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by dhosek 5mo ago
Which means the Jurassic Park tyrannosaur that could only see things that moved was probably seriously inaccurate (also in reality it probably had feathers).¹ ⸻ 1. While checking Wikipedia to confirm my belief about feathers, I found that t
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Those bottom-row pictures were kind of freaky.
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My biggest challenge the first time I ever used an HP calculator was less RPN than the syntax of it. I thought I had to hit enter after every token so I typed, e.g., 2⎆3⎆+⎆ rather than 2⎆3+. Needless to say, this did not work as expected, b
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by dhosek 5mo ago
It was used to great effect in one episode of The Good Place .
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by dhosek 5mo ago
There’s also the cap on the deductibility of local taxes. The Trump tax “cut” raised my tax rate by roughly 3% (although I’ve tended to have lots of fluctuations in my income and deductions over the last 15 years so it’s hard to make good c
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Mostly. There are exceptions, like the Catholic adoption agencies wanting to discriminate against same sex couples in placements, but as far as using charity as a means to directly evangelize, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it. A big part of
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by dhosek 5mo ago
They have a website that can be used to host malware and/or seo link farms. I still have nightmares about the contact form on my low-stakes personal website getting hijacked to use as a spam sender (because I used unsanitized input in
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I don’t have gcc available so I can’t test it, but I wonder what it does with int a = 5; int b = a++; if it gives b==5 in this circumstance (which I would say is the correct value), then it seems that giving 13 for a++ + ++a
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I always hate C-style for-loops because even thought I learned C over 40 years ago, I can never remember whether the increment comes before the test or the test comes after the increment. Fortunately, modern IDEs let me continue to be ignor
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Which is precisely why I made that comparison.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
You have clearly never owned a home. The older the building, the more maintenance it requires.
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Much of that overhead is not going to admin salaries (although, as stated elsewhere in the discussion money is fungible) but covers things like the cost of buildings, labs, maintenance, etc.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Is that across all universities? Because I would guess that, for example, University of Illinois gets a much larger portion of its funding from government sources than University of Chicago (which would be one of those well-endowed universi
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by dhosek 5mo ago
The card check election was in 2004. I was part of the drive at the time (although I graduated before the union began—that was one of the challenges in the drive: a lot of us were essentially working for the benefit of those who came after
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by dhosek 5mo ago
R. F. Kuang’s Katabasis was a fun look at the hell that is graduate school told through a fantasy lens. That paired with the McSweeney’s snake fight article should be essential reading for all would-be grad students.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Well, it is the capital (/s).
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There’s going to be a lot of the spouse saving face chargebacks, people using stolen card numbers to download porn to avoid exposing their use to anyone else, active use of porn sites as a means of laundering funds from stolen card numbers—
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Some 15 years ago, I interviewed at a payment processor that specialized in NFSW customers and pretty much the fraud/chargeback rate is ridiculously high for porn sites and the like. Elsewhere in the thread someone commented about even
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by dhosek 5mo ago
There was no additional fee for it. The program was shut down in 2020 so there are also no later graduates to receive it.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
It’s also for the families, but mine wasn’t available for the BA and I told them not to bother for the first master’s. The second, I only went to because it was a low-residence program and the ceremony took place during the final residency
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I think in colloquial American English, there’s a lot of mixing up of terms and most Americans (myself included) would just call all of these jelly.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I worked for a while as a contract tech writer at Lucent (the spun-off version of Bell Labs after the AT&T split) in the 90s. It was an interesting company to work for, although the biggest memories I have are of the hardbound notebooks
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I was a bit surprised to discover the whole jelly-jello language thing. I’d always assumed when people spoke of nailing jelly to a wall that they were talking about something jam-like, not jello-like. I’ve not done the experiments, but I wo
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by dhosek 5mo ago
At the 1996 ATypI meeting in Den Haag, one of the speakers coined the term “sterotypography” to refer to certain cliches that get used in type usage. Another case of this is the use of Neuland and Neuland Inline to represent Africa, and of
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I skipped the graduation ceremonies for my BA and my first master’s degree. For my second, apparently the cost of a cap, gown and hood was included in the tuition so I have academic regalia sitting in a box somewhere should I ever find myse
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Oh my goodness, the use cases are so… badly conceived: > If a friend sends you a picture on your phone and you need to email it from your laptop, the file is just there — no need to email it to yourself. So are there really people who wi
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by dhosek 5mo ago
But the gaming software market is very heavily biased towards delivering for Windows on Intel. That said, I’m not a gamer so what do I know?
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by dhosek 6mo ago
I don’t know that there is any way to calculate a median value of GDP/capita. You can look at income distributions and find a median income and compare that to a mean income, which could allow an estimation, but beyond that, GDP is an
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Just as a quick note, the “second world” would have been the Eastern Bloc countries, so by definition, living in Poland in the 80s would have been 2nd-world conditions.
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by dhosek 6mo ago
Oops, the influence was a bit higher up the ancestry chain on both sides. CP/M uses / under the influence of VMS’s ancestor, TOPS-10. That’s what I get on relying on old memories of things I was told that were probably inaccurate

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