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Beautiful!

Someone could add an approximation range syntax if they derived their own fuzzy dates specification. I've been considering the problem of fuzzy dates for a project idea. Maybe something like "..<" could join the first and last days of an approximate range, like "156X..<1585-12-25", which would be equivalent to "156X..1584-12-25", to say anywhere from 1560 to 1584. Depending how much information you want to encode you can imagine other extensions like showing the most confident guess. At that point it would be simpler to create tables to encode the available information.

I work 7-hour days, but I might work 2 or 3 hours during that time. A lot of the time I find the work unbearable and can only bring myself to do it in short intervals. When the task is interesting, involves my skills, and I'm making progress, I can work for hours with almost no breaks. It really is an emotional thing. I won't force myself to do anything that is really painful because it ruins my mood for the whole day. At the same time I feel guilty of days I get little or nothing done and I feel trapped by the time constraint of the work day, even though I work from home. I would really like to make a deal where I work independent of a work day, with no set hours and no expectations, and not feel like I'm on call all day, so I can do things other than work through the day and not feel like I'm cheating.

I wonder how the ASKAP dataset will compare when it's rendered as an image

Approximation for the ASKAP images with help from Wolfram Alpha, .83 spheres is 10.4 steradians, so 903*70 billion is 63.21 trillion pixels, at ~1.65e-13 steradians/pixel, though there may be overlap in the images, unsure.

Approximation for HUDF is 38.44 million pixels, covering 11 square arcminutes (from Wikipedia) which is 9.308e-7 steradians at ~2.75e-14 steradians/pixels, so the HUDF is about an order of magnitude higher resolution.

The only thing that gets me is that unlike EI, CERB is not taxed up front, so many low-income Canadians claiming it are going to owe taxes on it next year. I would rather it be taxed up front or tax-free for the recipients. People are really going to struggle when it comes back on them.

About the original 4-month term (with 2 additional months at 0.15% tax, $12000 works out to $1800 to pay back):

"A recipient who earns the maximum benefit of $8,000 will have to repay $1,200 at tax time."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/don-t-spend-it-all...

This issue came up for me recently when signing up for Audible. You get 1 free audiobook/month but have to verify a credit card before the free trial month. I imagined this was to cut down on users who sign up with throwaway accounts to get free books. What gets me is you can buy $10 prepaid credit cards and sign up repeatedly anyway, spending your $10 elsewhere. Completely opposed to the practise, however, when it enrols you in automatic payments which you have to opt out of before your free trial expires.

I finished the survey and clicked "get my personal results" - email is required to receive the results, but you can "Join" without providing an email.

What is 'UK energy use'? The title should tell what the article is about.

How can they tax sun collection, that is sickening.

The title of this article is missing a crucial "in 2 weeks" that actually gives meaning to 6 miles. I can't believe how poorly articles are titled. Qualifying information takes a few words.

I would love a new text entry method using gloves or finger/toe trackers. For recording thoughts while on the go.

TODO: Create brand and company with open source designs, versioned products, and sell just above cost!

I suggest loading Papier on the new tab page only if it isn't yet open. If it's already open, the new tab page could show frequently visited, bookmarks, and search as before.

We have no idea how many people think they have to give their email in order to keep reading. I've met a handful of very average people who wouldn't see the "X" or know how to react.

Feels like we can imagine how we'll define the future:

Government and industry will react in ways we understand to initiatives of our own. They'll be quick to allow any motions that will limit the growth and power of our new companies. We should maximize on this.

I hadn't heard about it till now. I'm not affected because I didn't invest in the feature in any way, or know anyone who did. Yet I can appreciate the "outrage" from the perspective of people who invest in features that are later taken away, with apparently no regard or care for the impact to users who put their time and loyalty into the service because of what it offered. It's just a fact in user land, we accept the TOS and throw our time into the furnace.

I wonder if this keeps people mystified when they visit the news feed, wondering what's beyond the fold and scrolling their hours away.

I've been interested in a conlanging IDE for a long time. Good moment to raise the idea to others' attention?

The only general-purpose one I'm aware of is this: http://sulmere.tumblr.com/PolyGlot

I constantly get the sense that I am missing whole swaths of the configuration options available in mobile and web development. The fact is, a dedicated team with experience will know how to tweak variables for an excellent product. New possibilities are continually arising but not everyone will use them. A lone developer is likely to produce something more retro. Experience and dedication pay off as you develop finer control.

I perceive the condensed sentence fragment (as requested for Angular) as a conceptual gist, which is all it really is (a few words to suggest the bigger picture), not a title (each commit is identified by its hash).

Nice! Thank you

Sure. I've been developing it mostly in journals, as I do a ton of writing, and I've been interested in the concept of constructed language since high-school.

Currently I have just a big collection of symbols and ideas, but they are beginning to cohere into sets I would like to refine and publish as examples of the kind of work I wish there were more of.

Example of an older idea that I'm still using in journals...

(One parenthesis opens an unspoken span or comment to the reader. These may appear in published texts. If reading aloud, I would pause and read quietly in this span of text.)

((Two parenthese introduce comments on the text. Editors should take heed. These are stage directions if the work is ever carried further.))

(((Three parenthese capture my private thoughts, especially my disappointments when I fail to capture a full idea. These should not usually be published.)))

I am still waiting for the GitHub of language construction. I don't expect it'll look much like GitHub. ;P

Richard Wilbur has done exquisite translations, like this one...

Everness, Jorge Luis Borges

  One thing does not exist: Oblivion.
  God saves the metal and he saves the dross,
  And his prophetic memory guards from loss
  The moons to come, and those of evenings gone.
  Everything is: the shadows in the glass
  Which, in between the day’s two twilights, you
  Have scattered by the thousands, or shall strew
  Henceforward in the mirrors that you pass.
  And everything is part of that diverse
  Crystalline memory, the universe;
  Whoever through its endless mazes wanders
  Hears door on door click shut behind his stride,
  And only from the sunset’s farther side
  Shall view at last the Archetypes and the Splendors.

Reminds me of my attitude on banks. I would never recommend a bank to someone unless they asked. I barely know anything about banks, even my own, and I'm in no position to determine another's decisions.

Somebody should totally help them make their source code look awesome. Like the first of its kind as a bookstore. Maybe they deserve it :)