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Or, as Terry Pratchett so eloquently put it in The Fifth Elephant:

> “Not natural, in my view, sah. Not in favor of unnatural things.”

> Vetinari looked perplexed. “You mean, you eat your meat raw and sleep in a tree?”

Typotheque’s Dash has a very similar variable axis, though they call it ‘Speed’: https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/dash-casual. (For some reason you need to click on the ‘Variable’ box in order to see the full variable range.)

Odd, I’ve had the opposite experience… back home in Australia the boxes came with metal edges, but here in the UK (Scotland) they all seem to be plain cardboard. If the metal ones are sold somewhere I’d be very interested to know where I could find them!

It looks like that never occurs for Helvetica (A316600) due to the absence of kerning. However, with Arial (A316599) the description notes:

> a(29368) = 111111 is a first notable anomaly, because its bounding box width of 2675 lies between those of a(29367) = 49115, with bounding box width 2655, and a(29369) = 70002, with bounding box width 2681.

I am immediately reminded of my favourite quote from the Jewish book Pirkei Avot (‘Ethics of the Fathers’):

> It is not your duty to finish the work [of perfecting the world], but neither are you at liberty to neglect it.

[https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.2.16?ven=english|Mishnah...]

Or, for that matter, what if you happened to be in a spot which had been occupied by a person at the time at which it resets?

I found this comment pretty convincing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247413

Also known as ‘boolean blindness‘: e.g. https://cs-syd.eu/posts/2016-07-24-overcoming-boolean-blindn...

> Part of me feels like direct numeric array indexing is one of the last holdouts of a low-level operation screaming for some standardized higher-level abstraction.

This paragraph reminds me a bit of Dex: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05372

Persian mersi is actually a direct borrowing from the French [1]. Not sure about the other one, but I guess it’s just a coincidence, as happens so often in language [2].

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C#Pers...

[2] https://zompist.com/chance.htm

The linked paper has some pictures: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193087

In Haskell this technique has been called ‘reinversion of control’: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2011/10/quick-and-dirty-reinversion-o...

> What background do you come to J from? Another programming language?

Yes, I’m very fond of trying out different languages. My main language for personal projects is Haskell.

> How do you like it?

I haven’t used J for a while, actually, but I recall finding it a bit confusing, especially when rank manipuations are involved. It has a larger vocabulary than most array languages, which I felt made it hard to learn. It was great fun though!

It’s not my language, to be clear! In fact I’ve never even tried it… my array programming experience so far has mostly been with J.

Also Uiua:

https://www.uiua.org/tour#audio

https://www.uiua.org/tutorial/audio

Emacs has this too, with ‘undo-tree-mode’.

(Incidentally, the documentation is wonderful: ‘The only downside to this more advanced yet simpler undo system is that it was inspired by Vim. But, after all, most successful religions steal the best ideas from their competitors!’)

Neither can I. Luckily tweaking the colours can make it somewhat readable. (Sometimes…)

> A thing I enjoy about other cultures is seeing what is unusually different about them.

This is a very strong theme throughout Ursula Le Guin’s books and short stories; perhaps you might find those interesting.

> extremely cold temperatures (267 °C)

Sorry?

(I have a feeling someone meant Kelvin, though 267 K is hardly ‘extremely cold’ either…)

> But my point is that those marginal notes are an artifact of the 16th century print edition. It's not anything inherent in the Talmud text.

OK, fair enough, if ‘the Talmud text’ is taken to be only the Mishna and the Gemara. (Though when I think of the Talmud it’s the printed edition that comes to mind, with all its accompanying commentary.)

EDIT: I had a look at your blog and saw you actually addressed this exact point already: https://www.ezrabrand.com/i/162112983/myth-the-talmud-is-div...

> The analogy of the Talmud to a hypertext isn't especially apt, IMO.

Isn’t it? Every page of the Talmud includes marginal notes (Masoret HaShas, Ein Mishpat, Torah Or) giving cross-references to relevant parts of the Torah, Talmud and other legal codes. In a web-based version I think it would be natural to represent those with hypertext.

The actual paper seems to have more information: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt9039

The Common Lisp Object System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Object_System

Don’t give them ideas!!

I’m pretty sure this case is solvable too. Click the white block, then click all the blocks which turned white after that. This flips each block twice (bringing them back to their original state), except for the original white block which was only flipped once.

I’ve been using such tools already (in particular https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/makepanoramas_en.htm). But for smaller or more distant features, I’ve found it can be difficult to correlate their physical appearance with their appearance on the diagram. A calibration tool like hdersch’s would make this much easier!

This looks amazing! I recently moved to an apartment with a good view out the window, so I was excited to try this to identify some of the more distant hills I can see. Alas, it seems to have developed some bugs in the 4 years since the last commit… when I tried clicking in ‘Edit Mode’ to select a location, nothing happened and I couldn’t continue. Any chance you could look into updating this application?

> "this is text translated to a phonetic version" goes to "ðɪs ɪz tɛkst trænzˈleɪtɪd tuː ə fəʊˈnɛtɪk ˈvɜːʒᵊn" in British pronunciation and "ðɪs ɪz tɛkst trænˈsleɪtɪd tu ə fəˈnɛtɪk ˈvɜrʒən" in American.

These samples are using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which isn’t really designed for the purpose of being a practical orthography — it’s used as a language-independent transcription method which can represent any sound. (That’s also why the British and American versions are different: different accents use different sounds, so they’re transcribed differently.) So this isn’t really a ‘phonetic spelling of English’, though it’s easy to see where the confusion comes from.

> And then there's the clicks in Southern African languages. Which are usually written as a Q not followed by a u. e.g. in the place name Gqeberha or the Mbaqanga music style.

<q> is only one of the clicks in Bantu languages! The letters <c> and <x> are used for other kinds of clicks too (for dental and lateral clicks, respectively).

And then of course there are the Khoisan languages, which use a completely different set of click letters: <ʘ ǀ ǁ ǃ ǂ>.

In the code in this article, the key is the mapping stored in ‘CIPHER’.