quuxplusone

Huh, you're right. That's not at all a correct use of the phrase "paper over." There are three more uses, too, vaguer and thus less obviously wrong. I wonder what the deal is.

In this particular sentence, "going over" would fit.

However, in general I think Cory is (mis)using the phrase as if it means "legitimize" or "associate a paper trail with": not just to review the wording but to come up with the wording in the first place. (Not just "going over" but "working up.") I could just barely believe this is the jargon of some lawyerly (sub)culture.

> (A writer to the Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser of 1903-10-24 points out that you can get the apparently-most-common wrong answer if you read the puzzle incorrectly as “She was twice as old as Ann was when Mary [sic] was as old as Ann now is.”)

[1] - https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88085488/1903-10-31/ed-1/?sp=...

The whole point of this kind of meme is for the populace to perform disagreement about the answer! (See also: the Monty Hall problem; sports; comments sections.)

[1] - https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030193/1903-11-11/ed-1/?sp=...

[2] - https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/08/01/what-is-8-divi...

Yep, from the context, 100% this is fake. Also, while this Jason Gibson claims to be a history professor at Alcorn State University, it seems to me that Alcorn State doesn't have a history department, and no "Jason Gibson" appears anywhere in the faculty list of Alcorn's College of Arts and Sciences. https://www.alcorn.edu/academics/schools-and-departments/col...

Maybe I'm sheltered, but I've never seen a university professor without a departmental web page and a list of publications. Or a RateMyProfessors.com listing.

(Click "Documents," then "Complaint and demand for jury trial.")

Read by, yes. Story well-known, I doubt. What is the story of The Great Gatsby, in a few words? (But then again, what is the story of the Iliad, anyway? Something about the wrath of Achilles, right?) [I should clarify: to answer that the Iliad is about "the Trojan war" or "Achilles dragging the body of Hector" seems insufficient to me in the same way it would be insufficient to say that Gatsby is about "a guy who throws parties" or "a murder in a swimming pool."]

Twain is the obvious "American Homer" not just because his name pops immediately to mind, but also because his two best-known works (Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn) stand in the same relation to each other as the Iliad and Odyssey: a minor character in one becomes the protagonist of the other. As someone above already commented, too, both works are episodic and have given us many pop-culture images: I dare say only Tom's painting of the fence is proverbial, but the cave adventure, the feud, attending one's own funeral, and probably several more episodes are embedded in American pop culture to the same extent as the Cyclops, Circe, and the Lotus-Eaters. Gatsby is a great novel, but what has it given to our collective unconscious? The green light and... beautiful shirts?

What does it say that there have been three adequate film adaptations of Gatsby, while there have been (as far as I know) none at all of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, the Iliad, or the Odyssey?

(Side note: About 15 years ago I read Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned and thought it was very good and inventive; I recommend it. These days Wikipedia tells me that "many Fitzgerald scholars typically consider The Beautiful and Damned to be among the author's weaker novels," so maybe something excellent is waiting for me if I ever get around to reading This Side of Paradise or Tender is the Night.)

There are two standing figures to the right (correctly identified by ChatGPT), and at least two kneeling figures with upraised arms stacked toward the left (ChatGPT puts the bottom figure's arms inside the "legs" of its bunny-shaped green circle).

Scroll down in the article to see a close-up on the kneeling figures.

There is no text visible in the photos from the article, although if you go on to read the text of the article you learn that text was found elsewhere in the tomb, such that we can confidently identify the owner's name (among other things).

Interestingly, DST itself had been standardized by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 less than a decade before that!

IMHO seems like permanent standard time would have been the more logical route (apparently it could have been done at the state level under current federal laws), but "more logical" doesn't always mean "easier to accomplish."

> Plutarch tells us in Lysander 17 that, in early times, nails (ὀβελοί (obeloí)) were used as money, six of which made a handful (δραχμή (drakhmḗ)), and that the name was changed to ὀβολός (obolós).

In the (legendary) Spartan version of this, though, the currency was more cumbersome and deliberately less practically useful. You don't want people coveting money for its intrinsic utility — it's bad enough they'll covet it for its trade value! So the Spartan iron money was (allegedly) quenched in vinegar to ruin its intrinsic value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelanor

It's unlikely that the legend corresponds to any ancient reality, though.

> In every system of morality which I have hitherto met with [...] the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary way of reasoning [...] when of a sudden I am surprised to find that instead of the usual copulations of propositions is and is not I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought or an ought not.

I agree that the "share" representation should include the number of bonus words found. Or just the triple of "total words / tries / wall-clock time."

It would also make sense to share some kind of metric for "how early did you find the longest word."

I thought it was "tatwil". I could be wrong, though. An interesting article on Arabic typography, whose correctness I can't judge:

https://www.khtt.net/en/page/1821/the-big-kashida-secret

I see there's a "log" at https://hackmyclaw.com/log but (maybe because I'm on mobile?) I can't actually click through to view any of the table entries.

But switching the traversal order to "bard, bare, care, card, hard, hare, dare, dark, hark, hart, cart,..." doesn't seem to make it any more fun.

My suggestion would be to add an "enemy AI" following its own trajectory toward you; your job then is not just to walk around as long as possible, but to stay at least one step ahead of the enemy for a long as possible.

The enemy might not move just one step per turn; it might do something like "stand still for 3 turns, then change 2 letters in a single turn."

Showing the enemy's words to the player would also increase the "discoverability" of paths in the game. The player could say "Oh, apparently NARD is a valid word! I'll remember that for next time."

https://archive.org/details/stanley-and-stella-in-breaking-t...

might be a more informative link to the specific change, btw.

Solution (which everyone else does, and OP has now implemented): don't use your ISP's recursive resolver! Run your own instance of bind9 or whatever, with the cache disabled. Or it seems like `dig +trace` would probably work, too.

"Cached resources remain visible for their whole TTL, even if the original becomes unreachable or changes" seems like one of the very first principles someone should learn when deciding to go into business selling an uptime monitoring service.

It's not a "ghost domain," it's a Time-To-Live field!

"Yeah, a henge fund."

"Hedge fund."

"Henge fund."

"Hedge."

"Henge."

"...I think we're on the same page."

In the same category: websites that display nothing but a splash screen "This site requires Internet Explorer X" or whatever. Don't nanny me, just feed my browser the HTML! Whether my browser can render it properly is my problem, not yours.

This is different from the problem of identifying the opponent, which obviously requires at least as many states as there are opponents.

Is this sequence in the OEIS? Is a(3) even known?

https://nmap.org/movies/