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01:26
@tchrist Yeah, it's been quite pleasant here (except for humidity). I rode 77 miles on the bike yesterday, and it was great. So far no wildfires, but knock on wood.
01:36
Or knock on weed(s).
02:05
Here it is currently the one month of the year when the weather is reasonably acceptable and stable.
02:36
Antisemitic Pink Ployd founder?
Probably grew too old, and that impacted him.
02:51
Hard to pronounce of the day: dioecy /daɪˈiːsi/ -- a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct individual organisms (unisexual) that produce male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproduction is biparental reproduction.
It reminds me of some Japanese word.
03:18
@alphabet Globe grapes are big… That's all I got on that.
The Red Globe is a variety of very large, seeded red grapes with firm flesh used mainly as a table grape. It can be grown outdoors in very warm areas with long growing seasons such as California, Chile or Australia, but in most of the world it is strictly a greenhouse grape. Red Globe grapes can be consumed fresh, dried for raisins, and also used for various grape juices. Because of their large size, they can be used as ice cubes in beverages when frozen. == References ==
Huh. I'd never heard of those before.
I've never seen 'em before.
Apparently they also grow green ones.
Can we all agree that green grapes are much tastier than red ones?
No
Red globes are delish
Red grapes are too complicated.
Green grapes are pure grapey grapiness.
Purple grapes are acceptable, but only in jelly form.
Do they have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in Iran?
@alphabet not commonly consumed
We consume a lot of honey instead
And the bread here is lavash, sangak or barbari, not toast. Baguettes are occasionally used in sandwiches
03:37
@M.A.R. Unfortunate.
I fail to see how one could survive childhood without them.
Much less adulthood.
You know what's fun? Trying to find a brand of bread without added sugar.
@Mitch In the ~1973 World Book Encyclopedia (under cat), it stated there was no such thing as a purebred cat, more or less. I've known this for almost 50 years. YW.
I should try an all-peanut-butter diet.
I need to compare the all-milk, all-energy-drink, and all-peanut-butter diets to see which one best improves my mental health.
Maybe the reason other people are mentally healthier than me is that they're all secretly eating all-peanut-butter diets.
04:13
@Robusto It was the Boulevard Lounge at one point…but that area was too shady, though conveniently located near Krispy Kreme, so they upgraded to a bypass bar…but we're too old now to remember what they renamed it, if anything, but we were incredibly edgy once and full of hot donuts.
@alphabet I tried peanut butter and it was meh
@alphabet No, red grapes are better. Green grapes taste like Sour Patch Kids in your old age.
@alphabet we have plenty of processed junk
05:00
@M.A.R. Do you have Jif peanut butter? Otherwise you have only tasted inferior brands.
Can we all also agree that Skippy peanut butter is flavorless crap?
@HippoSawrUs So...delicious?
Maybe I should try an all-sour-patch-kids diet.
05:28
Captagon is one of several brand names for the drug compound fenethylline hydrochloride. (Forbes, 7years ago). Possibly being used now by Hamas—terrorist drug of choice?
05:43
@Xanne The US uses amphetamine: nbcnews.com/id/wbna3071789
(Though I hear they've recently stopped, and are considering switching to modafinil.)
 
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11:15
Could you please tell me if this sentence sounds fine?

