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by dghf 7mo ago
This is why I get agitated when Americans claim to use imperial units. If they did, their pints would be the correct size.
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by dghf 7mo ago
I think I've heard something similar -- that subjects have duties while citizens have rights. But of course, citizens typically also have duties -- commonly, the duty to take up arms to defend the state -- and subjects can legitimately
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by dghf 7mo ago
This myth keeps getting repeated. It hasn't been true since 1949, when British subjects in the UK became Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies. In 1983, the status of CUKC was renamed to British citizen (for those CUKCs resident
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by dghf 7mo ago
Tip from a “confidential informant”, I believe I read somewhere.
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by dghf 7mo ago
I would’ve posted to say what I think, but I got high.
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by dghf 7mo ago
Modern British style tends to prefer spaced en dashes over tight-set em dashes for parenthetical phrases.
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by dghf 7mo ago
> The Hakenkreuz is tilted at an angle Not always: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_standard_of_Adolf_Hit... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Honour_of_the_German_...
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by dghf 7mo ago
Wouldn't that be synthesising paradigms?
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by dghf 7mo ago
Is six hundred years ago more than a few? Chaucer is still more or less comprehensible. (Though Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, from roughly the same time, not so much.)
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by dghf 7mo ago
How is it bigotry? I've never met anyone who likes, say, "Baby Shark" (well, anyone with an age in double-digits). I'd be surprised if many -- possibly any -- exist. But if they do, well, de gustibus non est disputandum
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by dghf 7mo ago
Well, technically they're annual, but you're allowed to pay them in arrears over 10 or 12 months.
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by dghf 7mo ago
No egg banjo*? That sounds like it would sit close to, if not in, the abyss. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_sandwich#Fried_egg_sandwic...
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by dghf 7mo ago
This new rule might be problematic for those Northern Irish people who identify solely as Irish (as is their right under the Good Friday Agreement) and who only hold an Irish passport: unless things have changed since the DeSouza case [0],
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by dghf 8mo ago
So, I got the physics wrong. Apologies and thanks for the correction. But the semantic point still stands. Boiling water is still water -- in the specific sense of H2O in its liquid state -- while ice is not. The complaint that frozen water
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by dghf 8mo ago
But water that has boiled into gas also gets a word: steam. As far as I'm aware, there is no separate word for freezing water -- i.e. water that is very cold and will, if it continues to get colder (and has something to crystallise
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by dghf 8mo ago
Colder than if you'd just left it on the table for two minutes?
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by dghf 8mo ago
I mean, whatever works for you. Go for it. It wasn't my intention to be prescriptive. I don't like word processors. They're heavy and don't cleanly separate style from structure. And they use more or less obscure file fo
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by dghf 8mo ago
I can't remember who suggested it, but I'm sold on the idea that if you're committing your drafts to version control, then you should break your lines at syntactic points: at the end of a short sentence, or at the ends of the
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by dghf 8mo ago
What? Yes you can. I know my laptop is running a web browser because I can see it and interact with it. That's a physical measurement.
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by dghf 8mo ago
Maybe? But I heard an Orkney accent once, and my mind refused to classify it as Scottish, even though it was coming from a Scottish mouth.
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by dghf 8mo ago
This is true, but you could also say the same about the phrases "English accent" and "Scottish accent" -- a Scouse accent sounds nothing like RP, and a Highland lilt is very different from the accent in the Gorbals. And
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by dghf 9mo ago
Are many people really paying dozens of dollars a month for things like Markdown editors?
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by dghf 9mo ago
> Since then it has variously been translated as “What ho!” The P.G. Wodehouse translation?
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by dghf 9mo ago
All error messages begin "Strewth!"
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by dghf 9mo ago
Well yes, if you throw out half of the instances where your original choice was wrong, then the chance your original choice was correct will inevitably go up.
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by dghf 9mo ago
How does that contradict what I said? The way the game is set up, one of your choices -- stick or switch -- is guaranteed to win. Your original door will be correct 1/3 of the time and wrong 2/3 of the time. Therefore switching wi
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by dghf 9mo ago
Eh, when you think about it, it makes sense. Original rules (host knows where car is and always opens a door with a goat): - 1/3 of the time your original choice is the car, and you should stick - 2/3 of the time your original cho
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by dghf 9mo ago
> the logic of Monty Hall Doors does not make sense to me For me, the core is that you have a 1 in 3 chance of getting it right on your first guess, and nothing can change that. So if you always stick with your original guess, you will w
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by dghf 9mo ago
Assuming "squat" and "svelte" refer to the aspect ratio, isn't B5 going to look just as "svelte" as A4?
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by dghf 10mo ago
Computer Modern is nice on paper but a bit spindly on screen, IMO: Knuth's other serif font, Concrete Roman, works better for that.

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