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by wrp 2y ago
Many upvotes here due to the political/religious aspect, but there should be some comment on the archeological issue. From what I've gathered in the past, the main points are: 1. An organization with very deep pockets sets out to
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by wrp 2y ago
When Americans talk about getting rid of lawns, they generally assume that means allowing just sparse or natural growth over the same construction arrangement. I'm thinking of Tucson, Arizona and places around New Mexico. I think there
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by wrp 2y ago
In the 1990s, I went to a lab in Tokyo for a presentation, and they had me using a freestanding whiteboard. When the board got full, I grabbed the eraser but a few in the audience started going "wait! wait". I thought they needed
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by wrp 2y ago
Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Perchik: "Money is the world's curse!" Tevye: "May the Lord smite me with it! And may I never recover!"
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by wrp 2y ago
I have long suspected the reason for aggressive treatment of minor offenders is that they are an easy target and a quick way to meet your prosecution quota. I have many times heard about foreign students who come to the USA under completely
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by wrp 2y ago
I'm also a heavy user of sliding-sleeve mechanical pencils. I prefer metal-bodied ones from the 1970s-80s, but among what is currently available new, I think Orenz are the best. I have several of all the models, and I prefer the basic
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by wrp 2y ago
I have preferred Japanese stationery for decades, and while its overall quality is still the highest, I think its zenith is past. There is still innovation in areas, but most product lines are not as extensive as 20 years ago and some produ
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by wrp 2y ago
This seems to be an expansion on a previously edited volume from the same author, Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games (2023).
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by wrp 2y ago
I'm generally not interested in politicized threads here, but I think discussion of this management tactic is worthy of HN. How well did it work at X, and how well might it work in public bureaucracies?
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by wrp 2y ago
> Kimchi has a potent odor I had a Korean grad student here in Arizona once whose mother sent her a jar of kimchi by parcel post -- a very large jar. Well, the jar broke in transit and the package arrived as a soggy, stinky mess. I was
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by wrp 2y ago
I think LaTeX renderings are not unique. Is there a schema for normalizing them?
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by wrp 2y ago
We were doing OCR on printed text. I tried to get access to the Zentralblatt MATH corpus, but no go.
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by wrp 2y ago
About 20 years ago, I was working on a project to build a vector model over a corpus of math texts. What ultimately killed it was that I couldn't figure a way to automatically reduce the equations to consistent, searchable text. This p
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by wrp 2y ago
The most practical ink bottle ever made was the one for Sheaffer Skrip with the ink reservoir up near the lip. Some other company (don't remember which) also used a bottle with a deep hole in the center of the bottom to help slurp up t
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by wrp 2y ago
The boarding school theme may be part of something universal in children's literature. I think it's common across cultures to find a way to place young heroes away from parental influence to allow them some independence. Sending t
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by wrp 2y ago
I have for many years helped set up some elderly folks for web access. Since they had less powerful PCs and were familiar with Windows, I used IceWM because it was light and I could make it look like Win98. That took a good deal of configur
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by wrp 2y ago
> I'm deeply convinced that mathematicians (or at least, mathematicians wanna-be) are by far the most toxic breed of people I've ever encountered OP is talking about people in the math department of an elite university. I&#x2
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by wrp 2y ago
Although this is a movie I'd like to see, it seems the story would require significant reworking to make the movie a commercial success. As I recall, the novel has no monsters, fighting, or sex.
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by wrp 2y ago
We had that same change in my town, though for seemingly unrelated reasons. Even before COVID, the 24-hour Wal-Mart supercenter started closing from midnight to 6 AM because of shoplifters. The 24-hour restaurants closed at night during COV
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by wrp 2y ago
> The documents...suggest that North Korean troops are recording their combat experiences in detail and appear to be using the battlefield experience to gain a better understanding of new technologies. Ukraine has warned that Pyongyang
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by wrp 2y ago
This study sounds too poorly constructed to form a strong basis for theorizing. For example, what exactly were the relationships of the test subjects to the cultures of the sample speakers? Were working class accents more strongly associate
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by wrp 2y ago
The name of the Mitsubishi Uni-ball Jetstream is just a coincidence.
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by wrp 2y ago
Selective attention was one of the main factors in Hubert Dreyfus' explanation of "what computers can't do." He had a special term for it, which I can't remember off-hand.
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by wrp 2y ago
This may be a red herring, but Bog Manufacturing of Chicago made automotive tools in the 1920s-30s. ( http://alloy-artifacts.org/bog-mfg-chicago.html )
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by wrp 2y ago
Picking strawberries in Oregon was my first job, and I progressed through the usual things kids did for money then, so I know where you're coming from. However, there is a major economic change we also need to consider. It used to be y
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by wrp 2y ago
> Perhaps your life failed to launch, and moving to a new country could genuinely help you restart from a difficult situation. I caution against changing countries to fix your unhappiness with life in general (unless you really are fro
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by wrp 2y ago
To be fair to those folks, I get asked that when going back to my hometown after living years abroad. It takes very little difference to give off a vibe of otherness.
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by wrp 2y ago
A big problem with all the discussion about masks is that there are at least three different types of study, and people tend to mix the conclusions. 1. Epidemiological: "Town A mandated masks and town B didn't. Was there any diffe
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by wrp 2y ago
Not arguing but would appreciate sources regarding N95 masks. When I reviewed the literature in 2020, there was no solid evidence that their use led to improved outcomes, even in clinical settings.
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by wrp 2y ago
> look at studies done before 2020 when it became political. Good advice and easy to do. Just use your favorite source to find review articles. You don't need to read many, as conclusions were quite uniform.

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