> The FCC's job is not to get every last penny for every last Hz, it's to be a good steward of the commons.
That’s the spin.
Yes, the FCC is the steward. But it’s also a bureaucratic, underfunded, somewhat backwards agency.
SIGINT is pretty cool, and FCC has some cool things and people that interact with them, I’m sure. But the outward face of FCC and how they appear to operate seems to have hardly changed in past years. I respect that typically, but it’s like an old bowling alley kind of respect; it’s fun, but it’s old and dirty, and the nachos aren’t bad but they aren’t good. The Lysol sprayed in those shoes is for psychological comfort. You don’t need to know the real reason.
> I'm sure it's more complex than I grasp as a layperson, but I'm utterly amazed at how simple this _appears
The genetic code is simple. But possibly not the nanobot that I felt like attached to my optical nerve with a slightly painful prick behind my right eye.
I’m not kidding. I never have eye pain and within a day or two of my vaccination, I had a prick feeling once in the back of my right eye, later accompanied by light coming from within my eye as it was closed in the dark for only a monent for a small part in or close to the middle of my visual field.
I wish I was making this shit up. It was really the only weird side effect, coincidental or not, of the vaccine for me.
The good part is that my vision in that eye has been slightly better since.
I’m not recommending not to get the vaccine. You should get it. But this experience was weird enough to share.
I had a fleeting thought of buying an eyepatch for privacy.
There may have been African Americans or at least some of African heritage in Georgia of eastern Europe during that time period[1] and a little later[2].
How should one distinguish Georgia as U.S. State vs. eastern European country?
It’s one of the few contextual proper names I’ve not ever seen have to be differentiated, though it seems it would need to be when speaking to a global audience.
For that matter, as an author, under what circumstance should you need to differentiate, if all audience is global?
Is it adequate to assume that since Google filters and has been filtering content by language for years, that Georgia in search results and relevant pages is almost always the Georgia they seek?
> We don’t know what impetus exists for developing a ciphered-additive system where the signs for 20 through 90 have their own distinct signs, and where there is a multiplier for 10 in place of a zero
Romantic languages have an obvious difference when reading the words representing them when in comes to numbers under ten, 11-15, and multiples of ten to 90. English’s 11-12 differs from other teens. 20-90 may perhaps be hybrids of words and numerals to eliminate confusion or seem more familiar to speakers.
It’s also obvious why a multiplier for 10 would replace zero, as that’s what it does.
Tar is tar. Let it be.
tar -czvf if you’re gzzy.
tar+gzip beats zip for most uses. I don’t know about whether 7z beats tar+gz, but I don’t think 7z is as ubiquitous, though that may not be true now.