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Kodiologist

Jan 18 00:09

Thoughts on "mama" vs. "momma"? Are they interchangeable or do they have different connotations?

Kodiologist

Sep 3, 2024 19:07

@Mitch That's a good point. It's clear that you should say "It did use to…" and not "It did used to…", so the same goes for the interrogative form.

Kodiologist

Sep 3, 2024 18:57

It seems clear that you should say "I used to play.", not "I use to play.". But should you say "Did it used to be good?" or "Did it use to be good?"?

Kodiologist

Aug 30, 2024 19:03

"Food" is a mass noun. "Stuff" is a mass noun. And yet "foodstuff" is a count noun. Go figure.

Kodiologist

Aug 4, 2024 19:56

Q: What's wrong with constructions like "Dragons are big, green, and eat people."?

Many writers on English usage warn against uses of "and" and other conjunctions such as the following: Dragons are big, green, and eat people. The group has interests in Germany, Australia, Japan, and intends to expand into North America next year. He plays good cricket, likes golf and a rubber ...

Kodiologist

Aug 4, 2024 19:56

I felt that there were few good web resources about series out of control, so I took a stab at a canonical Q&A for it.

Kodiologist

Feb 3, 2024 14:53

I would say that omitting the "and" purely for stylistic effect in a wholly parallel list is a different phenomenon. A bastard enumeration is one that looks like a list, but the syntax doesn't quite work out.

Kodiologist

Feb 3, 2024 14:45

Were you incredulous about his defiance?

Kodiologist

Feb 3, 2024 14:45

Specifically, a syntactic failure.

Kodiologist

Feb 3, 2024 14:43

@Laurel A bastard enumeration is a failure of parallelism in a comma-separated list. For example, "The group has interests in Germany, Australia, Japan and intends to expand into North America next year." should be "The group has interests in Germany, Australia, and Japan and intends to expand into North America next year."

Kodiologist

Feb 3, 2024 14:30

I would not be surprised if fencing is among the few sports where safety is taken seriously.

Kodiologist

Feb 3, 2024 14:15

It would be nice to have a single focused page to link people to that defines and explains the issue, and the English stack might be a good place for it.

Kodiologist

Feb 3, 2024 14:14

Do we have a canonical question on bastard enumerations, a.k.a. series out of control?

Kodiologist

Aug 26, 2020 15:28

Was this question closed correctly? It's asking for usage advice, which is on-topic for this site, right? english.stackexchange.com/questions/544518

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Kodiologist

Aug 13, 2024 13:25

@AndyBonner This is a style question, so it wouldn't make sense to me to put prescriptivism aside. I can't give actionable style advice without prescribing something.

Kodiologist

Aug 13, 2024 13:25

@JohnBollinger That question could be its own post on this site, I'm afraid.

Kodiologist

Aug 13, 2024 13:25

@RosieF Because the reader might expect another adjective, as in "Dragons are big and green and mean and nasty". It's a minor issue, and it really depends on context.

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Kodiologist

Jun 14, 2024 20:21

I ended up just replacing the router. Kind of expensive, and maybe wasteful, but it worked.

Kodiologist

Jun 10, 2024 13:44

"check what the ports are negotiating to"

Is there a way to do that without command-line access to the router? I have a Netgear R6220 and I don't think it provides that.

Kodiologist

Jun 10, 2024 13:35

Hmm, I'd have to get a new one to check, but could be worth a shot.

Kodiologist

Jun 10, 2024 13:32

Any ideas on how to start debugging this?

Kodiologist

Jun 10, 2024 13:31

I have this weird problem where when I put a router between my computer (running Lubuntu 24.04) and my modem, I unpredictably get a few extra seconds of latency for some requests, even while I'm still using Ethernet. I notice it mostly for stuff other than HTTP, like getting email over IMAP or connecting to a server with SSH. I'm pretty stumped because (a) I'm a programmer, but know pretty much nothing about low-level networking, and (b) I can't reproduce the problem consistently.

