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by dhosek 6mo ago
It’s putting him with Pete Best that makes it tricky so that people have to remember which one is the one who died early. George (Harrison and Martin), Paul, John and Ringo are all gimmes.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Although he’s still pretty complicated. I’m reminded somewhat of a Franciscan sister friend of mine who runs a blog (and until recently, a podcast) called “Messy Jesus Business” which leans into how complicated the whole being Christian thi
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by dhosek 6mo ago
It is a universal practice. For those baptized in a different church but received into the Catholic church, they will go through a ceremony at the Easter Vigil Mass (where they will typically receive confirmation and first communion) and th
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by dhosek 6mo ago
I follow a couple Jesuit brothers on Blue Sky who work at the Vatican Observatory. One of them was tapped to receive an award for another astronomer at a ceremony she couldn’t attend. Beforehand, he said that he would be doing this but coul
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Rerum Novarum was written by Leo XIII. When Robert Prevost took as his papal name Leo XIV, it was a clear signal of priorities, at least to those who are educated in church history and teaching. (There aren’t many names that carry a signa
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by dhosek 6mo ago
In fact, the baptismal parish is the official keeper of your sacramental records, so when you’re married, the marriage is communicated to that parish and added to your sacramental record (likewise for confirmation if it doesn’t happen at yo
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Or you can find learning a Slavic (or a Baltic) language easier if you learn Latin first. The bonus being that there are more useful cognates in Latin than in Slavic languages (although while learning Czech, I was a bit amused to discover t
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by dhosek 6mo ago
I would guess that it’s very much a pass-sharing thing—I’ve noticed that the level of security around passes has increased a great deal over the past 30ish years. In 2000, a Disneyworld Pass had no expiration date and was simply labeled by
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by dhosek 6mo ago
The VMS influence is also why DOS and NT used / for options rather than - like Unix. I was a big fan of the CLD method of defining commands. It provided a nice standardized way of parsing command line arguments that was going to be con
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by dhosek 6mo ago
I made a list that I kept on my phone of potential names (Provided below with the answers removed—I made the list three years ago so I know at least one of the living then are alive no more). Actors: Gary Burghoff Alan Alda Wayne Rogers Jam
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Mexico City. The big gotcha is that I have two kids and an ex-wife who will be living a few miles away so there will be 1–4 times per week that I’ll need to manage their transport between homes. The kids are the main reason I own a car now.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
I may end up living outside the US next year (was going to be this year but it’s been postponed) and when I was investigating auto options, I’ve been severely tempted by the BYD Seal as a replacement for my Prius. All the reviews I’ve found
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by dhosek 6mo ago
He’s been pretty quiet in the news for a while so he sort of fell into the category of those famous people who when they died, half your response is a bit of surprise that they were still alive (which is neither a good nor bad thing, just a
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by dhosek 6mo ago
I never got to use this, but it seems like it would hit my dream computing environment (which has since advanced to an idea that my phone would fill that role so I could be working on my phone, plug my phone into a desktop or laptop worksta
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by dhosek 6mo ago
It took me a long time to adjust to a PC environment after being minicomputer/mainframe-based for a lot of my key years (from age 15 through 22, my main access to computing was through college/university systems running VAX/V
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by dhosek 6mo ago
When I had a C-corp in the 90s for a magazine I was publishing, my dad’s cousin insisted that I should incorporate in Delaware or Nevada. The thing is that because I was operating in California, especially at the small scale that I operated
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by dhosek 6mo ago
OK, I rarely use Chrome (I like Safari and only ever open Chrome on the increasingly rare occasions when a site doesn’t work in Safari and lately it’s turned out that the site is just broken) but looking at the article and the comments here
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Indeed. I was trying to sell a loft bed a couple years ago and Craigslist is essentially dead for that sort of thing now, killed by Facebook (I deleted my account in 2021 and I have to say that eschewing that corner of the internet has been
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by dhosek 6mo ago
One of the weird things about our world is that money is central to everything, but it’s hard to understand how it works. There’s a great deal of handwaving around how, for example, dollars are created, much of which is, in fact, not correc
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by dhosek 6mo ago
The labels on the map were also confusing, and at first because of the relative positioning of the texts identifying the airport and the angel I thought up was East and not North, although a closer inspection made things clearer (and yes, u
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by dhosek 6mo ago
There are also abandoned mines under parts of the city which also contributes to hazardous conditions.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
This is something that I’ve wanted for quite a while. I have lots of mystery USB-C cables that it would be nice to be able to label with their capabilities. Now I can.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Sis boom bee kick ’em in the knee Sis boom bass kick ’em in the other knee.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Indeed, and then there’s the fact that a single codex may contain multiple works, often unrelated (at least to modern eyes—copying of manuscripts was the old school way of adding a book to one’s library, so an abbot in one monastery, learni
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Thank you, Stan Gable, for saying what all of us here at Adams College believe.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
The thirteen-year-olds are biased towards 69.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
This headline reminds me that “row” is one of these words I’ve been mispronouncing almost my whole life (I just learned the correct pronunciation this year). In this context row rhymes with cow,¹ now dough. ⸻ 1. The first rhyme that came to
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by dhosek 6mo ago
I think teams is the big memory killer there
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Humans tend to be biased towards 47 as well. It’s almost halfway between 1 and 100 and prime so you’ll find people picking it when they have to choose a random number. Then there’s the whole Pomona College thing https://en.wikipe
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by dhosek 6mo ago
What OS are you running? I currently have three Jetbrains IDEs open on my MacBook (M3 Max/36GB) and don’t notice any issue (although I don’t have any electron apps running which probably helps).

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