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Reminds me of this excellent sentence of Hofstadter's, on the concept of treating language as a stack composed of clauses and popped by verbs: "The proverbial German phenomenon of …

What's the 52nd state? I'm assuming DC is treated as the 51st, is the 52nd the federal government? (sorry if it's a typo, I'm asking in good faith)

The way I see it, common keyboards are underpriced due to extreme competition, and top-shelf keyboards are overpriced because they're a niche market. So common keyboards aren't tha…

Could it be called an ink coating? My understanding is that the distinction between ink and pigment is that ink is a solution while pigment is a suspension, can there be both kinds…

Off the top of my head, James Charles lost a million subscribers before people changed their mind about whose side they were on. Toby Turner had rape allegations made against him w…

Why wouldn't it be? It seems to me that at worst we would have to wait for computers to become as powerful and complex as a human brain, and then simulating human intelligence woul…

Yes, that's what the article is about.

The nerve of some people!

The website doesn't claim that the font does anything better, except that it is more readable, effective, and elegant, in the experience of the designer, Rune B. If you really do k…

It seems a shame that 99.99% of humans will never have the opportunity to break the record. If only there was a category for people who race unassisted by a large team of pacers, c…

The website changed: >If you purchased directly from Adobe, we will refund you by the end of the month for any paid, but unused services. We are working with our partners on the sa…

Honestly, I made that comment without fully thinking through how to implement my suggestion, and now I realize that I've stumped myself. However, let me explain what I meant anyway…

According to this tweet[0] the object's coma[1], the cloud of ice and dust surrounding the object, makes it too difficult to measure. [0] https://twitter.com/AscendingNode/status/1…

As others have said, E=mv^2/2 only holds at very small fractions of the speed of light. I believe the equation you need is E=mc^2/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)-mv^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control. I think that most rational people would agree the already-existing baskets should be distribute…

Why is this articled titled this way? It seems very negative to me, and if I had just read the headline and moved on I would have assumed the diet was a silly, maybe even dangerous…

But text is already symmetrical along the z axis, so it works. Say your hands were 2d, so the backs looked the same as the palms. Now hold your hands so that you're looking at the …

Flow issues sound like a problem with the pen, and there shouldn't be enough pressure on the nib for it to dig in like that. /r/fountainpens is a really nice community with lots of…

In the last post it was Baba is You, now Undertale, Celeste, Dwarf Fortress... I think this is a big reason why his posts are so polarizing, some people agree with his premise and …

And the chon-honnel is the one from France to England

Do you mean to say there are 9 choose 4 == 126 possible combinations for a 3x3 pattern? I think this would only be true if you could use a maximum of four dots in the pattern, whic…

OLKB Planck keyboards [0] (presumably Preonics as well) also come with a Plover layout included in the default firmware. [0] https://olkb.com/planck