Yeah, the scaling is very unfortunate; maybe if AI puts everyone out of work we'll have enough teachers? (that's a joke: my understanding is that there's a knee at a 1:12 ratio that may not be as good as an Oxbridge 1:2 but certainly would've improved upon the 1:30+ classrooms of my youth)
Were you also fortunate enough to have Alisa Seleznyova in your classes, or was that part of general ed? Where I went to school, I had to rely on MAD magazine for propanal instruction! (subscription thankfully provided by the same parents who'd ensured my basic literacy before entrusting me to K-12)
In particular, 6-letter long function names may have been convenient on mainframes that used 6-bit alphanumerics in 36-bit words, the 36-bits having been backward compatible with 10-decimal-digit electromechanical calculators.
EDIT: I had thought 10 digits of precision were required for certain calculations, but the WP article points out that they may have just corresponded to the operators having had 10 digits on 2 hands, in which case we're being backwards compatible with Hox genes, specifically Hoxd, and tetrapod pentadactyly is backwards compatible to hundreds of millions of years:
Had more to do with punch cards and flexowriter tapes and octal, which predates large word sizes or even mainframes. Note the following from the MIDAS macro assembler [0]
Fortran predates this and was a different lineage than IBM, but not how six char symbols were a request
> The MACRO language had been used on the TX-0 for some three years previous to the writing of MIDAS. Hence, MIDAS incorporates
most, of the features which have been requested by users of MACRO, such as more flexible macro Instructions, six character symbols and relocation.
Note that when porting b to the pdp-11, which was ascii vs the earlier FIODEC/flexowriter 6 bit paper tapes is why c case statements fall through, they used it to allow lower case commands in ed as an example.
Flexowriters are 1940s iirc, and TX-0 through the early pdps were octal so it makes sense to grow in multiples of the 3.3 bit lines of paper tape
Also note you can count to 12 on one hand and 60 with the other. That is why the ancient Sumerians used it. Base 10 was added to Roman abacus but they still kept the uncia (12) for some functions.
IIRC that wasn’t droop until the renaissance when they read Archimedes attempt to calculate the number of grains of sand needed to fill the universe with grains of sand, he used decimal and they asserted it was superior.
At my first job circa 1990, our codebase was constrained to 6-character function names in the core libraries, which had to run on many platforms including mainframes. If I recall correctly, you could have longer names, but only the first 6 characters were significant to the linker.
Never thought about why that might be other than "yeah, memory is expensive".
Btw, JD Vance claimed his wife is his spirit animal, so if he's a racist, he is at best the kind of racist who'd find it morally imperative that animals try and become human?
PS: have you figured out what math pros would call the satirical functor? It's alright to ask your kith kin or kollegen for help :)
I'd always kind of imagined the reactionary geometers were defending an order in which their tools were imperfect finite approximations that yielded insights into perfect infinite truths, where the original sin of the revolutionary analysts was in saying that "yes, and with compactness and continuity, many of these problems have their α-and-ω in finite descriptions".
Is that a fair take? Would it be one, even if it were ahistorical?
I like that perspective, but I believe the conflict was more about "old vs. new". Geometry was very old by that point, ancient, and it carried a lot of personal gravitas by being associated with Euclid, Archimedes, Thales etc. (Galenic theory of humors enjoyed similar ancient intellectual prestige, hence its long and bitter retreat from the scene at approximately the same time.) It was also "obviously right", in the sense of "everyone can look and see for themselves". Even uneducated peple can verify that a certain line touches both circles etc. No wonder it was an attractive safe haven for conservative minds.
Meanwhile, analysis was not yet particularly rigorous and it took several decades to converge on a standard apparatus and notation that could at least be understood coherently by other mathematicians. (Laymen tend to struggle with it until today.) Add the political dimensions of being seen friendly to the French into the mix, well...
'Amelia': the AI-generated British schoolgirl, a far-right social media star (theguardian.com)
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Just tangentially, I wonder to what degree big ensembles help/hurt with getting touring visas? For instance, it's my understanding that the Red Army Choir didn't have much trouble getting US visas, but Billy Bragg did.
Billy Bragg, bless his soles, gave me a look of loathing when I handed off guitars to him and sound checked, and stomped off stage after his set loudly cursing "fucking yuppies".
To his credit and defence, it was Perth in the 1980s. Boom years for unprincipled scumbags with hovercraft money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFOfd1QTW54 ... Kiss My Art indeed.