In a large organization, major currencies, such as the euro and yen, may have multiple trading desks staffed a handful of traders who specialize in these currencies.
12:05
Ways of saying Friday in French dialects (19th century)
12:25
In large organizations major currencies, such as the euro and yen, may have multiple trading desks staffed **with** a handful of traders who specialize in these currencies.
> ). Brain MRS also improved, with normalization of the white matter choline peaks for age.
I wonder what the authors mean here: 1) the choline peaks are now fully compliant with the age norms; 2) the choline peaks have moved towards the age norm since the last MRS scan.
12:40
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@user726941 Thank you!
Not "fully compliant," but "improved."
Ve(n)nari in Corsican (not a galloroman dialect though)..
13:44
@user726941 Thank you
14:04
np
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14:22
@CowperKettle they mean white matter choline decreases with age, and they accounted for that.
Computationally, yeah, they probably adjusted the stats until looked like a bell
@MichaelRybkin staffed with
Not a native speaker of English
Oh, already answered. Nevermind then
14:38
Daily Quordle 635
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Watched Mission Impossible 7
Pretty fun
7 = 6.999...
Go back to math's room
Your tricks won't confuse me
It's pretty fun to try and find a number in between them
I used to be fascinated by infinite sets but I got over it
14:48
7 = 7.000...
^that is built in
But does 6.999... = 2.999... + 3.999...?
The trouble is, you never get to infinity, so this is merely a convention.
Yes, because 7 = 3 + 4
Three apples with some molecules scraped off and four apples without a negligible amount of pesticide
We don't talk about minuends at the edge of infinity. We consider them too small and not worth the trouble.
7.000... – 6.999... = 0.000...
14:54
Does 0.000... = -0.999...?
Nope
-0.999... = -1
So -1 + -0.999... = ?
-1 - -0.999... = ?
That's what I meant to type.
0.000... = 0
14:58
Some programming languages come up with -0 results in math. I don't remember which, but I know I've seen that.
Signed zero is zero with an associated sign. In ordinary arithmetic, the number 0 does not have a sign, so that −0, +0 and 0 are equivalent. However, in computing, some number representations allow for the existence of two zeros, often denoted by −0 (negative zero) and +0 (positive zero), regarded as equal by the numerical comparison operations but with possible different behaviors in particular operations. This occurs in the sign-magnitude and ones' complement signed number representations for integers, and in most floating-point number representations. The number 0 is usually encoded as +0, but...
-0 = (-1)×0 = 0
@M.A.R. Thank you
> Binary integer formats can use various encodings. In the widely used two's complement encoding, zero is unsigned. In a 1+7-bit sign-and-magnitude representation for integers, negative zero is represented by the bit string 10000000. In an 8-bit ones' complement representation, negative zero is represented by the bit string 11111111.
In all these three encodings, positive or unsigned zero is represented by 00000000. However, the latter two encodings (with a signed zero) are uncommon for integer formats. The most common formats with a signed zero are floating-point formats (IEEE 754 formats
Yes, that's how it works.
Also, I remember being surprised that 0 is false but -1 is true. Go figure!
Kids those days ...
15:15
In mathematics, 0.999... (also written as 0.9, 0..9 or 0.(9)) is a notation for the repeating decimal consisting of an unending sequence of 9s after the decimal point. This repeating decimal is a numeral that represents the smallest number no less than every number in the sequence (0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ...); that is, the supremum of this sequence. This number is equal to 1. In other words, "0.999..." is not "almost exactly" or "very, very nearly but not quite" 1  –  rather, "0.999..." and "1" represent exactly the same number. There are many ways of showing this equality, from intuitive arguments...
Here it helps to think of 1 as 1.000...
1=1.000...
There is no real number between 0.999... and 1.000...
So they must be the same.
15:46
I'm trying to read something, but my brain gets tired half-paragraph. I'm feeling better on methylfolate, but my brain still does not work well enough to do something.
@M.A.R. I was unsure whether they really meant that the levels have entered into the normal range for this age, or whether they simply moved towards it :)
And when I'm trying to think actively, I have a cramped sensation in the muscles of my shoulder. I wonder what produces it. The left shoulder.
And onset of numbness in the "external" (outwards) half of my foot (the little finger and the one or two near it). When I'm not thinking actively, the sensation diminishes.
Try preventive self medication
@user726941 Alcoholic drinks?
