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by mjd 7y ago
I also linked the PDF directly from my blog article, at https://pic.blog.plover.com/math/logic/lk/Gentzen1934.pdf , partly because I found the Digizeitschriften page annoying.
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by mjd 7y ago
No. See my reply to Charles upthread.
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by mjd 7y ago
The word “casualty” has been used since at least the 17th century to mean a person killed by an accident, mishap, or disaster. They do not have to be a soldier or something. For example, try a Google search for “earthquake casualty”.
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by mjd 7y ago
I'm late to the party, but I think the winner is the bra. Wikipedia says: > The Dresden-based German, Christine Hardt, patented the first modern brassiere in 1899. Sigmund Lindauer from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany, developed a
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by mjd 7y ago
I read “modern” as “post-world-war-II” and suggest: Drywall.
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by mjd 7y ago
The often-overlooked Twistlock is an important part of this, and I think it answers the objections about the “invention” being only a convention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistlock On review: another comment here
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by mjd 7y ago
I could not have put it better myself.
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by mjd 7y ago
If you find this kind of thing interesting, I strongly recommend the book [The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air]( https://store.doverpublications.com/0486201961.html ) by Marcel Minnaert. He discusses why wet thing
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by mjd 7y ago
I can call spirits from the manly weep.
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by mjd 7y ago
tl;dr
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by mjd 7y ago
Sorry, I never have been good at titles. I think the addiction-struggling post, if it existed, would just be sad and boring. But if you hang around you'll probably start to hear about the gradual disintegration of my body as I begin m
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by mjd 7y ago
I wrote a rather detailed article on this exact topic. You might enjoy it. https://math.stackexchange.com/a/125208/25554
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by mjd 7y ago
I haven't done electrostatic potential yet, but I have been blogging for 13 years. Maybe you would enjoy one of my other articles. I like this one: https://blog.plover.com/math/60-degree-angles.html
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by mjd 7y ago
I did actually write a separate article on this exact subject, which I think is also pretty good. https://math.stackexchange.com/a/125208/25554
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by mjd 7y ago
Yeah, you're missing that I was there really early. I was in charge of all the programming and system administration for pathfinder.com, at that time the central web site for all of Time Warner, starting from spring of 1995. At the tim
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by mjd 7y ago
Well, if I ever meet this Legender guy, I'm gonna kick his ass. You can tell him I said that.
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by mjd 8y ago
“We have an enormous ecological disaster created by badly-designed social media now being used by people to control and exploit human beings in all sorts of ways. “That’s the consequence of social media structures which encourage people to
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by mjd 8y ago
I think the concern here is the security implications. Suppose commit X contains some family of configuration files F1, F2, ... that lock down security. Someone, intentionally or otherwise, retroactively destroys F23 in commit X using you
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by mjd 8y ago
Cleaning up the mess _after_ firing the BFG is less of a no-brainer. Getting rid of the bad object is easy. But afterward I have to arrange for 350 developers to switch simultaneously to the rewritten repository. The article discusses an
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by mjd 8y ago
The previous article was about bikeshedding. This one is just about getting distracted.
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by mjd 8y ago
Related article with more pictures, including floor plans: https://blog.plover.com/tech/spite-house.html
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by mjd 8y ago
Case in point: my article about traffic control systems ( https://blog.plover.com/tech/highway-stuff.html ) is on the front page and has already received twice as much traffic as this one, and the West Coast hasn't
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by mjd 8y ago
Thanks for your kind words. You might like the rest of my blog. Other recent articles have discussed the price of dried maggots as a protein source, naming conventions in the Saudi royal family, the Turkish and Hebrew translations of “Joe
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by mjd 8y ago
Definitely not. My site hits the front page of Reddit a few times a year and handles it just fine. Today's HN hit was only about twice as much traffic as a typical day.
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by mjd 9y ago
In Firefox, you can just visit https://blog.plover.com/index.atom or https://blog.plover.com/index.rss and the browser will present you with a button that says “subscribe to this feed using live bookmarks”
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by mjd 9y ago
I think it's funny.
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by mjd 9y ago
Thanks! Can I suggest that you might enjoy following my blog regularly? In addition to utility poles, I have also discussed this year: Samuel Johnson's feud with James Macpherson, a fraudulent poet; the panicked history of England in
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by mjd 9y ago
A while back someone on math stackexchange asked “Graham's Number: why so big?” and I wrote what I think is a pretty good explanation. If you're interested, it's at https://math.stackexchange.com/q/163423
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by mjd 9y ago
These posts suck.
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by mjd 9y ago
I remember there's an episode in The Princess Bride where Goldman interrupts Morgenstern and says “At this point there's a long section about [I forget what] that I cut out because it isn't important to the plot, except tha

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