James Cranch

Mathematician, teacher, trade unionist, socialist at University of Sheffield.
He/him.

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@tomjaguarpaw A Customer is more discerning than a mere Consumer.

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@tomjaguarpaw ... which is that to understand monads, you must understand the monad laws. But using the term "notation" creates a danger that questions of behaviour will be swept under the carpet slightly: you can maybe understand "notation" without understanding its behaviour. (2/2)

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@tomjaguarpaw A short rebuttal is "that can't be quite right, because of ApplicativeDo, QualifiedDo, etc". Buried in this rather unhelpful rebuttal, I think there is a sensible point struggling to get out... (1/2)

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@dieworkwear The Duke of Windsor celebrated his tenth birthday in 1904, and in fact wouldn't get the title Duke of Windsor until thirty-three years later. Does that mean that "this era" is doing heavy lifting in this sentence, or are the first four decades of the last century all the same?

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@flying_rodent I went to university with him. He was unhinged as a student, and I've occasionally noted that he has remained so.

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@charlottor It's frustrating. Not the first time I've seen it. In the UK, the word "class" is used to mean some kind of tribe you're in based on how rich your grandparents were, rather than the more meaningful concept you're referring to.

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@owenjonesjourno @TomSeymour The pubs in Hope are better than those in Edale; it's somewhat less convenient for walking Kinder Scout but just as convenient for the Mam Tor/Lose Hill ridge walk, which is great.

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@graceelavery There was a discussion recently on Twitter (not for the first time) of how to translate the first word, "hwaet", of Beowulf into idiomatic modern English. This seems less ridiculous than some suggestions made.

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@412ricefarmer What's a "liberal agenra"?

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@flying_rodent I note that Oasis were most talked about while John Major was PM.
I suppose they're just hoping for a kind of gormless "oh yes, the 90s: Oasis, Blair, Friends ..." reaction.

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@chilternrailway @Sam77089690 That's still not an answer. Everyone you've been replying to has had a comment to make. Why is your treatment of them inconsistent, with some reassured that they've been heard, and others sent to a form?

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@chilternrailway @Sam77089690 That's not an answer. Why are you assuring some the comments have been passed on, but telling others to fill in a complaints form?

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@chilternrailway @Sam77089690 Why do some of your replies say that you've passed on the comments to management, but others link to a form for providing a complaint?
Why don't you just pass them all on?
(And, no, don't get any ideas and start charging 25p for passing on the comments either.)

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@ProfJSDavies But... surely you have to admit he's very forensic, or something like that?

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@declanw I think your second sentence is the opposite of what you mean...
Long time no see, by the way.

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@MBarany The classic example, and it's clear Simons did this, is donating to both major US political parties at once. This seems worse than a zero-sum game.

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@MBarany Whenever I hear about billionaire philanthropy it nearly always appears to have been used in a significantly worse fashion than if it had just been handed over to the exchequer (or the IRS in the USA, etc).

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@angeris The way this is written, you lose control of the constants altogether: each integration gives a fresh constant, and those have been written out of existence.
You need to do something like taking integration to be definite integration from zero.

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@discursing (Rhymes close enough to get by with "milker", even though that's possibly also a word you have limited opportunities to say.)

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@mr_chaturvedi9 @fjamie013 Actually, he did exactly what he was asked to do.