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GratefulDisciple
GratefulDisciple
00:37
@alphabet When I was in college, they offered them. Gooling around you'll find a lot still, even certificates. Examples: business writing course from tchrist's neighborhood via coursera and free technical writing course for software developers by Google.
jlliagre
jlliagre
00:56
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Oct. 23, 2024

T I G H T R O P E
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My Score: 460
alphabet
alphabet
01:10
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Oct. 23, 2024

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My Score: 2110
#travle #679 +0
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Cerberus
Cerberus
01:44
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What is the contrast here?
tchrist
tchrist
02:16
@Cerberus Red versus green? One queen with five guys of varying station?
Cerberus
Cerberus
The contrast is between image 1 and image 2.
@tchrist The latter may be partly relevant.
tchrist
tchrist
Well you left out the Mormons in the first one. :)
The first one is harem culture.
The second one is "his"-em culture, its complement.
Sure a lot of crowns there.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Sanjeev Namjoshi ~ Active Inference Insights 018 ~ Education, Expectation-Maximisation, Evolution
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Cerberus
Cerberus
02:51
@tchrist Correct!
Polygyny and polyandry.
alphabet
alphabet
Sep 3 at 20:33, by alphabet
Unusual fact of the day: South African law allows same-sex marriage and polygamy, but not the combination of the two, i.e. a man can have multiple wives but at most one husband. Former President Jacob Zuma has four wives.
Interesting question: if you get a green card, which of your twelve wives can get a visa?
Apparently anyone who has had multiple wives in the past five years is banned from being naturalized as a citizen because they "lack good moral character."
Michael Rybkin
Michael Rybkin
04:00
@GratefulDisciple Got it. Thank you very much.
@Robusto Thank you.
 
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HippoSawrUs
HippoSawrUs
06:02
Is being accused of soliciting for English, IRL, against the rules? I am a person given land and houses by old white men who died in the South b/c men outlive women and have wills sometimes. Their children are honor students to justify not doing anything for anything for the rest of their natural lives; or they work, I guess. So naturally, I'm offended. :-{ ZZZzzz...
HippoSawrUs
HippoSawrUs
06:19
In any case, I'm not a former Dean's-list-or-bust prostitute. Not saying I couldn't have been, with a little meth maybe, regularly, but as it stands, I would've been the Essay John. If that's even a thing vs. a context that makes anything work…practically. Zzz…
 
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Xanne
Xanne
07:49
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Oct. 24, 2024

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My Score: 2150
 
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tchrist
tchrist
11:20
> Murdock's (1967) Ethnographic Atlas states that polyandry is allowed in only four societies in the world: Tibet, the Sherpa and Toda of India, and the Marquesans in eastern Polynesia.
> Polyandry is, in fact, a rare phenomenon, if not as rare as once thought,
and understanding of the variables that define the term is evolving. The
two best-known areas in which polyandry was studied and continued to
be practiced into the 21st century are the Plateau of Tibet (a region
shared by India, Nepal, and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China) and
the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific. In a report published in
2012, however, anthropologists Kathrine Starkweather and Raymond Hames
identified 53 additional nonclassical societies throughout the world
tchrist
tchrist
11:39
While I had long known of levirate marriage where a philanderess marries two or more brothers (from L. levir/leviri; cf. L. glos/gloris), only today have I learned that in the adelphic version she doesn't have to make sure that only the last-married fellow from her fraternal set is still alive.
 
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Vikas
Vikas
12:42
youtube.com/live/D5q4bwrkPBI?si=8eqF_FgyRodui7M-&t=3715
How NVIDIA name originated XD
Robusto
Robusto
13:12
@Vikas Because it invokes invidious?
#travle #680 +1
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Vikas
Vikas
13:40
@Robusto It did during pandemic.
And Crypto hype.
Robusto
Robusto
#WhenTaken #240 (24.10.2024)

