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by dhosek 1y ago
Looking at my expenses for 2024 my top expenses were taxes, rent, dining out/snacks/drinks, charity, my kids’ school tuition, insurance, utilities (including web hosting services) and groceries in that order. But overall, the bigg
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by dhosek 1y ago
The pi = ^0.5 bit reminds me of a college physics professor who was fond of using the shortcut π²=10.
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by dhosek 1y ago
In the late 80s/early 90s hacker became much less someone doing coding stuff for fun and much more someone trying to break into systems. The main mailing list for TeX related stuff, for example was called TeXHaX and no one assumed peop
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by dhosek 1y ago
If you read the article, you would have read: “The footage, which has been made available to scholars, was screened last August for The New Republic journalist Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, who reported that the footage was fragmentary an
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by dhosek 1y ago
Nope, Stuart was the surname of the kings from James I–James II.
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by dhosek 1y ago
I knew the 17th-century kings from a mnemonic that my world history teacher gave (Charlie the tuna in the middle of the sandwich≡James I-Charles I-Charles II-James II), but not much more than that. Most of my English history came by way of
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by dhosek 1y ago
You’re describing a transpiler, but the problem is that idioms in a GC language like Kotlin don’t necessarily translate to a non-GC language like Rust or Zig. Add in the fact that Rust doesn’t have OO inheritance which is essential for a lo
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by dhosek 1y ago
Wouldn’t be the first time.
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by dhosek 1y ago
This is a big part of why I couldn’t watch the Great Gatsby film with Leonardo DiCaprio.
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by dhosek 1y ago
It’s hard to see Palatino and Garamond as similar, but perhaps that’s just my typographic training at play. Palatino is much closer to its calligraphic origins than Garamond and has a darker color on the page (the seldom seen Palatino Book
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by dhosek 1y ago
I’m a fan of the closely related Poliphilus which is a somewhat more rumpled interpretation of the same sources. Really, the whole Stanley Morison–era catalog of Monotype designs is great stuff. I think the only collection of type designs t
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by dhosek 1y ago
I think a big part of that is that Bodoni-style fonts don’t do so well at low resolutions (and 300 dpi counts as low resolution). It’s somewhat akin to the problem of Optima which loses much of its subtlety when laserprinted even at high re
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by dhosek 1y ago
> he looks like the subject of a modern drivers license photo. I was reminded of an interview on Fresh Air around 10 years ago or so where a director was talking about going through casting photos looking for people who “looked like“ the
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by dhosek 1y ago
Sometime in the late 90s Dilbert pretty much became Pluggers but without the attribution to the readers sending in their ideas.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Looking up the 775 solar storm, it appears mostly to have been experienced as northern lights coming much further south than normally experienced.
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by dhosek 1y ago
I always wonder what happens with these high-profile transgressors. I once created a Google News alert for a high-level Apple employee who went to jail for some criminal act at Apple and never saw any indication of him again. I’m guessing h
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by dhosek 1y ago
Indeed, the French taught in schools is Parisian French, but French as its spoken, e.g., in the south sounds noticeably different.
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by dhosek 1y ago
I don’t know much about Náhuatl, but the term “Mayan Language” is a bit misleading as there are actually numerous Mayan languages, something I’d never really thought about before I did a service trip to Chiapas and Guatemala in the early 90
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by dhosek 1y ago
Metapost was first released in 1989 by John Hobby in who was also effectively a coauthor of Metafont. I will say that the MF language is really kind of a delight. It has a clear influence from TeX in its macro construction, but the presence
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by dhosek 1y ago
Kind of reminds me of my dream in 2001 (although at that time, the core device was a Palm Pilot, not a phone): I want something that I can carry in my pocket and use anywhere, but I can also sit at a desk and connect to a display, keyboard
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by dhosek 1y ago
Yeah, one of the problems with eliminating individual car ownership (which I think is a good idea) is the fact that cars are more than point A to point B transportation options. They also serve as temporary storage units (the case that spri
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by dhosek 1y ago
He was obviously an alien.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Oh man, I shouldn’t have deleted that email from Bill Gates offering me four million dollars that ended up in my spam folder.
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by dhosek 1y ago
When I got my first high-speed internet and bought a 4x1 ethernet router/switch, I remember wondering what else I could network since I only had two computers to connect. I really wanted to somehow connect to the music gear in the main
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by dhosek 1y ago
I was thinking that this was my path, I was a Math major (well actually Math-English double major) and I dropped out to focus on English. Of course I never got a Field Medal (or much success as a poet for that matter).
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by dhosek 1y ago
There were a gajillion of these things before Google Analytics. Probably the best options were those that relied on log analysis rather than having a JavaScript bug on every page.
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by dhosek 1y ago
The thing is that the PC and the stereo were often in different rooms. That was the case for me where my stereo system was in the living room and the computer was in the second bedroom of my apartment. Remember that home networking, wifi an
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by dhosek 1y ago
Oh man, I just remembered the first generation of CD-R drives when blank media was around $500 per disk.
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by dhosek 1y ago
That does help, I’m sure. There’s also a tendency to incorrectly apply foreign grammatical structures to the language in a way that might be strange or incomprehensible to a native speaker while making perfect sense to a fellow second-langu
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by dhosek 1y ago
1999 was probably the year that online distribution really took off with Napster catching the labels unprepared (Apple’s iTunes Music Store did a lot to prove to the labels that people would actually pay for music downloads, although it wou

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