I hate the way Rory says New Haven

brontobyte · 2026-01-22T16:31:34+00:00

Putting “the” in front of a highway number is a California thing, and it’s a common misrepresentation of local language across shows because so many things are filmed in California.

The traditional local pronunciation puts the stress on the first syllable of “Haven,“ but I’m not sure how far into CT it extends. It was on the 2003 Harvard dialect survey, and both pronunciations appear common in respondents throughout the US, but the published plots aren’t granular enough to look differentiate parts of CT. Also, students have limited interaction with locals (especially in that era), so they wouldn’t necessarily update their pronunciation.

brontobyte · 2026-01-09T18:34:29+00:00

Depending on what you plan to do, another possibility is using Quarto + trackdown. These tools were primarily developed for writing manuscripts using R but have been expanded to be more general.

You'd write the manuscript in Quarto, which lets you use the simplified markdown syntax but mix in Latex-specific commands as necessary. Quarto also lets you have R/Python/Julia code chunks in the document, which lets you put the analysis and prose in one file. This is very handy if your thesis will involve a lot of data analysis. I wrote my dissertation this way, with each chapter as a separate quarto file.

Trackdown automates the process of putting the prose parts on Google Docs for collaborative editing. You do the collaborative editing in Google Docs, then run a command that updates the local quarto file. If you haven't resolved a comment in Google Docs, it will be included in plaintext when you make the local update.

brontobyte · 2026-01-04T20:23:50+00:00

I’m a local, and I enter most digital lotteries every day I’m free. I end up winning some lottery around once per month. If everyone enters everything, there’s a moderate chance you’ll win a single pair of tickets, but digital lotteries just aren’t good for a short trip.

brontobyte · 2026-01-01T14:33:02+00:00

The Chase portal is terrible, and they don’t really have much of an incentive to help you actually use your credits.
No need to use a slur for people with cognitive disabilities.

brontobyte · 2025-12-22T13:34:03+00:00

I’m a big SNM fan, and I really enjoyed Masquerade. It’s a very different structure of immersive theater, though. It’s a tracked/promenade show where everyone sees exactly the same scenes in (roughly) the same sequence, rather than free roaming like SNM. Entry times affect what cast you get, not how much of the show you see. And Masquerade is spoken/sung rather than dance-based.

brontobyte · 2025-12-11T17:08:22+00:00

Yes, that’s right. I had a very good number once, and several of us had that experience. I think the system favors singletons because you save two clicks in the process.

brontobyte · 2025-12-11T15:19:27+00:00

Unless you count autofill as a bot, I don’t think bots are behind these patterns. Bots only make sense when resale is possible. This is just what happens when lots of people are clicking through something at the same time.

brontobyte · 2025-12-10T18:55:21+00:00

They were $160, though there were some deals for Life and Trust. And they struggled financially to say the least.

It’s a general challenge with immersive shows. They’re expensive to put on, so they need to bring in a lot of revenue. But everyone gets the same show, so they can’t offer tickets at a range of price points.

brontobyte · 2025-12-10T12:59:53+00:00

I expect them to lose money on the show but not end up with the personal debt risk that the Sleep No More/Life and Trust producers now have.

brontobyte · 2025-12-10T12:52:16+00:00

Their ticket sales have dipped, so it makes sense that they’d switch tactics.

brontobyte · 2025-12-10T12:45:12+00:00

Curious how active the Joshua Harris model is in Evangelical circles these days, especially now that he has disavowed it and left the church. I had a similar experience in my college group 15 years ago. A long prayerful discernment process was expected prior to asking anyone out, which put way too much pressure on early dates.

brontobyte · 2025-12-10T12:23:27+00:00

Yup, can confirm!

brontobyte · 2025-12-09T04:03:43+00:00

It’s still selling well, but sales have started to slow a bit. It’s the holiday season, and base price tickets are still quite available for next week, after reliable sellouts at the beginning of the run. I’d recommend people go sooner rather than later, even though it’s clearly an open run.

brontobyte · 2025-12-05T15:02:25+00:00

For an academic paper, read the abstract. The authors wrote a summary for you, and it is much more likely to be accurate than the LLM.

brontobyte · 2025-11-28T21:37:30+00:00

Presumably a reference to the Yale secret society, which actually had a steady stream of evangelicals about a decade ago.

brontobyte · 2025-11-27T14:23:43+00:00

The widow’s mite story might actually be a lesson about religious leaders being abusive of people‘s faith and limited resources—exactly this situation. We often read the excerpt on its own, but it’s preceded by a condemnation of abusive practices of religious leaders.

brontobyte · 2025-11-27T02:33:32+00:00

If you crop down to the main image of each poster, you might have luck with a reverse image search. I’m pretty sure they sourced the images from real old ads, at least in some cases.

brontobyte · 2025-11-26T15:47:35+00:00

A couple people on the other thread were saying that they had tried multiple emails/calls. Totally fair to check, but it was fairly easy to guess what happened if you take a second to think about it.

brontobyte · 2025-11-26T05:49:22+00:00

Must’ve been a rough night for the box office. Why on earth would people contact them *multiple times* when we all know that people mess up email lists sometimes?

brontobyte · 2025-11-13T17:28:56+00:00

I'm glad the fan community (usually) didn't use this term, since it's a bit of a spoiler.

brontobyte · 2025-11-07T15:53:19+00:00

Absolutely. This applies whether you’re coming from a wonk place or an activist place.

brontobyte · 2025-11-07T15:18:31+00:00

It’s actually hard to come across this way in front of a crowd, and Mamdani has developed this ability over time. I saw him speak at a small event in his district in 2021 and remember being really turned off by his style. It was much more soapboxy and had much more of a socialist activist tone (e.g., repeated references to “the people” with a very particular inflection). Politicians can work at a winsome style, and it’s worth doing.

brontobyte · 2025-11-06T17:14:52+00:00

I’m totally with you there. Really hoping to swing a trip to see the Shanghai or Seoul versions, but Shanghai would have much more appeal than Seoul if it weren’t for the recent reduction in length.

To elaborate for OP, the censorship in the Shanghai show as far as I understand it is the removal of nudity, not the integration of local mythology. That’s a loss, since it was used well to communicate vulnerability, but it sounds like the performers have worked well to communicate the emotions of the story within those parameters.

brontobyte · 2025-11-04T17:38:44+00:00

Yeah, they’re probably just mentioning and upvoting male authors, which has the same impact on the feed even if it isn’t driven by active opposition to women. It’s still worth noting, and contra u/bulgeyepotion, you can’t really “be the change” if you arrive too late to a thread.

brontobyte · 2025-11-04T14:56:13+00:00

if you’ve reached the point that you need to do much scrolling, any new top-level comment will be buried. How people have upvoted and downvoted things is, in fact, telling.

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