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by dhosek 1y ago
I loved all the themed locations in Southern California, although the north-Orange county one, where the theme was just “aerospace” and all they really did was put a giant Space Shuttle model in the center (Burbank’s 50s sci-fi movie theme
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by dhosek 1y ago
I’ve always thought that the criteria for inclusion on Wikipedia should simply be: is it true and is it verifiable. All the other criteria, notoriety, no original research, etc. really shouldn’t matter.
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by dhosek 1y ago
What I think is wild is that Indo-European languages have developed articles at least four times: in Greek (apparently from a weak demonstrative) with only the definite article, in Romance languages from vulgar Latin with both definite and
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by dhosek 1y ago
He wasn’t actually Catholic-Catholic, but Anglo-Catholic, a faction within the Anglican church which revived a lot of Catholic liturgical practices without entering into communion with Rome.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Likely because nobody knows.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Yeah, while digging further (but after my anti-procrastination filter locked me out) I saw that Japanese numbers for domestic consumption (and some limited exports, e.g., to Oceania) don’t follow the VIN system.
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by dhosek 1y ago
It seems to me that if you’re not a good reader, law school is probably not for you. I would guess that while doing well on the LSAT doesn’t necessarily mean you’d do well in law school, if grinding practice tests doesn’t get you a good sco
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by dhosek 1y ago
Country of manufacture does not necessarily equal country of sale. That said, while some details differ, the 17-character codes are largely compatible across standards although it seems that the check digit is unique to the US market.
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by dhosek 1y ago
It’s more the old TTY layout which differs somewhat from the modified typewriter layout that’s become standard for computer keyboards. The old Apple ][ keyboard had 1–9 corresponding to the next row in ASCII, shift-0 was @, I think other ch
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by dhosek 1y ago
Hex 21 through 29 were the shift characters on the numbers on the old Apple ][ keyboard.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Kind of reminds me of a junior being amazed when I was able to read ascii strings out of a hex stream. Us old folks have seen a lot .
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by dhosek 1y ago
It was on reddit. Maybe I misremembered your reaction.
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by dhosek 1y ago
The level of trashing federal government programs that’s taken place in the last 7 months is just mind-boggling. I don’t think I’ll live long enough to see the damage undone.
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by dhosek 1y ago
One of the things I regret from my undergrad days at Harvey Mudd was that there was a class that the engineering majors took where they made a set of tools from scratch and I kind of wish, even though I wasn’t an engineering major, that I h
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by dhosek 1y ago
Anything built to purpose (by a competent dev) will usually beat out a general purpose tool. I remember burntsushi being surprised that my purpose-built unicode segmentation code so dramatically outperformed the unicode segmentation he had
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by dhosek 1y ago
EVERYONE KNOWS YOU DON’T PUNCH THE MONKEY!
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by dhosek 1y ago
More to the point, the two spaces after the end of a sentence is a consequence of the typographic style at the time that the typewriter was introduced where additional space at the end of a sentence was employed (this is most common in book
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by dhosek 1y ago
Another thing that comes to mind is reading Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art by Nicholson Baker ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1984881396/donhosek ). Baker talks about traci
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by dhosek 1y ago
It always amuses me when you look at what some bands were emulating and how far from it they ended up. A few notable cases include Yes (Simon & Garfunkel), Genesis (The Bee Gees) and Sheryl Crow (80s Genesis).
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by dhosek 1y ago
In my creative writing practice, I retype a piece at least once in the process of revision¹ which forces me to consider every word along the way. I’ve heard of people doing this with other peoples’ writing, something I’ve never had the pati
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by dhosek 1y ago
That was what we had to do back in the day: Most computer magazines would have pages of code listings that you were expected to type into your computer to get the software to work. When SoftTalk came out in the mid-80s, it was revolutiona
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by dhosek 1y ago
That’s why, when the local college was decommissioning their IBM minicomputer, I opted not to buy it (it would have been under a thousand bucks, as I recall, although I probably would have spent that much a month on air conditioning if I se
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by dhosek 1y ago
Indeed, there are regional sorting centers that then send to the local post offices to go to the carriers. Although what I find odd is that for residential delivery, I always get the mail the same day, only at my P.O. Box does the mail so
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by dhosek 1y ago
The ones that amuse me the most are the ads for—informed delivery.
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by dhosek 1y ago
What I’ve observed from six years of informed delivery is that the sorting step that generates the images for informed delivery happens before the step that handles forwarding and return to sender. I’m not sure that any of the cases are tha
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by dhosek 1y ago
Reminds me of a service I led the development on where we had to provide mocks for the front end to develop against as well as develop against mocks of an external service which wasn’t ready for us to use. When we finally were able to do an
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by dhosek 1y ago
It kind of makes me wonder whether this person used ChatGPT or something along those lines to create it. I stopped reading when it was clear that they had let such glaring errors be published in the first paragraph.
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by dhosek 1y ago
But it will de-activate a fraction of a second before the wet sponge enters your mouth so they can assert that the teslabot was not in autofeeding mode when the sponge went into your mouth.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Amazing that I got four responses and this is the only one which offers some mildly useful information.
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by dhosek 1y ago
See, here’s the thing: I’ve been coding probably longer than you’ve been alive. I don’t need help with this kind of stuff. I can read docs and use Google (although the amount of incorrect stuff I see in the Google AI summaries makes me anno

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