Comparison and contrast often work by engaging in classification, which means explaining how your subjects can actually fit a different type of category than readers would typically realize, or how your subjects should not be placed in their typically assumed categories.
This means that comparison and contrast is not only about similarities and differences, but also about how we classify things.
Their knives dripped with the blood of ouranimals.
The villagers were extremely violent. It is surprising that the whole village attacked the family and killed their animals just because the aunt was pregnant.
that falls from the mouth is a coin lost
This is surprising because it treats speech as a cost instead of a connection. It turns silence into a form of discipline that shapes the whole family.
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulderAnd I-I had a feeling that I belongedI-I had a feeling I could be someone,
she feels that being with her boyfriend makes her feel valued and become important to someone.
You, the writer of the document, are the most important voice.
This is surprising because I thought research papers should mostly focus on sources. I didn’t realize the writer’s own ideas are actually the most important part.
everything kind of is a fucking lie that you see your whole life growing up on TV shows or movies.
This is surprising because she says it in a very direct way. It shows a sudden moment when she stops believing what media has shown her. The line turns everyday TV stories into proof of unfair access.
He murdered her.” “It was an accident, George.” Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior “Hm!” “I know,” he said definitely. “I’m one of these trusting fellas and I don’t think any harm to nobody, but when I get to know a thing I know it. It was the man in that car. She ran out to speak to him and he wouldn’t stop.” Michaelis had seen this too, but it hadn’t occurred to him that there was any special significance in it. He believed that Mrs. Wilson had been running away from her husband, rather than trying to stop any particular car.
george start to accuse gastby as the murderer of his wife,i think hisa poor guy,everyone has been hiding secret from him.
until long after there was anyone to give it to if it came.
Gatsby’s hope was almost gone. Although he waited for the phone call, he likely knew it would never come. The call maybe symbolize the end of Gatsby’s dream.
Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness—it stands out in my memory from Gatsby’s other parties that summer.
Tom’s presence disrupts the carefree atmosphere of Gatsby’s parties and bring tension.
As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.
even nick sees his emotion,he saw the interaction between daisy and gastby
I think he was afraid they would dart down a side-street and out of his life forever.
It is surprising how Tom, who usually dominates every situation, appears genuinely afraid of losing control. His repeated glances back at Gatsby’s car reveal an unexpected vulnerability, as if Daisy might suddenly escape his life altogether.
what’s your opinion of me, anyhow?
This question exposes Gatsby’s deep insecurity beneath his confident exterior. He needs validation to support the image he has carefully constructed. It also shows how fragile his persona becomes when he loses control of the narrative about himself.
I went with them out to the veranda. On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat, one small sail crawled slowly toward the fresher sea. Gatsby’s eyes followed it momentarily; he raised his hand and pointed across the bay.
Daisy and Gatsby liked each other and they cared for each other.
he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
This sentence shows how deeply Gatsby bases his self-worth on Daisy’s approval. His possessions stop being symbols of success and become tools for winning her reaction. It also reveals how unstable his dream is, because it depends entirely on her gaze.
Specific words and images make your writing clearer, more precise, and often more interesting. Whenever possible, avoid overly general words in your writing; instead, try to replace general language with particular nouns, verbs, and modifiers that convey details and that bring yours words to life. Add words that provide color, texture, sound, and even smell to your writing.
This makes me realize that using specific words could make such a big difference.Adding small details like color or sound can suddenly make writing feel more alive.
Maybehe deserved her contempt, but Corliss realized that very few youngmen read poetry at Washington State University.
I’m surprised that even though she dislikes him, she still respects that he reads poetry, which changes how she sees him.
Yes. So I started crying, and I kept crying, and I couldn't stop cry,ing no matter how hard I tried. They tell me I cried for two weeksstraight, but all I remember is that first day. I took a leave of absencefrom school, sold my house, and spent my money in a year, and nowI'm here, relying, as they say, on the kindness of strangers.''"I am kind because you are kind. Thank you for sharing your story.'
She has the thoughts that she wants to give up but has the world is holding her.
Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'dnever wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. Howcould she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganizedscholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardlysolider
Corliss suddenly feels guilty when she realizes she has never thought about the forgotten books in the library.
I think you're going to find I'm writing themost authentic Indian poems that have ever been written
This sentence shows how highly Harlan values his own work. It suggests a desire to prove his cultural legitimacy. It also hints that his idea of authenticity may be shaped more by ego than community tradition.
I began to know his men a little, those unsteady hearts that he hadspoken of, those leaky vessels. Polites was better-mannered than therest, Eurylochos stubborn and sulky. Thin-faced Elpenor had a laughlike a screechy owl. They reminded me of wolf pups, their griefsgone when their bellies were full. They looked down when I passed,as if to be sure their hands were still their ow
Circe sees Odysseus’s men as weak and easily scared. They try to look tough, but they still afraid of her power.
"I appreciated him,in his way. But he made a terrible soldier, however many men hecould bleed. He had a number of inconvenient ideas about loyaltyand honor
This shows that he is not a good soldier because he follows his own ideas, not orders. His thoughts about loyalty and honor make him different, but also cause problems.
Hsu is a subtle writer, not a showy one; the joy of “Stay True” sneaks up on you, and the wry jokesare threaded seamlessly throughout. He recounts his relationship with his parents — how he feltextraordinarily close to them in some essential ways and distant from them in
Hsu Hua’s quiet writing style makes the story feel sincere and let the reader easy to connect with.
o they spoke; and, grieving at heart, I then explained to them:‘My wretched companions undid me; they, and damnableslumber! My friends, help me now: you have the power.
the words that they impressed is sad and grieving
So they spoke,
Why is these words put there? Is it a meaning for something?
"Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you're so pretty?" she would say.
