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by dhosek 8mo ago
Indeed, a lot of grammatical “rules” of English were a result of attempting to impose Latin grammatical rules upon English as part of the neoclassical movement of the 18th century. Split infinitives, dangling prepositions (English is somewh
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by dhosek 8mo ago
“they” as a non-gendered singular pronoun dates back hundreds of years.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Thanks to having kids, I ended up reliving lots of details from my own K-3 education and one of the things I clearly remember was coming up with my own mnemonic of remembering its vs it’s by comparing those to his vs he’s.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Czech žena
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Knowing that W is a late addition to the alphabet and would have been written UU or VV suddenly makes uuif obvious.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
I’d say we’ve already partly lost separate then/than. It’s sort of like how you can sometimes tell second-language speakers of a language because their grammar is much more precise than a native speaker’s would be (I have a vague notio
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Not to mention that there are pockets of English speakers in Great Britain whose everyday speech isn’t very far from 17th century English. The hypothetical time traveler might be asked, “So you’re from Yorkshire then, are you?”
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Some early English translations of the Bible were unintentionally comical, e.g., “and Enoch walked with God and he was a lucky fellowe.” Of course that’s not limited to the 16th century. The Good News Bible renders what is most commonly giv
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Or as I’ve heard it described humorously, the Big Vowel Movement.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Indeed, I remember being in Oxford in the 90s and an older man approached me and spoke to me in English and I couldn’t understand a word he said. My ex-wife, who’s an ESL speaker who speaks fluently and without an accent has trouble with
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by dhosek 8mo ago
More an alternative to pigeon drop and spanish prisoner
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Other things that could get you on the registry include visiting a nude beach in California or being an 18-year-old high school student with a 17-year-old girlfriend and having your sexual activity discovered by a vindictive parent (that la
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by dhosek 9mo ago
There was a good Planet Money episode which went into what was behind all of this. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5511707/ozempic-zepboun...
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Also adding the chip to a locomotive is a pretty simple thing so you can retrofit older locomotives (it’s also possible to mix non-digital locomotives with digital locomotives).
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Yep. And you can simplify your wiring since you only need to put in insulators where there would be a potential short (e.g., a Y loop) and not split the layout into zones for operation.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Yeah, apparently the whole controlling the train by the voltage¹ and polarity of the electricity in the rails has been replaced with little digital chips in the locomotives that let you control each locomotive independently and not have to
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by dhosek 9mo ago
There are a handful of people I recognize, most because they’re people I knew from outside HN (and one because he has the same last name as someone I went to high school with and lives local to me and I always wonder if they’re related but
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Top 0.21% Yikes
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Oh man, there are so many times I find myself wanting to click the edit button on websites that aren’t wikipedia to fix typos or other minor errors.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
I remember reading an ad in one of the 90s PC magazines that attributed the dongle to an inventor named “Don Gull.” I was fortunate enough to never have to use a hardware dongle, but I remember hearing about their persistence into the twent
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Maybe if they spent less money on cigarettes they could afford other things.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
I wasn’t talking about a withdrawal rate, this is a rate of return and just living on the interest.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Indeed, although C kind of felt second-class on VMS since the language has a lot of Unixisms embedded in the standard library and, to a lesser extent, the language itself. Being able to define command line interfaces using cld files on VMS
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Even 7 zeros is pretty much you can do what you want anytime you want. Ten million dollars sitting in a bank account earning 3% is 25k a month and nobody with those kinds of assets is leaving them in a bank account earning 3%.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
I have an unfinished novel I started in 2013 where I wrote a scene which seemed pretty sci-fi at the time but now seems like contemporary agentic AI.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Too late.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Julia Louis-Dreyfus? (Although looking at her filmography, it turns out that four of the movies I’d seen were where she’s had big roles in were just in the last three years.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
I somehow hadn’t realized until last year that JP (and JFK) were both before Wayne Knight took on the role of Newman. I had the distinct impression when watching the films that I already knew him.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
My local theater does “mystery movies” on select Monday nights where for $6 I can see a before first run movie with the catch that I don’t know what it is before it starts. The last JP movie was one of these last summer and I was so glad I
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by dhosek 9mo ago
I remember that SGI was superfast. I did some on-site work for a company that had an SGI workstation and I had installed TeX on it for a typesetting system I’d developed with them. When I ran the TeX process, it was so fast that the screen

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