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by dhosek 5mo ago
It went beyond that. I didn’t own a house, but my employer, facing an economic downturn, laid off about half its employees.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Their loss, big deal. Let them suffer. The problem is that when they crash they bring a lot of other stuff down along with them. The people who lost money in the 2008 crash were not the ones who suffered the aftermath.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Yep, that’s also why Michael J. Fox isn’t merely Michael Fox. I like to imagine that at some time in the 25th century or so, actors will end up having names that sound like generic pharmaceuticals because all the names will have been used a
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by dhosek 5mo ago
That’s just a perfect story.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
“literal sarcasm” is using “literal” figuratively.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Ah, I suspected it wasn’t the first, it’d just been a long time since I dealt with some of this history. 30 years ago, I had the entirety of Gutenberg to Emigre at the front of my brain but much of it has vanished since.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
The doctor who did the surgery was arguably the best doctor I’ve ever interacted with in my 57 years of life. He was horrible at starting appointments on time (much to the frustration of his staff) because he would spend as long as he felt
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by dhosek 5mo ago
One of the challenges I had in graduate mathematics was just trying to keep all the concepts in my brain. It doesn’t help that you end up with things like homomorphism and homeomorphism tangling one’s brain thanks to their superficial simil
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by dhosek 5mo ago
For the work on Euler, this article¹ ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240587262... ) goes into the whole Digital Typography program at Stanford for whom, one of the projects was creating tho
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I was one of the last if not the last patient the dentist who took out my wisdom teeth gave general anesthesia to (at my request, he was normally only doing local). Afterwards, the whole dental office staff (and my mother!) entertained them
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Except that’s how cops already act even without that incentive.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Meditations on First Philosophy messed me up bad. All of Descartes’ reasoning about the inability to determine whether experience was real made complete sense to me. But when I got to where he started to try to build back reality, I didn’
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by dhosek 5mo ago
When I had my ear surgery about 20 years ago, the doctor explained to me that I would be awake for part of the procedure, but the anesthesia meant that I would have no memory of it.¹ It’s a weird thing to think about whether that lack of me
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Captcha does nothing against the spammers. I have found that blocking email domains from signups works pretty well. My list is at https://www.rejectionwiki.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Emai... (this is a built-in feature o
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by dhosek 5mo ago
It’s not the presence of the general public that ruined the internet, it’s the make-a-buck-at-all-costs attitude generated by capitalism that did it.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I thought at first when you said “fictional hollywood movie” that you were saying that not only were the details in the submission made up, but the movie that they got them from was also made up.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Every day I find myself thinking more and more that capitalism ruined the internet. The Green Card Lottery usenet spam was the clear indication of where things were going and now everything is Green Card Lottery spam.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Duck Duck Go links to this discussion as the first result. Adding a !g to the DDG search takes me to an anonymous google where I’ve not turned off AI. There’s an AI summary now which accurately identifies it as a spoof, and a single search
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Screw presses were also used in binding codexes and that’s more likely the model for what Gutenberg used for his printing press. What I find interesting is the speculation that Gutenberg didn’t quite have type like what spread through Europ
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Vandercooks are really the ideal small press. Simple to operate, none of the danger of crushing fingers that you would have with a Chandler & Price or the necessity¹ to dampen pages that you get with an old-school cast iron hand press.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
For this sort of motor skill, it’s definitely learned. For stringed instruments, for example, it’s the left hand which has the more finely managed manipulation than the right (it’s interesting to note that only guitar-family instruments are
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Yeah, that’s what I meant. Oops.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
To this day, my mental model of a computer is still a 64K Apple ][+ and my imaginings of how I would extend it given the capability to do so. My idea of a graphics system that didn’t rely on main memory to represent the bit map turned out t
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by dhosek 5mo ago
MECC software was ubiquitous outside Minnesota as well. I remember it showing up in my Illinois grade school in 1981–2.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I had a similar situation, first computer access was a single Apple (Packard-Bell) ][+ on a rolling cart that normally lived in the closet of the 6–8 grade science teacher at my elementary school. I would stay after school every day to writ
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by dhosek 5mo ago
This is maybe even more fascinating than warm-bloodedness evolving twice.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Reading the post, I was immediately reminded of the Big Red Button that was a prominent feature on 80s/90 PCs because of their tendency to end up in a state where a hard reset was the only way out of the lockup. And of course there wer
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Damn you for making me look in the OED thinking surely there’s an earlier usage of the word given it’s Latin roots and seeing the first citation as 1535.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Generally good. The one case where it failed was for a Spanish Mass in a neighborhood targeted by ICE where the Mass began about half an hour after what the website said. Out of nearly 400 parishes in the archdiocese, only one parish¹ compl
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by dhosek 5mo ago
The thing I find fascinating about birds is that they’ve independently evolved warm-bloodedness in a completely different lineage from mammalian warm-bloodedness.

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