Her mother used the word “gawking”, I think it’s kind of impolite to her daughter. Her mother seemed to be irritated to her that she had to used such an indecent word.
I had scarcely laid the first tier of my masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was not the cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid the second tier, and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard the furious vibrations of the chain. The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones. When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier. The wall was now nearly upon a level with my breast. I again paused, and holding the flambeaux over the mason-work, threw a few feeble rays upon the figure within.
It is surprising that Fortunato suddenly regains his awareness, but it is already too late for him to escape. Montresor’s calm reaction to his desperate struggle is unexpected and chilling.
Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
I was shocked by how easily he admits giving “commands”, as if ordering his wife’s death was just another act of pride. He sounds more offended by his wife’s kindness.
While there are many different roles on a college campus that could be included in this list,advisors deserve a special place because they are crucial to your success; they are also the first place to gowhen a student has an issue. Some advisors spend considerable time with students to help them choose amajor and create a schedule each semester that will enable them to graduate. Others serve as a soundingboard for students who are struggling in a class and deciding whether or not to drop. Developing arelationship with your advisor has obvious benefits: They get to know what your goals are and can helpyou refine them
I used to think that the job of college advisors was only to help with class schedules, but now I see that they also give emotional support and guidance when students face problems. It’s interesting to know that building a relationship with an advisor can really make a big difference in college life.
There is a ladder. The ladder is always there hanging innocently close to the side of the schooner. We know what it is for, we who have used it.
I was so suprised that the author uses ladder to represnts the fear of his alone.
I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps.
This part might mean that the speaker’s goal is to truly explore and understand the wreck, not just read about it. The “words” could represent stories or explanations that guide her, like maps, but she still needs to see the truth for herself.
We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.
I think this is powerful because it shows that we are all part of this search. Even if our names weren't written in the old stories, we can still go down there and see the wreck for ourselves. I think the wreck here might be our traumas or things we try to forgetting. this line is really deep
the drowned face always staring toward the sun the evidence of damage worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty the ribs of the disaster curving their assertion among the tentative haunters.
I love how she describes the wreck so vividly that we can picture it. it makes me think of the dark times in our own lives when we wanted to reach the sunlight so badly. some things we believed would last forever ended up drifting into the 'ocean of lost memories' I especially like the part about the ribs, it feels like those old hurts we try to ignore, but every now and then they poke us again. we can't really erase them ;we just learn to move around them, like tentative haunters of our own past.
You're pretty goddamnsmart, I bet."Then he looked directly at me, just for a minute. "I ain'tsmart," he said. "If I was smart, I'd have reached for a pistol along time ago."
It’s ironic that Sonny got arrested, while the drifter was fine.
He mustwant to die, he 's killing himself, why does he want to die?"He looked at me in surprise. He licked his lips. "He don 'twant to die. He wants to live. Don't nobody want to die,ever.
I thought Sonny was destroying himself because he wanted to die, but this line shows the opposite. It’s shocking that even through self-destruction, Sonny is still fighting to live.
Sonny's fingers filled the air with life, his life. But that lifecontained so many others.
It’s surprising how the narrator realizes that Sonny’s music expresses not only his own pain but the shared suffering of others. This shows a moment of understanding and connection between the brothers.
'1 couldn't tell you when Mama died-but the reason I wantedto leave Harlem so bad was to get away from drugs. And then,when I ran away, that's what I was running from-really.When I came back, nothing had changed, I hadn't changed, Iwas just-older." And he stopped, drumming with his fingerson the windowpane. The sun had vanished, soon darknesswould fall. I watched his face. "It can come again," he said,almost as though speaking to himself. Then he turned to me."It can come again," he repeated. "I just want you to knowthat.""All right," I said, at last. "So it can come again, All right."He smiled, but the smile was sorrowful. "I had to try to tellyou," he said.
It shows how trapped he felt by his environment. Harlem represents pain , poverty , and a cycle he wants to escape. This highlights a main theme of the story - how hard it is to break free from suffering.
"Imean, I'll have a lot of studying to do, and I'll have to studyeverything, but, I mean, I want to play with-jazz musicians."He stopped. "I want to play jazz," he said.
It's clear that Black people have a really deep connection with music, and jazz is a big part of Black culture. This idea plays a significant role in Sonny's Blues, highlights how music becomes a way to deal with pain and as a form of expression.
"why does he want to die? He mustwant to die, he 's killing himself, why does he want to die?"He looked at me in surprise. He licked his lips. "He don 'twant to die. He wants to live. Don't nobody want to die,ever."
The speaker, as someone who has tried heroin before , must have a remarkably stable mind to avoid being controlled by the drug. I strongly agree with the line,'He wants to live. Don't nobody want to die, ever.' It reveals the underlying reason why many people become addicted; they long to escape a reality that they cannot bare living.
Eurylochos: he, suspecting a trap, hung back.She escorted them in, sat them down on chairs and benches,and offered them barley meal, cheese, and pale yellow honeymixed with Pramnian wine; but she added to this mixture 235baneful drugs to destroy their memory of their homeland.When she’d given it them and they’d swallowed it, then at onceshe struck them with her wand, and shut them away in sties:they now all had pigs’ heads, pigs’ voices, and pigs’ bristles,pigs’ bodies too; but their minds remained unchanged. 240So they were penned in, weeping; and Kirkē threw themoak nuts to eat, acorns, the fruit of the cornel tree—such food as swine that sleep on the ground will feed on.
Eurylochos's escape shows the danger of temptation and the importance of self-control by not following. This line highlighted his awareness and circe's cunning.
She at once summoned famous Antiphatēs, her husband,from assembly: he devised a miserable fate for them.
