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by tsm 3y ago
It's absolutely useful to tell 4th-graders that x(t) = vt + x₀ (assuming no acceleration) since they're probably not on top of exponents yet. It's also absolutely useful to tell 8th-graders that x(t) = at² + v₀t + x₀ since no
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by tsm 3y ago
See also: the Parsley Massacre in the Dominican Republic, which preyed on Haitians' inability to pronounce the word "perejil" as a native Spanish speaker would: > The Haitian languages, French and Haitian Creole, pronounce
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by tsm 3y ago
The logic in the `catch` block could be complex enough that they got an if/else backwards or something like that. E.g., they could catch an exception and then have the body of the `catch` return six different error messages based on de
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by tsm 3y ago
Spain has had train security even on long-distance domestic journeys at least since I lived there in 2008. I suspect it's a reaction to the train bombing they had, but don't quote me.
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by tsm 3y ago
We had friends who got Domino's every Thursday. On days when they hadn't called by a certain time, Domino's would call them and ask if they wanted their usual. (This was in Tegucigalpa in the '90s, fwiw)
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by tsm 3y ago
Yeah, as an American who badly wants Leave to Remain in the UK and has several British friends who badly want an American green card, I wish there was some sort of swap program
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by tsm 3y ago
That's the US market! And yes, you could earn something like that if you work remotely for an American company. (I moved from Chicago to the UK and took my salary with me. It's been nice!)
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by tsm 3y ago
I keep trying to use not-Gmail, but it still Just Works (my most recent serious foray was Evolution, but I've also tried Thunderbird, mu4e inside of Emacs, and a few other TUI ones). Not having to worry about syncing, search being exce
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by tsm 3y ago
I've certainly experienced it in UK cities (Edinburgh, Glasgow, London…). Agreed that rural/small-town pubs and 'old man pubs' tend to be pleasant and at a reasonable volume.
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by tsm 3y ago
Google Translate link: https://fi-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Vasa-j%C3%A4y... for "ice", read "prank"
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by tsm 3y ago
Scotland is particularly interesting to me since language occurs on a continuum between Scottish Standard English (SSE) and the Scots language. SSE features unique words ("The word 'outwith' is not used outwith Scotland"
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by tsm 3y ago
I write Clojure for https://www.metabase.com/ Lots of interesting problems involving working with different database engines, processing data, compiler design, etc.
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by tsm 3y ago
I write Lisp professionally and love s-expressions, but the comparison with ALTER TABLE's grammar is pretty unfair. Postgres can detect many invalid ALTER TABLE formulations by checking the grammar, whereas in Lisp it's much easie
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by tsm 3y ago
I specialize in 18th-century Scottish music and generally find that the hand-engraved copperplate printing from the 18th-century produces more readable music than modern editions. I also play stuff like Corelli sonatas (easy to read) from f
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by tsm 3y ago
Thankfully I have physical knobs on my stovetop, so my current least favorite is my dishwasher. When am I practically guaranteed to have damp hands? After doing the dishes. When do I need to start the dishwasher? After doing the dishes. Why
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by tsm 3y ago
I've certainly been involved with products/projects that had zero or one out of three…
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by tsm 3y ago
You can set what you like in the GET params: https://trizuliak.com/experiments/good-fast-cheap?good=Easy%... It'd be nice if there was a way to pre-set selections, too!
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by tsm 4y ago
Anecdotal, but my couple-years-ago work laptop was a System76 and my recent work laptop is a Framework. Both are running the same flavor of Linux and being used for the same things, I just decided that I liked the Framework's hardware
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by tsm 4y ago
I sort of miss that era of PIM, and would love to have a modern PDA with a monochrome LCD, great battery life, fold-out keyboard, and—critically—the ability to easily sync with Gmail and Google Calendar. As far as I can tell the syncing sto
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by tsm 4y ago
I think Shetlandic is the closest you'll get: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland_dialect
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by tsm 4y ago
I've had one for about a month. The battery life was very bad at first, but then I twiddled with the settings about stopping certain apps from running in the background and now it's tolerable
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by tsm 4y ago
No 'm' either: (def phrase "Fjord zoologists quip jovially, waxing lyrical about xanthic lutrines") (require '[clojure.string :as str]) (-> phrase str/lower-case distinct sort) ;; => (\s
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by tsm 4y ago
If it were about something older than Mastodon, this post feels like it could've been written in 2011. Anyway, I'm a happy user of Tusky. It has all the features I want, and while the UI looks dated it's not at all hard to us
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by tsm 4y ago
Software Design by Example ( https://www.routledge.com/Software-Design-by-Example-A-Tool-... ) Available free online at https://third-bit.com/sdxjs/
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by tsm 4y ago
I was talking to a Serbian coworker about this, and he showed me a screenshot from a recent Slack conversation where he and another Serbian were intermingling Latin and Cyrillic in the same sentences. He said they really didn't care wh
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by tsm 4y ago
I wrote my master's dissertation in Emacs with proportional fonts and many other nice affordances. Here's one of the blog posts I used for inspiration: https://zzamboni.org/post/beautifying-org-mode-in-emacs&#
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by tsm 4y ago
Hello, it's me, I have the same coffee problems as your wife. A few things that really helped, used in increasing order of desperation: 1. Buying a temperature-adjustable kettle and making coffee at 185° or so instead of boiling. Bonus
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by tsm 4y ago
Based on 30 seconds of experimentation, no.
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by tsm 4y ago
Congratulations on the launch! It's a nice way to blow off some steam on a pomodoro break or while mulling over a bug
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Bus Factor of top GitHub projects(metabase.com)
4 points by tsm 4y ago|0 comments

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