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  6. Posted

    https://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/08/parentheses/ -

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    Every now and then, I stumble on a Wikipedia passage that makes me smile. I don’t usually share them, since calling attention to them almost certainly means they’ll be rewritten or deleted, but in this case I can’t resist. The following is from the Bracket article:

    Parentheses may also be nested (with one set (such as this) inside another set). This is not commonly used in formal writing [though sometimes other brackets (especially parentheses) will be used for one or more inner set of parentheses (in other words, secondary {or even tertiary} phrases can be found within the main sentence)].[citation needed]
     

    To the three anonymous editors who together wrote this paragraph, thank you for brightening my day.

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    58 minutes ago, Don Edwards said:

    He'll number the spaces the charts could be in, move each chart to the space with the number 2X the number of its pre-move space, and have an infinite number of odd-numbered spaces left vacant for more charts.

    The forum system seems to have messed up with the entity-escaping of the apostrophe in the link target: if it fails for anyone, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel ought to work (with the ' changed to its URL escape before the forum software gets hold of it).

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    48 minutes ago, Don Edwards said:

    I'd be hesitant about some of these as they are currently done. Not saying they are wrong, but because they are not necessarily always right. For example, the chart lists Ellen's fur color based on one specific time she had fur, but she's had fur on at least two occasions and the colors may not have been the same - the fur color is not person-specific, it's form-specific or person-and-form-specific.

    True... although my intention with the fur colours is less a matter of documenting an attribute inherent to the character per se, but primarily documenting information which may be needed by a colourist.  Hence what it would be reasonable to colourise a given character's fur to is such a datum.

    (I previously had my avatar colourised using the one labelled as CAT2, which is the colour which was associated with the specific cat form depicted in its original Patreon-SB appearance.  I later calculated compromise colours (I forget how) for the typical fur-colour Tedd seems to fluctuate around, as visible in the strip at the top of that square, and re-colourised the fur to use them (or some illumination thereof) for some reason - I forget precisely why.)

    You're probably right that it doesn't really belong alongside the others, but I didn't really have a better place to put them, at least not at the time (I created the "Cargo chart" some time afterward).

  11. Posted · Edited by HarJIT

    14 hours ago, InfiniteRemnant said:

    if you're using gimp, use pencil tool only. everything else has built in AA that i don't know how to turn off.

    Pencil is the aliased equivalent of the (antialiased) brush tool.  The eraser tool can be switched into no-antialiasing mode by ticking the "hard edge" box in its settings ("Tool Options") panel, and antialiasing on the lasso or wand can be turned off by unchecking the "antialiasing" box in its settings panel.  On scaling and related transforms, set interpolation to "none".

  19. Posted

    Dan Shive ‏@dantheshive Apr 6

    I'd be less down on labels if they came with objective checklists that one could look at and say "right, okay. All of this checks out."

    https://twitter.com/dantheshive/status/717723670555168777

    Dan Shive ‏@dantheshive Apr 6

    "I'm a conservative!" I don't know what you mean by that. It could be anything from voting republican to xenophobic religious extremist.

    https://twitter.com/dantheshive/status/717724230045999104

    Dan Shive ‏@dantheshive

    "I'm a liberal!" I don't know what you mean by that. It could be anything from voting democrat to marijuana smoking socialist hippie.

    https://twitter.com/dantheshive/status/717724545528889345

    Dan Shive ‏@dantheshive Apr 6

    "They're an SJW!" That could mean anything from caring about diversity and social wellness to punching people over assumed bigotry.

    https://twitter.com/dantheshive/status/717726047504994305

    Dan Shive ‏@dantheshive Apr 6

    Politically, labels are useful for rallying people to your cause (and keeping them in line) while broadly discrediting the opposition.

    https://twitter.com/dantheshive/status/717727688878743556

    Dan Shive ‏@dantheshive Apr 6

    It doesn't encourage detailed discussion or reasoning. It encourages "us vs them" and resistance to change.

    https://twitter.com/dantheshive/status/717727863420551168

    Dan Shive ‏@dantheshive Apr 6

    I know talking out against labels can sound like hipster nonsense (hey, another discrediting label!), but there *are* reasons to take issue.

    https://twitter.com/dantheshive/status/717728210490765314

    Dan Shive ‏@dantheshive Apr 6

    A sad reality is that "us vs them" is WAY more effective for getting a bunch of people on one side and is likely the "best" strategy.

    https://twitter.com/dantheshive/status/717729048307191810