Greek culture valued Xenia (hospitality); however, instead of welcoming odysseus, the king plotted something cruel, marking a turning point in Odysseus's journey.
For it needs little skill and psychology to be sure that a highlygifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been sothwarted and hindered by contrary instincts [add "chains, guns, the lash, theownership of one's body by someone else, submission to an alien religion"Lthat she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty."
Society once saw creative women as "mad", but their so-called madness is actually passion, vision and art.
she knewshe was pretty and that was everything
It shows that Connie’s entire sense of identity is based on her appearance.
She stood
I am surprised that Connie is so brave and confident to refuse Anrold's friend
On her last day in the office, the blindman asked if he could touch her face. She agreed to this. Shetold me he touched his fingers to every part of her face, hernose---even her neck!
It surprises me because I never imagined that touching someone’s face could be such an intimate and meaningful act, especially between two people who were not romantically involved.
On her last day in the office, the blindman asked if he could touch her face. She agreed to this. Shetold me he touched his fingers to every part of her face, hernose---even her neck!
I am surprised that the woman would allow the blind man to touch her face since it’s not a common request.
You see, he does not believe I am sick!
It surprised me that her husband, who is a doctor, doesn’t believe she is sick at all. I would think a doctor should trust his patient’s feelings, especially when the patient is his wife.
But John says if I feel so I shall neglect proper self-control;so I take pains to control myself,— before him, at least,— andthat makes me very tired.
I am surprised that a how come the wife should pretend she was fine but not in front of her physician husband.
I didn't tell her that. Maybe I just don't understand poetry.I admit it's not the first thing I reach for when I pick upsomething to read
One might expect him to feel curiosity, or strong emotion reading about it , but he responds with self-reflection. H is emotional is unexpected to me
In the poem, she recalled his fingers and the waythey had moved around over her face.
Maybe it’s remembering to her to recall every touches from the blind man. I think it’s hard for a person to recall such concrete memory from a trauma.
she knewshe was pretty and that was everything.
It is surprising that, at only fifteen, she already believes beauty is the most important thing in life.
DONEBY CRAZY WOMAN DRIVE
We done really know who made the bump but the language, I think, suggests a deeply rooted Misogyny.
He didn't bother talking much to them, but around his bent headConnie's mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother was dead and sheherself was dead and it was all over.
I'm surprised that Connie and I have the same feeling because of Mom's constant nagging.
n. Ellie turned for the first time and Connie saw withshock that he wasn't a kid either—he had a fair, hairless face, cheeks reddened slightly asif the veins grew too close to the surface of his skin, the face of a forty-year-old ba
I didn't find that Arnold's friend was even older than him.
"Gonna get you, baby,
This really surprised me,why would someone use such a flirtatious tone when meeting a person for the first time??
“We can’t change the world, at least not quickly, but we can change our brains. By practicingmindfulness all of us have the capacity to develop a deeper sense of calm.”— Rick Hanson, author,Resilient
focusing on ourself first, rather than trying to make some difference in this world. It is significant to have good mindset and develop calmness first to be ready to deal with tasks.
Researchers at the University of Reading recently conducted a blind test in which ChatGPT-written answers were submitted through the university’s own examination system: 94% of the AI submissions went undetected and received higher scores than those submitted by the humans.
WOW! This is actually insane.
“humanisers”, such as CopyGenius and StealthGPT, the latter which boasts that it can produce undetectable content and claims to have helped half a million students produce nearly 5m papers.
This is actually really alarming! Wow!
a generative AI researcher at British University Vietnam, believes there are “significant limitations” to AI detection software. “All the research says time and time again that these tools are unreliable,”
So does this mean AI will never be 100% reliable?
In the struggle to stuff the genie back in the bottle, universities have become locked in an escalating technological arms race, even turning to AI themselves to try to catch misconduct.
What a crazy era for technology.
More than half of students now use generative AI to help with their assessments
I am excited and nervous to use AI feels like a gateway drug to laziness
In that second file let’s put all the other evidence we have linking Adnan to the actual crime, the actual killing
challenges the common expectation in criminal cases that physical evidence should be present to directly link the suspect to the crime. The lack of such evidence in Adnan's case is a shocking and pivotal element, which raises doubts about the prosecution's argument.
Namely, Jay’s shiftingstatements to police and how the cell tower information didn’t fully match Jay’s narrative
These call records do not fully support Adnan's defense, nor do they clearly prove his whereabouts at the time of the crime. In fact, there are some ambiguous parts in these records, which lead her to question whether the investigation may have missed some crucial clues or, whether intentionally or unintentionally, misled the progress of the case.
He’s been shot...
In the previous chapters, Mr. Justice Wargrave acted suspicious, but it turned out that he died.
Philip Lombard was dead - shot through the hear
In And Then There Were None, Lombard's death is indeed caused by Vera Claythorne. In the final stages of the story, overwhelmed by psychological pressure and fear, Vera shoots Lombard. This act is a reflection of her complex inner turmoil and the story's tense atmosphere. This twist is shocking for readers and adds to the overall tragic feel of the narrative.
Dr. Armstrong.”Lombard gave a low whistle.“The doctor, eh? You know, I should have put him last of all.
Lombard and Vera have a disagreement during a seemingly peaceful conversation, and based on the subsequent text, Vera appears to be quite convinced of her suspicions.
Moreover, your goal in college classes is not just to remember the information for a test, but it is tobuild on that foundational knowledge to learn different levels of thinking
10/22surprising:When we enter the college we not just memorize the textbook, we have read a lot of text and do a lot of critical thinking.
