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by panglott 11y ago
Saw Daniel Kish give a lecture a few months ago, and this amazing ability is a lot more accessible than it sounds. Kish uses both passive and active sonar (based on dental clicks), but the passive sonar is a lot easier to wrap your head aro
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by panglott 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and... What a graveyard.
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by panglott 11y ago
It seems like (at least in the US) that there's no overlap between the spectator sports, where people just watch the game and almost never play them casually, and the participation sports, which have almost no spectator component. What
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by panglott 11y ago
"When ESPN was adding subscribers, the $6.50 per-month-per-subscriber it charges to every cable operator meant $78 of additional annual profit for each new subscriber. This is a wonderful thing until a network starts losing customers,
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by panglott 11y ago
"Currently, Focus by Firefox only works with Safari, not Firefox for iOS. This was not our choice—Apple has chosen to make content blocking unavailable to third party browsers on iOS. We are exploring how we can provide this feature on
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by panglott 11y ago
Hello. Call me Ishmael.
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by panglott 11y ago
Excatly. There's a huge difference between "everybody needs to learn to become a professional software developer" and "everyone needs a higher level of software literacy, including basic coding skills" Lots and lots
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by panglott 11y ago
Test anxiety is a multiplier for stereotype threat. It is just the worst for performance. I am a good test-taker because I can put it aside, but it is not fair.
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by panglott 11y ago
We got where we are now with nearly a century of poorly-considered planning and infrastructure spending. It will take another century of better design to get us out of this hole.
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by panglott 11y ago
No, they don't. There is only natural gender here, not grammatical gender.
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by panglott 11y ago
I love the stereo minijack, too. But as the author concludes "The truth is we need a new standard for headphones, and we haven’t figured out what that is yet. The shift from 3.5mm to whatever the next standard may be will be painful...
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by panglott 11y ago
There's no ambiguity there either, except in the "greet miss molly and mix daisy", which is a garden path if you interpret daisy as someone to be mixed. Of course, that's no different with "greet mix daisy and miss
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by panglott 11y ago
Why is it annoying?
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by panglott 11y ago
The author was very clear in their piece.
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by panglott 11y ago
I'd suggest using a voiceless velar fricative as in Scottish loch or German Bach. But then, we don't actually pronounce Mr. or Mrs. that way, it's just shorthand for "mister" or "missus". The article links
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by panglott 11y ago
Still bitter about killing off the 3.5" floppy, huh? I for one would like a thinner iPhone eventually. It's ridiculous to think that the thickness of the legacy headphone jack is such a sacred cow that it should limit all future h
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by panglott 11y ago
Sounds like spaced-repetition software like Anki, which is mostly used in language learning.
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by panglott 11y ago
Employers need to support their employees conducting basic biological functions, such as completing their biological life cycle. Volunteering in a literacy program is laudable, but it is not on par with completing your life cycle.
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by panglott 11y ago
The other option is written picture descriptions, which could easily go more than a thousand words trying to capture all of the information discussed in an art criticism class. Things like the composition of elements. It's more typical
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by panglott 11y ago
Not to be confused with... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
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by panglott 11y ago
Mostly this story is about prosaic immigration. People want to live in houses, and so Texas is building lots of subdivisions for them. Lots of these people are from China, so now some of these subdivisions are largely Chinese. It's not
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by panglott 11y ago
My old train commute was where I did all my reading, subscribed to science fiction magazines. Then my train commute ended and my reading dropped off. Now I do podcasts and audiobooks.
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by panglott 11y ago
Why was this "a new kind" of credit union? It seems like it was an ordinary credit union that briefly toyed with the idea of BitCoin.
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by panglott 11y ago
Except in this case it's explicitly about class issues.
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by panglott 11y ago
Blot.re is what? Something about colors and a social network for the internet of things? His tree's site is empty, but it looks sort of like a Twitter for toasters.
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by panglott 11y ago
Language is probably the most important point of distinction between humans and all other animals: no animal has anything quite like it. Language is intimately connected with symbolic reasoning, and enabled the social coordination and share
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by panglott 11y ago
What is the fear that is being mongered here? The community's demographics are changing, and different people have different feelings about that. Some community buildings are being repurposed. Oh noes will the people still eat pierogis
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by panglott 11y ago
He does? The community was once 90% Polish Catholic, until those folks left for wealthier suburbs. What part of that sounds like a gloating conquest?
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by panglott 11y ago
I think that's half of a τ turn. http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
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by panglott 11y ago
Whistled language isn't all that uncommon: it also happens in some Inuit languages and tonal languages. The even have different airstream mechanisms IIRC: Inuit whistled languages use palatal whistling, whereas on Silbo Gomero (pardon

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