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by wrp 2y ago
Wired earbuds of moderate price and quality seem hard to find these days. Recommendations would be appreciated.
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It is an odd omission that while she remarks on a rise of noun compounding in technical discourse, she doesn't mention that it has long been a noted tendency in American English, presumably a result of German immigrant influence.
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by wrp 2y ago
Another thing about the development of movable type. I've heard that Gutenberg's main contribution was the development of an alloy that made metal type feasible, and that the (earlier) Korean solution was to use ceramic type.
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by wrp 2y ago
Well, British TV in the 1990s was great.
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I don't think it's entirely off-topic, though I only have a vague sense of the connection. I knew 1980s Japan, a society of supreme confidence, and contrast it with modern Japan, a society that has really lost its mojo. What I thi
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by wrp 2y ago
I heard that the breakthrough in finding Bin Laden came from a Pakistani doctor who just walked in and told them where to look. I haven't seen any further details, so I wonder if it's being played down or was a false rumor to begi
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by wrp 2y ago
This sounds eerily like the difference between men and women drivers, as in the traditional explanations for why male drivers are more often judged to be at fault.
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by wrp 2y ago
I subscribed to magazines in the 1970s-80s and really felt I was getting my money's worth. Sure, there was lots of ads, but there was also lots of great stuff. I remember magazines getting thinner, glossier, and more ad-laden in the 19
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by wrp 2y ago
Can anyone working in the industry verify that this isn't just rumor?
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When I worked in Japan, I heard much comment about linguistic innovation among teenage girls. I had the impression that it was more extreme in Japan than other countries, but maybe not. With linguistic change driven mostly by females, I won
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by wrp 2y ago
I suppose the Michael Winslow method doesn't count? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=robOb5F3sOk )
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by wrp 2y ago
Clairefontaine paper has a clay coating that makes it hard and smooth, but causes wet inks to dry slowly and remain prone to smudging. With the right combination of fountain pen and ink, particles of the clay will be dislodged and float up
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by wrp 2y ago
If you want to buy European, Clairefontaine/Rhodia is still made in France.
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C. S. Lewis wrote something about the difference between those who do and don't reread literature. People who do reread (whom he called "literary") do it for the appreciation of the prose itself, rather like re-listening to a
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by wrp 2y ago
Another mathematician joke: Interviewer -- "Consider a situation where you are in your office and there is a fire outside in the hall. There is a fire escape outside your window but you can't reach it because the window is stuck.
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by wrp 2y ago
I think your point is that packages should be removed only if they stop working, with which I agree.
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> perhaps they had no desire to continue farming like their parents. I think it is also that making a living in farming became harder. I had an ancestor who was a small farmer in the 1880s-90s, and his career was one of increasing prospe
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by wrp 2y ago
I know several people who finished grad school and entered the workforce in the 1960s. Compared to later generations, they do seem to have lived a charmed life.
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by wrp 2y ago
Departures (2008) is a Japanese movie that in part deals with this issue.
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by wrp 2y ago
I wear masks on planes for this reason, also with goggle-style glasses. Through inadvertent A/B testing, I have some support that they are effective. I also use eye and nose moisturizers rather than just rely on covering up. I used to
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by wrp 2y ago
I thought that as a heritage of the British Raj, that curry was already much more popular in the UK than in Europe or America. So I'd expect any variations to catch on faster in the UK.
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by wrp 2y ago
Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right! It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan. --Hilaire Belloc
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by wrp 2y ago
> Do most people really need to learn college level writing? It's about the ability to demonstrate you have a coherent mental model of a topic. Use of LLMs doesn't help students who can't do that on their own.
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by wrp 2y ago
Local newspapers should not be used as a point of comparison. When we subscribed to the city newspaper, it easily paid for itself in coupons and awareness of sales. There would also be notice of civic affairs that directly affected our live
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by wrp 2y ago
What do you want to get out of reading "classics"? I can think of three types of book that are called classic. First, there are things that are simply old. Second are things that made substantial contribution to our intellectual h
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by wrp 2y ago
Dumas has a pretty intense fan base, though clearly not universal. I found his novels way too pulpy, but I can see why they were a sensation in the 19th century, when most literature was deadly slow by our standards.
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"Consider a spherical ocean..."
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by wrp 2y ago
If you are interested in the history of science fiction, Nevala-Lee's other biographical works are also worth a look.
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In some artistic traditions, visual style has been "conceptual" rather than "perceptual", meaning that objects are presented to emphasize their meaning rather than how they might naturally look in a scene. The two such a
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I've read that Turkey is a huge filbert producer but we don't see them on the market because the Italian candy industry buys nearly their whole output. Is there a reason why Oregon sells mainly to China rather than Europe?

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