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by eszed 2y ago
My pleasure! I'm no one's idea of a mathematician, but I enjoy employing arithmetic tricks and shortcuts like this one. A few years ago I had an in-depth conversation with a (then) sixth-grader of my acquaintance, and came away im
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by eszed 2y ago
:-) 12 is made up of a 10 and a 2. What's 8 x 10? 80. What's 8 x 2? 16. Add 'em up? 96, baby! They teach you to do math on paper from right to left (ones column -> tens column, etc), I find chunking works best if you appro
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by eszed 2y ago
Calculating 8x12 in my head relies on a trick / technique - they call it "chunking", I believe, in the Common Core maths curriculum that US parents get so angry about - that (I'm also in my 40s) was never demonstrated in
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by eszed 2y ago
¿Porque no los dos? Outsized returns to the post-war US economy were consequent on being the only intact industrial economy; the regulatory system which ensured those gains be shared with the working class was a response to communism.
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by eszed 2y ago
Replying to myself, because whenever I think about early-WoW I get nostalgic, and it's on my mind for a while. Our guild strictly prohibited posting DPS or healing logs in raid or guild chat (though linking them in class-specific threa
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by eszed 2y ago
Second this motion. I was on a jury which hung (didn't reach a verdict) because the last two hold-outs for conviction revealed only after we'd returned the (non)-verdict that their reasoning had been (and I'm not making thi
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by eszed 2y ago
That's such a shame. I think I had as many friends outside my guild as I did inside, back in the day. I had a macro which buffed + whispered folks, and I spammed it at everyone I ran across; I'd join a PUG and people would say &qu
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by eszed 2y ago
Beyond elements of nuance and emphasis I don't disagree with anything you've said. For instance, I completely agree with the philosophy of localism and federalism and "de-powering the sails" that you lay out. (And yes
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by eszed 2y ago
That video is incredibly good. The same trouble with the meta One True Path existed all the way back in vanilla. Our guild was objectively faster clearing dungeons by departing from widely-disseminated strats (by, e.g., selectively kiting &
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by eszed 2y ago
I really appreciate the tenor of the discussion you've had with your primary interlocutor(s) above. It's been substantive and civil, and I wish every sociopolitical disagreement online could be approached in the same manner. Becau
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by eszed 2y ago
I think my great-grandfather fits the type. He was an X-ray technician, starting in the 19-teens - learned the trade, in fact, from a man who'd studied with Roentgen. This is in the age when one had to make one's own vacuum tubes,
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by eszed 2y ago
The speculation in this answer also seems plausible: https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/663324-jeju-737...
613.
by eszed 2y ago
That's because the team's equipment managers lay all of their gear out for them. I doubt any player could confidently answer a minutae-level question about the league's uniform policy.
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by eszed 2y ago
I'm clearly today's prize idiot, because I cannot spot the joke in the "You have what it takes" one. Can you please help?
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by eszed 2y ago
I've never dried the surfaces, and I put the cut sides up . Also never fails. Gonna try cut-side down when my kid gets up (and if we have some grapes); that might look (even) cooler.
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by eszed 2y ago
I'm talking about them tracking me in the country after I left customs.
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by eszed 2y ago
Sure, the recognition step is fairly simplistic. It's not inconceivable, however, that the system connects to whatever other dossier(s) have been built against my identity. Even before we consider ML facial recognition by public came
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by eszed 2y ago
Singapore is even further ahead, with no human in the (regular) loop at all. I walked up to the first barrier, it scanned my face and opened. My name appeared on the screen inside, before I inserted my passport. Then the system "thou
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by eszed 2y ago
How close are the various satellite systems to achieving this?
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by eszed 2y ago
I think you just got whooshed. That apart, I think there's something to the "stronger in a group" principle.
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by eszed 2y ago
That was my point, too, though I can see how that was unclear.
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by eszed 2y ago
Interesting. I'm leaning towards either "doctor was wrong" or "practice has changed". If the latter, then probably to convince more people to go ahead with the procedure. Certainly 20+ years ago people did refuse
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by eszed 2y ago
I think that shouldn't be permitted. (As in, be illegal for the card companies to impose or enforce.) On the other hand, most gas stations seem to post credit vs cash prices, so they get away with it. What's the story there? Why d
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by eszed 2y ago
Huh! You're sure it's general, not just sedation? Anyway, my experience was 20+ years ago, so maybe something's changed. I did specifically ask the doctor if this was the same thing they'd do if I was donating marrow and
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by eszed 2y ago
You're neglecting customer loyalty, and patient throughput. A doctor who (correctly) says "there's nothing I can do for you; ger some rest and you'll get better" will be seen as "uncaring" and patients wil
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by eszed 2y ago
The writing in this piece is a bit over-wrought (funnily enough, I don't mind that so much now that it makes me think it was written by a real person and not an AI), but it's still worth reading. Donating blood marrow (or stem cel
627.
by eszed 2y ago
Isn't that a possessive form? As in: Waiter: "Can I get you guys's orders?" Non-standard (as written: "you guys' "), but speakers notoriously add extraneous " 's"s. (Sidenote: when we were t
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by eszed 2y ago
I could have told you it was a weekday, because I was at work, but I'll take your word for it being specifically a Tuesday. I think 9/11 is a bit of a cheat, though, because it's world-wide referenced by it's date. How m
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by eszed 2y ago
These are my two favorite on the page, and seem somehow emblematic of the "hacker spirit".
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by eszed 2y ago
You may not care, and that's fine, but > every ingredient imaginable available globally is utterly false. My wife and I have been traveling in Europe for the last couple of weeks. We've had maybe three or four meals in restaura

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