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I'm not sure if this was the intention of the analogy, but fishing poles don't have reels.

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> I know how to pronounce 'Kansas', and I was always under the impression that 'Arkansas' is the same with an 'Ar-' prefixed, which is apparently not the case.

The reason why they're pronounced differently is that they have different language origins. Arkansas is from the plural form of the French name of a Native American tribe, so you don't pronounce the '-s' while Kansas comes from the English spelling of a similar(?) tribe, where the '-s' is pronounced. English is notorious for just borrowing words from other languages wholesale but it seems to work most of the time.

Yep. He is the youngest living member, though.

> currency sign after the number instead of before it

While they use Euros, the Republic of Ireland is an exception to this.

At least with a higher level language it is easier to learn the practical side of concepts taught in Computer Science. As part of my architecture course at university, we were tasked to create a matrix multiplier in assembly. While it was an interesting challenge I would not use an assembly language for assignments in linear algebra.

It's so known for its stickiness that a mixture of sugar and boiling water is used by inmates against others. It's known as "prison napalm".

A small technicality, but I don't think he ever released under the name "the artist formerly known as Prince" but as the Love Symbol [0]. An example album being the Gold Experience [1].

[0] https://compote.slate.com/images/39fd61d7-da5c-4975-aad4-84e... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold_Experience

Funny, at my UK university for Computer Science we did not have independently invigilated exams. I would assume other courses were similar. We did have them for secondary education though.

> but very easy to fake with useless “tests”

While it doesn't alleviate the problems entirely, you can also run things like mutation tests that check that your unit tests actually test conditions, rather than just execute all the code.

In the UK, the A level I took was called "Computing". My university called it that as well and treated it as an MEng rather than an MSc, but most UK universities still call it Computer Science I think.

But why? It was his actual birth name. He also wasn't knighted so you could use the title "Sir" to distinguish the other Francis Bacon from him, though I've noticed Americans don't use the title generally when referring to those knighted in the UK (and presumably other countries as well).

Not quite the same but the word "run" in English can express a lot of different concepts.[0]

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run

My all time favourite example of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DySPDmCHgw

"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything" is the version I've heard.

I don't mean leaving the city by public transport or whatever. I mean leaving the monotony of a particular area which I thought you meant in your OP.

Streets in London typically aren't the same for literal miles, whereas they can be in the case of some American suburbs where you need a vehicle like a car to escape it.

To be clear, my reference to the train station was to indicate how busy my local area can be. But despite that, you don't have to walk very far to find somewhere a bit more tranquil.

I think the difference being is that you don't have to get in the car just to leave it. I myself live about 5 minutes walk from a major train station in London whose trains go past my flat and it only takes me another five minutes walk in the opposite direction to find a completely different area.

Now, some of the commuter towns of London are a different story.

Edit: Making it clear I'm not using the train which I realise could be misconstrued from my previous wording. The train station was just a reference to how busy my local area can be.

I wonder how many of those are from papers discussing failure of peer review or interdisciplinary communication rather than the value of the formula itself.

Not explicit but Ser Meryn comes to mind.

> where you are not allowed to communicate with your fellow players

Technically there is no textual communication. You could still communicate with players via signalling e.g. Choosing support commands for that player in places that are physically unreachable to you. Agents may learn to do that if players interpret them in the same way

As someone who lives there, I would use "Britain" to include the other islands in England, Scotland and Wales but most people here don't refer to the main island specifically.

> The article is way too long and reads more like a novel than an informative piece

That is what is expected from the New Yorker

I wonder if there is an equivalent political thing for the blind or for the partially vision impaired. I've only read or heard about these kind of divides (e.g. rejecting fixes for the condition, argument about whether it is an impairment) when it comes to hearing.

They're not fiddly if you do assertion-free testing

To add to the sibling comments, you should avoid this scenario in the first place by hiding things behind feature flags that only apply in dev.

Request 1 can go in fine on its own and reviewed separately

Request 2 can be added feature flagged.

Requests 3 and 4 would remove the respective flags for the scaffolding.

Don't most systems have a merge commit for the PR? I know TFS/Azure DevOps does.

Also, I think it relates to the point people arguing for Fahrenheit make that 0C and 100C aren't as relatable since they're related to boiling and freezing points of water compared to 0F and 100F which would be more "human" temperatures. So the joke is that this is one case where it doesn't matter.

There's a name for this cognitive bias but I always forget what it's called. Something to do with the reader's expertise in one field being able to pick out flaws but not in other fields from the same source.

They seem to be on the lower end of recognition in general so that might have something to do with it (statistical variation)

Side note but I'm surprised that Diamonds and Pearls rather than any other 90's Prince song charted in the Top 5, especially compared to other singles from that album.

I still occasionally have flashbacks to 13 year old me finally getting the game after 3 years of watching that video and the disappointment and anguish afterwards. Though around 2007 when I saw more recent presentations I was starting to have doubts.