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by blahedo 5y ago
Yes yes yes yes. I try to be very clear with my students about the risks in "following my path", because I was stupendously lucky; if they want to go get a PhD just so they can teach college (as I did!) the odds are overwhelmingl
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by blahedo 5y ago
LOL the sea shanties were one of the ones that brought me in—I spent about two weeks in February totally obsessed with The Wellerman ;)
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by blahedo 5y ago
There are three categories, with slightly different capabilities and interfaces for each, capped at 15s, 60s, and 3m. The short ones were originally the only ones, 60s became available about a year ago (?), and 3m only just over the summer
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by blahedo 5y ago
> dance moves, or other stuff I don't find very interesting There are lots of different corners of TikTok, and for good or bad it's generally pretty good at forming some fairly niche communities. I have a couple of primarily
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by blahedo 5y ago
This is a valid critique, and why I originally dropped tiktok after a few brief attempts last year. The trick is that you have to do a little work up front to find videos you like (perhaps they've been crossposted to your Facebook f
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by blahedo 5y ago
I do exactly this! But it's a little outside the reach of a lot of people, unfortunately. I also think that it would be a less effective tool if more people used it (and thus corporate policies and spammers found it worth tailoring a
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The Other Sara Morrisons are ruining my inbox: Email is an awful online ID(vox.com)
3 points by blahedo 5y ago|2 comments
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by blahedo 5y ago
But it sits in the delta of a river that is, if not mighty, at least bigger than 3km. The real question is, is the island flat enough to trigger the river-delta problems the gp post indicates.
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by blahedo 5y ago
That's among the worst, but not the only, direct evidence she presents of harassment at Apple; deeper context is at the other link (where she has screenshotted her extensive Twitter presence on this subject for the last month or so).
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by blahedo 5y ago
It doesn't have to be unique to the group to be special to the group.
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Grubhub, DoorDash racket needs reform. The city of Chicago was right to sue(chicagotribune.com)
3 points by blahedo 5y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 5y ago
More importantly, they were historically egg-shaped and (off-)white; the large and phallic purple variant that now dominates is the result of selective breeding over centuries.
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by blahedo 5y ago
And the city of Kaliningrad might be more familiar in this crowd under its old (Prussian) name of Königsberg (as in "Bridges of").
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by blahedo 5y ago
Uh, kind of? It has been shown that there was some contact between the Polynesians and the west coast of South America. The Kon-Tiki hypothesis is usually understood to be something like "the Polynesian islands were populated by a
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by blahedo 5y ago
I love this, but I find the K both in the original font and in the final version to be a bit unsatisfying (and the X to a lesser extent), because all the other letters are repeating existing letter features but K just adds in this extra stu
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by blahedo 5y ago
There are a lot of pieces of indirect evidence. They include: * poetry that has a rhyme scheme, so you know that two words rhymed for the author * puns and wordplay (Shakespeare is overflowing with this kind of thing) that only work if wor
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Flash is dead: On the challenges of moving past Flash(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by blahedo 5y ago|1 comments
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Project Mohole: a failed 1960s expedition that changed Earth science(vox.com)
3 points by blahedo 6y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 6y ago
Here's one my (intro programming, non-major) students have just been tripping over this week: if word == "this" or "that": ... Not an error, always runs. Very mysterious to a beginner. (Shared with C&
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by blahedo 6y ago
There certainly are relationships between sign languages; A(merican)SL and French SL are arguably two dialects of the same language, or at least they were in relatively recent memory. Others are distantly related or unrelated; B(ritish)SL
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by blahedo 6y ago
> (Personally, I doubt this actually happened. The story is old, and I don't think chess programs would have been able to see far enough ahead for them to discover that getting an overwhelming position is the way to force the oppon
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by blahedo 6y ago
> the placental barrier is probably the weakest such barrier At least, in humans (and other primates and rodents, but not most mammals). Human embryos/fetuses receive more nourishment and achieve more growth during prenatal dev
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by blahedo 6y ago
Which is why Chicago, Toronto, and other Great Lakes cities will be the booming metropolises of the late 21st century.
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by blahedo 6y ago
I think you're right on about Africa, except that it might also include parts of South America. For at least the last century, different countries have climbed the industrial production ladder; "made in Japan" and "made
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by blahedo 6y ago
I have taught at multiple honor-code institutions (and still do). It does not prevent cheating. However, it shifts focus: I can go about my teaching life starting from an assumption that students are not cheaters—and I'm personally
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by blahedo 6y ago
This appears to be the sketch in question, and yes, deciphering it would appear to be a real challenge! https://www.henle.de/blog/en/2012/01/23/%e2%80%9cla-derniere... ETA (& edited again to fix
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Comcast Planning to Make Working from Home Harder and More Expensive Next Year(inc.com)
14 points by blahedo 6y ago|4 comments
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by blahedo 6y ago
> apparently in sight of the finish line I SPOKE TOO SOON
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by blahedo 6y ago
Huh. I'm playing it for the first time, and I feel like the first two hours were straightforward progress, and then the last hour is when it turned into an idle game where I just have to sit and wait, apparently in sight of the finish
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by blahedo 6y ago
At least on the Google side, I've been frustrated because the app requires the GPS to be turned on, despite swearing up and down that it's not using the GPS data. The Google/Android help page that explains "why" yo

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