diphthongs are when a fat, but well endowed, man wears a thin string-based bathing suit, right?

yeah, I think most default to 4, but most also have the option to custom-set it. Notepad, exemplar of all that is wrong in the universe, uses 8. And cannot be custom-set. Even with registry key hacks.

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I’m convinced the right way is to use your editor to search and replace all occurrences of multi-space with tabs, so as to conserve space in the file. Also tab should be displayed as 3 spaces.

so, is the NFL going to now start investigating situations where someone was marked as Questionable or Doubtful and actually plays?

‘tis possible. But then you can declare a flagrant or intentional foul in addition to the standard foul and subject the fouling player to ejection, suspension and fines if needed.

hypothetical question: could NFL teams get around the special teams restrictions by claiming that their “4th down defense” squad is not part of special teams, but is part of the defensive unit? Protections for allowing the long-snapper to regain balance before being hit would be in place still, because HIS team is…

There are rules about where no fielders are allowed to be, but I don’t believe that there are any rules that restrict how many players are allowed to be in a particular location (other than the total on the field as a whole). It’s possible that the catcher is the only one permitted to be outside the foul lines though…

As a fellow (former) second baseman, I assure you that it was accurate for me. #humblebragtime: Tim Foli, at the time a MLB first-base coach (and former MLB SS), had a kid on my little league team. He mentioned that he liked the way I played my position. This was particularly startling because I typically had…

I probably should have actually read through the grays. Fortunately for me, on the main deadspin domain I’m out of the grays. But I still have to deal with being in the grays on subdomains (e.g. regressing) and other kinjarific sites (io9, jez).

mine or hers?

basketball should probably adopt one of hockey’s rules: the penalty is delayed until the ball changes possession. If the team scores, the penalty is “called off.” If not, they could take their freethrows or just get the ball to inbound again (rather than go with a faceoff/tipoff).

When I was a kid, I had a hard time understanding why there was only one shortstop on the infield. Someone probably explained to me that there are more right-handed hitters than left, but I still found the whole concept of infield imbalance unsettling. Why not be equally as prepared for left-handed hitters as you…

does football disallow any defensive formations? or just offensive?

that post should have had the spoiler alert #humblebrag

so, they do nothing to consider the population density? Or is the granularity of the modelling not such that you can predict when it goes over population centers vs the surrounding “middle of nowhere.”

If the object is floating, it is by definition less dense than the water it is in. We’ve got a lot of air (and water) in our body. but in any case, mass and density may affect the rate of acceleration - going from 0 to 5m/s, but shouldn’t affect the final speed.

and about half of those who do speak them still don’t know the difference :)

@BeaBull Apocalypse

you would think so, but other than atmospheric drag on objects at the surface slowing it down ever so slightly, the object would be going downcurrent/downstream at 5MPH. I believe the factor of that drag would be the proportion of the object above-water times density of 1 atmosphere of pressure at the given temp…