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Why can you say abso-frickin-lutely but not ab-frickin-solutely?

Andrew Chidden on Projects, Linguistics · 29 Jan 2019

The linguistic process of inserting one word into another is called infixation. Although it’s essential to some languages, infixation in English is largely limited to inserting expletives, which is called expletive infixation. xkcd #1290 Like many grammatical rules, infixation isn’t something that’s explicitly taught (similar to the…

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The MacBook Pro is Dead. Long Live the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.

Andrew Chidden on Projects, Objective-C · 21 Aug 2018

First released in 2016, the Touch Bar MacBook Pro models received a fair amount of skepticism from the professional community. Two years later and the Touch Bar remains largely unchanged, with third-party adoption of Touch Bar APIs doing little to improve the usefulness for power users. Yet Apple clearly sees…

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Defeating Spam Callers With Speech Recognition and Call Forwarding

Andrew Chidden on Projects, Python · 24 Dec 2017

Every day at 11:00 AM my iPhone rings. With the “seamless” “magic” of Apple’s Continuity, the ringing quickly spreads to my personal MacBook, work MacBook, iPad, and Apple Watch. “This is your last warning regarding your car insurance…” I don’t own a car. I wouldn’t mind…

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