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by nescioquid 3y ago
I think you enjoy the top comment for the phrase >> It’s worth remembering that there is not one single shred of evidence that life has ever existed anywhere in the observable universe but Earth. There is nothing like the blunt expans
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I can't help but feel that framing your support for the parent's fourth amendment comment "as a gun enjoyer" effectively poisons the well in attempting to lend fourth amendment cover to whatever second amendment humbug o
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Some words in Shakespeare have different meanings today or have simply left standard usage. I don't think the presence of a word in Shakespeare means it is de facto good style to use today. From a correctness stand-point, I think a des
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by nescioquid 3y ago
A very common preconception is that the pilum was meant to bend after piercing a shield, thereby disabling it. If that's what you were expecting based on the title, the article takes a couple dozen paragraphs before it gets to the poin
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Probably can be divined from the sort order of the report. I'm surprised to keep encountering two bad ideas in software which everyone has known are bad ideas for a rather long time: a) integration by means of a shared database b) maki
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Having lived through the "Reagan Revolution", I've frequently encountered the wry observation that Reagan's economic policies, which are said to have forced women into the workplace as previously single-income families s
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by nescioquid 3y ago
The article closes by quoting an historian involved: "Having our rivers back (flooded) and keeping the engravings submerged will help preserve them, even more than our work." Is there a risk to the carvings by being exposed to air
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Two adverbs ('actually' and 'actually') are modifying two different verbs ('have' and 'lead').
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by nescioquid 3y ago
When Romans wrote letters, they often used the imperfect past to refer to the present, as if the writer is putting himself into the future when the letter is being read, not when it is being written. It is merely a conventional use of the i
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Cleaning dung off the wall takes a lot more effort than putting it there in the first place. I wouldn't confuse prolixity for ambiguity, in case that was your point.
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I think there might be two different basic strategies that could help you out of this: 1) just work on actually transposing whatever you're reading by a fixed interval. If you get fluent in doing this, you'll get past your "p
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by nescioquid 3y ago
The title seems like a play with Harold Bloom's concept of the "anxiety of influence" in which a "strong poet" has the uncanny effect of making a predecessor seem like poor imitator. In either case, the title gave m
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by nescioquid 3y ago
From the explanations I've read, it is meant to get you "in the zone" quickly when you start your next writing time. Additionally, you will be (perhaps unconsciously) mulling over the completion of the segment and perhaps i
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Serious question: why not just move the guns so they do not shoot through the props? I've always assumed there was a reason for it that required solving the engineering problem in the first place. But now I wonder whether it was just s
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by nescioquid 3y ago
There are semantic games at play here, I suspect. The manufacturer sold the hardware configured in a certain state; the same device could have been configured differently depending on price. Once the device is sold, the new owner is a petty
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I was going to reply by suggesting emacs lisp as a candidate language, really making it a bet on how long emacs will be around. Will people (commonly) be using emacs in 50 years? I think people will, though I hesitate to say so. If it turns
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I don't know if you're being coy or just poking fun at the cheese/mustard confusion. At least it wasn't a revealing slip: a woman was once telling me that her husband wasn't fussed by something and said that "e
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by nescioquid 3y ago
When I was learning to read French, I discovered La Rochefoucauld, an epigrammatist and cynic. >> Les passions sont les seuls orateurs qui persuadent toujours. Elles sont comme un art de la nature dont les règles sont infaillibles; et
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I wouldn't be so hasty to say it is obvious (parent made no claims about calories). Many top chess players have considered themselves athletes, and if you've ever tried to calculate under pressure at a board for a few hours, I&#
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I've had mixed luck as well. Hardware (darter pro 7, everything maxed): Recently, the keyboard and trackpad of my two-year-old laptop suddenly became a convex surface. Had to open a support ticket to ask how to get a replacement batt
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by nescioquid 3y ago
These plasma mobile apps were built with the Kirigami framework ( https://develop.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/ ). I've been looking for a way to build an Android app with Common Lisp and this looks intriguing.
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Sounds like a cottage industry in the making.
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Yes, children can learn to hear pitch-relationships at different scales of a composition. Schenker wouldn't have much to say about post-tonal music, but really we are talking about a matter of perception , not analysis, even if I used
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by nescioquid 3y ago
> ... listen to modern jazz and modern classical music, where unexpected pitches often show up. That innately trains them to think of individual note pitch as an important detail to listen to. I don't think the absolute value any p
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I can vouch for this. On my first trip to most antique Corinth, someone noticed the fine Casio timepiece from my last (Reagan-era -- ca. AUC 2750s, I think -- or do I reckon now from the founding of Christ?) trip. When the watch was seen to
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I like to think of him as the last known native speaker of latin! I made the pilgrimage to visit his study when I last visited your country. I had read about the quotations set into the rafters and was surprised to find so much greek!
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Consider podcasts. Most of them are (by contrast to audiobooks) low-effort and depend on a kind of parasocial relationship with the listener. You can listen to Joe Rogan or instead listen to a well-researched audiobook on modern maritime pi
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I think Mycroft is dead at this point. The project had some intertwined relationship with other projects and Neon AI. The suggestion from Mycroft at this point is to use NeonAI's OS for the Mycroft device: https://neon.ai&#x
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by nescioquid 3y ago
In reading about the Weimar Republic, I encountered an observation (I think it was by Hannah Arendt) that cynicism emerges from a society that no longer believes in itself. In trying to confirm the quote, I found perhaps a better quote to e
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Oh, propaganda from the latin-lobby! Or maybe that wasn't your agenda?

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