@e06c1f25
I can think of many examples of #3, but none of them combine that with both #1 and #2, so I'm wondering how similar do you want examples to be?
@134318c2
well the Victorians were definitely moon-eyed over the Romans.
And Arthurian mythos is full to overflowing with nostalgia for Roman times.
But, I don't know that it was continuous from whenever the Arthurian myths were developed until the Victorians. Also, I don't know how much of Romanophilia in Arthurian myth is due to backporting from Victorians, but at least some of it is from Chaucer, who was long before Victorians.
@134318c2
two of my math books (I think pre-algebra and algebra I) each had about a chapter's worth of exercise sets devoted to modest rearrangements of this sort. At the time I lived in a chaotic and abusive home, and so did not have any reasonable time or place to do homework, and was thus not fond of any kind of homework that seemed overly obvious or too time-consuming, but I could see the necessity of learning to easily do such modest rearrangements.
@134318c2
I doubt it. As a personal story - I tried taking communications, public speaking, and theatre classes in order to overcome my shyness and my other social issues. I got good grades, but it did not work. I've avoided any kind of public speaking or communications roles ever since.
@134318c2 The wire under the headphones actually provides a convenient place to put controls, and makes it less error-prone to take the headphones off your ears, but keep them on your head. It's also good for loss-prevention.
@134318c2@e41e653a
I loved trig, especially all the relationships between circles and the curves of trigonometric functions. And there's so much of the world around us that relates to trig, ranging from simple things like how the pitch of a roof affects the difficulty of keeping your footing on the roof, to rainbows, sound, computer graphics, and cyclic things. I can understand skipping it if the resources are insufficient, but without it so many things become inaccessible.
@134318c2
in the late 1990s and early 2000s, not long after amazon's formation, some of us advocated boycotting amazon for privacy reasons. We were roundly mocked at the time, but looking back on it, we vastly overestimated how horrible things would get. I'd like to know what tech would be like if those boycotts had been successful.
@134318c2
when I was in my teens and twenties I'd look for such books in the library. Eventually, I concluded it was pointless; they don't usually reveal anything genuinely new or surprising; they just try to spin already-revealed events to suit their particular agenda.
@134318c2
my question: I think I see 2 drivers, but only one drive pin, only one armature, and only one membrane, and I don't know how the singal from the lower driver gets turned into sound. Is the case acting as both the armature and membrane for the lower driver?
@134318c2
farmer: "Look at all these bespoke carrots! We'll be bringin' home the monies "
bespoke carrots: "hey, where do you think you're takin' us?"
farmer: "... what?"
@134318c2 AC adapters should be forcibly standardized to exactly three types, and if any company makes a thing that requires an AC adapter that is not one of the 3 types, a minimum of 5 randomly selected company board members must be launched into the Sun.
@fb2b7c61@e0d204e8@134318c2@ed6dec54
when I was a kid I loved George R. R. Martin's short stories, and I noted several good novels mentioned his writing classes in the dedication (_Frostflower and Thorn_) , the author's note, or in some other ancillary bit. But when GOT first came to my attention, I was horribly busy, 2 full times jobs AND 18 credit hours. After college, I tried it, and somehow - I couldn't finish any of the volumes, though a I read a few hundred pages of each.
@134318c2
when I first encountered usenet, I often thought that if it was curated and moderated in a sensible fashion, it would naturally attract people to the news groups where they could be most helpful. Later, as blogs came to replace (sort of) usenet, I hoped somehow that might happen with blogs, but inside I always knew there was never much chance of that.
@134318c2
1/3
one of the reasons I remain highly skeptical of efforts to mitigate fossil-fuel driven global warming by injecting sulfate aerosols (SOx) into the upper atmosphere to block some sunlight is that the geographic distribution of the aerosols depends both on injection location(s), and on the weather that follows. Combine with modern weather forecasting, and the SOx injecting agencies would have significant weather influence,
@134318c2 many years ago, I created a D&D character using some 3.5 era expansion that had a mechanical tinker class. And I gave him an eyepatch and a monocle. After we had created our characters, we set out to hire a ship to take us some place we wanted go. Partway through the voyage, we found out it was a pirate ship ...
@134318c2 the mouths of those cats are so exaggerated I was tempted to tag this #BadTaxidermy.
But now I see it's not taxidermy at all, although I can't shake the feeling there's been some enhancement of their mouths.
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