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by tkgally 5y ago
I'm not a programmer, but I switched to hand-coding my personal website a few years ago and started using BBEdit more and more. The text filters, multifile search-and-replace, and clearly written manual have been especially helpful. Th
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by tkgally 5y ago
I thought the same thing after seeing the Dall-E productions. As others have noted, they look good enough for a lot of commercial purposes—book and album covers, magazine and website illustrations, advertisements. My daughter is a professio
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by tkgally 5y ago
I’ve wondered the same thing. My impression is that digitizing efforts have outpaced the creation of curated bibliographies. But the University of Pennsylvania’s Online Books Page is a major contribution: https://onlinebooks.libr
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by tkgally 5y ago
A bit off-topic, but the topic of propaganda reminds me of the “propaganda” posters created by the artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid around 1980. Raised in the USSR and living in America, they made works of Soviet-style propaganda
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by tkgally 5y ago
Nice! Thanks for sharing it.
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by tkgally 5y ago
http://gally.net/ I started this site in the late 1990s as a place to post personal projects—music, photographs, writing. I left it dormant for a long time, but last year, in a brief fit of energy, I redesigned it to make i
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by tkgally 5y ago
Joseph Biden, seven years old in April 1950, appears here: https://1950census.archives.gov/search/?county=Scranton%2C%2... Kurt Gödel’s age seems to be off by ten years: https://1950census.archives.gov/
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by tkgally 5y ago
https://archive.ph/0AzqD
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How the sanctions on Russia were planned(newyorker.com)
3 points by tkgally 5y ago|1 comments
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I agree with you about the attractions of the text-only format, and several students mentioned that positively as well. They also liked the lack of advertisements. I had to point out that the launch announcements and job postings that appea
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by tkgally 5y ago
I teach at a university in Japan. Over the past year, I taught several freshman English-as-a-foreign-language classes that I titled “Online Discussion.” I got the idea for the course after having read HN discussions for a couple of years. I
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by tkgally 5y ago
Great game. You may have a viral hit on your hands. A few comments: I tried it first in Yokohama, Japan, where I have lived for more than twenty years. It worked well. Although most streets here don’t have names, the game called up the name
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by tkgally 5y ago
> it's an excuse to get out of the office and get plastered Yes. Visitors to Japan noted the go-out-and-have-fun focus of cherry-blossom viewing more than a century ago: “The foreigners are there for no other purpose than to see and
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by tkgally 5y ago
I posted this link in the—perhaps vain—hope that it will lead to a reasoned discussion of the epistomological issues that it raises. For example: How is one to decide what is true when one’s loyalties or emotions lean strongly in one direct
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Warning of chemical or radiological false-flag attack(understandingwar.org)
6 points by tkgally 5y ago|1 comments
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by tkgally 5y ago
My macOS peeve: truncated file names. You can see the problems in the screenshots in the linked article: Files with visible names like "Screen Shot 2021-07...AM.png" and "Screen Shot 2021-0...AM.png" and "Screen Sho
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Last Day of IKEA in Moscow(novayagazeta.ru)
208 points by tkgally 5y ago|304 comments
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by tkgally 5y ago
I ate at Chez Panisse once six or seven years ago, and, to tell you the truth, I can’t remember what the food was like. It was probably great, but I was there with a group of relatives. We spent the whole time talking, and I neglected to p
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by tkgally 5y ago
The various newsfeeds I’ve been scrolling through obsessively since last Thursday reminded me of newspapers from September 1939 that I read on microfilm more the forty years ago. A screenshot of the New York Times front page from Septembe
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“Germany Invades Poland over Four Fronts” (newspaper front page from 1939)(digitalcollections.nypl.org)
3 points by tkgally 5y ago|0 comments
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by tkgally 5y ago
I’m not sure if it makes sense to try to find a “scientifically proven” technique if all you want is something that works for you . What works for a large group of people in a controlled scientific study does not necessarily work for each
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by tkgally 5y ago
Good article. I would add one more item to the list of important elements of metacognition: awareness of one’s own motivation to study and learn. In school contexts, motivation often comes from outside the learner: tests, grades, encouragem
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by tkgally 5y ago
The audio version of this story is being broadcast right now (as I type this) on the BBC World Service. The recording should be available soon at [1]. The interviews with many of the people involved help to bring the story to life. [1] htt
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by tkgally 5y ago
Serious proposals for the reform of English spelling were all the rage more than a century ago. Examples at the Internet Archive: Comstock's phonetic magazine (1846) https://archive.org/details/comstocksphoneti00
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by tkgally 5y ago
One more person for your sample: I’m sixty-four, and I have next-to-zero interest in virtual reality. Maybe if I had gotten into playing video games at some point I could see the attraction, but I never did so I don’t. There is one possible
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by tkgally 5y ago
In Safari on iPadOS and MacOS, after a minute or two of downloading, I got the following message: Application exit (TypeError: Cannot convert "undefined" to int) The page did finish loading and compiling in Chrome on my Mac. Menus
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by tkgally 5y ago
This site was advertised on the New York Times website. The ad copy was “Experience a Digital Human Conversation and Chat About, Well, Just About Anything. Have an open-ended, in-depth conversation with Sophie; an AI-powered companion.” I t
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Digital Humans(sophie.digitalhumans.com)
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> The whole system would collapse if a train is 10 minutes late... Short-term collapses do happen fairly regularly. For fifteen years, until COVID, I commuted every day between Yokohama and Tokyo. In the morning, I went from Yokohama to
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by tkgally 5y ago
You might try going back to basics. First write some pages in plain HTML using a text editor to get a feel for how tags work. Then add some styling using CSS and play around with that. That’s about all I know how to do, but I’m able to main

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