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Færd

00:18

@tchrist Oh yes there's no shortage of X of Y options in English. :)

Robusto

01:02

I'm coming to grips with the fact that EL&U provides no dopamine anymore.

tchrist

01:45

@Robusto Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.

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CowperKettle

03:10

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Robusto

04:13

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A: Which Sentence is Grammatically Correct? "English Language"

Logically as a programmer you can use your awesome brain, the brain is a living organ which is listening your commands and performing through your blood. You can only say a living organ with command THIS until this is alive. You can't say or call a dead brain with command THIS but you call it wit...

What the actual fuck?

I am jaded about answers on EL&U by now, but this one leaves me flabbergasted.

skullpatrol

lol

CowperKettle

Gender gap in depression prevalence, as affected by diabetes drc.bmj.com/content/8/1/e001430

@Robusto That's some solid Russian logic

skullpatrol

actually, what we have here is failure to communicate

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Not A Zoomed Image

05:42

what do we call this problem?

Consider a sentence "All l-values have assigned memory addresses."

We can parse it in two ways:

(All l-values) (have assigned) (memory addresses).

or

(All l-values) (have) (assigned memory addresses).

If you answer this question, please ping me, thank you in advance!

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CowperKettle

09:28

Faded Giant

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M.A.R.

09:47

@CowperKettle so what's their argument? How do they justify its "ethicity"?

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CowperKettle

11:19

@M.A.R. Oh, there are a lot of links to documents where they produce their arguments; I haven't read them, I only glanced across the article itself

I'm busy proofreading

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CowperKettle

12:23

World's first hyrdogen fuel passenger aircraft flew two days ago fuelcellsworks.com/news/…

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CowperKettle

15:55

iPhone Survives Fall From World’s Tallest StarFlyer

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> All of these countries have health approval systems similar to Canada’s yet we don’t have any rapid testing yet. Premiers and medical officials have all called on Health Canada for some clarity but received none. torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/…

Does Canada have several Premier Ministers?

Cryptic use of the word.

CowperKettle

16:17

> Instant breath test for covid invented, which allows to identify high titers of the virus in expired air medscape.com/viewarticle/938010

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RegDwigнt

18:26

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room: Where the brain is a living organ which is listening your commands [phrase-requests] [pronunciation] [single-word-requests] [synonyms]

CowperKettle

Word of the day: fallstreak hole

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Robusto

19:41

SmokeDetector

19:56

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body (45): Comma usage for Parenthetical Elements ✏️ by usar on english.SE

Robusto

20:15

@CowperKettle Dafuq is that?

Robusto

20:46

Hmm, I have never seen one of those.

Robusto

21:14

Here is an interesting contest between clouds and sky, waged northeast of Santa Fe in June of 2019.

The sky out here is so damn gorgeous.

Always doing something interesting.

tchrist

@Robusto "Interesting".

But yes, that's why the meteorology departments are strong hereabouts.

@CowperKettle It would be bad to fall into a hole while streaking.

tchrist

21:33

We're having interesting weather again today. It's a Fire Danger = "Red Flag" one; very windy and 88 degrees. Some clouds, but more smoke: there's a new fire just over the Wyoming border west of Laramie that blew up yesterday.

But apparently tomorrow it will barely clear 60.

@Robusto My work-desk at home here faces a very similar scene, with about ten feet of glass looking (wide window + two French doors almost all glass) out at the sky and the foothills loping north to Wyoming.

Robusto

@tchrist Nice.

tchrist

Acceping that I can see no road from here.

Just footpaths and some for bikes.

Robusto

@tchrist I always keep my office blinds closed, because otherwise I would never get any work done. Even when I read in the sitting room, which has a panoramic view of the mountains, if I really need to read I'll close the blinds.

Otherwise I just stare.

tchrist

I face north, and west. I was about to go out for a walk but it is too smoky smelling.

I do stare. It's good for my eyes to change focal lengths now and then.

Robusto

Yeah. Air quality here is borderline between good and moderate.

tchrist

21:41

Same. Boulder's official sensor is at 48 but everything else around us in up in the 60s and 70s if not worse. And Cheyenne has like 170 right now.

Robusto

I rode up past Placitas to the end of the pavement today. From the side of the mountain I could see the Sangre de Cristo and Jemez mountains pretty clearly.

tchrist

It smells worse than it is. Maybe. Or maybe the regular sensor is again miscalibrated for wood-smoke particulants.

They just updated us to 51, so a tad into the moderate.

Robusto

So I did 1900 feet of climbing, 44 miles, and got home exhausted. And then I see on Strava that a woman friend from Santa Fe did 82 miles and 4800 feet of climbing. She left a comment on my ride that she hopes we'll get to ride together soon. I replied, "Definitely! I have to die sometime."

tchrist

Reminds me of seeing grey-haired old guys who bike up to the top of Mt Evans (14,255'), our highest paved road. Amazed they don't just keel over dead.

Robusto

Well, there ain't a lot of breathable air at that altitude.

15k is the max you can go without oxygen.

I've got out and walked at that altitude and just walking 100 yards you get winded.

tchrist

21:53

Oh you can breathe it as much as you'd like. It's still not much, around 57% of sea-level.

Robusto

Is that the pass you can drive through in Rocky Mountain National Park?

Because that's the one I went through, on several occasions.

tchrist

It is not. I know which one you mean though. That's Trail Ridge Road. If you stop at the Visitor Center on top, the 100-yard hike leading up to the north is exausting.

That's the road from The Shining.

Robusto

Ha.

tchrist

Mt Evans is off I-70 at Idaho Springs, first town west of Golden.

Robusto

There is a bicycle event called the Triple Bypass up in your area.

It goes from Evergreen to Vail.

It's 123 miles and 12,000 feet of climbing.

ridewithgps.com/routes/11267454

The altitude peaks at about 12,000 feet, at which point I'd be dead.

Routes differ by year, but they're all quite bruising.

People used to go out on Saturday and back on Sunday, but they stopped allowing that.

tchrist

22:06

Yeah, it's really hard.

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Terran Swett

23:38

Q: Is there such a thing as a future infinitive in English?

I am currently working on the English idiomatic phrase "Someone is said to do/to be doing/to have done something," and, try as I might, I cannot find any worthwhile piece of information about the question I am asking myself. Provided that… It is said that John is a spy. "becomes" John is said to...