And I'm avoiding opening personal messages on all social network platforms.
In VK, I haven't been able to push myself to open messages since May.
On Facebook, since early September
On Twitter, for a couple months.
On Telegram, for about a month.
I can see that some messages arrive, since there are notices arriving at my google mail.
16:03
Nope.
If something hurts when you are doing it, then stop doing it.
@alphabet 👆 raccoon enjoying very enjoyable green grapes being menaced by bad human hand
I do not look for these. The all-knowing universe provides.
@Mitch You're not supposed to feed the racoons in chat.
@HippoSawrUs I loved the World Book Encyclopedia. Everything I know is from there.
However I failed to see that article on cats.
@Robusto looks askance at human written words
How many fingers (excluding the thumb) do you have?
Just out of curiosity
PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE RACCONS IN CHAT!
16:17
Naw don't bother. You're acting guilty so you -are- guilty.
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Feeding them interferes with their, I don't know, ecology or something.
@Mitch All of them.
Probably gives them arteriosclerosis or diabetes
That too.
@Robusto That's as good as a confession.
Authorities have been notified. Please stand away from windows.
16:19
Doesn't mean it is a confession. I want a lawyer.
Authorities are always notified. Doesn't mean they do anything about anything.
@Robusto OK sure. Please inform your lawyer to stand away from the windows.
Hmmph, so he can't see all the raccoons rifling through the dumpsters?
Wait a moment ... consults earpiece
Helicopter fireships have been deployed
Go to an interior room or basement in a door frame or load bearing wall
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@Mitch You're forcing me to call out the AAA.
16:22
drench a cloth big enough to wrap around your head.
Which can either mean American Automobile Association or ... Anti-Aircraft Artillery. See if you can guess which one applies here.
Sure we tell that to people so the think they'll be able to breath, but really it's to preserve the face for identification purposes.
@Mitch atherosclerosis
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@Robusto waiting 45 minutes to recharge your battery ain't gonna help you now
16:24
Read on.
@M.A.R. I could never tell those apart
@CowperKettle they meant that "if we take into account the fact that these levels naturally decrease with age, this intervention consistently improves brain choline"
@Robusto I think you've proven my point. Anti-aircraft guns ain't gonna jump start your car or change a tire.
@Mitch But they will knock down helicopters bent on destruction.
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16:26
@Robusto They'll probably destroy peace loving helicopters too but you don't see that on the cover of Vogue magazine.
@Mitch atherosclerosis is when cholesterol specifically builds up and ruins the arteries. Arteriosclerosis pedantically refers to any cause that damages the arteries, including cholesterol deposits, but practically is used to refer to other ways that vessel walls are damaged. (e.g. some fibrotic autoimmune damage)
@Mitch Only "supermodel" helicopters are on the cover of Vogue.
They get paid a lot.
@M.A.R. OK. So why do you hate raccoons?
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@Mitch they have never benefited me in any way
16:28
@Robusto It's a shame that our culture encourages kids in this way.
Ciao for nao.
And now they're using up nonrenewable sources of food such as grapes? Unbelievable
@M.A.R. Fair enough. They probably couldn't care less about your fancy atherosclerotic ideas.
@Robusto Say it ain't sao
@Mitch Okay but if they come to me crying "oh no my atherosclerosis!" I'm not gonna help
@M.A.R. A new thing in the grocery stores these days is grapes called 'cotton-candy' grapes because presumably they're sweet as spun sugar with food coloring that gets your hands all sticky and your face sun burned and then you go on the ferris wheel and want to get off immediately because you feel a little nauseous but holy crap this ferris wheel is not moving and you're one car away from getting off but then it moves you one car further away and this day is ruined' grapes.
By 'A new thing' it's probably been around for twenty years but I only just noticed like 5 years ago but I forget about it every year.
16:33
@Mitch That is an excellent example of how to be an ally.
from which you can surmise that I only just saw them the other day first time.
@Robusto Helicopters are your friend. But to be safe, stay away from the windows when they start to rattle.
16:48
:64609491Sure, as long as they can sleep in your chimney
or if you don't have a chimney, under your bed.
@alphabet Ally, schmally. Get yer damn dirty hands off my grapes.
Now if you want schmooze about all this grape and raccoon and stealing from the mouths of rodents then...
Schmooze, schmuhschmooze, there's no telling what a raccoon will do.
 
