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> E.g. during the work on the Eurotunnel. Here the British tunnel boring machine was diverted into the rock near half the length of the tunnel and left there. It was cheaper than somehow taking it out again. AFAIK it was not just the cos
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Well, you should ask native Americans how they feel about that
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Kosova is also genitive form in Serbian/Croatian (sa s(j)evernog Kosova - from northern Kosovo). And Bojan is a Serbian name.
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3y ago
It's illegal to scrape databases in the EU.
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3y ago
Checked the Github repository, there are indeed separate "zero" and "slashedzero" glyphs.
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> And the rest of the earths oceans became much less salty. Source for that claim? Mediterranian is still more salty than oceans because of the high evaporation rate.
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It also depends if train travels 100 km/h or 300 km/h on average. With high-quality high speed network across Europe demand for air travel could be greatly reduced. Europe is small.
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3y ago
Yes, I'm buying it in spray form.
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Electric trains and trams in Europe already have regen braking. And no need for batteries!
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3y ago
Airbus?
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Interestingly, it's much easier to climb Everest than K2 (second highest peak). Death rate is one per four who reach the summit (91 deaths total).
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> we made sure to screw all IKEA furniture to the wall That's what the instructions tell you to do
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3y ago
Might as well be Croatia
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Also Ariane 5 maiden launch failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88
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I'm a Croatian developer that develops apps with multilingual interfaces. Fluent has been great for me.
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Not just gender, but also supports plural rules for numbers which is great even if you have just one language (for example "no user/one user/2 users"). No more hacky string manipulation in programming language!
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3y ago
Vision feeding into trained general intelligence.
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> The norm is that we make actions all the time and agency is expected. Agency about things we percieve we can control. There are vastly many more things which are out of our control, or require gargantuan effort to change, or would be e
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> And a good preservative for railroad ties was creosote. Still is. There is even an EU exception to the ban because no replacement was good enough.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW170817
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User experiments with early Bing chatbot (driven by some version of GPT?) have shown that AI can be both hostile to the user and protective of their own "interests".
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3y ago
> YAML has a lot of extra stuff going on that can cause accidents if you don't take care. The classic example is the "Norway problem" where "no" (the country code for Norway) is parsed as "false" instea
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That was after they opened it. Also, from the article: > The UK Health Protection Agency, which is advising authorities on technical aspects of the case, characterises the contamination in all 12 cases as “not significant enough to resul
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Apple was cost-effective most of the time if you wanted high-quality tools.
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Even more remarkable with rail.
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You made a claim about parsing JSON, I gave a counterexample.
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> they get parsed as the same type and value, 0 In Python the first becomes an int, the second a float.
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> But ok, at least with a therapist, another human being cares enough to want to help, and that can make a difference. Usually there's money involved, no?
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I've never seen nozzle without a lock in Europe (Croatia and countries close to it).
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3y ago
Simple: USDC is not backed by the state.
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