dhosek

20 ms·

481.
by dhosek 10mo ago
Well there was a lynx spotted in north Oak Park in the last couple-three years so there’s another potential predator, but yep, they definitely need predation. I’ve seen some sizable herds north of North Avenue in the forest preserve there (
482.
by dhosek 10mo ago
Deer have become almost a nuisance species closer in to Chicago. I’ve seen them in Oak Park about 2 miles away from the nearest forest land. In River Forest, which actually contains forest preserve, things got so bad the village wanted to h
483.
by dhosek 10mo ago
There was (maybe still is?) a handicapped artist working the Santa Monica promenade who created his work on an iPhone. It’s been a while, but I think he clutched a stylus in his teeth to do the drawing. As I recall he either had no arms or
484.
by dhosek 10mo ago
It seems like Hoopla does a lot of self-published and indie published books. That kind of fits in with their business model where they charge a flat fee per lending of the book, so they have an incentive to get as many books on the platform
485.
by dhosek 10mo ago
I’d note also that while the stock is up about 15 percent and a fraction over the last year, the S&P 500 is up 16 percent and a fraction over the same period. Given a company with declining sales, for two consecutive years it seems like
486.
by dhosek 10mo ago
That’s not a 9% drop in the stock price but in sales. Declining sales for two years in a row does not bode well for future revenue growth.
487.
by dhosek 10mo ago
They have it hidden behind a … menu though which is unfortunate because it’s a great feature to have.
488.
by dhosek 10mo ago
I’m bilingual(ish) and while I’ve always pronounced it MOCKito, I think I may start pronouncing it moQUIto instead now.
489.
by dhosek 10mo ago
I noted this in my comment, but there are no native cases of this. It’s one of the (many) ways in which English is an outlier from its IE relatives. There are, though, some postfix cases where we will use a preposition (as a separate word)
490.
by dhosek 10mo ago
Although, one could make the argument that staff notation is itself a form of text, albeit one with a different notation than a single stream of Unicode symbols. Certainly, without musical notation, a lot of music is lost (although, one can
491.
by dhosek 10mo ago
Having studied at various levels about half a dozen languages (mostly Indo-European but also Hebrew), it’s fascinating to see the various features that are common across them. Most IE languages (but not English) create families of verbs by
492.
by dhosek 10mo ago
I’m not a lawyer, but I did watch every episode of Better Call Saul and I’d point out that a lawyer who generates one complaint likely generates multiple complaints so that 1 complaint/10 law licenses number is misleading about the sco
493.
by dhosek 10mo ago
I’ve not looked too deeply, but based on other discussion, I wonder if this was malicious noncompliance meant to reveal what the higher-ups were ordering hidden. If victims’ names are properly redacted that would be strong evidence.
494.
by dhosek 10mo ago
Apple’s Preview app does exactly that. I discovered this while trying to make a blanked copy of kid #2’s homework worksheet for kid #1 who left his at school after kid #2 already wrote on her copy.
495.
by dhosek 10mo ago
If the AI bubble doesn’t burst is carrying an awful lot of water there…
496.
by dhosek 10mo ago
My then-fiancée had a cell number that ended with 5 zeroes and a 1 and she got many wrong number calls from people who were trying to reach numbers that ended with 0-001x
497.
by dhosek 10mo ago
Around 2009ish I parked our dark grey Prius next to another dark grey Prius while going to the Beverly Hills Farmers’ Market and when I came back to the car, there was a third dark grey Prius parked next to the two original dark grey Priuse
498.
by dhosek 10mo ago
Back in the 90s, I was on a trip and ended up parked next to a car which had a car alarm that responded to the key fob for my car alarm. It was very disconcerting.
499.
by dhosek 10mo ago
That plate wouldn’t be allowed in Illinois where there is a hard requirement that all digits follow any letters on the plate.¹ The thing that I find mystifying is that they charge more for a vanity plate that’s all letters than one that’s l
500.
by dhosek 10mo ago
What makes something a publication is the act of publishing, not the format that it takes.¹ Copyright is implicitly granted at publication² although registration is required in order to sue for infringement.³ ⸻ 1. Within some limitations: c
501.
by dhosek 10mo ago
I thought that was going to be what the article was about (or perhaps Lady Ada Lovelace’s ideas for programming).
502.
by dhosek 10mo ago
Pascal also distinguishes between functions and subroutines (procedures)
503.
by dhosek 10mo ago
Just looking at Fortran code fills the back of my mouth with the sensation I got from being around the printed IBM manuals in the basement computer lab at UIC of being around dust and powdered printer paper.
504.
by dhosek 11mo ago
This is a big part of why I’ve always eschewed GPL.
505.
by dhosek 11mo ago
And yet a larger percentage of the capital is concentrated in a smaller percentage of the population. I think about life in the arts—in the first half of the century it used to be that a talented writer or musician could make a living with
506.
by dhosek 11mo ago
Yeah, I’ve gotta fix a bunch of CSS there, but I’m focused on the book at the moment.
507.
by dhosek 11mo ago
His first seven films are the kind of good that most filmmakers would like to have throughout a career, not starting one. He was also a writer on The Smothers Brothers before his role on All in the Family. He was definitely one of the great
508.
by dhosek 11mo ago
If I was going to design a universe where multiple intelligences would evolve but never interact, this one would meet the requirements quite well.
509.
by dhosek 11mo ago
Oh man, I remember religiously reading his website back in 1999.
510.
by dhosek 11mo ago
It’s kind of funny that I was just thinking (as in ten minutes ago) it would be really wonderful to be able to wirelessly access login information from my Apple Watch to whatever computer I happen to be using (ideally in a way that doesn’t

More ›