stan_rogers

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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Just bad design. There's a setting to set it hard left, but it's not the default, and the vast majority of users will have to contend with important things moving around and being harder to hit. (There's a lot in the UI that
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
How? Please enlighten me. I know that there are people who rather like DFW's navel-gazing and projection, but there's nothing of substance in it otherwise. At all.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
I genuinely have to wonder what sort of setup you're running. I'm getting a perfectly fluid experience using a i3 7100 with no additional graphics card, 8GB of DDR4 2100 and Firefox on Win10.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
...and the EDSAC crew decided that that sort of thing was a mug's game as far back as 1949, so they added what amounts to a machine to do that for you (the Initial Orders unit). (No, I don't really miss the Altair, no matter how
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Okay. How about buying something that was legitimately food when you bought it, but updates to poison - and there's really no choice about allowing updates, since previously safe foodstuffs can become poison if left as purchased - in
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
You were lucky. In my day, we were still being taught that the grammar of Latin somehow applied to English. There is a species of English usage that can make a certain sense as English , but which more or less follows rules that can be app
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
The version of recap that has verb stress means to cap again . The shortened version of recapitulate ordinarily takes the stress on the first syllable. As for absent as a verb, it's rarely used in the present tense, though abse
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Greek and/or Latin will get you to "schoolbook English" grammar... which was deliberately designed to make learning Greek and Latin easier, and has only a distant relationship to the actual grammar of English.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Articles themselves are relatively rare (though they're a European areal feature, to the extent that they're added into some languages that otherwise wouldn't have them). Gender is another thing that isn't universal at a
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
I believe the allusion was to The Prisoner .
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
No, I'm saying that "mincemeat" has nothing to do with meat preservation. Mince pies certainly exist (though in my neck of the woods, it's more likely to be a tourtierre).
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
They're a bit mask, with the LSB always set. The values are 100001 (33), 011001 (25), 010001 (17), and 001001 (9). And they're probably ORed with other values so multiple parameters can be set with a single word.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Of course there's no ham in hamburger - it's a hamburger steak sandwich, where "hamburger" means "of Hamburg" or "Hamburg style". The generic "burger" is a back-formation from hamburger and
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Um, no. It's a nice folk etymology, though.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
It's more pertinent that meat used to mean any food, and has since been narrowed to what used to be called flesh .
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
You missed that boat - Tamron was doing that eons ago with their Adaptall systems. It was easy to do when everything was mechanical - aperture setting tabs on the lenses telling the body what was going on, basically an all-or-nothing lever
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
SMS 2FA doesn't require purchasing an additional device that's only used for a 2FA application (and has crap battery life if used as a phone).
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Yep. Ranks right up there with Richard Hoagland.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Sorry, that's still attempting to justify the unjustifiable. The only ethical way of targeting is content relevance, which allows inference of the audience interest without using any audience data other than what they're currently
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Inventor? Not so much. He did manage to get a patent on other people's prior art by keeping it in a sealed box, though.
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by stan_rogers 6y ago
If white on your monitor is brighter than a "bright white" sheet of paper viewed under the same lighting - or normal lighting if, for some reason, you've decided to work in the dark - you're doing it wrong.
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by stan_rogers 6y ago
They don't. You're only thinking in three (spatial) dimensions. Time is more fundamental than you think.
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by stan_rogers 6y ago
"A" vs "an" depends entirely on whether you consider the glottal stop to be a consonant. "A" before a vowel is only wrong if it's elided into the following word.
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by stan_rogers 6y ago
And the pair, in this case, is truth and beauty . Are you saying that strange and charm give you an intuitive feel for the charge number?
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by stan_rogers 6y ago
Among woodworkers - and here I'm talking about those who work in fine joinery - the usual take is that if you think you're working to anything finer than 1/64", you're fooling yourself. Your material movement will,
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by stan_rogers 6y ago
The introduction of mice is the root cause. They're not an indigenous species.
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by stan_rogers 6y ago
It would need to be more than just a virtual machine, it would need to be an emulator. Different architecture, different endianness, etc.
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by stan_rogers 6y ago
I can't tell whether or not your response was meant to be in jest, but "whataboutism" is a variety of tu quoque involving a third party.
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by stan_rogers 6y ago
You may want to re-read Job. Satan's not a name, it's a job title.
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by stan_rogers 6y ago
The "strong" and "b" tags don't mean the same thing, nor do the "em" and "i" tags. HTML, used properly, will tell you why the typography appears as it does, which means that the meaning isn&#x2

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