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by wrp 3y ago
AM radio remains the most reliable source of information during natural disasters. If AM goes away, what would replace the inexpensive radios we keep on hand for emergencies?
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by wrp 3y ago
Springer books were beautifully typeset until they started having authors do their own typesetting. That's one of the mixed blessings of LaTeX. Even into the early 2000s, Springer would often make the first printing of a textbook sewn-
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by wrp 3y ago
Quote: I didn't actually ask the DNR about using a Mountain Howitzer, but according to Thomas Van Haren, a Conservation Warden & Natural Resources Policy Officer of the Bureau of Law Enforcement for the Wisconsin DNR - "the u
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by wrp 3y ago
I can't get enough of good SF with interesting aliens, not because I'm such a voracious reader, but because there is so little of it. My suggestion for the list would be the Sector General series by James White. It's a bit
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by wrp 3y ago
The framing of the article is misleading, but the main argument is something I've been hearing for a while from the people within the US military establishment. The problem is not lack of observations or of observation capability. The
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by wrp 3y ago
Windows 95/98 had a lot of problems due to its DOS legacy. A better focus for discussion of what was possible at the time would be BeOS or QNX.
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by wrp 3y ago
I derive these comments from the introduction by Stefan Collini (a lit professor) in the Cambridge UP edition of "The Two Cultures". ( https://www.amazon.com/Two-Cultures-Canto-Classics/dp/110760... ) Snow
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by wrp 3y ago
> ...the top X of almost any genre I enjoy (which spans a large range of fiction) has been... lackluster. I read an article a few years ago from a literary editor complaining how MFA programs had made his job harder. He said his job used
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by wrp 3y ago
Any problems students experience in transferring credits are entirely the fault of the college/university administration, especially between same-state schools. Community colleges have been major feeders to the university system at lea
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by wrp 3y ago
There are a great many historical artifacts that are privately held but have been available for study. Conversation on disposition of treasures tends to conflate two issues, ownership and accessibility. I seriously doubt that anyone willing
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by wrp 3y ago
In pre-home-computer days, I heard stories about writers keeping important working documents in the refrigerator. They were generally people for whom a safe would be priced out of reach.
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by wrp 3y ago
I'm surprised at how often I see adults rewatching Flight of the Navigator , even though it's very much a kid's movie. Harry and the Hendersons is particularly fun to watch now if you are a Poirot fan. Nostalgia tripping o
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by wrp 3y ago
There was a case in Oregon, I think a couple decades ago, where an Indian tribe built a longhouse in town then tried to prevent construction of any building that might cast a shadow on it. I don't remember whether they aimed at the cou
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by wrp 3y ago
Accumulation of random social media posts is not a substitute for organized collection of information.
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by wrp 3y ago
There are many left-handed fountain pen users. For extensive discussion of pens, inks, and writing techniques, search for left-handed|lefty at site:www.fountainpennetwork.com.
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by wrp 3y ago
What I find remarkable about Tocqueville and Democracy in America is how frequently and in how many contexts he is still quoted. With such a broad coverage of topics and a knack for pithy characterization, he is easily mined for quotes to
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by wrp 4y ago
About 30 years ago, I met a vivacious German-Brazilian woman at a party who complained at length about how miserable it was visiting her relatives in Germany. This precise issue was her main complaint.
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by wrp 4y ago
> Just create your own personas to repackage. This is a good point to reference the Al Pacino movie S1m0ne (2002). ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/ )
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by wrp 4y ago
> And I'm not aware of either term...being used to apply to the period from the 8th - 13th centuries The Journal of Near Eastern Studies ( https://www.jstor.org/journal/jneareaststud ) is typical in defining it
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by wrp 4y ago
"Near East" is not used in academia as simply a geographic classification. It is used among historians as a standard term for a cultural realm and a specific time frame. "Middle East" is another standard term for a more
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by wrp 4y ago
One way around the awkwardness with "Islamic world" is to use "Near East", which is used to cover the core geographic area in pre-modern times. If you try thinking of when was a "golden age" of the Near East, i
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by wrp 4y ago
Have there been any reports on how easy it is to jailbreak these? I would expect technique in that area to be well-developed.
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by wrp 4y ago
I think you are misunderstanding what Poul Anderson was doing there. He was proposing that without the Normans, English would have drawn on the German lexicon. As the link in the sister comment argues, Old Norse had replaced German as an in
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by wrp 4y ago
This is fun and all, but Poul Anderson should have talked to a linguist first. His idea was to show what modern English might be if it hadn't been so influenced by French, Greek, and Latin. The problem is that Anglo-Saxon was a dialect
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by wrp 4y ago
Also The Invisible Man (1933) and Easy Living (1937), but I agree with the parent that 1939 seems to be about when modern-ish script quality and production values became the norm.
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by wrp 4y ago
I personally can't see how this will do any good. I've asked a few Korean teachers about it and they couldn't either.
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by wrp 4y ago
A large part of this is cultural, not linguistic. Japanese syntax has just as much structure to it as English syntax. The difference is that ellipsis is socially accepted in Japan to a much greater extent than in Anglophone societies. You c
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by wrp 4y ago
The movie did an excellent job of fleshing out the story while remaining true to the tone and content of the original. ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113264/ ) It should be part of the core curriculum. I wonder how
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by wrp 4y ago
The problem with "fascism" is that practically from the beginning it has been used loosely as a term of disparagement. The most careful attempt to define what is and isn't fascism, while shunning polemics, is I think Stanley
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by wrp 4y ago
What are you looking for that JetPens doesn't have?

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