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by BjoernKW 5y ago
Thanks, you beat me to it with that poem :-) There have been attempts for a phonemic "respelling" of English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_respelling_for_E... However, apart from edge cases suc
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
In most languages there's no immediate, bijective mapping between graphemes and phonemes. Some Indo-European languages such as French, Spanish, Italian, or Dutch come quite close in that there is a one-to-one (in some cases context-sen
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
On public transport? Where people are getting on and off the train or bus every few minutes and you don't have a closed system? I don't know about the specifics of UV air filters but I'm not sure they'd be an alternative
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There are saliva tests, which is probably as non-invasive as it gets. They're currently not quite as accurate (about 95%) as nasal swab tests (99%, if applied correctly) but still good enough to catch most infections. The biggest probl
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#2 because if the virus gets an update it might make sense to give the immune system an update, too (the same way we do with the flu, by the way). #3 because it further reduces the risk to get even mildly sick at little to no cost. I'l
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Regarding that claim about the carcinogen gas (ethylene oxide) see https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-swabs-... , for example That an object has been exposed to a compound during that object's l
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I've been asking those questions for about 16 months now and hardly anyone of those in charge is willing to even consider an answer. They just botch and bumble their way through from one lockdown to the next. The COVID-19 vaccines are
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
- Going all-in on remote / distributed work. Even pre-2020, most of my client work already happened in a remote / online setting. However, there were still clients who demanded long-term on-site presence for various reasons. I won
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Victor's Way(en.wikipedia.org)
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s/\S+(nglicis)\w+/A$1m/ (i.e., should be "Anglicism" instead of "anglicisation")
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In German, they're indeed and usually just called "bugs", too, which of course is an anglicisation. Truly natively, they're called a "Fehler", which can translate to either "error" or "mistake&q
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
For "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" ( https://stratospheric.dev/ ) we used Markua ( http://markua.com/ ), Leanpub's Markdown flavour. We generated the book th
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If a company explicitly states in a service's terms and conditions that content stored or shared through that service will be scanned, I think that's acceptable because the user then can decide to use such a service on a case-by-c
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The author of that comment obviously has quite some expertise in the matter (see their profile and some of their other comments linked to in this thread). They didn't say that "Long COVID" symptoms aren't real. They just
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Of course you can but there will be trade-offs. Those procedures (tests, vaccinations) can be entirely voluntary (as they are right now). However, then you could be facing a situation where not enough people get vaccinated or tested for cur
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The Czech Republic at one point tested the whole population, which helped with temporarily reducing the number of new infections IIRC.
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Rapid tests have been available since autumn last year at least. They're a lot easier and cheaper to produce than vaccines, for example. Producing and supplying them at scale is just a matter of demand. Most countries just didn't
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Well, those people perhaps aren't happily complying with lockdown measures either. It's a matter of how such a scheme would be implemented. One could imagine working with incentives, for example. Alternatively, being able to produ
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It's beyond me why potential alternatives to lockdowns and restrictions in general are hardly ever discussed. I understand that games like this one have to be based on actually available data and models. Still, testing and efficient tr
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See these articles, for example: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/5/25/17395210/gdp... https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17378688/gdpr-general-dat
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It's not like the EU so far has been home to a significant tech industry anyway. With GDPR, a notoriously convoluted set of rules and regulations that fails to achieve what it set out to, yet at the same time pesters SMEs while allowin
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That the European Parliament didn't spontaneously disappear in a massive vortex of cognitive dissonance can only mean that most MEPs either don't understand GDPR or this new law, maybe neither.
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I've just found another source corroborating this: https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/new-eu...
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A common misunderstanding about software creation is that code is the desired result. Hence, estimates more often than not try to predict how long it'll take to write the code that produces a desired outcome. However, in the end, code
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The impact also depends on the direction from which one approaches the painting. If you enter from the room to the right hand side of the Night Watch it's almost easy to miss, not least because the ship models in the rooms that precede
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The Night Watch: The Missing Pieces(rijksmuseum.nl)
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Their trademark guidelines expressly forbid this ("11. No Combination."): https://aws.amazon.com/trademark-guidelines/ This had us rename our eBook about developing and running Spring Boot applications on AWS
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Nowadays, you'd be correct. The term "Cinque Ports" itself is mostly used in historical or ceremonial contexts these days. During Pitt's time, however, if a French invasion of Britain had taken place it would likely have
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That "Five Bottle Man" quote from the Morning Chronicle might be tongue-in-cheek but I'm pretty sure it's about "Cinque Ports Volunteers", not "Cinq Port Volunteers", which doesn't refer to the d
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
There literally is a podcast with that title: https://www.salesfornerds.io/ It covers many useful ideas, best practices, and suggestions from industry experts. The key aspect to remember about sales is that it is not actual

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