I scored 771/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 33 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 195 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 10928 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 93 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 1 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 195 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 73 km - 🗓️ 10 yrs - ⚡ 181 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 2405 km - 🗓️ 18 yrs - ⚡ 107 / 200

https://whentaken.com
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Vikas
Vikas
14:07
> In a few minutes, we will deploy a significant Chat upgrade
Wow.
Is it serious?
I want copy paste image feature.
> Chat upgrade incoming! No feature changes, but major under-the-hood work
Robusto
Robusto
@Vikas Upgrades are always serious. That's when those little gotchas emerge that can cause things to founder unpredictably and horribly. Although sometimes they just .. work.
jlliagre
jlliagre
#WhenTaken #240 (24.10.2024)

I scored 816/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 19 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 196 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 306 km - 🗓️ 11 yrs - ⚡ 172 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 1 km - 🗓️ 13 yrs - ⚡ 176 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 174.0 metres - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 200 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 2054 km - 🗓️ 28 yrs - ⚡ 72 / 200

https://whentaken.com
Vikas
Vikas
@Robusto But it looks like there's no feature change. It will still stay exactly same.
jlliagre
jlliagre
#travle #680 +0 (Perfect)
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jlliagre
jlliagre
14:31
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Robusto
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@Vikas Doesn't matter. Even when you're upgrading the same system software there can always be stuff that breaks.
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Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Oct. 24, 2024

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My Score: 1940

I can't believe I chose the wrong one on "R"
So ...
If you created a computer-controlled conveyance for pushing babies around, would it run on buggy software?
3
I'm waiting for the facepalms, people.
jlliagre
jlliagre
15:04
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Oct. 24, 2024

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My Score: 820
@Robusto Ha ha, I got the "R" ;-)
Robusto
Robusto
@jlliagre Mine was a brain cramp.
No need to space the letters out. I can count. As can you.
jlliagre
jlliagre
@Robusto I was just trying to see if the output looks better with a fixed font but it's still broken.
Robusto
Robusto
@jlliagre Yeah, those glyph boxes have their own parameters.
Cerberus
Cerberus
15:58
Karl Otfried Müller
Karl Otfried Müller (Latin: Carolus Mullerus; 28 August 1797 – 1 August 1840) was a German professor, scholar of classical Greek studies and philodorian. == Biography == He was born at Brieg (modern Brzeg) in Silesia, then in the Kingdom of Prussia. His father was a chaplain in the Prussian army, and he was raised in the atmosphere of Protestant Pietism. He attended the gymnasium of his town. His university education was partly in Breslau (now Wrocław) and partly in Berlin. In Berlin, he was spurred towards the study of Greek literature, art and history by the influence of Philipp August Böckh...
@tchrist Another philo.
 
