I was so charmed by this film that I made myself wait two days after watching it at 2AM to write this so as to make sure all that I felt wasn’t just due to … the hour. As someone who has participated in and thought a lot about my country’s relationship with firearms, this film’s thematic composition hit me hard. Its truth (for me): guns are just this bizarre, fundamentally anti-social, and dangerous obsession that have no place in civilization.
The student project that eventually became Google—a “crawler” that would ingest documents and rank them for relevance against a user’s query—was actually conceived as part of an effort “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library.”
This wee truth of Google’s origin story - which I did not know - is going to weigh on me for who knows how long.
The three genders.
An intimate conversation with - and using - my iPhone 4S demonstrating the losslessest possible audio capture example. Transcript
Just a reminder that I continue to put all of my music curatiorial energy into a single discovery playlist, basically, which is designed to make … contact.
Action Shortcut New Reminder ⌘-N New List ⇧-⌘-N Indent reminder ⌘-] Outdent reminder ⌘-[ Show all subtasks ⌘-E Hide all subtasks ⇧-⌘-E Flag reminder ⇧-⌘-F Show info ⌘-I Hide or show sidebar ⌥-⌘-S Mark a reminder completed or incomplete ⇧-⌘-C Show or hide completed reminders ⇧-⌘-H Edit tags ⇧-⌘-T Delete tag Delete Set reminder as due today ⌘-T Set reminder as due tomorrow ⌥-⌘-T Set all overdue reminders as due today ^-⌘-T Set reminder as due this weekendNote: If today is the day before this weekend, the reminder is set to next weekend.
Noun a community of people smaller than a village Synonyms crossroads Less specific community the hero of William Shakespeare’s tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father Is a fictional character fictitious character character a settlement smaller than a town Synonyms village Less specific settlement More specific kampong campong kraal pueblo Examples Cheddar Sealyham El Alamein Jericho Jamestown Chancellorsville Spotsylvania Yorktown hamlet - LookUp noun
Verb be inherent in something Less specific belong to belong Related built-in constitutional inbuilt inherent integral implicit in inherent underlying inherence inherency inhere - LookUp verb ꜰᴏʀᴍᴀʟ exist essentially or permanently in the potential for change that inheres within the adult education world ʟᴀᴡ (of rights, powers, etc.) be vested in a person or group or attached to the ownership of a property the rights inhering in the property they owned
currently being alphaed by my own fucking dictionary smh.
https://engineering.tumblr.com/post/93985550454/tumblr-ios-architecture Speakerdeck Page Original PDF
Snap.as Library
Please feel free to rebuke the fuck outta me, but no… I’m 30 years old and still have yet to make it through a single one of those awesome list tutorials for Python that are so easy peasy for you digital lourds. In what I imagine to be the manifestation of many a folk’s worst nightmare LLM scenario, I asked regular olé free Gee Pee Tee to help me do something I’ve aspired to do (though invested little effort in, obviously:) creating my first command line application, and found it to be immediately effective!
Noun a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply; “he asked a direct question”; “he had trouble phrasing his interrogations” Synonyms question interrogation interrogative sentence Less specific sentence More specific cross-question leading question yes-no question Related interrogate question interrogate question question query some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood Synonyms interrogative mood Less specific mood mode modality Adjective relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood; “not all questions have an interrogative construction” Pertains to interrogative mood interrogative Topic Members grammar relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation Synonyms interrogatory Antonyms declarative declaratory asserting declarative declaratory asserting Related interrogate question interrogate question interrogative - LookUp adjective
Yes, I am 100% confident in my argument, this time. Automated Transcript
Noun the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); “he prefers shoes of Italian derivation”; “music of Turkish derivation” Less specific beginning origin root rootage source Related derive come descend derive derive educe (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase Synonyms deriving etymologizing Less specific explanation account Related etymologize etymologise derive derive Topic Members historical linguistics diachronic linguistics diachrony a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions Less specific inference illation Related deduce infer deduct derive (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation; “singer’ from sing’ or undo’ from do’ are examples of derivations” Less specific linguistic process More specific eponymy Related derive Topic Members descriptive linguistics inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline Synonyms ancestry lineage filiation Less specific inheritance hereditary pattern More specific origin descent extraction pedigree bloodline Attributes purebred crossbred Related derive come descend drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body Less specific drawing drawing off drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation Less specific drawing drawing off the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin Less specific act deed human action human activity derivation - LookUp noun
Today, Uuganbayar Otgonbayar added astonishingly responsive and (like the rest of the app) quite original CarPlay support to their React Native-based iOS/iPadOS client for Whyp and… Oh man! I spent nearly an hour pushing it as hard as I could but found only delight.
Here is the blog post I keep referring to (from 2022, please note.)
Adjective absolutely first class and genuine; “pukka sahib”; “pukka quarters with a swarm of servants” Synonyms pucka Similar to superior Region India Republic of India Bharat pukka - LookUp adjective informal genuine the more expensive brands are pukka natural mineral waters of or appropriate to high or respectable society it wouldn’t be considered the pukka thing to do
And how do you do all of that on top of migrating the entire Onion website to WordPress? Nilay Patel https://www.theverge.com/24225592/the-onion-new-owners-print-newspaper-digital-media-gawker-ben-collins-decoder-interview If you, too, immediately thought “well what the hell was it, then, if not The ‘Press???,” the answer is… fucking Kinja. The Editorial Process Ben Collins: …I just want to walk through their daily process for writing headlines. They come in every day. There’s either one or two meetings depending on the day, and then they write — usually, it’s around 190 headlines.