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I meant to post this sooner, but the time when I took the photo was really busy because Winnie was moving in (!). While we were moving stuff from her apartment, we encountered a Snow Citizen:
Ah, Williamsburg. Whatever else you can say about it, it definitely has production values! (Well, except when it comes to sign painting — yes, that is the infamous sing language in the background.)
If your computer can’t lie to other computers, then it’s not yours. This is a fundamental principle of free and
Continue readingI just wrote a thing in Emacs that others might find useful: Although the code’s documentation gives a short example,
Continue readingThe number twelve is a lie; I just wanted to hook you. More than a year ago, my friend Jim
Continue readingThere’s a petition circulating that is essentially a public indictment of Richard Stallman. More than half of the initial signers
Continue reading% So, why are we not using \appdxsection here? % % Sit down, my child, and you shall hear a
Continue readingI decided to try out this lossless text-compression demonstration site by Fabrice Bellard. It uses GPT-2 natural language generation and
Continue readingHave you noticed how Trump consistently says that “we can’t let the cure be worse than the problem“? (emphasis mine)
Continue readingI wrote a semi-personal post over at QuestionCopyright.org on why the National Emergency Library is a good thing. (Instead of
Continue readingUpdate (2019-11-25): Audrey Eschright has made a link roundup of “pieces I’ve been reading on the topic of modern free
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What, ‘snow person’ isn’t PC enough for you? And you assume they are a citizen, or want to be? For shame, person I have never met! I fully expect you to take this semi-anonymous unprovoked insane rant seriously enough to reconsider major lifestyle choices!
Captcha: “without quechua”, which I fully expect describes you, silly uncultured Internet person!
Chris,
You’ve changed my life — I can’t thank you enough!
And you are correct: “without quechua” does describes me, except that I would never insult native peoples by neglecting to capitalize the name of their language family. Shame on you! Shame on all of us! Oh, the humanity…