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by dhosek 2y ago
While Tom Baker was the first Doctor I ever encountered, Peter Davison was always my Doctor. The Time Crash mini-episode was especially delightful to me because (a) David Tennant is married to Peter’s daughter and (2) he apparently has th
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by dhosek 2y ago
PBS, back in the 70s and 80s used to broadcast so much British stuff. Not just Doctor Who, but Monty Python, The Two Ronnies, Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served and so much more if I were to dig into my memory to find it. I still have the
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by dhosek 2y ago
So my son has 7 years to set a new record. (I’m not really expecting that, of course.)
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by dhosek 2y ago
Only some schwas escaped her. “Digital” is the one that I remember best.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Chicago (West-side Czech, to be more specific).
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by dhosek 2y ago
It thought my native language was Hindi/Urdu which was amused me if only because whenever I try to do a foreign accent it eventually morphs into a Hindi accent no matter where it started.
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by dhosek 2y ago
My ex-wife whose native language is Spanish worked hard to eliminate her accent because she got tired of people calling her accent “cute.” Her shibboleths were anything with a schwa. The whole concept of schwas offends her sense of vocalic
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by dhosek 2y ago
Oh man, I remember using an XEDIT+Rexx email client back in the day on VM/CMS that was mind blowing for its time. The stuff available for Unix and VMS paled in comparison. But it definitely was the tight integration with XEDIT and the
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by dhosek 2y ago
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
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by dhosek 2y ago
Not necessarily—perhaps it’s something like what we have right now is the residue of a slight variation from 50/50 in our local part of the universe (so it might have been 50.01% matter, 49.99% antimatter, and after the bulk of the mat
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by dhosek 2y ago
I’ve always wondered whether the “missing” antimatter in the universe is simply too far away to see, past the light horizon. And then there’s the exotic theory that at the big bang, regular matter went one direction in time and antimatter t
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by dhosek 2y ago
Yeah, Ricky Jay was the last of a breed (he was also a friend of a friend, something I only learned after both he and the friend had died). He was very schooled in a lot of the street con games and was also a scholar of historical frauds an
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by dhosek 2y ago
I love these and my kids who are a little obsessed with stage magic right now are at the perfect age for Penn & Teller videos so I need to stash these for the next time I have them. There’s definitely skill levels involved, even at the
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by dhosek 2y ago
My favorite of these was a trick where someone picked a card out of a deck and then Teller revealed a large version of that same card in an unexpected area in the vicinity, It turns out that what he had done was hide a complete set of large
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by dhosek 2y ago
You must be really old because the selling point was always more channels/better quality picture. No ads was reserved for the premium channels (HBO and Showtime) which were an added fee. There were a small number of basic cable channel
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by dhosek 2y ago
I think killing the guy would have been a bit extreme.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I remember once showing up to the office after taking the morning off and one of my co-workers asked why I was wearing a suit and I told him I had a job interview. He thought I was joking and later repeated this to someone else and then sai
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by dhosek 2y ago
Mac people call it option, not alt. alt-minus gives – and alt-shift-minus gives —. Certainly, it’s much easier than the windows enter a numeric code thing which seems insane.
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by dhosek 2y ago
When I first started working, I wore a necktie to work Monday through Thursday and would never think of showing up to an interview not wearing a suit, and since then wearing a suit to an interview has become somewhat frowned upon and other
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by dhosek 2y ago
What I find interesting is that where traditional clothing has managed to maintain some sort of foothold, it’s almost invariably in women’s clothing. This is largely a superficial observation and is likely becoming increasingly false as tim
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by dhosek 2y ago
One of my classmates flunked out of Harvey Mudd freshman year thanks to obsessively playing Moria. First semester he failed 4 out of 5 classes and the administration normally would tell him not to come back in the spring, but they decided t
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by dhosek 2y ago
One minor nit: A function can be differentiable at a and discontinuous at a even with the standard definition of the derivative. A trivial example would be the function f ( x ) = ( x ²-1)/( x -1) which is undefined at x =1, but
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by dhosek 2y ago
Teaching tends to be low pay/high effort. K12 education is about classroom management first and subject matter second. You will need specialized education to teach public school. Post-secondary is badly broken with the majority of open
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by dhosek 2y ago
Radio Shacks¹ used to have a tube tester machine in them.² I was always impressed that there was such a finite universe of tubes that a single machine could test all of them. ⸻ 1. For the kids, this was a store that sold various electric gi
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by dhosek 2y ago
There’s also a standard of using the metric system, but there are still plenty of backwards places that don‘t follow it. One of the instruments I play is flute and while there is some flexibility possible to adjust the pitch by moving the h
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by dhosek 2y ago
I think it helped that I was a regular attendee at Mass before becoming a chorister so I had the advantage of years of singing in the congregation where you’re surrounded by people singing (or not) of various skill levels and it’s kind of e
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by dhosek 2y ago
I had a friend in high school who had amazing pitch recognition. I still remember being at band camp and watching him with a cassette player and a stack of manuscript paper transcribing the “Get Away” break from Chicago a measure or two at
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by dhosek 2y ago
It’s very much a regional thing where Europeans tend to tune higher than Americans, as I recall. A lot is going to be dictated by the pitch of the local church organ. Historically, as I recall, A was a bit lower than 440 as testified by old
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by dhosek 2y ago
The thing that really accelerated my pitch learning was choral singing (in particular, with a serious classically-oriented choir at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago). If you’re singing the notes, they really get internalized. At the peak of m
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by dhosek 2y ago
That 90s OOP hype really mirrors the contemporary FP hype (and the 70s–80a structured programming hype). Programming is definitely subject to fads.

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