ggchappell

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by ggchappell 8y ago
I must disagree with you about Wiktionary. It's great.
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by ggchappell 8y ago
Nice name. I do something along these lines in my LaTeX source; never thought of it as a thing .
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by ggchappell 8y ago
Generally agreed, although the huge number of bugs out there that are attributable to manual memory management suggests that other solutions are worth looking for. Perhaps Rust is heading in the right direction.
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by ggchappell 8y ago
Sure, popular election of senators is at least a little problematic. But maybe what we really want is a return to the original model, where members of the House are elected by the people, while senators are chosen by state legislatures.
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by ggchappell 8y ago
> ... I can't help but feel bitter towards the proponents of AA who insist on it being a monopoly... especially those in positions of power in the criminal justice or public health systems .... Not an alcoholic, but I had extended d
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by ggchappell 8y ago
Here we go again: the latest in a long line of sites that I can't figure out, while lots of others comment "cool". I click "Sort it". Nothing happens. <sigh> For all those silent folks who are just like me: kn
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by ggchappell 8y ago
"Do not stop to be thrifty" -- I imagine that should be "Do not stop being thrifty"? "Master wedding-feasts" -- what does that mean? "Grieve for no one" seems odd.
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by ggchappell 8y ago
> I realize that it costs money to publish journals and papers, .... Does it? The authors are not paid. The referees (who do peer review) are not paid. The editors are not paid. The authors submit LaTeX, so no professional typesetters ar
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by ggchappell 8y ago
> I have told the above story to different audiences. Programmers, as a rule, are delighted by it, and managers, invariably, get more and more annoyed as the story progresses; true mathematicians, however, fail to see the point. I see th
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by ggchappell 8y ago
I agree with the point of the article. Still, there is so much out there that is available only in one of the MS Office formats, and Gov.UK is apparently doing better than that. So there is actually some cause for celebration here, IMHO.
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by ggchappell 8y ago
The article compares Rodin's drawings of the Cambodian dancers with those by Noël Dorville, but includes no images of the latter. For the interested, I found this: https://www.ebay.fr/itm/Tableau-Litho-signee-mine-
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by ggchappell 8y ago
This is an interesting analysis, but I have a serious problem with the strong implication that high vividness = good. At the rock bottom of the vividness scale, we find Jane Austen, Isaac Asimov, Agatha Christie, C.J. Cherryh, and Danielle
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by ggchappell 8y ago
The really tough barrier is getting enough people with the required expertise to do the annotation. Annotation sites like to say, "Hey, we have this paper and we have this paper." Meanwhile, thousands of new scientific papers ar
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by ggchappell 8y ago
I don't think it's inappropriate either. But we should note that police do not have expertise regarding the administration of drugs. Someone with no expertise in a field can suggest anything they want to. Those with expertise who
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by ggchappell 8y ago
> How do you infer that the article concentrates on the misbehavior of police more than misbehavior by EMS workers? Well, I guess it's not so much that the article concentrates on police misbehavior, but that the actual people inv
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by ggchappell 8y ago
That's an interesting observation. The problem -- if it is one -- is certainly not limited to the Win 8 Start menu. There are plenty of interfaces where pressing a button, or some similar action, pops up a new full-screen or nearly ful
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by ggchappell 8y ago
It seems to me that this article is concentrating on the wrong thing. The biggest problem in the incidents in question is not misbehavior by police; it is misbehavior by EMS workers. Consider: a police officer and an EMS worker are dealing
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by ggchappell 8y ago
I think it means that the writer doesn't really know what he is talking about. And, by the way, there are five regular solids. The other is the dodecahedron. I imagine the writer would say that corresponds somehow to the "quinte
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by ggchappell 8y ago
> Bell knew there was a distinct possibility of a patent fight with Edison, so on three occasions he had papers and experimental products sealed in tin boxes and deposited at the Smithsonian Institution for safekeeping. You can (or coul
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by ggchappell 8y ago
Cool. Found a pic of the one in Nicaragua: https://retirenicaragua.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/the-soul-of...
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by ggchappell 9y ago
> People know what they need. There is another way to view this. We might think of these programs as encouraging people to do things that society needs, instead of what they need. Then the payment is there to offset the personal cost. No
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by ggchappell 9y ago
> about 328 feet from the floating platform Someone doesn't understand precision. (That's 100 meters, so "about 300 feet".)
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by ggchappell 9y ago
> Basically, the Army blew the levee to save a town, Cairo, IL, at the expense of (a few) homes and (lots of) farmland on the MO side. Are you sure about the "homes" part? 20 years ago, I was a professor at Southeast Missouri S
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by ggchappell 9y ago
Fantastic article -- and interesting comment. Thanks for posting.
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by ggchappell 9y ago
Cool. Also, figlet sighting, "large" font. :-)
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by ggchappell 9y ago
> if you dig you can eventually find it You can? I looked all over the site, and I couldn't find it (other than going to GitHub and reading the source code).
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by ggchappell 9y ago
Very partial, yes. But thanks.
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by ggchappell 9y ago
Is there any documentation? This looks like it might be good, but I don't know how to tell whether it is. The "Codemap" is just links to repo directories. The "Abseil Introduction" link leads to basically to another
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by ggchappell 9y ago
Is this supposed to be doing something? Clicking the little up/down arrows changes the numbers, but that's all I see happening?
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by ggchappell 9y ago
> I never figured out what most of the administration did besides irritate the better teachers. As a teacher who has experienced that irritation, I hear you. But I also know that multitudes of administrators are a necessity in the modern

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