mcswell

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by mcswell 6y ago
Linguist here. I give, what's a "nominal preposition"? (I glanced at the web page and at the paper, but neither "nominal" nor "preposition" shows up in either.)
842.
by mcswell 6y ago
They shouldn't put "sentient" and "soon" in the same sentence.
843.
by mcswell 6y ago
I failed it 3 times before getting it right.
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by mcswell 6y ago
According to this: https://bb.visa.com/legal/privacy-policy-opt-out.html you'll have to opt out if your card number changes, and every five years even if it doesn't.
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by mcswell 6y ago
I'm thinking with covid restrictions--and the probable continuation of work from home much of the time even post-covid--that there will be less reason to buy fancy new clothes, and used clothes will be just fine for those of us lucky e
846.
by mcswell 6y ago
I still have one sweater that I wore in high school. That was 1964-1968 (the sweater is probably from near the end of that span). Recently my wife complemented me on another sweater she didn't remember seeing (we've been married
847.
by mcswell 6y ago
"the task of JOIN is to modify the circuit so that at subsequent times there is the representation of a new item C that will fire if and only if the representations of both A and B are firing." What that describes sounds like wha
848.
by mcswell 6y ago
AC answered your question well, I'll just add the old story about the boy who cried "Wolf!" Eventually the wolf did come, but the boy's deception prevented any useful response.
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by mcswell 6y ago
Modern day Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-6)
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by mcswell 6y ago
It takes a lot more than a font to preserve a language; people didn't have computer fonts for thousands of years. And for that matter, there are lots of fonts that work for particular scripts. And a given language is unlikely to mix
851.
by mcswell 6y ago
"Most modern English speakers can't understand Shakespeare properly." Wherefore thinkest thou that? Canst not understand the King's language?
852.
by mcswell 6y ago
"Degenerated" carries a connotation of "becoming inferior." It's not at all clear that a relative lack of irregularities makes a language inferior. One might even say that it makes the language superior, at least
853.
by mcswell 6y ago
As I understand it (and I hasten to say that I have no first-person exposure), there are at least a dozen official languages in India. One reason for the dominance of English is that speakers of languages other than Hindi resent what woul
854.
by mcswell 6y ago
That's addressed in the article, read it.
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by mcswell 6y ago
You perhaps have specific points you wish to criticize? Or do you just prefer a different conclusion?
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by mcswell 6y ago
Perhaps a better term than "close to...space exploration" would be "having a syntactic language." Humans of 10k years ago certainly had that, as probably did humans at least 4x that long ago. I think that's a pre-
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by mcswell 6y ago
The article addresses red dwarves, you should read it.
858.
by mcswell 6y ago
>> The black boxes inside Facebook and other ad exchanges give you flat out wrong data about how your ads are performing > When you can tie it back to sales, you have pretty hard data. I guess that would work if the only place you
859.
by mcswell 6y ago
"What is the ROI of...a well designed logo?" For me (a consumer), absolutely zero. What do I care what some company's logo is? I don't, and I also doubt that I recognize most of them. Perhaps you've seen the imag
860.
by mcswell 6y ago
Or as someone might say, there are only 10 kinds of binary separators.
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by mcswell 6y ago
I would think most TSVs are generated programmatically, maybe apart from a few test samples one might make in the progress of debugging one's code. And most programmers' editors that I've use allow you to insert tab chars, a
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by mcswell 6y ago
I've seen very large JSON files passed around in zipped form, and there's a Python library that reads them in this form (afaict without first creating an uncompressed version of the entire zipfile). I would think if you zipped a
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by mcswell 6y ago
Hmm...I suggested above a two-stage torpedo, with the second stage being supercavitating. A variant would be a sub-launched equivalent of an ASROC: the rocket pops up above the surface, flies toward the target, then drops back in the water
864.
by mcswell 6y ago
Re the space gun idea, didn't that idea come up back in the 80s wrt beam weapons under Reagan's Star Wars program? A laser ionizes a path to the target, and the particle weapon fires along that pre-ionized path.
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by mcswell 6y ago
Why not a two stage torpedo to solve the problem of the launching submarine having to come close? First stage is a conventional (but maybe larger than usual) torpedo that drives--with guidance--from the sub into the 15km range, second stag
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by mcswell 6y ago
Do smokers need to go outside to indulge their habit? Where their bodies can manufacture a little vit-D.
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by mcswell 6y ago
I bet they taste good
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by mcswell 6y ago
Nice post! The spelling errors were interesting--I hope he follows up on that. Also, I wish the blog had a comments sxn.
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by mcswell 6y ago
I have used Xe(La)TeX and the bidi package for mixed rtl and ltr script documents. I don't recall any problems with that. There's also a polyglossia package, but I have less experience with that.
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by mcswell 6y ago
I do believe they need a new website. That or this post has generated so much interest the world is hitting their server hard. All seriousness aside, I am a LaTeX user, so I get it. But to me one drawback of LaTeX is that it isn't hi

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