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by blahedo 3y ago
I love them and wish I'd had this font to give to my intro students—mistyping a curly for a paren is annoying enough when you're experienced, but when you're new to programming and the error messages are not yet super helpf
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by blahedo 3y ago
Even from a purely human natural-language-linguistics standpoint, negation is hard! It's often hard to figure out how it distributes ("I could not go" may have the "not" scoping over either the "could" or
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by blahedo 3y ago
I was stuck on level 4 for a while; even when I thought I was sidestepping its restrictions, it seemed to understand what I was asking for and blocked it. The trick I used to pass level 4 managed, I think, to bypass its direct instructions
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by blahedo 3y ago
The article kept mentioning that it was the re -building of the bridge that added noise and soot and such. But... there was a Bay Bridge there before, right? That island isn't very big, so the bridge couldn't have moved that fa
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by blahedo 3y ago
I'm not sure what to say here other than this statement is demonstrably false: "Before word processors were available, text-editing programs offered the basic editing capabilities of word processing but without WYSIWYG." Ther
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by blahedo 3y ago
Fascinating---most of the examples they showed were immediately legible to me, and not at all examples of "bad handwriting".
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by blahedo 4y ago
But even here in the US, on both the left and the right, Obama was frequently painted as much more leftist than he ever ever actually was or claimed to be. Wishful thinking on both sides, I guess. Europeans that weren't following U
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by blahedo 4y ago
Thanks for pointing this out---when I read the article I tripped on that word, thought it odd and not sure what the author was trying to say, and moved on, but now that you call it out it seems very obviously to be used in just the same way
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by blahedo 4y ago
If you directly connect Biarritz to Monaco you do get a pentagon and a reasonably good fit to the actual border; but the angle between the border and the coast at Perpignan is so tight (well under 90° at higher zoom levels but close to a ri
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by blahedo 4y ago
Note that "home" ≠ "house". Gp said "home", which is correct, and your response is a non sequitur.
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by blahedo 4y ago
If I change both words of the phrase ("near" to "almost" and "miss" to "missed"), also changing both parts of speech and the overall phrase type in the process, that does shift its meaning, yes. I&#x2
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by blahedo 4y ago
And "miss" is a noun in this phrase, so the adverb usage of "near" (which I am, um, aware of, thanks) is not especially relevant to this analysis.
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by blahedo 4y ago
No, it was almost a hit, but it was in fact a miss; and it was not a distant miss, so it was a near miss. There are plenty of phrases in English that make no sense compositionally, but "near miss" is not one of them.
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ChatGPT isn’t a great leap forward, it’s an expensive deal with the devil(theguardian.com)
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by blahedo 4y ago
Yes, especially if they've lived their whole lives in places that never really get below 40F/5C and have just learned about scarves from a) fashion and b) TV, but are now faced with a Midwestern winter for the first time as an adu
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by blahedo 4y ago
Articles of clothing---chests of drawers are an issue for that, and sometimes closets, so most of my clothes are out on open shelving that I think was designed as bookshelves Kitchen bowls/pans/etc (though one of the Exception ite
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by blahedo 4y ago
YES I can have things that get "put away" i.e. in a container/cabinet/drawer/room IF that container will be something that I open and access at least every other day. Otherwise, things that get put away out of sigh
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by blahedo 4y ago
Not exactly "wrong", just nonstandard in the modern (western?) context. I've read that the toe-first gait was once relatively common before footwear became strong and universal---heel-strike walking is definitely harder on a
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by blahedo 4y ago
I've known this one for years and years but it always surprises a few of my students (who come from warmer climates) when I mention it: The scarf goes on the inside of the coat. If you put the scarf on the outside, like you think you
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by blahedo 4y ago
Important to add: in fields where tipping is standard (notably, restaurant waitstaff), in many areas of the US the minimum wage is much much lower. Nationally, $2.13/hour. That pays their taxes... For all intents and purposes, rest
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by blahedo 4y ago
Depends on the state. I was surprised to see "no ban" for Virginia on the map, because I haven't seen indoor public smoking, anywhere, since moving here in 2011. Apparently it's allowed in places that have built "
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by blahedo 4y ago
Well, the Black folks weren't allowed to move to the white areas, regardless of class or income, so even if the story of "that desire" were purely as rosy as you paint it (spoiler: it wasn't), the resulting migration wou
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by blahedo 4y ago
Ooooooh I have a burning hate for this system (the dislike is rational, the burning part is not entirely rational but justified). Way back in high school my AP history teacher not only taught us this (cool, that's part of his job) and
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by blahedo 4y ago
Huh. I am a relatively recent (11 years) transplant to Virginia and had never heard of Brunswick Stew until I moved here, where lots of people make it (it's "traditional") but I have always found it to be thin, bland, and in
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by blahedo 4y ago
Yes, frequently. My rent, water, and electric bills are paid by checks I send through my bank online, and I have hand-written checks to pay various taxes, donations, and the bill for my eye doctor. I receive checks from a tenant to pay re
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by blahedo 4y ago
Several of the reasons are shown elsewhere in this thread, but here's one I haven't seen here yet: Because I like my head not freezing when it's ten degrees below freezing? When I bring this up, sometimes people tell me abou
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by blahedo 4y ago
Any problem written for an exam like this is going to be at least a little contrived. :) But that "airline seat" one---2002? Some people still talk about that one! It's Q4 in https://secure-media.collegeboard.
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by blahedo 4y ago
Until 2009, the subject APCS included two courses: A (roughly CS1) and AB (roughly CS2, or perhaps CS1+CS2 depending how it was taught). Linked lists, trees, recursion, interfaces, and two-dimensional data were all part of the AB course an
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by blahedo 4y ago
There are certainly some Java details assessed, and arguably more than there should be, but the exam does assess the ability to use variables and write expressions; to write loops, including nested loops; to write conditional statements, in
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by blahedo 4y ago
The scoring should be 31/36; in addition to the noted points not being earned, the response would also not earn Q1 Point 2 because it lacks the correct nested-if logic. (If levelOne goal is not reached, we should not even consider the

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