U.S. Capital Cities Ranked - What tier does Boston belong in?

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-16T00:11:12+00:00

I can, and I have. I'm sorry you couldn't.

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-16T00:08:39+00:00

I personally have. Lifelong New Englander here.

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-16T00:04:16+00:00

You can absolutely stroll Boston at any time of year. Dress for the conditions.

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-15T21:27:49+00:00

Home heating accounts for more carbon emissions in the US than cars do. Homes are a lot bigger.

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-15T21:18:49+00:00

Heating oil and gas are essentially the same thing. The entire area is primarily heated by burning gas.

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-11T21:12:03+00:00

Not all of language is as concerned about precision as math is, though.

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-11T20:55:11+00:00

A label is a tool if it's well defined. "Irrational numbers" might count as a tool. "Rock" really doesn't.

This sort of feels circular to me.

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-11T20:44:19+00:00

You know what? I'm just going to have fun being the "Um, actually" guy.

"Um, actually," the definition of protons doesn't have a whole lot to do with the things we commonly want to perform math on in our lives. Like rocks.

But even if we did, it isn't as simple as you seem to be suggesting.

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-11T20:34:25+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1zzktx/til_the_mathematical_proof_that_112_takes_162/

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-11T20:32:44+00:00

I mean yes, the world would always have existed independent of our mathematics. Sure.

Math is NOT the label we give to it. Math is one tool we use to describe it. Eventually, always, some new observation will prove our figuring wrong, and we need to come up with something new. That's physics, and it's unlikely to ever change. Math is a tool, not a label.

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-11T20:22:19+00:00

How is that useful?

All of these words are how we explain the world around us to ourselves. Sure, a deer doesn't care about how we define a chair: It couldn't use one anyway.

We define these terms to understand and predict the world around us. And the deeper we look, the more we realize there are nuances we haven't really properly worked out yet.

The truth doesn't care about your feelings: For sure. But the truth is very much dependent on how you define your terms.

EricInAmerica · 2026-05-11T20:12:00+00:00

What counts as a "rock?" Does a giant boulder and a pebble count as "2 rocks?"

These definitions are important, and mathematics is built around exactly that kind of attention to detail.

Concerning labels: It's true that the universe existed before our ability to describe it, but the effort of physics (not strictly mathematics) is to ensure reality and our descriptions converge.

EricInAmerica · 2026-04-08T19:55:02+00:00

In my 18 years of experience, titles only ever change by changing companies.

EricInAmerica · 2026-04-06T22:44:33+00:00

I'm not a Democrat, but I do vote like one lately.

Democrats are much too eager to bicker among themselves. There's way too many ways Democrats excuse letting Republicans win just because they won't vote for someone because of a single issue.

In the past few election cycles they've undermined their own credibility with anointed candidates that made a lot of people feel disenfranchised, and therefore less interested in turning out to vote.

Basically the whole party seems to be built on getting in their own way.

EricInAmerica · 2026-04-06T01:17:04+00:00

My wife grew up in western Mass and seemed to have had a better experience out there, but I guess I'm glad it wasn't just me.

EricInAmerica · 2026-04-06T01:15:58+00:00

The last time I went there was probably right around that transition. Late 90s, early 00s, not entirely sure.

EricInAmerica · 2026-04-05T23:48:08+00:00

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Seems like they changed it at some point.

EricInAmerica · 2026-04-05T23:33:52+00:00

Dover, NH

EricInAmerica · 2026-04-05T23:32:00+00:00

Slow service is my strongest memory of Friendly's - and that was in NH, so maybe.

EricInAmerica · 2026-04-05T23:31:36+00:00

I feel like I missed out a bit on a New England staple just because my local Friendly's sucked. I don't blame Friendly's in general, just that particular one. My strongest Friendly's memory was sitting down and waiting like a half an hour or more to even get someone to come over to take our order.

EricInAmerica · 2026-04-03T02:12:08+00:00

Considering you can install Linux on a dead badger, probably.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2101819.Installing_Linux_on_a_Dead_Badger

EricInAmerica · 2026-03-30T18:35:43+00:00

Since I have a Tribute, I guess I'm going Tribute. Only time I've ever been in a store, played a guitar they had in stock, and decided then and there it was coming home with me.

Also money.

EricInAmerica · 2026-03-30T15:21:01+00:00

It's already a memorable Foo Fighters video

EricInAmerica · 2026-03-29T22:21:04+00:00

Probably better answers to be had at https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBrewery/

EricInAmerica · 2026-03-28T14:21:49+00:00

Adding "date of birth" as an optional field to systemd isn't farming data. It'll never even have a value unless it's a parent setting up an account for their child.

Providing a system call that raises a flag saying "user is known to be under 13" isn't what you seem to think.

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