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18:30
What means ".... where a car could pull out in front of you"? Confused about "pull out".
@Vikas The car would pull out from somewhere it had been placed in or at, such as a parking space, a garage, a parking ramp, a driveway, or sometimes an intersection with a mandatory stop.
@tchrist Pull out means the driver of that car would bring car right in front of you?
No, it does not carry that meaning.
For example at the intersection.
But if you are trying to cross their path, then yes.
The point is that the "out" part has to be coming out from somewhere, and the "pull" means they've begun from a stationary position.
18:35
Oh so the car is at rest initiallly.
> 1.a. c1330– transitive. To draw out with a dragging or tugging action; to pluck out; to extract, remove. Also: to withdraw (support).
to pull out
> 1.c. 1920– intransitive. To admit of being pulled out or open.
So if someone suddenly "pull out" in front of me it could be dangerous for my vehicle.
It doesn't matter how they get there.
Here it clearly means to cut you off.
> 1956 So easy to load because it pulls out like a drawer—loads from the top without tiresome bending.
Life 2 April 63/1 (advertisement)

1979 Another popular feature is a drawer that pulls out to reveal one or more garbage cans.
Washington Post (Nexis) 16 September (Magazine) 40

2004 The teen designed the bed to pull out on drawer-style tracks.
Better Homes & Gardens March 92/2
If they suddenly appear in front of you, they are interfering with your own motion. They got in your way.
Don't look for some special sense here. Everything depends on the surrounding context. Pulling out is how a magician plucks a rabbit from his hat. It's also a way to cancel an agreement. Or a putative form of birth control.
@tchrist 👍
I got the idea.
A car that pulls out from behind you or from a stationary position to a position in front of you. We hear all the time: The car pulled out of the x or pulled out in front of me. That does not on its own signal danger. Of course, they can pull out in front of you and slow down. That would be dangerous. Context is everything. The car pulled out in front of me and sped down the road.
18:55
> In two instances the House agreed to choose and subsequently did
choose a Speaker by a plurality of votes but confirmed the choice by
majority vote. In 1849 the House had been in session 19 days without
being able to elect a Speaker, no candidate having received a majority
of the votes cast. The voting was viva voce, each Member responding to
the call of the roll by naming the candidate for whom he voted.
Finally, after the fifty-ninth ballot, the House adopted a resolution
declaring that a Speaker could be elected by a plurality. 1 Hinds
"viva voce"
19:53
@Mitch . . . Why
I mean, I like sweetstuff as much as the next guy, probably more because of prednisolone, but that sounds like a crime against nature
I never really got cotton candy TBH
Everything about it screams "tragedy of the commons"
@alphabet I know raccoons eat everything but sheesh, I would never think ahout eating a gif
@M.A.R. Look man I didn't make up American food culture, I'm just reporting it.
If it isn't clear, cotton-candy is interesting, but I find the hassle ain't worth it. It doesn't taste -that- good.
Also when you put it into your mouth it sort of melts away quickly so you don't actually feel like you're eating it, rather you're abetting its disappearance.
It's too sweet, waste of good sugar
@M.A.R. I am amazed at the space age manner of its creation (Tesla would have been proud). But that's as far as I can go.
Yeah it would be put to better use in cake.
You always need a counter
It's like eating lemons to enjoy a sour taste
My teeth hurt from saying that
I should sleep. Twelve hours of uni tomorrow. Night
@M.A.R. I can't handle that stuff. They gave it to me when I had a problem with my thyroid and my heart rate and blood pressure skyrocketed.
20:08
Grape cotton candy or prednisolone?
@M.A.R. Well, to be fair, yes that's exactly what you'd want to do if you wanted something sour.
@M.A.R. Prednisolone. I asked for grape cotton candy but they wouldn't prescribe it.
@M.A.R. cotton-candy -grapes-, grapes that taste like cotton candy, -not- grape cotton-candy, cotton candy that is grape flavored. This is science.
@Mitch How about apes that taste like cotton candy? That's science too.
@Robusto There are apes that don't taste at all? How odd!
20:19
Have you tried one?
@Robusto They already do, hence the "bushmeat" problem.
Somehow they're not as savory as grapes, though.
All apes are cotton candy flavored. Have you never eaten one?
So far I've been able to resist.
Orangutans taste like oranges, though.
20:22
The Old Man Fruit of the Forest
@Mitch Have they invented diet cotton candy yet? Splenda might work.
@Robusto Hey that's homophobic
You're the one who introduced the oranges.
@alphabet bleurgh
@alphabet The one thing out of all of this that actually makes sense.
21:03
@Mitch They need more "diet" versions of regular foods. I'd pay good money for diet trail mix. Artificial sweeteners aren't great for you but sugar's way worse.
Hmmmm, diet cheese fondue? Don't think it would work, quite.
21:31
Sounds almost as good as veganist cheese fondue.
Unless they're Concord grapes, don't bother.
My new startup will be making GMO diet grapes with stevia
 
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23:28
@alphabet I could help you with that… Although I actually prefer Chewy Sweetarts, maybe once a year, my spouse is a bit on the spectrum, so he waits until the last minute and stuffs a huge stocking with a year's supply of Sour Patch Kids, every Christmas, because to him…that is exactly the same thing. Yep, so it will disappoint about 20 kids I know, but if it's your only food group…oh wait, green grapes; never mind.
Oh yeah, and peanut butter with molasses in it. Blech. JIF is good for making PB cookies; that's all.
23:48
Which of these 13 "pVl" words, each with a different V, normally have pre-L breaking, and which ones do not? peel, pill, pell, pal, pale, pall, pile, poil, Powell, Paul, pole, pull, pool.
Is pall different from Paul?
No, actually. That should be the phaal/paal version.
Good catch.

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