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by dhosek 1mo ago
Costco has a reputation for treating its workers very well, probably the best option in the retail world.
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by dhosek 1mo ago
There are some options, though, that you can’t even pre-order until October.
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by dhosek 1mo ago
I figure at least some of it comes from the idea that mathematically, a singularity is a point (e.g., in the graph of z=1/w, there is a singularity at the point w=0, and in the graph of z=(1-w)²/(1-w) there is a removable singular
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by dhosek 1mo ago
Hmm. I took a look at my claude output and I don’t see anything remotely like that in my responses. Occasionally a bit verbose, but none of this but “here’s the kicker” thing that the post claims, although I also notice that I’m using Sonne
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by dhosek 1mo ago
I’ve been writing code for 46 years. Not once have I had to code a derivative. And for all the people who are concerned about how sin' 2πx = 2π cos 2πx, in actual code, it doesn’t matter. Let’s say that I’m writing a basic graphing fun
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by dhosek 1mo ago
It depends on your context, and is mentioned in the article. The advantage of turns comes from the fact that the implementation of sinᵣ etc. is internally doing a conversion to turns, so by using sin_turns directly, you avoid calculating π&
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by dhosek 1mo ago
I have at least one Knuth check¹ from the days when they were actual checks, but to be honest, I’m not 100% sure where it (they?) are. I’m on the mailing list where potential TeX-related bugs appear and it’s crazy the level of detail people
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by dhosek 1mo ago
Stør was really blatant to the extent that they were successfully sued by IKEA for their duplication. They were eventually bought out by IKEA, probably for the real estate.
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by dhosek 1mo ago
Pax is another one that violates the rule that someone pointed out lower. Also Malm is a surname which is another violation of the rule (one of the characters in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was named, if I recall correctly, Stefan Mal
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by dhosek 1mo ago
Most likely. In the early 90s there was a knock-off of Ikea called Stør which used the ø for exoticism. I had assumed that it was a Danish company, but apparently, not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STØR (The store whe
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by dhosek 1mo ago
I doubt that there are likely cases of people having joe.smith@gmail.com and joesmith@gmail.com as distinct accounts, but I would note that for other domains hosted via gmail, in my experience, joe.smith@example.com and joesmith@example.c
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by dhosek 2mo ago
Many of the “good” simple names were grabbed by folks when registration was free in th 90s. I’m still annoyed that thanks to a missed payment, I lost quixote.com.
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by dhosek 2mo ago
I played around with this a bit, first I did a photo of a cat I just took at a cat cafe, but the black and white cat didn’t turn out well with the dithering algorithm, so then I tried a selfie and pushing the radius up, it came out looking
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by dhosek 2mo ago
I’ve found it interesting that cows become beef, sheep mutton, pigs pork, but goats, chicken, turkeys and fish keep their identities when they become food.
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by dhosek 2mo ago
My daughter once spent a bunch of time going through all the flag emojis classifying them as stars, animals, trees, religious symbols (and probably some others). We found three flags with maps. Animals were almost exclusively birds, but the
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by dhosek 2mo ago
It influenced others as well. As I recall Ravel was among them. There was a great deal of curiosity of elements of African-American music among European composers in the early 20th century.
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by dhosek 2mo ago
Unless that’s changed in a recent version, it was a global setting. As I mentioned before, sometimes I will walk, sometimes drive, sometimes take transit.
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by dhosek 2mo ago
I didn’t think of the smell at all, I was wondering what the feel was like. There’s a certain level of comfort that’s expected from clothing that matters. There’s also the question of breathability. Is it going to trap sweat and smells like
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by dhosek 2mo ago
In Mexico, apparently, the scheme is to grab a phone from an inattentive pedestrian from a motorcycle or scooter.
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by dhosek 2mo ago
Apple Maps also does this. It would also be nice to have a configurable transportation choice for the time to leave notice. Because some things I’ll walk to, some I’ll take transit and some I’ll drive and Apple seems to want be to just pick
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by dhosek 2mo ago
Even a lot of session work. Tony Levin (bass player best known for his work with Peter Gabriel and King Crimson, but who’s also played with Chuck and Gap Mangione, Paul Simon, Dire Straits, Yes, … well, more than I could reasonably put here
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by dhosek 2mo ago
Oh, I forgot about that, but had seen that in the news as well. It’s kind of weird that this area that I was only aware of because I like studying maps has popped up a whole bunch in the last few weeks.
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by dhosek 2mo ago
It also showed up in the discourse thanks to Christopher Nolan controversially filming parts of The Odyssey there.
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by dhosek 2mo ago
One thing I’ve learned from reading accounts of Flock camera thefts is that you shouldn’t do more than one per outing. This sounds like a group arranged to do them all at once which also works.
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by dhosek 2mo ago
Stinky cheeses have largely disappeared from the zeitgeist, but were used to be much more common (see, for example, the Pepe Le Pew cartoon from the 40s where his would-be paramour locks herself in a Limburger cheese factory gaining a stenc
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by dhosek 2mo ago
I’ve encountered feeds that do this and I tend to not keep those subscriptions long. That said, some feeds often have content that doesn’t present well in my feed reader and I’ll end up clicking to view the web presentation What I miss is t
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by dhosek 2mo ago
It seems like it’s become a bit more common for companies to pay part or all of the COBRA premiums for a period after a separation, at least that’s been the case in my last two job losses (one company paid the company part of the premium fo
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by dhosek 2mo ago
No meeting that has an HR person on it is a good thing.
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by dhosek 2mo ago
A big part of the joy of model railroading is the building of such things, at least for some people.¹ It’s less about the product than the process. That’s a big part of why things like kitbashing and scratch building are popular. Finding a
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by dhosek 2mo ago
I don’t seem to be charged for Scam Shield on my account. I’ve had one unknown number call and not leave a message over the last month, which is a far cry from the 20–40 spam calls per day some people report.

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