boffinism

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by boffinism 3y ago
> Is there any reason to believe so? Yes, specificially this article: http://haggardhawksblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/ampersand.html
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by boffinism 3y ago
Re "I doubt anybody has ever said I per se I" (in the context of alphabet recitation) may I draw your attention to this article[0]: > Up until as recently as the mid 1900s, it was standard practice when reciting the alphabet to
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by boffinism 3y ago
You're missing that "& per se &" would still have been called that even if it wasn't the last item in the list. If the order was "...y, & and z" you'd pronounce it "why and per se and and
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by boffinism 3y ago
No it isn't. The first "and" in "and per se and" isn't a conjunction. So you could actually say: I per se I, O per se O, and and per se and.
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by boffinism 3y ago
Don't confuse cookie laws with data laws
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by boffinism 3y ago
These two statements are not incompatible.
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by boffinism 3y ago
Taking the question at face value, the answer is: massive amounts of capital. And barriers to entry like that make the 'the free market will solve this' argument less convincing.
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by boffinism 3y ago
Do you think other cultures, who care less about work, care less about food and shelter? Or would you care to elaborate on why work is more necessary for food and shelter in America than in other cultures (bearing in mind that America is on
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ChatGPT banned in Italy over privacy concerns(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by boffinism 3y ago|0 comments
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by boffinism 3y ago
"Aquanauts". "Water sailors". Since the water is implied by the sailor bit (astronauts and aeronauts being effectively "sailors but in space"/"sailors but on the air"), couldn't we just say.
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by boffinism 3y ago
> Twofer Goofer HQ's adherence to strict "perfect" rhyme can be tricky for those slant rhyme-inclined. And yet one puzzle they hammer Bard for failing is "Cactus Practice". What accent do you have to have for tha
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by boffinism 4y ago
(These rules apply to American English, not British English. I can't speak for other languages and variants.)
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by boffinism 4y ago
there's nothing "bad" about phrases like "impressively easy" or "significantly larger". OP just has a weird phobia of utterly reasonable adverbs.
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by boffinism 4y ago
Oh cool, so adverbs are banned now, are they?
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I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing(twitter.com)
46 points by boffinism 4y ago|39 comments
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by boffinism 4y ago
Being blunt, it sounds to me like you're using wildly inaccurate personality stereotypes to generalise horribly about both software engineers and artists. A software dev who is inclined to believe they have all the answers is a bad sof
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by boffinism 4y ago
No because: > for the optical illusion to work, you must place the virtual camera at the position of one of your eyes and close the other one.
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by boffinism 4y ago
Thanks! I'm never sure how the title guidelines (that prohibit editorializing) apply to tweets where there is no title.
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Nice account you've got there(twitter.com)
1 points by boffinism 4y ago|3 comments
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by boffinism 4y ago
If you spent 20 mins looking, it's not their recommendation system that's failing. It's that you don't like their content (or how their content is portrayed). The recommendation system is the thing that shows you stuff w
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Deliveroo cuts 350 jobs after fall in online orders(theguardian.com)
9 points by boffinism 4y ago|0 comments
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by boffinism 4y ago
I love the idea that social media accounts, like wine, are more valuable if they're sufficiently aged.
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by boffinism 4y ago
I tried aabbccdd... to make a spiral and it broke at m.
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by boffinism 4y ago
It has been described as 'mansplaining as a service'
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by boffinism 4y ago
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by boffinism 4y ago
I feel like what's missing from the analogy is that planes aren't called Artificial Birds (AB). If they were, the article wouldn't be such a strawman.
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by boffinism 4y ago
"Arial should be a firing offence" Grant me the comfortable self-righteousness of people who don't realise their personal aesthetic preferences are not objective statements of fact.
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by boffinism 4y ago
How do you feel about the rebuttal to this claim in the article? Particularly the decline in licence plate splats?
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by boffinism 4y ago
I mean, it's quite news worthy. The Washington Post dedicated large parts of an article on insect population decline to exploring it.
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by boffinism 4y ago
Take a look at https://supperware.co.uk/ - head tracking specifically to enable 3D audio.

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