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by danaliv 9y ago
I was wondering about this. Thanks for chiming in. I don't know Irish but I do know a bit of Scottish Gaelic, and it is as you say: there is no word for yes (or no), not even in the way the author suggests. Affirmation or negation is d
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by danaliv 9y ago
That "credit card protection free trial period" is how they're making money.
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by danaliv 9y ago
Indeed. There's no way I would've learned how to program at such an early age if the process had been any more complicated than "install Turbo Turtle." (And later, HyperCard, THINK Pascal, THINK C, and finally CodeWarr
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by danaliv 9y ago
4. Don't forget that you can include the cost of textbooks in figuring the American Opportunity tax credit. Keep your receipts.
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by danaliv 9y ago
I love that. Chalmers himself (or maybe Searle?) once suggested this very thing about Dennett. Made me laugh out loud when I read it. In all seriousness I wonder if Dennett hates consciousness (the “hard” kind) because it threatens his worl
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by danaliv 9y ago
This conversation is about whether NASA would object to an FAA-issued launch license on the basis of potential contamination, not whether there are police on the moon.
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by danaliv 9y ago
No it isn't. The text refers to "the Moon and other celestial bodies." See for yourself: http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/gares/ARES_21_2222E.pdf
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by danaliv 9y ago
Article IX of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies reads in part (emphasis added): "State Parties to the Treaty shall pursu
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by danaliv 9y ago
It's just rocket science. ;)
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by danaliv 9y ago
No, this is a projection. It takes months to get to Mars with rocket technology.
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by danaliv 9y ago
The FAA license process includes an interagency consultation, which specifically allows NASA, DOD, State, etc. to weigh in.
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by danaliv 9y ago
|Galik|, actually. (Though I meant someone trying to pronounce Gaelic words , not the English word "Gaelic.") In any case, note that I said there's precedent for both in English. :)
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by danaliv 9y ago
I've heard both but personally prefer dēmən. Dāmən just sounds goofy to me, like someone trying to pronounce Gaelic (or Welsh!) without having learned anything about it first. I wish some doctoral student in classics would write a blog
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Air traffic control is not the real cause of airline delays(forbes.com)
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by danaliv 9y ago
Use them on trips when you don’t need them so you’re prepared. I flew home over New Years via VORs and pilotage just to keep it sharp.
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by danaliv 9y ago
I read that comment as making an analogy to intrusive advertising.
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by danaliv 9y ago
One of the greats. Always Coming Home is one of my all-time favorites of hers. Required reading if you’re in California.
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by danaliv 9y ago
That people—even highly trained people—click through confirmation dialogs without reading them is HCI 101. Any system that depends on humans never making a mistake is going to fail.
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by danaliv 9y ago
It’s been a while since I’ve read Slate but I recall their “Explainer” series always made a point of putting the answer in the first sentence, with the rest of the article serving as amplification. I really liked that, for the same reason y
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by danaliv 9y ago
I am by no means a make expert but this is how I would write it: CC = clang CFLAGS += -Wall -Wextra libs = -lm objs = hellomake.o hellomake: $(objs) $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(objs) $(libs) .PHONY: clean clean:
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by danaliv 9y ago
Just FYI this reads to me as “we are also paying them peanuts.”
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by danaliv 9y ago
I don't recall there being anything special about 4000' from a regulatory perspective so I suspect that's the service ceiling.
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by danaliv 9y ago
Rotorcraft fuel requirements are different from airplanes. Under VFR it's first intended point plus 20 minutes, day or night.
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by danaliv 9y ago
MC68030. /s
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by danaliv 9y ago
> in a modern economy those with zero or negative human capital are nothing but a liability They're also, you know, human . I blew several hundred dollars on air travel this weekend, for fun. People in soup kitchens are not livin
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by danaliv 9y ago
Who will be the Jane Goodall of aliens?
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by danaliv 9y ago
Still have my NeXTstation Turbo. God, they were nice. (The "Turbo" means it has a 33MHz m68k instead of the standard 25MHz, in case you were wondering why all of us olds are constantly complaining about crummy performance these da
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by danaliv 9y ago
What a treat! OpenBSD was my daily driver years and years ago—version 2.something I think?—and I set up my desktop environment to mimic CDE as much as I could. It was obviously a pale imitation, but I totally get the “gravitational pull” th
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by danaliv 9y ago
I dunno about "diversity of opinion" but I'd certainly appreciate the wholesale destruction of tribalism. (I know; not holding my breath.)
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by danaliv 9y ago
If they're contributing to or creating an atmosphere Twitter doesn't want on their service, then yes, why not?

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