Is this a real thing, or just a concept? Architects and designers so often make pretty pictures of utterly infeasible products.

Did you know you could pay your bill or check your balance on our website? Of course you do. If you wanted to do anything so straightforward, you'd have done it by now. Where did your life go so far astray?

But I had sold my flower pot and fruit knife to buy hers, and she had sold her dentures and watering can to buy mine

Your call is very—oh come on, let's be real. If your call were important to us, we'd have hired people to answer the phone. We're hoping you'll give up, so here's some exceptionally annoying music.

I apologize, it was stupid of me to criticize the aesthetic. I would edit my post if I could; instead, I will delete it and create a new post pointing to your very useful essay.

I think a case can be made that the enema of my enema is, indeed, my enema.

As a 6'5" person, I heartily endorse this.

It seemed like they could simply operate in the mathematical language, without recourse to laboriously constructed imagery. Now, maybe they just had a lot more practice and a ready suite of pre-constructed visualizations, but I don't think so.

Then I could visualize how these entities interacted, and then I could translate that visualization back into the language of mathematics. I observed that the mathematicians who made up most of the class, didn't seem to go through the same process.

Many years ago, I took a high level math class on set theory, and I observed something similar. For me, as a science person, the homework problems were exhausting because I had to create a visual mental model of each abstract concept.

I found a book about persimmons, which seems to have a few links to persimmon growing sources. books.google.com/books/about/...

Bit flip as a noun phrase, bit-flip as an adjective. "The bit flip serves to..." vs "The parallel bit-flip operation serves to..."

When I took typing in grade 10, Mrs. Turnbull was very clear: comma, quote, space. I think this is the only workable answer for monospaced text, otherwise you have an ugly, wide space between the text and the punctuation. And I see no reason—apart from computer programming—to do it otherwise.

You missed the quarter Torah, though

Somewhere in there they started coming for brown people and immigrants and South Korean factory workers and unhoused people and honestly I lost track
Because I was too busy working on permanent residency in Canada