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Now I'm curious: which ones?

Serious(-ish) question: does "And last but not least, I hereby decree that all texsht herein be read in Sean Connery voish." mean that this technically isn't FOSS?

Unrelated to the article's thesis: the use of both colors and numbers in the static map of the Roman Empire is very clever and I wish this technique were used more often.

I don't in general have trouble distinguishing colored areas when they're adjacent to each other. But when they're separated from each other -- as is often the case with a map and its legend -- it becomes a lot more difficult.

Using colors to show extent and numbers to match up with the legend is a great solution to this problem. Take note!

I once proposed to some people I know getting started in app development an idea: the app would listen to what you say and if you said the word "güey" more than five times in a 24 hour window it would give you an electric shock.

I was only about four fifths joking.

I'm reasonably certain that I'm not your father but I used to do that too - although I don't think I made it into the hundreds.

Yes, in a line in "Born in the USA." Of course there's an implicit eyeroll there; it's not used to denigrate Asian people.

I'm with you.

It's easier said than done, of course, but crash-only software is a worthwhile goal IMO.

To me this basically seems like boat programming made respectable.

Of course, if you asked me, it always was. You couldn't assume great connectivity then and you often still can't today.

I know it does, but is it comparable to what you get access to if you learn French or German or Indonesian?

Those languages have extensive literatures which you could read in the original. Esperanto doesn't.

When evaluating libraries, recent activity is one of the things I look at. It's a far from perfect heuristic. I've probably rejected libraries like yours for what amounts to no very good reason.

I don't know if this is a good suggestion or not but I wonder if some form of "keepalive commit" might help here. I can imagine a few ways they might work, some simple, some more elaborate.

Yep, all this.

The only thing I'll add is that, ca 2012 which is when whatsapp started really taking off where I live, intercarrier SMS was slow and unreliable. WhatsApp was fast and reliable.

> Good design is makes a product useful and understandable.

Good editing is makes all element of a lists is has the same grammatical form.

He wrote https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep too. It's awesome and I don't know how I lived without it for so long.

It gives actual insight into prognosticators' accuracy. If their 90%s are right about nine times out of ten, their 60%s six out of ten, and so on, then they're pretty good. If they're not then they're not.

Pretty sure verisimi meant to say "Soviet Ukraine".

I wouldn't set my hopes too high because of this. It's just all too prone to pee hacking.

I wish Casio made earbuds. I doubt they'd have the best sound and they probably wouldn't be very comfortable (no different from the competition) and they surely would be no sartorial revelation.

But they would last forever and they would actually work reliably. I'd buy a pair, happily.

Of the 100 most recent emails I have marked as spam in gmail, 26 were misclassified. FWIW, just an anecdatum and probably a real outlier and all that.

Maybe you grew up speaking a language where penultimate and antepenultimate's cognates are in common use, like Spanish.

I still remember hearing a Mexican friend whose English was, at the time, very basic use the word "polemical" and I could hardly believe it. I'm not sure most English speakers could use it correctly; I'm all but certain that I at the time couldn't.

In many circumstances, WhatsApp works better -- like, a lot better -- than normal calls. Also it's often subsidized.

They probably could have paid extra money out of pocket to call normally and get a substandard experience.

In LLPSI's marketing materials, they call it the "natural method." (I've also seen "nature method.")

Another term is "comprehensible input" -- but I am not certain precisely how the two relate to each other. But hopefully they're enough for you to go on.

When I was still formatting code manually (... -ish; emacs did a lot of the tedious work for me) I eventually settled on a style very similar to your four-argument example, precisely because it makes diffs easier to read.

For the same reason, I asciibetically sorted things when it made sense.

Now I use prettier and black and I'm mostly satisfied by them, but their reflow behavior puts the lie to "[black] makes code review faster by producing the smallest diffs possible."

My hope is that various forms of artificial meat become viable and generally affordable.

I think this is realistic, in spite of the opposition we can expect from both Big Ag and Big Fake Yoga.

My 2¢: in however many decades from now, we'll be about equally horrified by animal cruelty and by all the grain we used to eat.

Half-relevant: I really like when dashes are used for dialogue. I think the way it's done in Spanish (and other languages that, alas, I cannot read) is especially stylish. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotation_dash

> the only jobs were Professor or Think Tank

Mostly offtopic: I initially misread that as "Professor of Think Tank" and I immediately understood it to mean something within the disciplines of military affairs, macroeconomics, some areas of law, a few others. This actually seems like an interestingly useful grouping, possibly more so than "STEM."

Probably.

But here's an interesting sequence of events:

- The alt-right emerges as an influential bloc

- Our self-appointed explainers and meaning-makers try and fail to understand it; unable to understand it they're completely unable to explain it

- The term "alt-right" is bandied about more or less carelessly, often as an insult or as a way to discount ideological opponents, until:

- The term "alt-right" loses much of its meaning and is applied to people with only the most tenuous links to the original group.

The same basic thing has happened before and since: think of the neocons and the dirtbag left for example.

So, yes, they probably are trying to paint him as alt-right, but not at a level much above "lololol Bro Rogan sux !!!!!!!!". Reassured?

Maybe _your_ brain can, but mine can't.

To somebody with APD, it sounds like science fiction, although it does require more suspension of disbelief than faster than light travel or teleportation.

Step 1: Live somewhere where online shopping other than with Amazon actually works.

(You can think what you want about Amazon, but it's a remarkably provincial piece.)