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I refuse to accept that the lack of spelling mistakes and the careful use of language is evidence of AI. I can be sloppy, but I've known Real Humans to take great care with their written language.


The Dick Smith Funway books were a gateway drug for this primary school nerd. They were so simple even a parent could participate. https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsv...


And The Hollowmen, which is set in the Prime Minister's Office and is made by the same team.


I use an analogy with perfect pitch to illustrate colour-blindness to those with regular colour vision.

People with perfect pitch can be played a note on a piano, and identify it sight-unseen. "That's a C-sharp", they'll say confidently. Most others can tell if a note is higher or lower than another, or can pick an interval.

Regular colour vision is perfect pitch for colours. Most folks can identify a blue or a green in isolation, but some like me can only see relationships between colours (one is "bluer" or "greener" than another).


Could be Australian. But we also use "Seppo", from a fairly tortured rhyming slang etymology: "Yank" -> "Septic Tank" -> "Seppo".


Oh goodness. Is this like Cockney? As mentioned, Yank here, but never could figure out how folks figure that stuff out.


> One of the stories I heard about the 50 is that if you threw it into the ocean it would sink intermittently.

Great computing joke, love it.


Agreed. I find the tabular format of Cooking for Engineers excellent for this (for example, at the bottom of this brownies recipe: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/158/Dark-Chocolate...).

Julia Child's classic (https://archive.org/details/JuliaChildMasteringTheArtOfFrenc...) does something similar in free-form.


I get most of my recipes from YouTube these days. I can see the technique and result, which is valuable, but I make my own notes in a format that suits me, sometimes like Cooking for Engineers (group ingredients, do process, add next group, etc) but usually with a lot of bullet points and terse sentences.

Writing my own notes is great for understanding and retention. They get printed out, then tested to earn the right to a plastic sleeve and a place in the folder! Analogue with a digital backup.


I just finished a project that introduced features for both signal injection and signal extraction. So now we can enjoy both SIN and SEX, sometimes at the same time.


> Counter proof: since BC's 15% foreigner tax was implemented, has the Vancouver housing market cooled off? No. To the contrary, it has actually heated up even more. This indicates that the "illegal Chinese dirty money" that the wonderful local Vancouverites keep spouting is not, in fact, the driver of this growth. It's too bad because they are such an easy racial scapegoat, aren't they?

It could also be possible that the Chinese market for Vancouver houses is inelastic enough that the foreigner tax doesn't have teeth.


Pretty sure this is the case. Even with the tax, Vancouver prices per sqft are a bargain compared to what you would get in Hong Kong.


I'd suggest this is already occurring, given the uncertain purity and dosages associated with the supply of recreational drugs. Probably a fair amount of placebo-effect too!


Don't discount the power of the placebo effect. Psychedelics could easily be the most powerful placebo one might take.


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