thefringthing

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by thefringthing 2mo ago
> 5.2.1 Use spaced en dashes – rather than em dashes or hyphens – to set off phrases." – Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
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by thefringthing 5mo ago
At my local Asian grocery store, Red Boat costs about four times as much as the other brands, so I'll be sticking with my old standby of "random bottle whose ingredients list contains only anchovies and salt".
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by thefringthing 7mo ago
I bought a handmade arcade-style SNES controller from this guy one time. He should go back to making those, I guess.
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by thefringthing 7mo ago
> The core objective was to determine if a high frequency of HBEs causally links to a high rate of crashes. We employed negative binomial (NB) regression models [...]. A negative binomial regression fit on observational data cannot estab
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by thefringthing 9mo ago
If you had asked me to list ten books that would be mentioned frequently on HackerNews, I think I'd have gotten at least eight of the top ten here.
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by thefringthing 9mo ago
Selling at a loss can also be a monopolistic practice: a firm with enough capital can sell at a loss to capture the market, and then buy out their now-flailing competition.
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by thefringthing 9mo ago
It's a store of value in the sense that it has a non-zero price at any given moment, but when people say that one of the functions of money is to be a store of value, they mean that its value must be reasonably stable so that its futur
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by thefringthing 10mo ago
Is there a simple way to turn a set of hcker.news feed settings into an RSS feed?
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by thefringthing 11mo ago
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide does not require that perpetrators are successful in reducing the population of the targeted group, only that they "intend to destroy [it], in whole or in part&qu
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by thefringthing 11mo ago
The causes and mechanisms of ADHD are reasonably well understood. Perhaps whatever other traits you have in mind are not.
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by thefringthing 1y ago
The article addresses this.
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by thefringthing 1y ago
French spelling is sometimes described as "one-way": it's almost always possible to pronounce a written word correctly, but very difficult to spell a word you've only heard.
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by thefringthing 1y ago
Kingsley Read went with something like an artificially rhotic midcentury RP when designing the Shavian alphabet. It works reasonably well for me, a Standard Canadian English speaker, except that distinguishing all the open vowels (father&#x
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by thefringthing 1y ago
I would include Richard McElreath's _Statistical Rethinking_ here after, or in combination with, _Bayes Rules!_. A translation of the code parts into the tidyverse is available free online, as are lecture videos based on the book.
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by thefringthing 1y ago
Grammar problem: "In 3D space, we position objects by setting its coordinates" should read either "their coordinates" or "an object".
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by thefringthing 1y ago
The article touches on this, but there have been countless attempts to restandardize English spelling or replace the Latin alphabet with one more suited to English. But English is a global language with no central authority responsible for
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by thefringthing 1y ago
> They put in the time, the effort, the blood, sweat and tears, and what did they get? No thank you, just more work. Don't be ridiculous. They got a pizza party and $20 gift card to a mall store.
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by thefringthing 1y ago
If Denmark wanted to fund the same number of retired years per person as the US did when Social Security was established, the retirement age would be about 68, based on the 1935 and 2025 actuarial life tables for the USA and Denmark respect
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by thefringthing 1y ago
My understanding is that the whole history of basketball is explained by the fact that they won't make the court bigger and the nets higher to account for the fact that the players are seven feet tall now.
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by thefringthing 2y ago
Title II, Article 11.
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by thefringthing 2y ago
Boil long pasta in a skillet, not a pot.
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by thefringthing 2y ago
There are people who design new abstract tactical games in the style of chess, go, hex, draughts, etc. as a kind of art form or mental exercise, but almost none of them are developed into commercial products.
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by thefringthing 2y ago
> Kids get excited about things that are very different from those of adults. The very first sentence of this post is ungrammatical.
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by thefringthing 2y ago
It's often said that if you want to get away with killing an American, first give them a bicycle. Drivers just say "they came out of nowhere" or "the sun was in my eyes" and that's that.
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by thefringthing 2y ago
English is a language, Cyrillic is an alphabet, and Greek is both. The alphabet one finds in the range U+0000 to U+007F is called "Latin", not "English". If any alphabet has a claim on being "English", it'
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by thefringthing 2y ago
This is an interesting contrast with the story of the Yugoslavian Galaksija. https://spectrum.ieee.org/yugoslavia-diy-microcomputer https://jacobin.com/2020/08/computer-yugoslavia-galaksija-vo...
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by thefringthing 2y ago
Just don't try to put a footnote in a heading. I'll keep using LaTeX until Typst is less buggy.
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by thefringthing 2y ago
> Can you point to the relevant statutes? This is about sound recordings rather than books, but one of the more insane features of US copyright law is that the copyright status of sound recordings made before 1972 is governed by state ra
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by thefringthing 2y ago
One "nice" thing about NF is that it has only two axioms/axiom schemes: 1) sets with the same members are the same, and 2) any stratifiable property corresponds to a set off all the things which have that property. And the de
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by thefringthing 3y ago
Here it is in one static image: https://i.imgur.com/qJsTjpp.jpeg

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