dri_ft

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by dri_ft 2y ago
Still top of the list for me is Olin Shivers' 1994 acknowledgements to his scsh project: >Who should I thank? My so-called ``colleagues,'' who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on my work? My worthl
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by dri_ft 2y ago
>looks like many "BBC Four Classic Documentaries Collection" programs of the last century get the same treatment Fair enough, it may be that the warning is just a generic one slapped on all their old repeats, but I do think tha
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by dri_ft 2y ago
Seeing that this discussion is still going on (I'm impressed!) I shall provide an example which I believe fits the bill. Around the time you first asked the question I learnt that the BBC are currently re-airing a classic documentary s
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by dri_ft 2y ago
>Long, grammatically perfect comments that sound hollow and a bit lengthy It's worse than I thought. They've already managed to mimick the median HN user perfectly!
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by dri_ft 2y ago
I was just working on a comment featuring the word oikophilic when I had to go to bed, so it's nice to see that one managed to get written anyway.
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by dri_ft 2y ago
>for more detail: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu ... Oh, I see. We actually discussed Pound about four years ago - just a little back and forth about the ABC of Reading : https:
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by dri_ft 2y ago
Woefully glib.
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by dri_ft 3y ago
Not taking a side, but to understand the comment you are replying to, you would do well to look up the concept of countersignalling.
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by dri_ft 3y ago
When was this? I noticed chatGPT becoming succinct almost to the point of being standoffish about a week or two ago. Probably exacerbated by my having some custom instructions to tame its prior prolixity.
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by dri_ft 3y ago
>Graffitis Graffiti is already plural, or at least uncountable.
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by dri_ft 3y ago
You should probably put some kind of contact details on your HN profile in case an interested party should happen across this post.
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by dri_ft 3y ago
https://4chan.org/lit/catalog
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by dri_ft 3y ago
>a planet where winter came in periods too long for the natives of the planet to remember Not Asimov's Nightfall ?
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by dri_ft 3y ago
Don't think Alex Lee Moyer had a thing to do with the Red Pill.
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by dri_ft 3y ago
Well, I sort of agree. A halting, too-strongly-pushed, stopping-at-the-end-of-every-line reading doesn't exactly let the lines sing. But there is an art to reciting iambic pentameter whereby it can attain the naturalness of speech whil
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by dri_ft 3y ago
getHenriadByPlayName('1h4')
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by dri_ft 3y ago
Indeed it should be spoken aloud (or at least 'aloud in your head'). But if it should be spoken as if it were prose, why do you think he took all the trouble to put it in to verse?
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by dri_ft 3y ago
There's quite a lot of work on this kind of thing; any edition of Shakespeare with good notes will alert you where a line resembles something 'proverbial'. One thing you notice is that although he often alludes to proverbial
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by dri_ft 3y ago
For what it's worth, he also uses 'whom' at the start of a sentence, correctly according to formal grammar but where most English speakers would intuitively use 'who'. That level of fussing over nominative/accu
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by dri_ft 3y ago
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope.
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by dri_ft 3y ago
Scheme feels really verbose to me. I get that it's 'minimal' and 'elegant' and everything, but then why are all the identifiers so long? I feel like I have to do a lot of typing to get anything done. Maybe it's
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by dri_ft 4y ago
>It was missing the simple, elegant sexp syntax I dearly love In what sense does Janet not have sexp syntax? Seems plenty sexpy to me. Purists seem to say it's not a lisp because its underlying data structure is not (cons-based) lis
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by dri_ft 4y ago
I heard at least part of this version of the story a few years ago from someone who was in the British music industry at the time. I seem to recall getting the impression that he was relaying what he'd heard at the time, but of course
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by dri_ft 4y ago
The liberals want to strengthen explicit institutions (welfare, education, etc). The conservatives want to strengthen implicit institutions (trust, community).
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by dri_ft 4y ago
Reading the Garden Party at the moment.
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by dri_ft 4y ago
Settled for 30,000, mind.
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by dri_ft 4y ago
Let's see Paul Allen's operating system.
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by dri_ft 4y ago
Let's see Paul Allen's color palette.
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by dri_ft 4y ago
yagni, yagnas, yagnat...
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by dri_ft 4y ago
> "Nah man I aren't gonna" <-- this is wrong Well, yes, because the first person singular of to be is am , not are . It works fine with I am or you are . > I'm not gonna do that <--- looks good to me &

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