I was extremely comfortable with gender-neutral pronouns by the time they went a bit more mainstream). > Kelly ... inherited the perl scripts from It was indeed! And we're
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by blahedo 3y ago
I was heavily involved in various Nomic games (of that posted list, Agora and the Fantasy Rules Committee, and to some extent Internomic and I think Ackanomic as well; my site from grad school is one of the dead links under Agora) for a bun
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by blahedo 3y ago
Oh! The street lamps on my campus didn't come on tonight when it got dark—it didn't occur to me then but this could totally be why.

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