Maybe, or maybe ICE-as-ding-wie-scheint (& Donroe?) is just a sign that the descendants of Operation Condor supporters have started preparing to act domestically as well as in the near abroad?
I wasn't sure if Stefan-chan had found the no-longer-heim-weh too painful, or if he'd been suddenly confronted somehow with BR not necessarily being as new-world as it had appeared when he was fresh-off-the-boat, so I'm glad Mann went with the former interpretation. (and, for people who were raised on greek and latin examples, trolling from beyond the EXIT would've been nothing unusual?)
lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OxJKFEofL0 (could Sra. Oreiro be counted as an honorary [very-]west-slav, at least as part of the fin-de-siècle pan-slavic cultural heritage?)
Ah trolling gone right (at least as long as I'm an HN orator instead of laborator?)
I'd originally heard it as "M— Ä— Heu?", which sounds even less like the source language, but invites the pedantically accurate reply that no one mows hay: one mows grass.
"Beg to report, sir," said Schweik innocently, "I can't be called upon to zombie properly to-day, as they were all out of B R A I N S in the K.u.K. canteen this morning."
(It's somewhat interesting reading a heavily bowdlerised translation of Hasek after having read Zweig; for instance, I know enough about the sorts of young women who provided —for a modest fee— photos to their fans to make an educated guess as to the suitability of Lt Lukash' album for mixed company)
Back during the first "America First", there was a series of satire videos titled "America First ${COUNTRY} Second".
They're somewhat dated now, but still informative if you're curious about the rest of the world.
"Netherlands Second" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-xxis7hDOE was I believe the first second, but not only other european countries but many others globally (as well as a few regions and fictional countries) eventually produced one, easily found on YT.
(I would add that the Dutch come really close, but are not nearly as tolerant of.. a certain sort of (individualist) bigot, so that makes them second in that particular ("Calvinist"*?) arena :)
*GoogAI tells you to look at the history of Geneva and Puritan New England, if you need closer refs..
Yeah, the way I heard the story is the dutch were too tolerant: the Puritans couldn't stand the idea of their kids growing up with such examples around, so they upped sticks and headed off to wander in the wilderness...
I do the opposite (eg, I read HN via RSS), and definitely don't want to see all of the content.
My reader (newsboat) is good at showing items at-most-once, and (at least the way I use it) punts to a browser to display content on the rare occasions I have further interest. Does this count as sufficiently-non-email-clienty for TFA's purposes?
I built my own feed hydrator (not my term, but love it) for HN that adds the opengraph info from the targe link along with points + comment counts, all cached in SQLite
Then it lets me filter with different criteria, the default is a ratio of points+comments that keeps the chaff out.
Stipulating that he did change accents, "just entirely made up" is a strong accusation, considering that linguistic accommodation is a thing. Compare Calpurnia's theory of code switching from ch.12 of "...Mockingbird": https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12863/page/n134...
> “That doesn’t mean you hafta talk [AAVE] when you know better,” said Jem.
> Calpurnia tilted her hat and scratched her head, then pressed her hat down carefully over her ears. “It’s right hard to say,” she said. “Suppose you and Scout talked colored-folks’ talk at home—it’d be out of place, wouldn’t it? Now what if I talked white-folks’ talk at church, and with my neighbors? They’d think I was puttin’ on airs to beat Moses.”
Trolling*-wise, I wonder if there's a cousin of the "Almost Politically Correct Redneck", an "Accidentally Woke Reactionary" perhaps?
(No, I don't get any memes via RSS. It'd be grand, though. Imgur post-acquisition [and for all I know, even pre? I had devtools turned on one day when I visited, and never went back...] is a tracking hellhole)
* one way I can tell that I was born and bred in US of A: I'm the only person nervously laughing at the did-they-really-just-say-that during a VO Tarantino film in the local theatre...
It looks like you concluded they were being confrontational when they were only being expressive? Whereas the rest of the audience thought the movie was only being expressive? To what extent did that expose your erstwhile localization (to FR) while the old country had shifted in place? Do I miss anything else?
I'm pretty sure Tarantino (sharing the culture in which I was steeped) meant to be confrontational, but probably the rest of the audience, being blissfully unaware of things "everyone knows" you're not supposed to actually say, thought expressive more than transgressive.
FWIW it was "Hateful 8" (2015), so I don't think the old country has shifted out from under me — unless it's either all been in the last decade, or younger audiences there are also not nervously laughing? Guess I'll have to make some inquiries...
this advice sounds like it could fix many, many other issues as well?
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