Rexford G. Tugwell @RexfordGTugwell@octodon.social
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- The real Rex Tugwell
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexford_Tugwell
I'm on Metafilter a lot, and Reddit some, and some other places, but for no really good reason, I use different names on each service, so you probably don't know me elsewhere.
Joined Apr 2017
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When I find myself in times of trouble
Princess Elsa comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom
Let it go
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periodic reminder: "loanword" is a calque (from German "Lehnwort") and "calque" is a loanword (from French "calquer")
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The Czech Central Social Institution in Prauge, has 18 blocks of file cabinets 25 high, 20 across, and 3 metres deep, for 9,000 cabinets totalling 27 km in linear storage.
What's that in bytes?
A typewritten page, double-spaced, at 10 cpi, has about 2 KB of characters. You can fit about 150 pages/in (60pages/cm). At a 2/3 fill factor, the entire room is about 210 GB of storage. At capacity, nearer 375 GB.
There are 1 TB microSD cards.
You can hide this building under your pinkie nail.
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@taweret Did you see Guinan is coming back?
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Idea: spellchecker that just appends "[sic]" to your errors
Hey, @taweret , when are you going to liveblog something again?
When we weren't looking, Matt Frewer turned into the lead singer of Midnight Oil.
@Taweret Awaiting your reaction on today's news.
@taweret On the Profound Awfulness of Netflix’s Dracula https://www.tor.com/2020/01/09/on-the-profound-awfulness-of-netflixs-dracula/
Gott nytt år!
- Pronouns
- He/him
- The real Rex Tugwell
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexford_Tugwell
I'm on Metafilter a lot, and Reddit some, and some other places, but for no really good reason, I use different names on each service, so you probably don't know me elsewhere.
Joined Apr 2017