“My friend,” said Dupin, in a kind tone, “you are alarming yourself unnecessarily — you are indeed. We mean you no harm whatever. I pledge you the honor of a gentleman, and of a Frenchman, that we intend you no injury. I perfectly well know that you are innocent of the atrocities in the Rue Morgue.{z} It will not do, however, to deny that you are in some measure implicated in them. [page 564:] From what I have already said, you must know that I have had means of information about this matter — means of which you could never have dreamed. Now the thing stands thus. You have done nothing which you could have avoided — nothing, certainly, which renders you culpable.
it must be really odd to point out that, the sailor is kind of innocent. nnocent of any intentional wrongdoing. His only crime, if it can be called that, was failing to control his pet. The orangutan's actions were driven by its animal instincts, not human malice, which adds to the peculiarity of the case.
Start with your childhood, I tell the
9/30 surprising: I always can’t start smoothly. This gives me a good idea to start next time.
Because for some of us, books are as important as almostanything else on earth.
9/30 Surprising : This mean books means the world to most writers, i didn't even know about that !
n, I couldn't think of a single restaurantwhere I'd ever actually eate
9/30 Surprising: I thought it’s command to remember the restaurant I’ve been to, until I read this sentence and find out that I can’t even remembered which restaurant I’ve been to yesterday.
This, under the circumstances, has been justly characterized by one of the witnesses {cc}(Montani, the confectioner,){cc} as an expression of remonstrance or expostulation.
Not only was I surprised, but the witnesses in the story were as well. This surprise could be related to the truth being revealed or the curiosity about who is responsible.
We had been talking of horses, if I remember aright, just before leaving the Rue C———. This was the last subject we discussed. As we crossed into this street, a fruiterer, with a large basket upon his head, brushing quickly past us, thrust you upon a pile of paving-stones collected at a spot where the causeway is undergoing repair. You stepped upon one of the loose fragments, slipped, slightly strained your ankle, appeared vexed or sulky, muttered a few words, turned to look{m} at the pile, and then proceeded in silence. I was not particularly attentive to what you did; but observation has become with me, of late, a species of necessity. “You kept your eyes upon the ground — glancing, with a petulant expression, at the holes and ruts in the pavement, (so that I saw you were still thinking of the stones,) until we reached the little alley called Lamartine,(18) which has been paved, by way of [page 536:] experiment, with the overlapping and riveted blocks.(19) Here your countenance brightened up, and, perceiving your lips move, I could not doubt that you murmured{n} the{oo} word ‘stereotomy,’ a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement.{oo} I knew that you could not {pp}say to yourself ‘stereotomy’ without{pp}, being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus;(20) and since{q} when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward{r} to the great nebula{s} in Orion,(21) and I certainly expected that you would do so. You did look up; and I was now{t} assured that I had correctly followed your steps. But in that bitter tirade upon Chantilly, which appeared in yesterday's ‘Musée,’ the satirist, making some disgraceful allusions to the cobbler's change of name upon assuming the buskin, quoted a{u} Latin line{v} about which{w} we have often conversed.
This part surprised me a lot. I also find it creepy as the first time I read it, for all the narrator’s movement were observed and memorized by Dupin. It feels like the narrator stayed with a monitor. What’s more, Dupin can even follow up the narrator’s mind.
in whose tones, even, denizens of the five great divisions of Europe could recognise nothing familiar! You will say that it might have been the voice of an Asiatic
When it comes to the crime, we will assume that it is committed by human, so the unusual sound could be interpreted as the terrified scream of the women or the shout of the murder; however, it couldn’t be recognized as any kinds of language, implying that the murderer might not be a human.
on Mr. Smith attempting to go into another room for his pistols, the monkey leaped on his back with the speed of lightning, made various efforts to reach his throat, broke his watch guard assunder in rage, and, dropping to the [page 523:] ground, bit his leg, and again fled to the basin-stand. Mr. Smith pursued him and flung him off many times in his leaping attacks. After skirmishing a considerable time, the worried animal dashed through the window, carrying the frame and glass along with him.
All these incidents and fights happened in seconds, making the readers nervous and scared as if we were there. Meanwhile, it gave me a shock about the intelligence and strength of the animal, for it almost hit him every single time! This is the most surprising part for me to know the power of the Pongo pygmaeus.
“I will explain,” he said, “and that you may comprehend all clearly, we will first retrace the course of your meditations, from the moment in which I spoke to you until that of the rencontre{j} with the fruiterer in question. The larger links of the chain run thus — Chantilly, Orion, Dr. Nichol,{k} (16) Epicurus, Stereotomy, the street stones, the fruiterer.” There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest; and he who attempts it for the first time is{l} astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.(17) What, then, must have been my amazement when I heard the Frenchman speak what he had just spoken, and when I could not help acknowledging that he had spoken the truth. He continued: “We had been talking of horses, if I remember aright, just before leaving the Rue C———. This was the last subject we discussed. As we crossed into this street, a fruiterer, with a large basket upon his head, brushing quickly past us, thrust you upon a pile of paving-stones collected at a spot where the causeway is undergoing repair. You stepped upon one of the loose fragments, slipped, slightly strained your ankle, appeared vexed or sulky, muttered a few words, turned to look{m} at the pile, and then proceeded in silence. I was not particularly attentive to what you did; but observation has become with me, of late, a species of necessity. “You kept your eyes upon the ground — glancing, with a petulant expression, at the holes and ruts in the pavement, (so that I saw you were still thinking of the stones,) until we reached the little alley called Lamartine,(18) which has been paved, by way of [page 536:] experiment, with the overlapping and riveted blocks.(19) Here your countenance brightened up, and, perceiving your lips move, I could not doubt that you murmured{n} the{oo} word ‘stereotomy,’ a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement.{oo} I knew that you could not {pp}say to yourself ‘stereotomy’ without{pp}, being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus;(20) and since{q} when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward{r} to the great nebula{s} in Orion,(21) and I certainly expected that you would do so. You did look up; and I was now{t} assured that I had correctly followed your steps. But in that bitter tirade upon Chantilly, which appeared in yesterday's ‘Musée,’ the satirist, making some disgraceful allusions to the cobbler's change of name upon assuming the buskin, quoted a{u} Latin line{v} about which{w} we have often conversed. I mean the line {xx}Perdidit antiquum litera prima sonum{xx} I had told you that this was in reference to Orion, formerly written Urion; and, from certain pungencies connected with this explanation, I was aware that you could not have forgotten it.(22) It was clear, therefore, that you would not fail to combine the two ideas of Orion and Chantilly. That you did combine them I saw by the character of the smile which passed over your lips. You thought of the poor cobbler's immolation. So far, you had been stooping in your gait; but now I saw you draw yourself up to your full height. I was then sure that you reflected upon the diminutive figure of Chantilly. At this point I interrupted your meditations to remark [page 537:] that as, in fact, he was a very little fellow — that Chantilly — he would do better at the Théâtre des Variétés.”{y}
I'm surprised that Poe, as the pioneer of detective literature, can come up with such a deliberate and coherent process of thinking.
Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly{b} imaginative never otherwise than{c} analytic.
I've never doubted the similarity between being fanciful and imaginative, yet it seems that imagination is often grounded in logical understanding while fancy is associated with whimsical thinking. True genius lies in the combination of imagination and analytic ability.
A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked{e} by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre{f} motions, with various and variable values, what{g} is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what{h} is profound. The attention is here called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed, resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique{i} and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, [page 529:] and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen.
This surprised me, as I initially thought both games should be played with a unique move to mess up the opponent's plan. Instead, because of the lack of possible moves in chess, the moves will not be as unique as playing draughts.
There is also a well-known story of a pet monkey, who, imitating his master shaving himself, cut his own throat.
I find this part surprising because it demonstrates the bizarre and tragic consequences of animals mimicking human behavior. I never expected that a monkey could imitate something as complex as shaving with such disastrous results.
There is also a story, still sometimes told by stage comedians, about a barber's pet monkey who, in the absence of his master from the shop, essayed to shave a customer with disastrous results.
Probably because Poe was deeply influenced by Voltaire, a man committed in breaking conventional social norms. Hence the absurd story.
The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably{z} incapable of analysis.
This may surprise you because it suggests that being clever doesn’t mean someone can analyze things well, which goes against the common belief that cleverness and analytical skill go hand in hand.
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action,(1) so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
Although the wording is quite complex and difficult throughout the passage, but I think with this explanation makes me understand it better. (a man showing muscles just like analyst solving problems, both have its own happiness)
I can confirm that this is still actual for Rails 7 - jpEg converts to jpg and your production fails.
Ain't it possible that every message I send or forward will just be replaced to the outbox and will be send by Thunderbird in the background ? I really hate it that every message sends itself away, running on top of all other windows, and it makes me wait till it has been sent from reading my other messages...
Personally I don’t find necessary to see the whole progress of how a mail is sent step-by-step, I just want to send the e-mail. Can’t understand why they are showing me all these but anyway
She grades their results as if they haddone the writing entirely on their own.
Surprising: This definitely surprised me seeing a professor going so far as to treat the result as if the students have done the writing entirely on their own. It definitely clashed with my previously held belief.
That small number may simply reflect that professors who hadexperimented with AI — even if they concluded it is a danger to learning —probably had more reason to write to us.
Many students don’t know how to use AI correctly.
Law redesigned her first-year writing course to include weekly “AI infused”discussion threads and assignments.
I am surprised that there is a class about the law of AI.
That small number may simply reflect that professors who hadexperimented with AI — even if they concluded it is a danger to learning —probably had more reason to write to us.
It was surprising for professors to realize that many students had limited knowledge about AI
The input format of the xargs command doesn't match what any other command produces.
The input format of the xargs command doesn't match what any other command produces. Yes, it's bizarre. With -I, xargs ignores indentation, which is why the file names with initial spaces are mangled. Do not use xargs except with the -0 option or when you know your input doesn't contain characters that would confuse it.
Why would a text message service require Location (GPS) permissions? Anyway I enabled this Location permission for testing. Heureka!!! Suddenly I was able to send text messages again to all the contacts which previously didn't work. The "Not sent, tap to try again" error was gone.
i commissioned some original polling for my book from abacus research and i found some very hopeful stuff and you know the public gets the emergency and incidentally i've tried to recast 00:12:46 some of the the extreme weather events we've experienced as attacks on our soil let's think about them that way yeah um and they're ready for bold action actually the public is ahead of our politics in terms of that i was surprised to see 00:12:58 that you even mentioned in alberta the numbers are much higher than you so you mentioned quebec before so the the opinion polling nationally ranges from a high in quebec in terms of their readiness fraction right to a low in alberta but even in alberta 00:13:12 the level of support is remarkably high
The first example needs a custom inflection rule: loader.inflector.inflect("max_retries" => "MAX_RETRIES") Otherwise, Zeitwerk would expect the file to define MaxRetries.
Potential problem. What if you need it both ways? A constant named MAX_RETRIES within a certain namespace, but also a higher-level MaxRetries class? Guess you'd have to work around it, probably by just defining MAX_RETRIES inside its parent module...
Note that the mere presence of this header causes premailer to be skipped, i.e., even setting skip_premailer: false will cause premailer to be skipped. The reason for that is that the skip_premailer is a simple header and the value is transformed into a string, causing 'false' to become truthy.
