oldjoninmke.bsky.social
My definition of civilization has long been being able to walk to the public library.
Retired. Milwaukee. Math. Choral music. Bears fan in Wisconsin. Started programming in 1971 and haven't stopped yet. Life-long liberal. 135 books/year.
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Unutterably beautiful. The sandwich, too, but the writing mostly.
(The sandwich sounds like a salad niรงoise with greens replaced by a baguette?)
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Well, take the number of mid-life crises you fit in during your 30s and multiple by ฯ.
Then multiply again by a whole lot.
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The judge has essentially transformed the case into a strictly pirating case.
The pirating case is still going to trial in December.
But it is significant that they found that training activity is sufficiently transformative that it counts as fair use, as long as the book is legally obtained.
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But I will always refuse!
Dammit.
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"All of my very good European friends" = Victor Orban and whatever poor kid he stiffs on a tip after shining 47's shoes.
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So, not much different from 2025?
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Sevens get crossed in that way of writing numbers.
I think that's the Occam's explanation.
BUT never underestimate the bad faith of this regime, so who knows?
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My guess it was originally written in the way much of the world writes "1" - like a "7" with a droopy left arm.
Someone asked for clarification with "Really? 2007?" and got the reply "No, dude, 2001" and the asker overwrote a straight line "1" to try to clarify.
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And you're not gonna make friends, either, by bogarting all the Absinthe.
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Then going away for 19 years.
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And the surface area of the earth is about 6.9x10^15 12" pizzas...
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This is the downside of being well-read. Sets up unreasonable expectations of gubmint molly.
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So, if we don't discriminate against every single pregnant person (insert other groups here), then it's not discrimination against any pregnant person (other groups)??
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Exactly. What is past is past, even if it happened twice.
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Does this say anything about your mood this morning? It did mine...
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Sluppery Jum du Gruz.
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There's a reason the novella is having a comeback: they leave you peckish, wanting just a little more.
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But only for 50% of the mineral rights.
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Huh. And here I was thinking that the quotient group of mathematicians by those with social anxiety had order one.
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The the backward between-the-legs shot in tennis? You know, that perfect combination of desperation and panic that works just often enough to keep it in the player's repertoire? ๐
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I should have specified: Settings/Accessibility.
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You can go into settings and turn on a switch that will stop you if you try to post an image without alt text.
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Are we sure this is true? I mean, aren't something like 35% of his papers still unpublished? ๐
Although, I suppose, since he was only 20 when he moved to Russia and wasn't yet making babies and going blind, if TikTok were around, he was a prime age to document the hell out of the move....
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Notable engagement bait, sheaves. :}
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It's not like Elon had his Elon-bots all over ALL the data or anything...
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UW-Madison, ahead of the curve.
The Pail and Shovel party promised, in their campaign to lead student government, to bring the Statue of Liberty to Madison.
In my first year of grad school, I woke up on a 1979 winter's morning to this.
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If they didn't want to be dunked on, they shouldn't have been so darn dunkable.
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Absolutely.
I use giardiniera and cheddar.
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Make "-ai" your new favorite swear word. Pronounce it however you want--dang, shoot, Elon sucks--but just add it to your search request.
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She's laughing because you haven't found the one she previously installed.
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Look at it this way: My (then) wife would occasionally do so in the late 70s when we were both math students at UChicago.
In other words, you are only facing local, not global, constraints.
You have become manifold!
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Player for pick "blockbuster trade"?
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I was sad when I learned that said Alexander was a mathematician.
I had hoped it was named by Alexander the Great because of his slicing open the Gordian knot, which is, slantwise, kinda the theorem.
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Pretty sure they've said they're boycotting the NFL and NBA, both way too woke for MAGA.
Except when they forget, which is pretty often.
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My morning's work.
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If you'd said TV, I'd go with SNL's Bassomatic.
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After throwing ketchup packets against the wall.
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Clearly, the internet is a god and has been the last coupla decades.
At least from the times when we prayed that our dial-up modems would connect.
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So, what is his opinion of chicken niblets?
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May it end better for you.
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You're right: No one's paying attention if you buy a 24-pack of batteries to go in your vibrator.
But a 24 pack of vibrators to go around your battery? Fire.
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This is universal.
I plan on not buying any today.
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Well, it IS set in the same town as "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
You may need to add some wickedness to your life?
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I've got no dog in this fight: last thing I read involving polar regions was Shelley's "Frankenstein", Poe's "An Antarctic Mystery" (sequel to "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket") or Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness."
But straddling both poles sounds uncomfortable.
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I'm pretty sure this was the basis of one of the Preston & Childs Agent Pendergast novels. ๐
Every time he (or D'agosta or Nora or...) walks into a museum, you know some shit's about to go down.