anonemouse
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
But they think it is nice to know that "the option is there", and because they are from "USA, the best country in the world", it never occurs to them that Canada might not welcome them with open arms. Hegemonic...
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
What would be the standard spelling of "colour" in North American English, taking into account Canada exists?...
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
But I would be greatly pleased if the speech of USA citizens, which is fine, could just be called "American". No insult is implied, and I do know it's a collection of English dialects. I just think it would simplify...
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
Yeah, fingers crossed he's ok....
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
All you gotta' do is put a hyphen between Garcia & Gomez and your last name becomes Garcia-Gomez Except for the minor point that that's not her name, right Seán?...
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
I think there might be a larger problem you're missing: "30 days has September, April, June, and November..."...
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
In what script/medium/language? Bingo. :-) I seem to remember someone suggesting that digital data be archived as bitmaps printed on acid-free paper at some point, though I can't find it again now. Presumably this was for maximum inconvenience on every...
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
OTOH, I don't have to figure out WHAT the data format is before I can extract it to hard copy, so half the struggle is already accomplished. Even if I can't read it myself, I'm pretty sure I'd be able...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
.....right so. @Dramlin: does this help? https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/23221121.hertfordshire-helped-fund-second-world-war-spitfires/...
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
Guy Rixon's post demonstrates the matter pretty well: much of the reason the library can succeed in being a useful repository for 800 years is that the data format and the equipment required to read it have stayed the same...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
"No one else has the right to judge us" seems to be universal among the powerful, whether we're talking about countries or people. As to inversions of the rules-based order, what about Operations Paperclip and Surgeon? Or the fate of...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
Boooooooo! :-P...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
Really? Sorry. It wasn't meant to be, and definitely wasn't targeted at you individually. I was taking an opportunity to remind people of the Hague Invasion Act*. *I take every opportunity to remind people of the Hague Invasion Act, it's...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
The International Criminal Court; no reason you'd know it, as a US citizen the only relevance to your life it may have is if you get drafted to literally fight it....
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
Moving slit cameras I think the phrase you're looking for is rolling shutter?...
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
What's kind of interesting is the juxtaposition of machine-generated vs artisanal nonsense: Séamas O'Reilly* is a great writer and AFAIK what he puts out under his own name is true, but he has a history of entertaining pranks (e.g. Banjo...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
Huh. Home fuelling stations are unexceptional to me, but pumped ones? Every one I know of is gravity fed. I admire your neighbours' confidence in their electrical abilities....
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
Entirely off any subject we're talking about: we're well over 1600 comments while only having grazed the usual Strange Attractors, which I think is a milestone worth mentioning. :-)...
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That leads to the second kind of exceptionalism, which is the one worth encouraging: the idea that we blood yanks are a moral and ethical people Which with a hop, skip, and jump leads to "they hate us for our...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
He's writing about convict labour, but the same could be (and has been) written about indentured labour — which replaced slavery in the British Empire and elsewhere. Point of pedantry, but a moderately important one given some of the myths...
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You would know the environment better than I would; I only became aware of Tile shortly before AirTag's launch, and SmartTag after, so I thought the whole product category appeared and moved us from "unwieldy GPS tracker" to "tracking dot"...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
Apple made "you must own a smartphone" a precondition of not being tracked. Well done Apple, you enormous shits. Multiple errors in that statement. ANY cell phone. Smarts not required. And many, most most all, of those not smart phones...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
You only get to say "how could anyone anticipate bad actors doing this?" if you haven't already had one go-round of this exact problem, as Apple had with Find My Phone years before....
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To put it another way: Damian, why do you use AirTags on your dogs when smart collars exist?...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
For the purpose you outline, there are affordable GPS trackers with LTE these days which would be somewhat more practical from the perpetrator's point of view. I'm sure "there's a more sensible option your stalker could have used" is a...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
We've seen some incremental changes: for instance, the dogs' tags are on my AppleID, and when my wife's phone is the only device that can see them she gets an alert about it, and an option to block tracking. That's...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
Domestic violence escapees is where the rubber meets the road of so much of modern life. One of the more horrifying I came across recently was on Mastodon, possibly via OGH, of someone sending a package with an AirTag (may...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
De rien! :-)...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
In a similar vein, the "kids who resisted eating a marshmallow until the researcher comes back and gives them two marshmallows have better educational outcomes" study? Turns out that when properly controlled their finding is "kids with rich parents have...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
Ego depletion, which Damian used, is the term of art; it's been hit by the replication crisis and is not on such solid footing any more, but it was at least a useful corrective to the "you either have willpower...