Author Archives: Anton

to boldly spam

A recent fad in spam is Star Trek filler: Sisko swiveled toward his chief engineer. “What do you think? Is there anybody still aboard the cargo shuttle?” The commander nodded grudgingly. “Yes, I know. But you thought they might steal … Continue reading

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amazing restraint

Roderick Long defines right-conflationism as defending existing economic structures as if they were outcomes of a genuinely free market (what Kevin Carson calls vulgar libertarianism), and left-conflationism as using those outcomes to attack the concept of free markets. I hope … Continue reading

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n-k-1

The blog “Degrees of Freedom”, which had been inactive for some time when last I looked at it, has vanished. James, do you still visit here?

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preprocessor fail

I’ve been getting comments like this:

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late antiquity

An argument is offered that New Zealand is the wrong place to film Tolkien’s works: One of Tolkien’s great accomplishments was making Middle-earth seem vividly old. Wherever the reader looks, ruins and crumbling statues poke through the lichen. […] To … Continue reading

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do you speak my calendar?

In MacBSD, the command cal 9 1752 shows the shortening of that month in the British Empire. If I reinstall MacOS and choose Italian as its default language, will the shift show up instead in October 1582?

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off by one

A look at 404s in my HTTP log revealed a bug in my math pix page, which in two places chooses randomly from families of images. I didn’t know that the PHP function rand(nmin,nmax) is inclusive at both ends.

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