They should fix this!
lib/premailer/rails/hook.rb
def skip_premailer_header_present?
message.header[:skip_premailer]
end
It seems that the method is a direct equivalent of a.fdiv(b).ceil, and as such, annoyingly unnecessary, but fdiv, due to floating point imprecision, might produce surprising results in edge cases
I agree with this statement so much. We should absolutely be failing hard rather than forcing people to debug thread safety issues at runtime. I can't think of anything more infuriating than debugging an issue that happens "sometimes".
The problem is that in the case where an app is multi-threaded, and we don't switch off autoload, the case would be that it probably won't blow up, but random stuff will mysteriously sometimes fail in weird ways. So ask yourself this, what would you rather want, option 1) where you can get an exception at runtime, or option 2) where you get random, unpredictable, weird, hard to explain, difficult to debug bugs at runtime. Personally, I'm going to choose option 1. The downside of thread-safety issues is so much worse than the downside of the possibility of an exception. The way you're handling it makes it sound as though thread-safety is not important, as though Rails is still optimizing for the single-threaded case. That seems like a huge step back.
It may seem like Testing is some sort of beta, unstable version but that’s not entirely true. Debian Testing is the next Debian stable version. The actual development branch is the Debian Unstable (also known as Sid). Debian Testing lies somewhere in between the unstable and stable branch where it gets the new features before the stable release.
Have you ever: Been disappointed, surprised or hurt by a library etc. that had a bug that could have been fixed with inheritance and few lines of code, but due to private / final methods and classes were forced to wait for an official patch that might never come? I have. Wanted to use a library for a slightly different use case than was imagined by the authors but were unable to do so because of private / final methods and classes? I have.
Been disappointed, surprised or hurt by a library etc. that was overly permissive in it's extensibility? I have not.
No, in Python "[ [] foo [] boo [][]] ".strip(" []") returns "foo [] boo".
I would have expected it would remove the string " []", not the occurrences of any of the characters within the string...
I was very surprised to discover that Finder has no native SFTP integration. As an everyday Gnome user, it is unbelievable to me, how this can even be
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dependent: :destroy associations are deleted when performing soft-destroys requiring any dependent records to also be acts_as_paranoid to avoid losing data.
I've worked with and have helped maintain paranoia for a while. I'm convinced it does the wrong thing for most cases. Paranoia and acts_as_paranoid both attempt to emulate deletes by setting a column and adding a default scope on the model. This requires some ActiveRecord hackery, and leads to some surprising and awkward behaviour.
paranoia has some surprising behaviour (like overriding ActiveRecord's delete and destroy)
This still seems like a bug, as the expected behavior doesn't occur and it's difficult (for someone unfamiliar with the inner workings of ActionMailer) to debug. I spent a good half an hour figuring out the work around, so I'm trying to prevent others from experiencing the same thing.
However after doing a bit of testing I see that this character is not used to represent missing glyphs on either my Windows 7 computer or the Android phone I've tested with (Motorola Atrix).
I just spent a day dismantling a model, trying to find the cause of the silent rollback - taking out every association, every validation, every callback, whittling down all the code in the transaction, only to finally discover that it was return true that was the cause of it all. Or yes, an exception!
I think I had expected that existing rails developers would discover this problem in existing code through the deprecation warning to avoid a nasty surprise. I'm worried about my future kids learning Rails and writing perfectly looking Ruby code just to learn the hard way that return is sometimes a nono! Jokes aside, I think that no one expected that the deprecation will turn into silent rollbacks. This is a very controversial change, pretty much everyone taking part in the discussion on the deprecation PR raised some concerns about the potential consequences of this change. The only thing that was making it easier to swallow was the promise of making it clear to the user by throwing an exception after the rollback.
Note: For keyword parameters, use @param, not @option.
I sure was looking for @option (knowing already about @param) and assuming/expecting that (if it exists) it would totally be the right thing to use for documenting keyword parameters. So I was quite surprised to see this much-needed warning (for me and others like me who came here expecting/assuming the same thing).
then two different listeners/renderers switching magically between each other based on the header being present or not, without the end user being informed or clear about this
This is actually the most correct answer, because it explains why people (like me) are suddenly seeing this warning after nearly a decade of using git. However,it would be useful if some guidance were given on the options offered. for example, pointing out that setting pull.ff to "only" doesn't prevent you doing a "pull --rebase" to override it.
This was a surprise to me, since we generally authenticate the record quite well, but then go on to do something like record.file.url in our view, generating a URL that is permanent and unauthenticated.
Explicitly defining the dependency in the reactive declarations
inputValue = updateInputValue(value);
maybe this just comes down to general footguns with reactivity, and being aware of them as a developer.
if you put the reactive statement $: validate(inputValue); after the function updateInputValue declaration, it's working as expected:
So now the question is, why does Session, an interface, not get implicit index signatures while SessionType, an identically-structured typealias, *does*? Surely, you might again think, the compiler does not simply deny implicit index signatures tointerface` types? Surprisingly enough, this is exactly what happens. See microsoft/TypeScript#15300, specifically this comment: Just to fill people in, this behavior is currently by design. Because interfaces can be augmented by additional declarations but type aliases can't, it's "safer" (heavy quotes on that one) to infer an implicit index signature for type aliases than for interfaces. But we'll consider doing it for interfaces as well if that seems to make sense And there you go. You cannot use a Session in place of a WithAdditionalParams<Session> because it's possible that someone might merge properties that conflict with the index signature at some later date. Whether or not that is a compelling reason is up for rather vigorous debate, as you can see if you read through microsoft/TypeScript#15300.
therefore in practice it's a bit academic to worry about which lines inside that block the compiler should be happy or unhappy about. From falsehood, anythihng follows. So the compiler is free to say "if the impossible happens, then X is an error" or "if the impossible happens, then X is not an error". Both are valid (although one might be more or less surprising to developers).
