In the original novels, Bond is Scottish. (https://bondfanevents.com/eye-am-a-scottish-peasant/)

I am sometimes tempted to use some of his new terms, but stop myself when I realize the people I’m talking to probably haven’t read Anathem.

The start of the blog post linked from the article (https://medium.com/microsoft-design/a-change-of-typeface-microsofts-new-default-font-has-arrived-f200eb16718d) gives some of the rationale.

The community college where I teach has courses in physics, chemistry, biology, math, English, history, economics, and many other academic areas. Most of the courses in these areas are college-level, with credit for them transferring to four-year colleges. I’d say about 3/4 of our courses are in academic areas rather than vocational. We *also* have some vocational programs (paralegal, translator/interpreter, nursing, auto tech, etc.), but those aren’t our primary enrollment. Most students are taking the foundation courses here at a lower cost and transferring to four-year schools later.

Is it possible that the post was written by someone whose native language is not English? In any event, your insult doesn’t seem to add a great deal of substance to the discussion.

I am curious to know why they used the geometric mean instead of the arithmetic mean. Is this common in performance testing?

Honestly, I am not sure how you got from my question about the efficacy of plastic shields vs. cloth masks to the questions you are asking. I am also not clear on why it is useful to take a position that you admit is “being ridiculous.” (Then again, it’s late at night here and it’s entirely possible I may not have given your argument the depth of analysis it deserves.)

From what I read, plastic face shields are not as effective in stopping transmission of the droplets expelled by the wearer as a homemade cloth mask. But they sure are more comfortable to wear. The question is: are they effective enough to reduce the rate of infection?

Community College instructor here. I'm surprised by the $800 per class. In California, our classes are $46/semester unit, so a typical class (3-4 units) is $200 per class max. This makes textbooks even more dramatically overpriced relative to the tuition. I try to make sure that books never cost more than the class itself. Such books are out there, but it takes some searching. Our school website lists courses with zero-cost textbooks.

Niklaus Wirth is the inventor of the Pascal programming language. His surname is pronounced "veert" in Europe and "worth" in the United States. In Europe he's called by name; in America he's called by value.

Folding fitted sheets.

It can't be done without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress. If one were to get the consent of the California legislature (the state involved) and the Congress, it would be possible. The probability would be extremely small, but it would absolutely be possible.

Possible candidate for a counterexample: Clojure (https://clojure.org/). It runs on the JVM, but, as it is a dialect of Lisp, I would not consider it "just syntactic sugar on top of Java"

I'm happy to hear this, as SourceForge has, of late, been pretty much a cesspool of malware. I hope you are able to fix things in a relatively timely manner, as I'd like to be able to recommend FileZilla, jEdit, and PortableApps (all of which are SourceForge downloads) to my students once again.

a) It's Robert Byrd. b) If you look at his voting record from 1968 onwards, you'll see that he was hardly voting the Klan agenda: He voted in support of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In 2003-2004 he had a 100% "pro" voting record from the NAACP, and in 2005 proposed additional funding for the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial.