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by wrp 4y ago
Surveys seem like a reasonable methodology for products where you can get large user samples, like with appliances and cars, but I have often had reason to question how well they understand what they are doing. For example, in the days of p
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by wrp 4y ago
Arabic writing doesn't have capitalization. What language were they writing? It sounds like they noticed that proper nouns were capitalized but maybe felt the other rules about capitalization were too much bother. I even get confused s
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by wrp 4y ago
> ...I read many engineers in many places saying that it's a bad [idea]... I read an article several years ago from an engineer at...ooh, I think it was DEC or IBM. He said that during development of the Itanium, the Intel guys had
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by wrp 4y ago
Anyone here remember the The MacNeil/Lehrer Report (1975–1983)? There should be an archive of their broadcasts online so people could see what quality reporting looked like.
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by wrp 4y ago
Also in denial over how much of the world is actually going along with the sanctions. ( http://country.eiu.com/asset_images/1632029946.gif )
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I suspect that if the situation in this class became well-known on campus, enrollment of both men and women would increase. Maybe my perception is based on outdated knowledge. My own experience as an undergraduate was two generations ago. W
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The analogy I think of is the introduction of sugar to Inuit culture. Before the Europeans brought it, the Inuit apparently had no need to be concerned about dental hygiene and controlling intake of certain foods. For decades, there was the
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by wrp 4y ago
The attitude toward the development process expressed here is not uniformly accepted in all programming subcultures. There is a major cultural divide between embedded and server/desktop programming. My example is very old, but I had oc
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by wrp 4y ago
When I was a kid, Emily Post said always tip 10%. In college, the buzz around campus was that 15% was what the proletariat deserved. The past decade or so, I keep hearing you need to give 20% if you don't want to make enemies of the se
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> ...this cross cultural infatuation bothers my Korean wife to no end. I've had conversations with Koreans who look with envy at the favorable attention Japanese culture gets. I was many years with Japanese and now many with Koreans
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Counter to the trend of comments here, I found the article uninsightful and without focus. He has vague gripes, but no apparent understanding of (or empathy for) Japan's social drivers. It's hard to respond to the article as a who
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by wrp 4y ago
Much surrounding the episode of the Bonus Army is shameful, but I wish articles about it would put the blame where it belongs. Patton was ordered into action by MacArthur, who was ordered by President Hoover.
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This is a funny comment after an article about Patton, who was famous for saying, "No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country."
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I think it was during the Depression that there was a campaign by the national association of traveling salesmen to eliminate tipping. There must be studies on why that failed.
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> ...magicians typically do their fake magic by doing an unreasonable amount of work behind the scenes... I probably heard this in a Penn & Teller interview, but the idea is much older... One of the keys to making a good illusion is
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> ...Francis Bacon’s scientific method...I didn't entirely understand. His ideas in that area were very handwavy, so nobody had a clear idea of what he meant. The classic study of his philosophy is Francis Bacon: From Magic to Scie
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by wrp 4y ago
A while ago, I was helping a student collect 19th century texts for corpus analysis. Since the books were out of copyright, PDFs were downloadable from Google and the Internet Archive. Although the scanned versions from the two sources were
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by wrp 4y ago
Steinbeck was the first serious novelist I got into as a kid, even read his collected letters, so I have a soft spot for him. It really shook my perception of his "journalistic" approach when I learned that Travels with Charley
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by wrp 4y ago
They were unable to identify the source due to poor IT security, which resulted from the sudden massive shift to WFH. We should be concerned with how much of an issue this is across all government and business.
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by wrp 4y ago
Gawk added facilities for writing extensions, but I don't see how to use it as a library. Funny I never thought of it, considering how much I like awk, but using awk instead of Lua as an embedded extension language sounds appealing.
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by wrp 4y ago
You are right. Times Roman was not originally intended to look how it does when printed now. Originally, the thin lines spread and the pointed serifs contracted so the result looked somewhat like Century. You can see examples of this in tec
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US Government Letter Paper is 8x10.5 inches, though I think it's used only for internal documents. Probably too much inertia to try to change it to 8.5x11.
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by wrp 4y ago
I may have missed it in all the comments, but the explanation for the described phenomenon seems obvious to me, having done a variety of literary corpus analyses. People write to express opinions, and opinions will tend to cluster. A corpus
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> ...vocabulary to make myself concisely understood without anthropomorphizing. The basic stylistic rules for avoiding anthropomorphizing are to avoid terms that ascribe intent and to frame your argument in terms of directly observable f
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China is in the special position of having both a great industrial capacity for complex products and at the same time being the main source of complex products that are poorly designed/constructed. So referring to "Chinese junk&qu
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> I have a pair of 5 year old redwing boots... Ha! I have a 45 year old pair of Red Wing Pecos boots that's been resoled twice. Now just use them for yard work, though.
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In some cases, traditional units remain in use because they are more convenient than metric. This is a world-wide phenomenon, not just US/UK. In Japan, people still size farm fields in -tsubo and rooms in -jō . Secondly, the world-w
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In the 1970s, one of my professors was assigned to be guide/translator for a group of visiting Soviet social scientists in Los Angeles. He asked them what they wanted to see and they insisted on a tour of Watts, so they could see the &
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by wrp 4y ago
If you are of an age where a colonoscopy is suggested as part of your physical exam, I'd suggest considering the stool DNA test. I just recently had this conversation with my doctor and he felt that the DNA test now has a sufficiently
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by wrp 4y ago
I upvoted to counteract a downvote. Although I don't know how well this represents the truth of the whole situation in Portland, I think the only proper way to respond to plain information is with more information.

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