tkmh

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by tkmh 9y ago
I think not being able to search for <random celebrity> is a good marker of how mastodon is trying to be something other than just a decentralized twitter clone. I personally find the twitter microblogging model, wherein most tweets s
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by tkmh 10y ago
Referring to a colleague as a 'milf' is not 'clumsily making a move'. Everyone knows what that's an acronym for. If you start a private chat with a colleague, they tell you to keep it about work, and then you tell t
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by tkmh 11y ago
Gee, a subjective opinion from an anonymous source. I'm convinced. Even if true, "very hard" /= "not allowed".
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by tkmh 11y ago
Where does it say they can't interview white candidates for jobs?
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by tkmh 11y ago
> If he can achieve his goal will mean that a lot of people could do that and there is nothing special in that project. I think that's kind of the point of his personal challenges. He's trying to set an example of being intelle
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by tkmh 11y ago
As Wendy Cope reminded us in Engineers' Corner .
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by tkmh 11y ago
I like this suggestion. I'm of course very much in favour of streaming as the primary mode of watching TV, but I'm very invested in seeing the BBC survive in a recognisable form into the future. Despite its considerable watering d
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by tkmh 11y ago
Yes, no one is a renaissance person any more. But I don't think that there were as many renaissance people in the past as we think. Admittedly I don't have much evidence for this. In the case of maths, I think our idea that many m
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by tkmh 11y ago
No I don't think this is quite right. The romantic artistic image of the mathematician is a prevalent one now, and we choose to see examples to fit the type. But it hasn't always been this way. Before the early 1800s the mathemati