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by dhosek 4mo ago
In earlier versions of OS X, setting your date format to have the day before the month was sufficient to also alter the default paper size to A4, which was really inconvenient for me since I prefer the day-month ordering (and as a consequen
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by dhosek 4mo ago
The great thing about the whole Apple ][ system was that it was sophisticated enough to actually do stuff but simple enough that a single person could understand it (largely because it was mostly the work of a single person). To this day,
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by dhosek 4mo ago
1:25 with one bonus word on the HN special. I saw that the bonus words are highlighted in orange in the final word list so yes, it was two on the first puzzle.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
1:40 with (I think) two bonus words. It would be nice to have bonus words counted at the end. Maybe some way of setting a score based on time plus bonus words.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
If you see a letter with only one line coming from it it’s either the last or first letter of a word.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I remember discovering that while writing some code for a job interview. The reason for it is simple, even though in many input systems (like the ABC International I use on my Macs) it’s a two-character sequence to enter ł, there is not act
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by dhosek 4mo ago
In fact, the Slavic countries which use Latin are all predominantly Catholic, with Bosnia being an outlier in using both Latin and Cyrillic while also being roughly half Muslim.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
My thoughts exactly, what I’d rather have is the ability to integrate other stuff into Apple’s ecosystem (most notably my hearing aids, which despite being MFi can only really stream audio from my phone—I had a pair of Beats headphones a fe
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Saturday vigil masses are rather popular as they cover a Catholic’s Sunday obligation without requiring getting up early.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
How do you manage that? I tried setting up a specialized directory of type-related websites and pages back around 1999–2001 and trying to find contact info for websites was difficult then when people still had public WHOIS info most of the
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Worth noting, a lot of times, what people think is proof by contradiction is in fact proving the contrapositive (i.e., if you want to prove, “if p then q ”, proving “if not q then not p ” will also suffice).
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Not really. <img> was a first-class tag if not from the beginning, pretty early on and the same with color.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
The problem with DVI is twofold: First, font support is purely by reference which means that you need some way of connecting the fonts used in the document with the DVI file. Use of the wrong font could produce some spectacularly bad output
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by dhosek 4mo ago
There were a number of different ways to write and in Latin. The Vulgate Bible, apparently unhappy with all the vav-connectives in its Hebrew sources uses them all.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Fun fact: The -gh endings of many English words share a proto–Indo European root with that enclitic¹ -que in Senatus Populusque Romani. I remember being skeptical of this when I first heard it assuming that the person was arguing for a shar
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I still find it somewhat fascinating that the Slavs arrived in Europe during recorded history.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
C(2n, n) isn’t about permutations, but choosing subsets of a set without order, but as I’ve thought about it, the model here is that there are 2n moves to be made and you need to choose n of them to be down (or right, depending on your pref
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Oh you just reminded me of the joy of making maps for D&D. I only ever played two or three times, but I had notebooks full of detailed maps of dungeons, cities, whole continents.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Which suggests another approach to the solution; you have 20Ls and 20Rs which can appear in any order so it’s a permutation with repetition problem and thus 40!/(20!20!) That approach has the advantage that it’s easily adapted to non s
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by dhosek 4mo ago
There’s an xkcd for that but I’m on my phone and too lazy to look it up.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Isn’t there a performance cost though with runtime binding of functions? (I’ve not looked too closely at Swift since the first couple of years when Objective C compatibility was essential, so maybe that’s less of a default than it was in th
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I used to do things like this when I was a kid (less extreme, never more than a single sheet of paper), where I would create some natural features: a lake shore or river, maybe a freeway or two or a railroad and then start platting out a su
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I don’t think I’ve ever worked with anyone in engineering who I would consider degenerate aside from the occasional crypto supporter. Even 30% seems like a scary high percentage of degenerate engineers.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
What’s interesting is that while most cars imported into Mexico (except for those from the NAFTA region) face stiff tariffs or outright bans (if you move to Mexico from the US you can only bring your car if it was manufactured in Mexico&#x2
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by dhosek 4mo ago
There’s a bit of hand-waving in the jump to 2 n choose n solution, which I suppose is fine, and my ex–math teacher brain really wants to have a proper proof or at least solid reasoning rather than “it follows the pattern” based on three
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Hmm, my library had a T-Mobile wireless hotspot available and the wait time on the hold was less than what was expected. It ended up being rather fortuitous as the first half of 2020 corresponded to the beginnings of the dissolution of my m
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by dhosek 4mo ago
That theoretical wait time doesn’t usually end up being so long. Between borrowers returning things early, people on the wait list giving up and most importantly, the library deciding that the current inventory is insufficient, the wait tim
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I believe that Rust does this which implies that it might be common to the clang back end.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Fractions are art and man, music relies so much on fractions.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I discovered on a later try that “D A HOSEK” gives different results than “D. A. HOSEK” with the latter actually surfacing my writing, although all the summaries are full of amusing hallucinations. The weird thing was that putting my kids’

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