madcaptenor

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Every now and then HN falls apart

IIRC her best-known song saw a spike in popularity around the 2024 solar eclipse. (I know I played it a few times.)

"Strong Songs" podcast breaking down Total Eclipse of The Heart: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/s07e06-total-e...

I am an Italian-American and would presume to speak for Italian-American foodways but not the foodways of Italians living in Italy.

Bluey would never do this.

I had wondered if getting wordle in 1 based on social media data was possible! Now I know.

see also "absurdle": https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html

These exist for various medical usages. I've seen one to compute the due date of a pregnancy (from either the date of conception or the last missed period). This was at an obstetrician's office. It was probably dropped off by a sales rep and had the logo of some medication or other.

That's what I was thinking.

Tax brackets are also inflation-adjusted, so shouldn't that cancel out?

It's hard to be totally sure, but I also don't think that's a picture of Dudley.

From a glance at the paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.27371) it looks like they're using self-reported ethnicity.

"We only attempt to identify adverse impact based on self-reported racial information and do not impute data, noting that we do not have access to features like applicant name. 62.35% of all applicants in the data do not self-report race as belonging to one of the four racial groups we study."

I should clarify. I remember the fact that I read them but I don't remember anything about them.

I share this feeling. When I want to free up some space, the books I get rid of are the ones I don't remember reading.

I had the same confusion - I'd move the [...] to the following sentence.

Another case: when Brexit happened, IIRC some people in Scotland were suggesting secession from the UK post-Brexit so they could rejoin the EU.

Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew. But he didn't want to be Michael A. Fox because that sounded too much like "Michael, a fox."

right, but giving English-speaking kids the following would help them:

- a bear that looks like B

- an orange that looks like O

- a snake that looks like S

- a tree that looks like T

(and so on; that's just what I can think of off the top of my head)

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/

(in short, people have found the "Eureka" part in Asimov but not the "that's funny" part)

It also helps that newborn poop doesn't smell particularly bad. It only starts smelling like poop when they start eating real food.

I had SimTower but could never quite figure it out - might be time to give it another shot.

Isn't it a bit better on average, although not as much as you'd hoped? For example 19 steps of binary search get you down to 1/524288 of the original search space with 19 comparisons. 12 steps of ternary search get you down to 1/3^12 = 1/531441 of the original search space with, on average, 12 * 3/2 = 18 comparisons.

For a moment there I thought "sanguinary struggle" meant a cheerful one - but that's "sanguine". "Sanguinary" has the more literal meaning of "bloody".

Seconded. They also have an excellent pipe organ; I'd recommend checking their web site to see when someone will be playing it.

I've been getting ads for this. I have a seven-year-old who's particular about her peanut butter sandwiches, but I don't need Science Peanut Butter.

Similarly, Spanish "vuestra merced" evolved to "usted".

meanwhile, my New Jersey-born boss uses "you guys" despite herself being female and having lived in the South longer than I have

No, because "you in the back" could refer to just one person in the back, instead of several. So "y'all in the back" is more specific. (Of course names are an option in this context.)

No. As far as I can tell, singular "y'all", when it exists, is an implied plural. What you might hear as singular "y'all" is, say, when you go into a restaurant and say "do y'all have Coke?" to the server - that doesn't refer to just the server but to the restaurant as a whole. But I'm not a linguist and also I don't spend much time among people with heavier Southern dialect, so you shouldn't believe what I say.