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Kodiologist

Jan 27, 2023 16:25

@steeldriver Oh hey, you're right. It does happen; it just takes like 15 minutes to happen. Thanks for your help.

Kodiologist

Jan 27, 2023 16:25

sudo systemd-tmpfiles --clean now works, but the clean still doesn't happen on reboot. Perhaps the service is run before /scratch is mounted, but I don't know what to do about that. /scratch is mounted in a seemingly normal way in /etc/fstab.

Kodiologist

Jan 27, 2023 16:25

I know about @reboot in crontab syntax, but it's not clear if it would run at the right time. I presume that clearing /tmp on startup is delicate because if it happens too late, you'll remove files that systemd needs for the current session.

Kodiologist

Jan 27, 2023 16:25

Yeah, sudo systemd-tmpfiles --clean has exit code 0 and doesn't print anything, but the files remain.

Kodiologist

Jan 27, 2023 16:25

This doesn't seem to work. I created the file as you described and rebooted, and some old files I created a while ago are still there. Is there perhaps a way to see error messages that were produced during the normal operation of systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service?

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Kodiologist

Nov 19, 2022 13:37

@CowperKettle For sure. The standard normal distribution has mean 0 and SD 1.

Kodiologist

Nov 19, 2022 13:31

@gung-ReinstateMonica Okay, I didn't realize that was policy. I think the edit would've been perfectly okay if it had been correct, but it was wrong.

Kodiologist

Nov 17, 2022 17:48

Thanks for the sanity check, guys.

Kodiologist

Nov 17, 2022 12:39

stats.stackexchange.com/a/219297/14076 An edit was proposed changing the final number here from -10 to -20. Two different other users, Adrian Keister and utobi, approved it. But zscore(c(rep(1, 100), -1))[101] in R yields -10, not -20. Am I missing something, or did three different people all make the same mistake?

Kodiologist

Aug 31, 2022 19:31

If it don't fit, you must acquit (p < .05).

Kodiologist

Aug 30, 2022 17:36

This is a fun one.

Kodiologist

Aug 30, 2022 17:36

Q: Does "statistically significant" have a specific legal meaning?

I occasionally write expert opinions as a statistician or econometrician for legal cases in the United States. On a few different cases, I have been hired to determine whether a given sample should be considered statistically significant, usually at the request of a judge. In other words, does it...

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Kodiologist

Sep 15, 2020 16:23

There's some joke here about not forgetting the C in integration.

Kodiologist

Jan 16, 2019 16:18

@nbro But they're kinda funny.

Kodiologist

Dec 19, 2018 17:24

Acronym of the year.

Kodiologist

Dec 19, 2018 17:24

> PArticipation in RAndomized trials Compromised by widely Held beliefs aboUt lack of Treatment Equipoise (PARACHUTE) trial

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Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 12:51

I added some logs to the question.

Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 11:57

Glad to hear it. I'm really a software guy, so for any problem involving hardware even a little, I tend to flounder.

Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 11:51

I'll have to reproduce the problem again so I know a boot event in which it happened.

Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 11:51

Oh cool, maybe journalctl --list-boots and journalctl --boot=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx will do it. Thanks.

Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 11:47

I thought it started with one of those characteristic 0-based timestamps.

Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 11:47

Yeah, I thought that if I saw that message on screen, it would at least be in one of the archived copies of dmesg. Maybe that means it's not really a dmesg?

Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 11:43

I honestly don't know how or where to start debugging. That's why I asked.

Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 11:43

But what details can I provide?

Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 11:42

No capture card, alas.

Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 11:33

Well, at least a screenful of messages, I should say.

Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 11:30

It looks like my question is getting downvotes and close votes because I didn't provide an error message that I have no way to get. What can I do to avoid this?

Kodiologist

Jul 31, 2022 11:29

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Q: My laptop sometimes can't boot to X when it isn't on AC power

I have a 2021 ROG Zephyrus G14 laptop, which I usually run while plugged into the wall. When it's not plugged it, and I try to boot it, the boot process sometimes doesn't make it all the way to the graphical login screen. Instead, just before the point where the graphical login screen would usual...

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