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by dghf 9y ago
There may not be rules, but as in language as a whole, there are commonly shared and accepted conventions that can aid comprehensibility -- but only to the extent that they are commonly shared and accepted. I've known some people who i
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by dghf 9y ago
> Is there any example where a word changing meaning has left us unable to express something? I imagine it rarely or never leaves us unable to express something at all, but it may leave us unable to express it so succinctly. There are,
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by dghf 9y ago
Two usages that Ernest Gowers bemoaned in The Complete Plain Words , written c. 1950, but which seem unexceptional today: "phenomenal" to mean "prodigious" (rather than simply "perceptible to the senses"), and
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by dghf 9y ago
But doesn't that render the term so broad as to be meaningless? If someone claiming to be a police officer wants to ask me some questions, and I ask to see some ID, and they provide it, by your terms that is a zero-knowledge proof, bec
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by dghf 9y ago
> A zero-knowledge proof is about a prover convincing a verifier they have some knowledge, without sharing the knowledge. In the case, the prover certainly didn't share the knowledge, and convinced the verifier. Bingo. What was the
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by dghf 9y ago
This is a perfect example of where the judicious use of a hyphen would bring clarity ("black-cab driver" vs "black cab-driver").
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by dghf 9y ago
No mention of the accidental creation of two William Thomas Rikers? > If, however, we destroy the ship but mail its blueprints somewhere else and then build a new, identical ship, it’s not the same ship. It’s a separate ship built from t
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by dghf 9y ago
> Through an analysis of naturally occurring markings on the juvenile’s first left upper molar, Rosas and his coauthors concluded that the child had almost certainly died between the ages of 7.61 and 7.78 years. That seems remarkably pre
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by dghf 9y ago
Was that a locust eating a mouse?
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by dghf 9y ago
Fire up vim, use a digraph (^K followed by the two relevant characters -- I believe em dash is -M -- in insert mode), copy & paste.
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by dghf 9y ago
I wasted a few enjoyable minutes doing just that. Then I realised that if I revisited a circle I'd already coloured in, it would change colour. The thought leaped into my head: "Can I make all of them the same colour ?" I re
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by dghf 9y ago
I just assumed they'd chosen an annoyingly faint shade of grey. For some reason, the transparency seems even more perverse. I had to zoom quite severely to be able to read it.
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by dghf 9y ago
> Because it wasn't your father, it was your...how many generations are there between us and the middle ages, again? Enclosure of common land took place mostly in the 18th century. The Highland Clearances went on into the 19th.
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Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?(theguardian.com)
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by dghf 9y ago
Telling people to kill themselves is bad, especially if there's any chance they might do so. But the excerpt from the IRC log at the start is a horse of a very different colour. The IRC user comes across as maybe a bit abrasive and cer
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by dghf 9y ago
> If it's a Scotch it's whisky. Also Canadian, Japanese, Australian [0], English [1] and Welsh [2]. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/02/tasmani... [1] https:/&#x2
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by dghf 9y ago
> I'm a graphic designer, so for me everything is Client/YYMM-Project/_FINAL/YYMM-COLLATERAL-NAME > Within each project there is a _PROCESS folder with a _ELEMENTS subfolder for pieces the client has given me to wo
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by dghf 9y ago
The problem I've found with file names like those described as "awesome" in the fifth slide is that if you have a bunch of them open at once, your taskbar/switcher/windows menu truncates them all to something like &
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by dghf 9y ago
It's a shame that the author has effectively written out RAW's co-author, Robert Shea: he's not even named, mentioned only in passing as "another Playboy writer".
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by dghf 9y ago
Next time you find yourself in that situation, try shouting "feck" instead, which is regarded as a fairly mild swearword (indeed, barely a swearword at all). Not being Irish, I'd never heard of it until I first saw Father Te
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by dghf 9y ago
Only if those perpetrating this kind of fraud somehow knew who wasn't going to bother voting, otherwise you'd have large numbers of people turning up to vote only to discover that someone had already voted in their name.
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by dghf 9y ago
The UK seems to manage OK (ID is only required in Northern Ireland). 2015 saw 37 allegations of personation out of 51.4 million votes cast ( https://www.ncpolitics.uk/2016/12/how-big-a-problem-is-votin... ).
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by dghf 9y ago
Au contraire . The commissioner deputised Batman all the way back in Batman #7, Nov. 1941.[0] [0] http://www.batman-online.com/features/2012/10/10/comic-influ...
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by dghf 9y ago
It's been updated: > PLEASE NOTE THAT, AS STATED ABOVE, THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES ARE INTENDED TO BE USED TO FACILITATE COURIERS PROVIDING SHIPPING SERVICES TO SENDERS. AIRMULE SCREENS AND CERTIFIES ALL THE CONTENTS CONTAIN
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by dghf 9y ago
Absolutely. But that's not, as I understand it, why it's called a spectrum. It's called a spectrum because it covers conditions as different as Asperger syndrome (which often isn't diagnosed until adulthood, and may neve
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by dghf 9y ago
The fall in numbers of male teachers is causing concern, at least in the UK: - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37552056 - https://www.teachingtimes.com/news/primary-schools-male-teac... - htt
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by dghf 9y ago
> It's called the "autism spectrum" because it's a spectrum, not a binary. People can share some autistic traits without their rising to the level of a diagnosable disorder. If a person is described as nerdy, introver
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by dghf 9y ago
"Airmule strongly advises each traveler to inspect each item carefully." But in their FAQs, they have this: "Can I inspect the shipments?" "All travelers have the right to inspect their shipment(s) prior to boa
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by dghf 9y ago
So how do they, as the article says, "retain footage 30 seconds before an officer presses the record button"?
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by dghf 9y ago
Typeface is the design, font is the implementation. In movable-type printing, a font is a set of metal slugs, each bearing a character from the typeface. In digital typography, a font is typically a TTF or OTF file.

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