stepleton

stepletron:vidfs tom$ ./vidfs ~/Desktop/rawmatte/Movie\ 3\ matte.mov -f mnt &
[1] 70872
stepletron:vidfs tom$ ls -l mnt/
total 80
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     3 Jul  9 13:00 INFO_depth
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     4 Jul  9 13:00 INFO_height
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    46 Jul  9 13:00 INFO_movie_file
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     2 Jul  9 13:00 INFO_num_channels
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     7 Jul  9 13:00 INFO_num_frames
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     5 Jul  9 13:00 INFO_row_step
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     4 Jul  9 13:00 INFO_width
dr-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  4096 Jul  9 13:00 MATLAB
dr-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  4096 Jul  9 13:00 PPMPPM
dr-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  4096 Jul  9 13:00 RAWRAW
stepletron:vidfs tom$ cat mnt/INFO_width mnt/INFO_height 
640
480
stepletron:vidfs tom$ file mnt/PPMPPM/15
mnt/PPMPPM/15: Netpbm PPM "rawbits" image data
stepletron:vidfs tom$ ls mnt/PPMPPM | wc -l
  188020
stepletron:vidfs tom$ umount mnt
stepletron:vidfs tom$ ls -l mnt/
[1]+  Done                    ./vidfs ~/Desktop/rawmatte/Movie\ 3\ matte.mov -f mnt
stepletron:vidfs tom$

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1571

A casual inspection of the 59 (true) Google hits on "Oooo, you look", suggests that Dr. Willis Jensen, a recent presenter in the brownbag lunch series at Language Log Plaza, vastly overestimated the correlation between utterance initial "Oooo" and sarcasm: the true rate is less than 50%. However, he is correct to identify "Oooo" as a common marker of sarcasm, e.g. the comment "oooo. you look lovely:)" in the comments here from the above search.

(A video report on Dr. Jensen's groundbreaking work is below the fold.)

Report: 70 Percent Of All Praise Sarcastic

dachte

I just spent the last hour reading about vos, usted, vosotros, and other things relating to second person in Spanish. This filled in the gap for me on why other languages like French use "vous". Apparently there's a lot of variance throughout Central/S. America on where vos replaces tú, and how vos is conjugated. For simplicity's sake, I like the forms that conjugate it the same as vosotros. Usted is apparently a merged form of "vuestra merced", while vosotros is (obviously) a merged form of "vos otros".

I've spent a fair bit of time over the last 2 weeks in Gates, and I am not at all impressed( Read more... )

I've been using Amarok, a KDE-based graphical audio player, in order to allow me to easily rate my music collection (my normal way of playing music, a lightly sophisticated commandline program I wrote, is never going to be usable for that). Unfortunately, it's proven to be like pulling teeth to try to get those ratings back out ( Read more... )

I finished reading Tim Scott's 「Love in the Time of Fridges」 - it feels like the author watched Terry Gilliam's 「Brazil」 and replaced the dark humour with absurdist and light humour and added a lightly cyberpunk tone. It was still enjoyable, although I doubt I'll ever reread it.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3489

Simon Marlow:

...with ICFP and the Haskell Symposium approaching we felt it was time to
get the new process moving and hopefully produce a language revision...

In the coming weeks we'll be refining proposals in preparation for
Haskell 2010. By all means suggest more possibilities; however note
that as per the new process, a proposal must be "complete" (i.e. in the
form of an addendum) in order to be a candidate for acceptance.

More here.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1570

In some alternative history, according to the webcomic Teaching Baby Paranoia:

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David Brooks has so far missed this one.

[Hat tip: Neil Cohn]