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by cjs_ac 1y ago
The screenshot shows the (corrected) example sentence: > Sometimes I still make mistakes with articles and prepositions, but my grammar is getting better every day I practice. In American/Simplified English, this is grammatically co
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I think a big part of why influencers like Andrew Tate can speak unchallenged on social media is that anyone with the life experience, wisdom and social-media-savvy needed to be a better online role model for young men knows perfectly well
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
It's a headline. It's not supposed to convey any nuance, it's just there to encourage you to read the article. I agree that the wording isn't ideal, and I agree that the headline fails to capture the nuance of the circum
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
This trend for commenting on news articles with nothing to say but a complaint about the wording of the headline is tedious. The right to free speech does not impose a responsibility to say something about everything you see.
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Somewhat related, since we're talking about cuneiform: Dr. Irving Finkel of the British Museum telling the surprisingly amusing story of how he discovered the oldest known version of the Noah's Ark story: https://www.yo
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I agree: systems thinkers' inability to fully represent the complexity of human systems is a large part of why non systems thinkers think systems thinkers are evil.
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Insightful comment. I think there's a dividing line in society between those who understand systems and those who don't. The systems people look at the non-systems people as stupid; the non-systems people look at the systems peopl
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Yes, Number 10 Downing Street is three eighteenth-century houses joined together. When cleaning dirt from the industrial revolution off the building's facade, it was discovered that the bricks underneath were actually yellow, but it wa
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Points 1 and 4 (and in some cases, Point 5) are a Private Members' Club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_members%27_club Points 2 and 3 are the Diogenes Club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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The driving example is interesting, because I think there are two different groups of people assessing the 'goodness' of their driving and others' driving by two different standards. One group thinks a 'good' driver
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The Earl of Sandwich was not a naval officer; the First Lord of the Admiralty was the chair of the Board of Admiralty, which was a committee formed to undertake the duties of the office of Lord High Admiral. The Board of Admiralty had respo
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Rustic capitals were used for ordinary writing, e.g., election slogans on the building walls of Pompeii. Different forms of each letter are just stylistic variations between scribes, or contextual variations (the third 'G', for ex
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I think the absolutism is kind of the point.
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The first computer I ever used had a 56k modem, but I can empathise with greybeard stories about watching text appear one character at a time from 300 baud modems because of the task-tracking software my employer uses. I load it up in a bro
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It might be old news, but it's a good reminder that reality has a surprising degree of complexity, and that software engineers have a responsibility to properly represent and handle that complexity.
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The obverse to 'do one thing' is that you have to do the whole thing.
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There is a spectrum: at one extremity is mandatory in-office presence every day; at the other is a fully-remote business. For any given individual, and for any given team, the approach needs to be placed on that spectrum according to what i
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Your comment suggests that you're not familiar with the diversity in M&S' operation. Marks and Spencers started as a department store; they still have this operation. They sell clothes, beauty products, cookware, homeware and
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
This isn't AI-specific, though; businesses decided that it was everyone else's responsibility to train their employees over a decade ago.
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
There's a connection to the return to office mandates here: the managers who don't see how anyone can work at home are the ones who've never done anything but yap in the office for a living, so they don't understand how
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
As much as I agree with many of the biases of the Grauniad , I feel increasingly irritated by the blatant pandering to my sensibilities. The 'what happened' part of the article is so short on details it's barely there and th
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> The Upper Tribunal — having already determined potato granules to be part of the extended potato universe — didn’t like this line of argument, judging that the potato starch and granules must be combined to judge overall potatitude. Ok
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'Lord Privy Seal' is actually an abbreviation for the 'Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal', i.e., the person who (nominally) looks after the seal used to authenticate personal documents 'signed' by the monarch bef
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> The Woolsack is where the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords sits and resembles a large square cushion covered in red cloth. In 1938 it was re-stuffed with a blend of wool from Britain and the other wool producing nations of the Common
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They still used it, they just didn't contribute. It's not that StackOverflow is useless, but rather that it already answers most questions.
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I think the delivery in this video is an important part of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
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> In large tech companies, this fact is a trap for competent but unagentic engineers. They see an infinite queue of tasks that they’re capable of doing, and they start delivering a stream of marginal improvements to a particular subsyste
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Sure: the Typst syntax is detailed here: https://typst.app/docs/reference/syntax/ The non-control characters of ASCII are largely characters you might actually want to put in a document. TeX uses some of thes
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For all the well-deserved complaints about TeX's and LaTeX's syntax, Typst only makes this worse , by repurposing even more characters as markup.
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> You can't grep dead trees.

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