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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4hq4o1...
Seems likely that Robert Truman Hungerford has been placing these ads himself for the last 45 years, as a kind of solitary practice. He is apparently now giving hints to their interpretation (http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/texts/25-dec7.html): "Good starting point: Historically, what sort of compass is in the picture?"
Comment · 3 months ago
The atomic time radio station WWVB does in fact broadcast a daylight saving time bit. A good atomic time clock should accurately update for DST (though Amazon reviews for a clock like this one is pretty mixed: https://www.amazon.com/Crosse-Technology-617-249-Curved-Atom...)
Comment · 3 months ago
sounds a bit like Grammarly Authorship https://www.grammarly.com/authorship
"Authorship creates an originality report you can share with your professor, boss, or editor. It also lets you replay your document’s creation from the first word to the last punctuation mark so you can double-check your process."
Comment · 3 months ago
I think this is unnecessarily pessimistic. I think there's actually a surprisingly large number of people who are interested in and have the discipline to study something on their own, and there's value in pursuing a whole course of study from beginning to end. Doing things piecemeal and incrementally has value too (especially in software development), but can obscure the whole shape of a discipline.
Comment · 7 months ago
Israeli civilian death ratios are actually terrible, worse than Bosnia, Syria, or even WWII (including the Holocaust!). I assume it’s because Israel wants to kill as many civilians as possible, while still claiming the faintest hope of plausible deniability.
https://aoav.org.uk/2026/why-israeli-claims-of-low-civilian-...
Comment · 7 months ago
It’s not a bad critique on its own! Yea, good to engage on the merits, but also good to acknowledge the messenger’s allegiances and biases.
Comment · 7 months ago
Of course they did. It’s called inheritance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_family https://www.forbes.com/profile/haas/
And the list goes on.
Comment · 7 months ago
For a French-leaning list I’m surprised not to see Memoirs of Hadrian, “often considered the best French novel of the 20th century”, per the recent LRB review. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/joanna-biggs/beneath...
Comment · 7 months ago
1965 was 61 years ago. Are you saying you yourself had significant experiences with the pre-1965 healthcare system?
Comment · 7 months ago
Attention-grabbing headline, but the article itself answers the question: very important.
"Hastings was one of those battles which changed the course of history, most directly for England but also, as events turned out, for Britain and for France... In terms of its consequences, Hastings must be the most important battle ever to have been fought in England... the consequences of its outcome changed the course of English history definitively."
Comment · 7 months ago
But as the article says, this battle really was tremendously important. The utter catastrophe led to the quick and permanent entrenchment of the Normans in Britain, with huge and long-reaching consequences reaching to the present: first and foremost, that the English language was profoundly altered at every level by influence from French.
Comment · 8 months ago
some bits of LLMese in this comment, to my ears at least. Especially "That’s the kind of impact that compounds"
very LLM-y.