jeremyswank

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by jeremyswank 13y ago
drool, more likely.
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by jeremyswank 13y ago
if sifter is out, then something like sift could be winnow or winnower. might be a bit obscure for non-agrarians, but it has 'win' in it!
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by jeremyswank 13y ago
well, a sieve sifts, how about sifter?
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by jeremyswank 13y ago
the short answer is i don't know. however the kartvelian group consists of only four languages, geographically near each other, and they are 'closely related[1]' according to wikipedia. one might expect a some degree of mutual intelligibili
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by jeremyswank 13y ago
in georgian, 'mama' is father, and 'deda' is mother. it is a striking exception.
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by jeremyswank 13y ago
Indeed, also possible.
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by jeremyswank 13y ago
Either that, or our methods for dating geological strata are flawed.
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by jeremyswank 13y ago
This is interesting. Superficially at least, it reminds me of MAX/MSP or PureData, which are used to create music and other media. For me, it has the same shortcoming: it is very 'mousey', and with MAX/MSP and PureData at least, I grow tire
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
Agree. Beyond that, I'd say that it is more of an expression of culture than it is an expression of technology. (Carefully noting that these cannot be easily separated, anyway.) "The Web" as currently practiced is more of a craft (and at be
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
I am familiar with flicker fusion, and many of the theories that account for it, as well as Purkyně's pionering work in these matters. But my sense of it is that it is a neurological phenomenon, the brain and the eye working together (happy
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
Our eyes don't have a 'frame rate' at all. Light falls on the retina continuously and is continuously processed, if I understand correctly.
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
I don't think it would work very well if it were the people who agreed with a study to somehow also have the obligation to point out its flaws. Could we believe that they were being thorough in finding problems if the conclusions supported
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
I don't really understand the hate on Times. It's more or less the perfect neutral font when you want to say "I didn't make a choice because this document is of a nature where a design choice need not or should not be made." It is sufficien
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
philosophical (or philological question): is having a word for 'nothing' the same as having a number 'zero'? my answer would be no. when zero entered western civilization from the east, my understanding is that it triggered profound changes
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
I picked up a similar system a few years ago, I don't remember the source, but it depends on always using 2 sets of brackets (thus, fewer rules to remember): blah blah [][add something] blah blah blah blah [delete this][] blah blah blah bla
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
when british english was transplanted to north america, a separate geographic context was created for one and the same language. a relative isolation was imposed by an ocean between them, and each continued to change over time. british and
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
you're going to have to take that argument a bit farther for it to be convincing.
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
if by "flaws" you really mean "unique qualities" that give a medium its character.
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
"Don’t allow yourself to fall in love with the camera. Keep it in its place and keep your eye open for those little moments you didn’t plan for. It’s my definition of what it is to be a movie director: A man who presides over accidents." -O
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
Sublime Text
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
SEEKING WORK. remote, US citizen based in Prague. Long or short-term projects. Specialize in cultural and artistic contexts, but willing to work on any interesting project. General skills, HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript/jQuery, Drupal, git, pho
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
couple of points: in english usage 'human race' generally equates to 'human species' the singular is 'species' with an 's'. if you look it up you will find that 'specie' means something quite different (it has to do with money).
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
fundamentally, how do we distinguish between 'simulation' and 'reality'? if a simulation (of any sort) exists, it is therefore real. how would a hypothetically 'simulated' universe be any different from a 'real' one? further, proposed resea
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
either that, or you have a rope, or "line", attached to something heavy, such as a barge on a canal, and you have to help "tow the line" to get the cargo moving.
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
sounds to me like they were trying to feed the hungry. i suppose it all comes down to your perspective.
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by jeremyswank 14y ago
how about this: copyright is a moral right pertaining to the creator (or group of creators). it cannot be transferred. it cannot be sold to a corporation. it cannot be inherited. it lasts 14 years without fee, and you can renew it up to 2 t
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by jeremyswank 15y ago
this has interesting possiblities. but i consider it broken unless/until it supports scrolling with the spacebar, like ever other web page. fyi, i'm on firefox 11 osx.
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by jeremyswank 15y ago
if you use [add-on compatibility reporter]( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat... ) then you can tell firefox to use 'incompatible' extensions anyway. most of the time they work just fine.
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by jeremyswank 15y ago
agreed; i've been runing quicksilver non-stop since before the developer passed the project on to others. for a time, it was sluggish and caused some problems. but i have no complaints to speak of about the last couple iterations. i switche
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by jeremyswank 15y ago
1) invoke spotlight 2) hightlight the file of interest (arrow keys work) 3) do command R 4) a new finder window will appear with your file selected. however, i much prefer quicksilver; it does a lot more than spotlight.

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