mcswell

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by mcswell 10mo ago
Thank you--the diagram you link is a better explanation of whey the tide "bulges up on the sides of the Earth closest to and farthest from the Moon"--the article left this entirely unclear. In particular, I could understand how tw
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by mcswell 10mo ago
XP SP 2
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by mcswell 10mo ago
I don't use it, but I know several people who use ChatGPT to edit emails etc. so they don't come across nasty. How well it works, I can't say.
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by mcswell 10mo ago
I switched a month or two on my desktop. Then when that turned out good, I switched my laptop to Linux, too. No hardware issues on either one, and the WiFi on the laptop works just fine. (My desktop is connected by Ethernet.)
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by mcswell 11mo ago
Ok, but in this case, a ration between what and what?
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by mcswell 11mo ago
I guess Stephen Witt must not like subtraction either, since a-b =/= b-a. Nor division.
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by mcswell 11mo ago
Wunderbar! Nothing happens for about the first seven minutes, then there's an intro in German until about 11 minutes, and then another not much happens until 15 minutes. But then...!
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by mcswell 11mo ago
There are scifi stories that have that kind of premise. Here's one, about electric power: "Damned if you don't" by Randall Garrett ( https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/24064/pg24064-image
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by mcswell 11mo ago
"when it’s -40 fucking degrees" Celsius, or Fahrenheit? Oh yeah, it's the same either way :).
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by mcswell 11mo ago
Might think it referred to someone with good distance vision (not myopic).
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by mcswell 11mo ago
The word 'word' is polysemous, and also vague. Polysemous: it can refer to written words or spoken words (or signed words, in sign languages). Vague: does it mean all the inflected forms of a word, or just the stem without inflec
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by mcswell 11mo ago
Douglas Hofstedter's book The Ton beau de Marot.
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by mcswell 11mo ago
I'm thinking this is a joke, right? Wittgenstein always seemed to me to be a good way to get confused.
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by mcswell 11mo ago
"'Language affects thoughts' (as in German is good for Philosophy and English for getting things done). If both these thoughts are true..." Well, the second one isn't true (I omitted the first one in this reply).
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by mcswell 11mo ago
It's the same structure in both languages. Just because it's written as if it were a single unbreakable word doesn't mean it is--or contrariwise, the fact that it's written as two things with a space in between doesn&#x
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by mcswell 11mo ago
"English also has no word for "television" Oh goodness sake. OF COURSE English has a word "television". The fact that you can trace its etymology back to Greek and Latin doesn't mean it's not an English
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by mcswell 11mo ago
"...there are more English words than the other language" There might be more words in some English dictionaries than in some dictionaries of other languages, but that may just be due to a lot more effort having gone into English
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by mcswell 11mo ago
The idea that your opponents were merely masking themselves is simply a way of pillorying them. And both sides do it to each other: the right accuses the left of only pretend to care about the poor. And it's wrong, no matter whether
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by mcswell 11mo ago
"The moderates would prefer someone more respectable and less hysterical to lead it, but that is just a difference of style." I'll just say that I disagree.
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by mcswell 11mo ago
I'll agree, up to the last word: s/decade/year/. The Republican party of a couple decades ago was an entirely different thing. I'd even go so far as to call the current Trumplican Party "RINO"s, because
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by mcswell 11mo ago
Exactly the same argument could be (and unfortunately, has been) made about vaccines. For all we know, microplastics could be making us healthier. I don't believe that's true, and I'm avoiding plastic where I can, but the f
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by mcswell 11mo ago
Not sure, but to me this sounds a lot like the song from Paint your Wagon. (I was thinking that it came from The Way the West was Won, which would be more ironic.) Where am I goin'? I don't know! Where am I headin'? I ain&#
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by mcswell 11mo ago
I gotta remember that one!
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by mcswell 11mo ago
No, I think he means like in Nazi Germany and in modern Russia.
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by mcswell 11mo ago
First, let me say that this is impressive. And then let me pose some questions: As a linguist, I would like to know more about the kinds of languages this works well with, or does not work well with. For example, half the world's l
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by mcswell 11mo ago
I found a fix to the problem, although I never quite pinned down why it was necessary. It wasn't a commit problem, but rather had to do with two objects pointing to the same third object as its "parent", whereas the third ob
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by mcswell 11mo ago
There's a saying about that. Wait a minute, it will come to me...oh, yeah. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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by mcswell 11mo ago
Well, I had short hair during the 60s and 70s. I have had a ponytail since I hit double nickels (if you don't understand that phrase, get off my lawn). So yeah, hippy!
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I would have expanded on the hubris part. When your laziness and impatience cause you to create something to save you time and effort, your creation will not work the first time (ironclad rule). But hubris makes you think that a little ea
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by mcswell 11mo ago
I'm sure he would say he isn't stupid, but that's part of the problem. No one is intelligent in all domains (contrary to the article, I'm afraid); Trump's intelligence lies in speaking convincingly to a portion of

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