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by dhosek 6mo ago
Each “medium-res” pixel (140 across) on the screen could be seen to be three distinct colored pixels: red, blue and green. Purple was created by turning on the left two pixels, green the right most. Likewise red the leftmost and cyan the ri
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Pico and Sepulveda! Pico and Sepulveda!
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by dhosek 6mo ago
I grew up in the bed of a drained lake ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Portage#:~:text=this%2... ), so there were no native American artifacts to be found. The best we could do were the foundations of some homes
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by dhosek 6mo ago
I took my kids to one of those gaming centers (skee ball, claw machines, etc.) and stumbled across a 19th century 50-cent piece in the change machine. It apparently is worth about $150 last time I checked.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Oh man, my son would go nuts for that burger.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
I just stumbled across the fact that apparently Bruce Springsteen has an active subscription service allowing people to listen to recordings of his live shows. A bit on the pricey side, imho, but it does at least exist.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Nihil sub sola novum est. This has been done. Peter Gabriel, for example, did this on one of his tours (I think Back to Front, but I’m too lazy to dig it up). The California Guitar Trio also experimented with it. I’m guessing the fact that
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Screens were low enough resolution back then that you could look closely at the screen to see how he got the six hires colors.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Indeed. There was a movie about the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper and I remember being surprised that one question that had to be addressed by the court in the patent trial was whether a circuit design was a patentable
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by dhosek 7mo ago
These are all things you can do now. Why wait?
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by dhosek 7mo ago
I like to factor large numbers mentally as a keep my brain awake exercise (one task I set for myself is to see if I can factor my odometer reading—currently a bit over 20,000—before I reach the next mile. Many of my strategies are based aro
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by dhosek 7mo ago
My brother and I once took a train trip from L.A. to Omaha and back for a friend’s wedding and played backgammon for most of the trip. For weeks afterwards, I saw backgammon everywhere (most notably when reading dialogue-heavy books with lo
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Church/religion. Flat-earthers believe in a very literal interpretation of the Bible which dictates that the earth is flat. When I was doing my student teaching, one of the teachers in my department was a creationist, but he didn’t see
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Now the whole idea of a fake cold war is burrowing into my brain.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
It’s worth noting that while Catholics who ally themselves with evangelical protestants try to persuade themselves otherwise, many (most?) evangelical protestants view Catholics as not-actually-Christian pagans who need to accept Jesus as t
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Because they figure those two will flip to their side if forced to make a choice. Note for example that Pete Hegseth made an explicit choice to exclude Catholic worship from the Pentagon chapel this past Good Friday.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
It may have been intentional. More than one suicide by train has involved the person who died by suicide wearing headphones as they walked on the tracks (it was clear that it was a suicide and not intentional as engineers have reported the
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by dhosek 7mo ago
I’ve had the same gmail address since it was first announced. It also gets email forwarded to it from another ancient email address that I used to self-host and that still gets occasional real mails. Most of the spam is addressed to that ot
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Oh man, the ILOVEYOU worm—I remember getting that from a former co-worker (who I was pretty sure was not secretly in love with me) and asking him who he got it from that he opened the attachment and he sheepishly identified a female co-work
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Which would become a biased sample. It’s not as if nobody doing statistical analysis has never seen outliers before.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
It seems to me like a lot of the American stuff is people directly or indirectly under Russian influence or part of an international network of extreme-right politics of which Putin is the most powerful figure.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Assuming your samples are not biased, 1000 subjects are generally far more than are necessary to demonstrate an effect. People who complain about sample size are generally not that well-educated in statistics.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Having grown up in and lived most of my life in the Chicago area, the rationality of the grid system is rather nice. If you know your “hunnerts”¹ you can find anything. Every 8 hunnerts is a mile except for the first three miles south of Ma
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by dhosek 7mo ago
What I’ve seen is things like I ask a question about a piece of code during a PR, the author changes that code and my question vanishes into the ether with no indication (unless it’s lost in the noise of email notifications) that the code w
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by dhosek 7mo ago
I don’t know why the headline was changed for the link, but the headline here is misleading as it reads (to me) as if screens are replacing books and not the other way around. Prepositions are slippery things.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
That’s good to know. I’ve heard the complaint offered many times, but don’t have the necessary language skills to know otherwise.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
One of the big complaints about Han-unification in Unicode is that simplified and traditional forms share the same code points so display of simplified vs traditional is up to the font to manage.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
The question is how you acquire the new words. If you learn words from reading, you’ll have a better sense of their nuance than if you learn them from a thesaurus. Thesaurus writing is often easily identifiable thanks to the writer not catc
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Always able to do it? Yes. Even before OpenType alternates, the extended ligature support in TeX 3.x would have also allowed for this sort of thing. Why has no one tried it before? Because (a) nobody thought of it and (2) OpenType alternate
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Because I’d like to think that I am a more creative writer than that.

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