FD4280
6mo ago
Probably the absence of low-flow design downstream of environmental regulations.
FD4280
6mo ago
Book 5 of McCullough’s Rome series. Still lots of fun, though I am a bit bummed about Caesar’s first five years in Gaul getting skipped over. (Ditto for Sulla’s campaign against Mithridates between books 2 and 3). I guess it’s time to pick up Caesar’s own account thereof.
FD4280
6mo ago
“esprit de corpse” is an excellent typo. Almost up there with “locust of control.”
FD4280
9mo ago
Apparently there is now AP precalculus. Just go with the flow and make everything AP.
FD4280
10mo ago
Have you ever played Langrisser 2? It’s the natural companion to those TRPGs.
FD4280
1yr ago
Vermont and Maine are ~95% white. Their state prison populations are overwhelmingly white. It's not reasonable to infer that the same political preferences follow for the nationwide prison population.
FD4280
1yr ago
Out of curiosity, did you expect the warmup to be addressed with something like:
Compare two middlemost entries; the max lies in the half of the array containing the greater of the two. Return this half of the array. Repeat until the remaining array has length 1 (with the max entry guaranteed).
Or is there a better way? Conversely, suppose the interviewee does the obvious thing and compares consecutive pairs until a decreasing pair is found. Would they have any chance of getting hired?
FD4280
19d ago
Why are dandelions so prevalent in cities, in absolute terms as well as in comparison to other weeds?
FD4280
3mo ago
Trace,
At some point in the past, iirc in a discussion of LibsOfTiktok, I wrote that you can be counted upon to investigate only in the political direction that doesn’t threaten your daily kibble. I was wrong and you have my apology.
FD4280
3mo ago
Romance of the Three Kingdoms in English. Sixty pages in, it’s a royal pain to keep track of the names. I wonder if something like Game of Thrones is equally daunting in Mandarin. Would the names be represented by some approximation of meaning or phonetically?
FD4280
4mo ago
I think that in light of the existence of the judiciary branch, which is pretty much exclusively staffed by such, lawyers holding elected office in the other two branches runs contrary to the notion of checks and balances.
FD4280
8mo ago
This is untrue - or at least was ~20 years ago. I know a former Marine who is very obviously on the spectrum.
FD4280
9mo ago
Could you include a little more background, or at least some links, in your post?
FD4280
9mo ago
Joe Abercrombie, starting with The Blade Itself. Phenomenal characters served with a dollop of dark British humor.
Can you name ten black scientists whose discoveries are used with some frequency? Say roughly at the level of David Blackwell or higher.
This is not a gotcha. I’m open to learning something.
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