They eventually stop, Excel has a max column size of 16,384. Not sure what letter combo that would be (ZZZZZZZZZZ or something?), but it does eventually halt.
This is pretty fun! I'd suggest having the spellcheck suggestions not pop up correct answers (I typed "Ireland" and it asked if I meant Iceland, which was one of the answers I hadn't gotten to yet). And, for that matter, I'm not really sure why Ireland was wrong. I thought maybe it was because it shares its island with NI, but the DR shares its island with Haiti and DR was accepted.
I like honey pretty well, but I have no idea how I'd go through 6 pails of it a year. Did you use it in your coffee and also put it on toast every morning or something?
I can't speak for everybody, but since the light green and the white are so close, I have to rely on shapes for those two instead. And then my dumb brain refuses to accept that squares and diamonds are different, lol. Maybe we could get either triangles or circles as one of those colors? Otherwise it's totally color-friendly!
> there’s unfortunately no easy way to sort out the least viewed pages, short of a very slow linear search for the needle in the haystack
So this sentence made me wonder why he didn't actually just go do it, 6M pages isn't really all that big of a data set. Turns out that it's a problem of how the data is arranged. The raw files are divided by year/month/day/second[0], and then each of those seconds is a zipped file of about 500MB in size, where pages are listed like this:
en.m Alcibiades_(character) 1 0
en.m Alcibiades_DeBlanc 2 0
en.m Alcibiades_the_Schoolboy 1 0
en.m Alcide_De_Gasperi 2 0
en.m Alcide_Herveaux 1 0
en.m Alcide_Laurin 1 0
en.m Alcide_de_Gasperi 1 0
en.m Alcides_Escobar 3 0
en.m Alcimus_(mythology) 1 0
with en.m getting a separate listing from the desktop em, and all the other country codes getting their own listings too. So just collating the data would be a huge job.
The API also doesn't offer a specific list of all pages by time, so you'd have to go and make a separate call for each of the 6M pages for a given year and then collate that data too.
Or maybe I was making a conscious choice to comment on the one but not the other. In the last 20 years or so, there's been a wide reconsideration about the morality of dropping bombs (whether nuclear or conventional) on civilian populations during the war. I don't think we need to have yet another conversation about that. Instead, I'm trying to understand the Japanese viewpoint, where they get a telegram that 100k people have been killed in a raid and think "Bummer, but we fight on!".
I'm pretty sure I didn't actually pass any judgement one way or the other on the actions of the US military in that post. The two are morally separate, we don't have to do a what-about-ism for it.
It's totally bonkers that the Japanese leadership didn't surrender after this raid. Or at least after the next ones that showed that the US could do it basically at will anywhere in Japan. I just will never understand how they could sit around and watch their citizens burn and continue to fight. Think of how many Japanese lives they could have saved if they'd surrendered in June instead of August.
For example, in this post [0] he argues that a pinecone was cushioned by the snow and that's why it didn't bounce off the rail. But he fails to notice that there's the same amount of snow on the rail and on top of the pinecone. Instead of his hypothesis, what I think probably happened was that the pinecone bounced on the deck and then up to the rail, where it was before the snow started falling. It's not a matter of looking at objects vs processes like he claims, it's a matter of looking at what objects (in this case, the snow on top of the pinecone) can tell us about processes.
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