I don't like that I can't really use head? to know it's a HEAD request, but I (think I) understand the reasoning
Hello, maksimets: code blocks using triple backticks (```) don't work on all versions of Reddit!Some users see this / this instead.
.isnumeric() matches 430 Unicode codepoints in the BMP that float() won't accept, and there are codepoints that .isdigit() returns true for that are also not convertible.
Note that & is a line terminator like ; (write command& not command&;).
The plain, unstyled emails resulted in more opens, clicks, replies, and conversions, every time.
The plain email—which took no time to design or code—was opened by more recipients and had 3.3x more clicks than the designed email.
the lack of touchscreen support is an odd omission considering both games previously appeared on 3DS and Wii U,
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Every player I've introduced this game to has looked at me as if to say, "We must be doing something wrong." But no, that game is designed that way.
It's strange to me that the text returned is in all caps (how it's styled after CSS), but the matcher is actually testing against the text in the unstyled HTML. I spent a while digging through the source code and I still can't figure out why this works.
If you change a form value to '', Final Form will set the value in its state to undefined. This can be counterintutive, because '' !== undefined in javascript.
How is the phrase
including the production of meaning used in this article, yet the word "semantics" does not appear even once?
At least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_(semiotics) ("semantics" appears exactly 1 time in that article) has a link to the article on semantics.
Seems like a missed opportunity to answer what to me is a very first immediate question that I wonder (and now I wonder if it really is a FAQ or if it's just me who wonders): how is semiotics different from semantics?
But I guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics is a better place to look for that answer, and it answers that when it says:
he defined semiotics as grouped into three branches:
Athena is still in production use at MIT. It works as software (currently a set of Debian packages)[2] that makes a machine a thin client, that will download educational applications from the MIT servers on demand
I don't get it. Can someone please explain? I've upgraded my Rails project to Sprockets 4, just to get source maps in production. Instead I got sourcemaps in development?
So, despite your code is type safe it is not safe to be used.
My only concern with this approach is that if someone calls #valid? on the form object afterwards, it would under the hood currently delete the existing errors on the form object and revalidate. The could have unexpected side effects where the errors added by the models passed in or the service called will be lost.
My concern with this approach is still that it's somewhat brittle with the current implementation of valid? because whilst valid? appears to be a predicate and should have no side effects, this is not the case and could remove the errors applied by one of the steps above.
Another problem I found with Reform is the synchronisation with models. The object you passed in argument to reform does not have the same value than the form.
@conference_form.submit(conference_params)
Surprised they called it submit, since that could imply that you're triggering an action called submit.
They use other verbs to describe this:
Analogous to Reform's sync / sync_models method.
Actually, the name makes a lot of sense when you see it in context:
@conference_form = ConferenceForm.new(conference)
@conference_form.submit(conference_params)
if @conference_form.save
100vw is 100% of the viewport width not accounting for scrollbars (unless the root element has anything other than overflow: auto set, but auto is the default value). Thus, when the page content overflows the viewport vertically, the browser renders the vertical scroll bar, which reduces the visible viewport area by a few pixels. But the 100vw value doesn't update to account for this, so the selected div retains the same width as before the vertical scrollbar appeared. This results in the horizontal scroll bar rendering.
Now, however, you set width:100vw and that is going to be (in this case) 100% wide (viewport wide) + the vertical scrollbar width. That’s too wide. That induces the HORIZONTAL scrollbar.
This is funny because it’s unexpected. Cache invalidation sounds like a hard thing, while naming sounds more straightforward. The joke works because it violates our expectation that hard things should be technical. It’s also funny because it’s true.
In 2025 we plan to
Surely this is a typo and should have said 2020? Nobody would make such a specific tech plan for 5.5 years in the future ... would they?
It seems like this should be one of the easiest things to understand in CSS. If you want a block-level element to fill any remaining space inside of its parent, then it’s simple — just add width: 100% in your CSS declaration for that element, and your problem is solved. Not so fast. It’s not quite that easy. I’m sure CSS developers of all skill levels have attempted something similar to what I’ve just described, with bizarre results ultimately leading to head scratching and shruggingly resorting to experimenting with absolute widths until we find just the right fit. This is just one of those things in CSS that seems easy to understand (and really, it should be), but it’s sometimes not — because of the way that percentages work in CSS.
min-width: 0;
Wouldn't expect the solution to "width grows too wide" to be to assign a (seemingly meaningless, since how could it be less than 0) a minimum width of 0.
I would have expected to solve this by applying a max-width to the problem element or one of its ancestors.
It won't work if $HOME is not under /home. Really. Not even if you softlink. You need a bind mount
In my opinion, this single-tab Refresh behavior strongly violates the principle of least surprise, and it doesn’t help us to maintain code consistency or data consistency.
What I think is happening is that instantiating the component is immediately running the $: reactive code, which dispatches the event synchronously, before the parent component attaches the listener.
But now Chromium is no more available as deb, so what to expect ?
Note that when using sass (Dart Sass), synchronous compilation is twice as fast as asynchronous compilation by default, due to the overhead of asynchronous callbacks.
If you consider using asynchronous to be an optimization, then this could be surprising.
I also tried to use <!-- svelte-ignore unused-export-let --> before the script tag but still no chance.
This mirrors how classes already work and avoids the issues with introducing an unexpected DOM node.
I came up with this solution by piecing together man pages and random google result. I was surprised at how many incomplete and inaccurate answers were out there. What may have been more surprising was the complete lack of a full intact solution.
