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811.
by dhosek 2y ago
That was my first thought when I saw the headline. My brother was a veterinarian and he made some money while he was in college/vet school selling programs to Commodore 64 magazines back in the 80s (enough to pay for his computer and p
812.
by dhosek 2y ago
Ego sum sed non possum scire tu es.
813.
by dhosek 2y ago
You are. I’m the only real person in the universe.
814.
by dhosek 2y ago
In the 90s, I stumbled upon a rat in my living room when I came home from work. I figured I had a choice: put out traps and poison to try to kill it or give it a name and declare it a pet. I named him Raskolnikov.
815.
by dhosek 2y ago
I would pretty much assume that any Android phone is a massive privacy leak and security risk. I’d hope that an iPhone is better, but I’d be wrong.
816.
by dhosek 2y ago
I remember a friend managed to get a copy of a real book in the 90s and was so excited about it. When I sat down to play some tunes out of it, I was unfamiliar with the notation where Cmin7 was written C-7 and CMaj7 was C△. I figured out
817.
by dhosek 2y ago
There is a passing mention of a radioactive satellite falling to earth in the movie, so there is an attempt at providing some explanation.
818.
by dhosek 2y ago
One of the most dramatic things in this respect is to look at a photograph of a flame. Our lived experience of what flames look like is very different. The same is true of nearly any dynamic object in life (flowing water is another great ex
819.
by dhosek 2y ago
It’s actually remarkably easy to induce false memories in people. There’s substantial research on this.
820.
by dhosek 2y ago
Granted I’m 35 years out of undergrad, but my classics professors could most definitely sight-read complex Latin just fine.
821.
by dhosek 2y ago
There were shifts in the meaning of words as well as shifts in some grammatical structures. English has seen similar shifts in meaning, e.g., villain originally meant a person from a village.
822.
by dhosek 2y ago
With an intermediate stage of “Vulgar Latin” of which little trace remains because it was predominantly a spoken language. Literate people, even if they might use Vulgar Latin themselves in conversation, generally chose to write in the more
823.
by dhosek 2y ago
The Vatican publishes a newspaper which, among other things, has a sports page, written in Latin.
824.
by dhosek 2y ago
The use of it by the Catholic Church means its vocabulary continues to expand. After all, it’s necessary to speak of the modern world in church documents whose official version will be in Latin.
825.
by dhosek 2y ago
A bit late to add to the discussion, but a couple things of note: 1. Foster died in 2020 (he tested positive for Covid at the time of his death, but it’s unclear whether that was the cause). 2. The promised second volume to the bones is ava
826.
by dhosek 2y ago
I have this same dishwasher in my apartment (installed by my landlord). It’s not just that it requires a cloud connection for the features, but that the setup is so janky and bug-ridden that I’ve been unable to successfully make it happen.
827.
by dhosek 2y ago
I’ve been rebuilding the meagre Latin I picked up in college in the 80s and I’ve found late Latin to be a bit helpful for building confidence—Beeson’s Primer of Medieval Latin and the Vulgate Bible have been my primary texts of late. With t
828.
by dhosek 2y ago
Joining a good choir can do a lot to really build your ear in this respect. Generating a note from within your body does so much more to build your ear than generating a note by hitting a key or plucking a string (wind instruments are kind
829.
by dhosek 2y ago
And if she goes to a small residential school, she can keep that up at college. I attended the Claremont colleges where all six campuses (there’s a seventh now) of the schools lay within a one square mile area and if you were silly and only
830.
by dhosek 2y ago
I grew up with a (stolen, of course) copy of Steal this Book in the house.
831.
by dhosek 2y ago
As a grade school kid, I was taken to the police station for making a bomb with a couple friends. Fortunately for us, no charges were pressed (presumably because we didn’t manage to ignite the bomb and it was the 70s).
832.
by dhosek 2y ago
I remember the first time I encountered a Windows machine you had to log in to to use (1996). At my first job, I had write access to all the system directories on the corporate VAX machine. I could have easily taken down a major corporati
833.
by dhosek 2y ago
I think it’s long past time to reorder the alphabet to follow QWERTY order. It will make keyboarding much easier for children. We just need to write a new alphabet song.
834.
by dhosek 2y ago
They can call it Dasani and sell it for more than they charge for the sweetened flavored carbonated beverage.
835.
by dhosek 2y ago
Sadly I’ve already deleted every single tweet I had under my Twitter account (other than a pinned tweet saying I’ve moved to BlueSky). It’s mostly symbolic, but I felt it was necessary.
836.
by dhosek 2y ago
The range used to be somewhat larger, but the environment has been reduced (most of what’s now Mexico city used to be a lake). It needs the right combination of climate and environment which doesn’t really exist outside of Mexico City (and
837.
by dhosek 2y ago
Amphibians are sadly, more susceptible to environmental toxins than reptiles are. I think it’s because their skin is more absorbent than reptile skin, but my biological knowledge is fairly limited.
838.
by dhosek 2y ago
I remember writing the documentation for the payment processor app used at Iron Mountain and the flow for dealing with a check deposit was incredibly convoluted. The (Windows desktop) application was designed by a team from one of the big 5
839.
by dhosek 2y ago
You’re not alone
840.
by dhosek 2y ago
My view on free software has changed over the course of my life. When I was in my 20s, my big concern was being able to do things like afford the mortgage on my house and be able to maybe be able to afford to get married and have kids or at

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