Geek of the computational, linguistic, creative, and heraldic persuasions.
Based in Belgium; formerly in UK until shortly before Brexit kicked in.
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Is there a way on Google Maps on Firefox to make the scale bar not uselessly tiny down in the corner? Browser extrension perhaps?
Searching just finds people who want to know how to zoom in to a map.
I tried applying CSS to make it bigger and then facepalmed as I realised that would also make its scale inaccurate...
(answers of "just use openstreetmap" are not relevant here.)
Pet peeve film trope: indicating that someone/some system is intelligent by having them give a measurement to umpteen decimal places.
So, you've determined how far away someone is to the nearest micrometre. Does that actually have any meaning for a standard-issue squishy human 50cm in diameter and no precisely defined point at this end?
(then I get distracted working out whether it would be more meaningful to measure to the nearest point on the person or to their centre of mass, or what.)
I always have a lot of trouble thinking through yet/still esp when trying to translate stuff.
I *think* it *might* be
not still X → "!(still X)"
not yet X → "still !(X)"
still not X → "still !(X)"
but my head hurts a bit now.
With the may not/must not thing it's kinda easy to bracket them as upthread.
But with not-yet the "not" feels like it scopes to an argument it's not adjacent to. I know, idioms gonna idiom non-compositionally, but.
still being confused[*] by that thing where yet and still are roughly synonyms (massive difference in register notwithstanding) and "not yet" and "not still" are verging on antonyms. ("not begun" vs "already ended")
I think this is probably same thing as that weird English quirk where "must not" ≈ "may not" but "must" != "may"; the "not" scopes oddly with "must (not X)" vs "(may not) X".
[*] I mean, yes, I know that idioms are a thing. Doesn't stop these being weird.
With legislation on rail ticketing due from the European Commission this spring, how can policymakers - who never normally see the problem - be shown it in a fun way?
The idea: the European Railway Ticketing Championship
https://jonworth.eu/a-silly-idea-to-prove-a-point-the-european-railway-ticketing-championship/
Have a read and let me know what you think!
With Regulations to finally sort the problems with purchasing tickets for trains, Europe-wide, due to be presented by the European Commission this spring, there remains a crucial problem: do the people who are drafting this legislation (in the Commission), deciding on it (in the Council of the EU and the
yay, 3b1b explains escher’s picture gallery, with some pretty complex exponentials
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