Maybe some people know this already, but spelling tends to confuse me...
The words "dying", "dyeing", and "dieing" are all separate words. The second refers to coloring something with a dye. The third refers to cutting metal with a die.
Thursday, February 5, 2026
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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
the wonderful things you learn in your school
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
- Albert Einstein
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Science fiction idea
I have a science fiction idea, though I'm not sure how good a story it would make.
Imagine a future dominated by artificial beings and AI. Some humans would want to live a less technological existence. Others who live in the AI realm might choose to leave it and become physical. With almost unlimited resources, they could create regions devoted to different time periods. If you wanted to live in the 1980s, you could — or the 1950s. You could even travel between different eras.
Some science fiction stories have already explored similar ideas. Westworld, for example, is about a futuristic amusement park devoted to the Old West. I also remember a couple of other science fiction stories where people on a spaceship lived in domed artificial worlds, with each dome having a completely different environment.
This makes me wonder if the future might have more artificial environments, either virtual or physical.
Imagine a future dominated by artificial beings and AI. Some humans would want to live a less technological existence. Others who live in the AI realm might choose to leave it and become physical. With almost unlimited resources, they could create regions devoted to different time periods. If you wanted to live in the 1980s, you could — or the 1950s. You could even travel between different eras.
Some science fiction stories have already explored similar ideas. Westworld, for example, is about a futuristic amusement park devoted to the Old West. I also remember a couple of other science fiction stories where people on a spaceship lived in domed artificial worlds, with each dome having a completely different environment.
This makes me wonder if the future might have more artificial environments, either virtual or physical.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Is a period at the end of a sentence supposed to go inside quotes?
It probably doesn't matter, but I like to be grammatically correct.
Periods and exclamation points are called "a full stop."
American English
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Periods and commas always go inside the quotation marks, even if they're not part of the quoted material.
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Example: She said, "I'm ready to go."
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Example: I like the word "yes," but not "no."
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Question marks and exclamation points go inside the quotation marks if they belong to the quoted material, but outside if they belong to the whole sentence.
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Inside: He asked, "Are you coming?"
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Outside: Did she really say "I'm not interested"?
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British English
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Punctuation goes inside the quotation marks only if it's part of the original quote. Otherwise, it stays outside.
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Example: She said, "I'm ready to go".
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Example: I like the word "yes", but not "no".
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Example: Did she really say "I'm not interested"?
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I think that I like the British way.
It seems to me that the above example ...
She said, "I'm ready to go".
Should have the period inside the quotes.
Saturday, May 10, 2025
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Sunday, March 9, 2025
Why Do Americans Call This a Biscuit?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hl5drxqF09k
Bake something until it is completely dry and it can last for years. Sometimes decades. Some soldiers ate hardtack left over from previous wars.
Sea biscuits or hardtack led to the modern cracker.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024
This makes NO SENSE!🎁
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KVZxM7dpk70
It is hard to see, but he turns the second box 90 degrees before removing the lid. If the boxes are not perfect cubes, he might be able to fit the first box in the second box. I don't think the lid would close all the way, but it doesn't have to. It creates the illusion that the smaller box contains the larger one.
Friday, July 5, 2024
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Saturday, May 4, 2024
Rare Golden Ship Galaga Glitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_58poXHxOg&t=877s
The golden ship reemerges when the game switches back to the second player.
The enemy ship switched to the wrong characters for that sprite but kept the same color palette. If we assume that ship type is a single byte value, then that byte was somehow overwritten with a bad value, hypothetically a zero or a one which could be the value for the player ship. Errors like this could be caused by a memory overflow where a value was written outside the bounds of a table or the limited stack memory was exceeded.
I learned that if Player 1 exceeds 999,999 points, it will not display the millions in the score. It is not clear if the player's score still counts as being over a million, or if it goes back to zero. However, the second player does not have this problem and his score can reach 8 digits.
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