I debugged docker-compose and docker-py and figured out that you should either use environment variables or options in command. You should not mix these . If you even specify --tls in command then you will have to specify all the options as the TLSConfig object, as now TLSConfig object is created completely from the command options and operide the TFSConfig object created from the environment variable.
docker --tlsverify ps executes just fine, while docker-compose --tlsverify up -d --force-recreate gives me an error: SSL error: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed
I only have one set of certs. And I can't see how they can be different because docker commands work using the endpoint. It's just the docker-compose command that fails
docker-compose command you can not mix environment variable and command option. You can specify setting in env variable and then just use docker-compose ps. The connection will be secured with TLS protocol if DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY variable is set.
You dont need to pass --tls or --tlsverify option in the docker-config path as the task already sets DOCKER_TSL_VERIFY environment varaible. I debugged docker-compose and docker-py library and verified that if you pass any flag --tls or --tlsverify flag it tries to create tslConfig object out of options and not from environment
I debugged docker-compose and docker-py and figured out that you should either use environment variables or options in command. You should not mix these . If you even specify --tls in command then you will have to specify all the options as the TLSConfig object, as now TLSConfig object is created completely from the command options and operide the TFSConfig object created from the environment variable.
Library author here. I'm always fascinated by new ways people can invalidate my assumptions. I mean that in a sincerely positive way, as it results in learning.
My version of https://svelte.dev/repl/9c7d12357a15457bb914705702f156d1?version=3.19.2 from https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/4586
to try to simplify and help me understand it better.
So the lack of synchronousness is only noticed inside handleClick.
By the time the DOM gets updated, it has a consistent/correct state.
In other words, the console.log shows wrong value, but template shows correct value. So this might not be an actual problem for many/most use cases.
When using a method in a top-level object to modify its state, such object isn't updated either.
I too have been confused by behavior like this. Perhaps a clearly defined way to isolate atomic units with synchronous reactivity would help those of us still working through the idiosyncrasies of reactivity.
For performance reasons, $: reactive blocks are batched up and run in the next microtask. This is the expected behavior. This is one of the things that we should talk about when we figure out how and where we want to have a section in the docs that goes into more details about reactivity. If you want something that updates synchronously and depends on another value, you can use a derived store:
I expected that the param being passed by reference to have the same reactivity of the variable being created in the script tag.
One would expect the display to be updated, but it is not... WHY is it updated the 2nd time you enter something? What is different?
You can imagine how big of a surprise was finding out that model/character being a child of model/node causes an error when we import model/position.
To fix our Svelte version you might think we could use beforeUpdate or afterUpdate, but these lifecycle functions are related to the DOM being updated, not to prop updates. We only want to rerun our fetching when the album prop is changed.
If the user now clicks Back again, the URL bar will display https://www.mozilla.org/foo.html, and totally bypass bar.html.
There'll be no more warnings. But if you open bundle.js, you'll see something shocking: it contains the entirety of React and React DOM. That's 7000 LoC!
Basically, the idea is that a train tried to start with the caboose brakes stuck on. After releasing the caboose, the train still could not start. The problem was that when the train attempted to start with the caboose brake on, it stretched all the inter-car couplings so that the whole train was just like one big car. At this point, the friction from the engine train wheels was not enough to get the whole thing going. Instead, you need to just get one car moving at a time - this is why there is space between the couplings.
Most simple example: <script> import ChildComponent from './Child.svelte'; </script> <style> .class-to-add { background-color: tomato; } </style> <ChildComponent class="class-to-add" /> ...compiles to CSS without the class-to-add declaration, as svelte currently does not recognize the class name as being used. I'd expect class-to-add is bundled with all nested style declarations class-to-add is passed to ChildComponent as class-to-add svelte-HASH This looks like a bug / missing feature to me.
It's fashionable to dislike CSS. There are lots of reasons why that's the case, but it boils down to this: CSS is unpredictable. If you've never had the experience of tweaking a style rule and accidentally breaking some layout that you thought was completely unrelated — usually when you're trying to ship — then you're either new at this or you're a much better programmer than the rest of us.
Now I know what you're thinking, "this is an atrocity, what a horrible mess!" and you're right, it's kind of ugly. In fact it's just about impossible to think this is a good idea the first time you see it — you have to actually try it.
yup.object.default({ number: 5 }); // object will be cloned every time a default is needed yup.object.default(() => ({ number: 5 })); // this is cheaper
Cloning an object is considered expensive?? Why?
yup.object.default({ number: 5 }); // object will be cloned every time a default is needed yup.object.default(() => ({ number: 5 })); // this is cheaper
Cloning an object is considered expensive?? Why?
yup.object.default({ number: 5 }); // object will be cloned every time a default is needed yup.object.default(() => ({ number: 5 })); // this is cheaper
Cloning an object is considered expensive?? Why?
yup.object.default({ number: 5 }); // object will be cloned every time a default is needed yup.object.default(() => ({ number: 5 })); // this is cheaper
Cloning an object is considered expensive?? Why?
yup.object.default({ number: 5 }); // object will be cloned every time a default is needed yup.object.default(() => ({ number: 5 })); // this is cheaper
Cloning an object is considered expensive?? Why?
yup.object.default({ number: 5 }); // object will be cloned every time a default is needed yup.object.default(() => ({ number: 5 })); // this is cheaper
Cloning an object is considered expensive?? Why?
yup.object.default({ number: 5 }); // object will be cloned every time a default is needed yup.object.default(() => ({ number: 5 })); // this is cheaper
Cloning an object is considered expensive?? Why?
yup.object.default({ number: 5 }); // object will be cloned every time a default is needed yup.object.default(() => ({ number: 5 })); // this is cheaper
Cloning an object is considered expensive?? Why?
I'm just trying out the "Reply to comment" button here. Well, it seems like it doesn't quote the text... that's really the feature I'd like to exposed. When responding to a large message (email or otherwise), I like to quote various parts and respond in line.
Nevertheless, this is quite confusing and has lead to a recently reported issue on the Webpacker GitHub repository.