I found this article astonishingly unconvincing. Expertise is not a free speech issue. If someone is applying for a job as a math prof and claims that there are finitely many primes, don't hire them. If they start teaching this after being hired, fire them for cause.
As my pilot friend Mike used to say "this reads like the beginning of an FAA accident report."
New to me. I'd cheerfully try it.
Yeah, I remember those. But Ice Cubes were way better. Does that make me elitist?
How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas
"While hourly pay for typical workers remained stagnant, massive stock gains and rising home equity enriched the most affluent households. Now there are so many wealthy people who can afford luxury cars that it isn’t profitable for companies to produce cars for the bottom 40% of Americans by income"
This article is very sad. My first new car was a 1983 Toyota Tercel, purchased on a grad student stipend. Today, this would be utterly impossible. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
@greatdismal.bsky.social I thought of you when I saw this. bsky.app/profile/pure...
I'm just saying, people in tech pubs should call themselves docworkers.
(I'll show myself out now.)
Amen. I keep thinking I should cancel my subscription to the times (except for puzzles). Perhaps now is the time.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary for the word "kakistocracy," which is "government by the worst people." Sample usage: America is currently living under a kakistocracy.
You can always trust Merriam-Webster (www.merriam-webster.com) for definitions. Here's what they have to say:
Also the color is fantastic compared to what you can get from earth.
Amen! That soundtrack was way ahead of its time, especially "Wake Up Niggers" by The Last Poets. And of course "Memo From Turner" is fantastic.
There are three relevant settings: f-stop (aperture, N), exposure time (𝘵), and ISO ("film speed") (𝘚). You can ignore "exposure compensation" (which was used by the camera to set the 3 key parameters). The total light collected is proportional to 𝘵𝘚/N².
Analog photography is subjective too. You didn't have as much range in the settings, but the same settings existed, and functioned in the same way.
The answer is John Cale. He did a version of Hallelujah for a 1991 Leonard Cohen tribute album called "I'm Your Fan," and that's the version that's used in Shrek. He also did a similar live version on his great 1992 live album "Fragments of a Rainy Season." The Cale covers were very influential.
Wainwright sang it on the soundtrack album, but not in the movie. I didn't say it was an easy question ;)
A fun trivia question: Whose version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah appeared in the (2001) movie, 𝘚𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘬? (Don't look it up until you come up with an answer.)
Haven't you heard? We're living in a post-competence era.
Nighttime urban landscape: several buildings vanishing into the fog, which is illuminated by a streetlight and architectural lighting.
Tim took this lovely picture in Boston last night.
Also, when you're an airline CEO and no one who has any choice in the matter is flying, just remember that it's happening because of that guy.
I have placed myself on the no-fly list for the foreseeable future.
I am placing myself on an (informal) no-fly list until this is over.
I trust that the homeowner gets to keep the meteorite?
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And the girl in "Hey Nineteen" becomes eligible for medicare this year. Now she has other reasons for not remembering the Queen of Soul.
And the girl in "Hey Nineteen" becomes eligible for medicare this year. Now she has other reasons for not remembering the Queen of Soul.
Shibata-san is a wonderful translator. He translated every edition of each of my Java books, and I'm very thankful to him.
Screen shot of Carat (Concise Atmos Ripping Automation Tool) doing its job.
Carat Beta 2 is out. If you're into Atmos multichannel audio and you have a local digital music library, check it out: github.com/jbloch/carat...
