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- Fri Nov 10, 2023 8:25 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: How do you return to college as a 30-something in the US?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1472
Re: How do you return to college as a 30-something in the US?
I did this. Twice. I returned for undergrad at age 37 full time due to being laid off. It was through a combination of savings, my wife's income, and occasional contract engineering work I did. I then went back for my master at age 47 part time. A combination of my wages and my company's tuition rei...
- Thu May 11, 2023 7:23 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Seeing past your cultural worldview
- Replies: 28
- Views: 319964
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 7:28 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 176
- Views: 459181
Re: The Fantasy Thread
Honestly, I think the question of whether a character is tokenistic or not is irrelevant when a series has such gaping plot holes as these: https://acoup.blog/2022/12/16/collections-why-rings-of-powers-middle-earth-feels-flat/ . (Which, incidentally, is why I have no desire to watch it.) Yes, all I...
- Mon Apr 17, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1431
- Views: 446234
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 12:49 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1431
- Views: 446234
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Does anyone here know enough about US law to tell us what happens if a defendant at an arraignment says neither "guilty" nor "not guilty", because they're too busy shouting about the evils of witch hunts? I assume he would be restrained or removed if needed, and his lawyers woul...
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:10 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1431
- Views: 446234
- Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:53 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1431
- Views: 446234
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Generally it'd be nice if politics wasn't a full-time job. Term limits are a start, but I also think something should be done at the party level. We live in a complicated world, with division of labour as a general principle. Some part of politics will always be professionalised. Call me cynical, b...
- Tue Feb 07, 2023 10:51 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: COVID-19 thread
- Replies: 1001
- Views: 459869
Re: COVID-19 thread
More generally, that was a really unevenly distributed kind of disaster. Very much so. I joke that I've had the best pandemic ever. I've been working at home for almost 3 full years now and love it. I had a 1 hour commute each way, so without that or a lunch hour I now have 15 more hours in my week...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:25 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Are computer languages meaningfully... in english?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 5112
Re: Are computer languages meaningfully... in english?
English is mostly uninflected, so are I would say all programming languages: and it's not like you couldn't have built inflection into proglangs either: is this cause of technical reasons or simply because the first programmers were english speakers and we all sort of went along? I'd say technical....
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 12:49 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1431
- Views: 446234
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Reanalysis of English pronouns?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1025
Re: Reanalysis of English pronouns?
I hear all of the combinations here. My own usage: "John and I are talking tomorrow." "He's talking to me and John tomorrow." (This feels more natural than the below for some reason.) "He's talking to John and me tomorrow." I frequently hear "Me and John are talkin...
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:33 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1431
- Views: 446234
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
(Technically there is no House GOP leadership right now— there's no Speaker and if I'm not mistaken, none of the other leadership positions are filled till there is one.) No one is technically "in office" until sworn in, and they can't be sworn in until there is a speaker. There are Middl...
- Sun Dec 25, 2022 4:11 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: sound changes in 1 person's lifetime
- Replies: 3
- Views: 590
Re: sound changes in 1 person's lifetime
My wife is from Canada, and early in our relationship I remember her pronouncing dollar as /dələr/, whereas now she says it properly ( :lol: ): /ˈdälər/. Back then, I had a hard time hearing a Midwest accent, in particular the flattening of vowels such as economy as /iˈkænəmi/, and she had a hard ti...
- Sun Dec 25, 2022 9:20 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: sound changes in 1 person's lifetime
- Replies: 3
- Views: 590
sound changes in 1 person's lifetime
I just read an interesting article on sound change from the BBC, centered on Queen Elizabeth and recordings of her over the decades. We think of sound change as happening slowly over generations, but that might only be only an "average" changing for large groups. What happens on a small sc...
- Sun Dec 25, 2022 8:48 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3734
- Views: 453039
Re: Random Thread
How are our North American members coping with all the weather-related unpleasantness I hear so much about on the news? The weird thing is, when your thermostat is at 68 degrees, its freezing cold in your house by day, but boiling at night. I hope everyone else is doing better than I am. SE Michiga...
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 6:42 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716912
Re: Happy things thread!
Better conlanging through chemistry!Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 12:59 amThe other night I spent like six hours conlanging. I haven't done that in YEARS.
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:04 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716912
Re: Happy things thread!
This weekend I completed my first Python script for a 3D software I use in my production work. I've done MEL scripting prior (a language specific to Autodesk Maya), but this was a new ballgame since it's object oriented. I did some tutorials for Python with Maya back in September & October, so t...
- Mon Dec 05, 2022 8:43 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Is consciousness functional?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1003
Re: Is consciousness functional?
Think I'll take today off and look into getting legal control of those movie rights. This is the next summer blockbuster!rotting bones wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 9:53 pm Write a horror story about the ZBB.
Spooky ZBB stuff...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 8:20 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029316
Re: Venting thread
On the subject of software UX, I get the feeling that many developers don’t want their software to be user-unfriendly at all; quite the reverse! Either they’re just bad designers and don’t realise what they’re doing wrong, or changes to the worse are imposed from above and the design is not under t...
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:30 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716912
Re: Happy things thread!
We just got back from getting a real tree for Christmas for the 1st time. We've always used an artificial tree before. Looking forward to pine smells and vacuuming!