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Mitch
Mitch
17:08
@CowperKettle very technical. I couldn't follow q lot of it but doesn't sound like BS (it sounds like he's trying to keep true to the technical meanings of the words and not relying on wow factors.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
17:37
@Mitch Thank you for the comment!
I also don't understand almost anything in the video
But at least it warms my heart that it's not part of the general hype.
Latin of the day: naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret -- "You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back"
Laurel
Laurel
@Robusto They once tried to update chat but then were like "lol jk" and rolled it back. (Because the update just didn't work)
Robusto
Robusto
18:14
@Laurel Every now and then HostMonster will update PHP across the board, which invariably breaks my cycling club's website. I think I've finally got them to quit that shit, but I can't ever really be sure it won't happen again.
And I'm damned sure I'm not going to "fix" the site to work on a new version. If they wanted to pay me, maybe; but I built their website out of the goodness of my heart (and also because their former site sucked ass), so ... steady as she goes, captain.
Laurel
Laurel
18:29
Updating PHP 7 or lower is always a huge hassle. Modern PHP upgrades (8+) aren't bad unless a sociopath wrote your code. But I have no idea why a host would just upgrade you automatically
Robusto
Robusto
18:48
@Laurel Whaddya want for $6/mo?
Anyway, the then-existing site used PHP 7.x so I built around that in order to avoid doing too much work. So I was kinda locked into that.
Cerberus
Cerberus
19:36
How many ships did Venice have in the 1300s?
MetaEd
MetaEd
@Cerberus the answer is, the Daily Double!
Cerberus
Cerberus
I don't know what that is.
But I wouldn't have been able to guess this number.
MetaEd
MetaEd
it's a cultural reference - old tv game show in the US called "Jeopardy"
I say old, it's still around, just has been running for many years
"He was part of my dream, of course---but then I was part of his dream too." ---Lewis Carroll
@Robusto Any time I try to solve a web problem using PHP, then I have two problems. I've gone back to Perl, but that's because I'm that old.
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Robusto
Robusto
19:55
@MetaEd Yeah, I'd never used PHP before working on this site, and there's a reason for that.
Aug 1, 2018 at 20:28, by Robusto
Oh, this is great. The PHP time() function now outputs 1533155130, which is "Sun Jan 18 1970 10:52:35 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)" ... fuck PHP. Seriously.
MetaEd
MetaEd
20:15
@Robusto Julian calendar? :D
MetaEd
MetaEd
21:09
@tchrist I really don't know what to think about this book. As I listen, I get immersed in the story, and it's an interesting story, and then suddenly there's this weird cultural reference or pun and I bounce right out. like the green saurian that "frolics in the autumn mist" lol
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
21:23
@Robusto oh is that why some websites default the date to 1970?
MetaEd
MetaEd
@Robusto it would run on buggy software that requires frequent carriage returns and uses up pram
MetaEd
MetaEd
21:47
@Cerberus my god, he's lucius malfoy
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isn't it funny how modern busts are left unpainted basically because the paint wore off the ancient busts?
Robusto
Robusto
@MetaEd Brat.
@M.A.R. Yes, 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 is the Unix epoch.
Cerberus
Cerberus
@MetaEd Hmm who?
@MetaEd And classical buildings!
Though do we know 100% for certain that all statues were painted in Antiquity?
MetaEd
MetaEd
22:04
@Cerberus all true statues were painted in antiquity.
Cerberus
Cerberus
22:25
Can we be certain, though?
MetaEd
MetaEd
@Cerberus Of course we can be certain. You can always be certain of an unfalsifiable proposition.
Cerberus
Cerberus
22:43
Right.
I mean, I know they were normally painted.
But I haven't really revised the evidence and its strength or extent.
GratefulDisciple
GratefulDisciple
22:57
@Robusto Would you say Unix epoch is as big a milestone as A.D. for Operating Systems? Long live Unix! I'm thankful to be born after the epoch, so my DOB is a positive value; wonder whether they have a convention that negative timestamp is like B.C. I'm mentally preparing for Year 2038 Problem. I wonder whether by then everyone use 64bit integers.
jlliagre
jlliagre
@GratefulDisciple People born before December 13th 1901 have a bigger problem.
alphabet
alphabet
23:26
@GratefulDisciple I think most systems are already Y2038-safe. Just like how most systems built before the year 2000 wouldn't have actually broken when that year arrived; the "Y2K crisis" was essentially one invented by consultants to scare people into paying for their services.
Cerberus
Cerberus
Were there really no serious people who were afraid of it?
Robusto
Robusto
@jlliagre So do people born before 1582.
jlliagre
jlliagre
@Robusto and people born in 0.
Robusto
Robusto
@jlliagre There 0 people born in that year.
jlliagre
jlliagre
That's their problem!
Robusto
Robusto
23:35
I mean, what a bunch of zeroes, amiright?
alphabet
alphabet
@Cerberus As I recall, the potential problem had been known for decades, most systems had been fixed far in advance of the panic about it, and the risk of serious large-scale failures was near zero.
There were serious people afraid of it, because Y2K "remediation" "experts" made money by scaring people into thinking the apocalypse was coming.
Robusto
Robusto
23:51
@GratefulDisciple That problem is commonly referred to as "Epoch Fail" ...
jlliagre
jlliagre
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Q: Which fallacy is involved in Y2K denial?

Peter JordanMany people claim that the millenium bug (Y2K)was an unnecessary panic. The argument goes: "On Jan 2000, there were only a few problems attributable to the Y2K problem. Therefore the effort used to solve it were wasted." As one of those who actually removed a Y2K bug, I know this statement is ...

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