Nadya

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by Nadya 6y ago
Because most people accessed the internet on their clamshell phones and not through a PC/laptop. So most websites were designed to be mostly text and easily browsed from clamshell-phone internet browsers. Now that smartphones have beco
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by Nadya 6y ago
A lot of issues like this are to solve problems for less tech-savvy people or are more about poorly thought and untested ideas about how to make browsing easier. Or at least, that's the intention/reasons given by the project manag
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by Nadya 6y ago
I dug out my login to comment on this: >There are some regulations regarding medical data (Eg, HIPAA) but security seems like an afterthought in most hospitals at best. I worked as a developer for healthcare/hospital websites and th
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by Nadya 7y ago
I did. Thank you for taking the charitable interpretation, as the principle of charity has long been buried.
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>1. What is working is not Esperanto per se. I've fully agreed with you on this point several times now so to try and make it clear. I fully agree with this point. Again. >2. Even if you know English and Esperanto, Chinese wil
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by Nadya 7y ago
>It's not Esperanto itself that works... I made sure to mention that I believe any conlang would suffice. Conlangs are easier to learn than natural languages as that's largely the very reason they are constructed in the fir
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Your case is not only different from the one I'm claiming it helps (you already spoke Mandarin natively) but also I'm specifically claiming it helps monolinguals who are learning their first non-native language. So unless you went
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>After six months, I attended the international Esperanto conference in Seoul, Korea, and spoke only Esperanto for a few days. I was glad I was doing it, and somewhat glad I did it, but in hindsight maybe should have used that time to l
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by Nadya 7y ago
Straight from the first paragraph of the Hypotheses section, emphasis mine. >Also called Chimney effect or Stack effect, observes that warm air (from the hot shower) rises out over the shower curtain as cooler air (near the floor) pushes
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by Nadya 7y ago
Support the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI
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The list I provided was from 2017 and only a single anime of an entire season was mastered at 1080p. Even in 2018 and 2019 that's still typical. Maybe 1-2 series produced at 1080p with every other series being an upscale. Some seasons
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The point is they are upscaled to 1080p and few are produced at 1080p. Yes, I didn't label every in-between resolution that they get produced at. This seems rather needlessly pedantic, since as you cited, the resolutions are in the lin
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by Nadya 7y ago
There is no ground truth because AFAIK there are no native 4k anime produced yet. There are _very_ few produced at 1080p. Most 1080p that are released by studios are just an upscaled 720p master. Fansubbers will sometimes release their own
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by Nadya 7y ago
512x512 is specifically for browser loading splash screens when the site is added as a launcher on a phone. It's required for Chrome to have an "Add to Home Screen" prompt and requires a 192x192 and 512x512 icon. I imagine mo
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I'll try to find the name of the program - but this already exists and made rounds a while back for Japanese learners where looking up words in a dictionary isn't always as straight forward as it is for latin-based languages. (a
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>The Supreme Court already judged the anti-gay-marriage bigots on the merits of their arguments, and they were found lacking. That differs from what happened in reality. The Supreme Court issued a 7-2 ruling in favor of Phillip's
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When you visit somewhere what do you enjoy seeing or doing? Nature? History? Culture? People (as in people-watching)? Local cuisines? Unique activities? I wouldn't recommend Yoyogi Park on a Sunday afternoon for people who aren'
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by Nadya 7y ago
That's because marketers ruin everything. It's what they do. Anywhere peoples' attention goes - marketers will be there to ruin it. Mail, radio, television, internet, email, social media... If a bunch of eyes and ears are foc
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It's a take from Mark Twain. >"But don't you know, there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best sword
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by Nadya 7y ago
I download pretty much anything I fear is controversial and at risk of being censored by the host, removed by the creator, or edited at a future date. I dedicate a few dozen terabytes of storage to store these things. I have several YT chan
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Mnemonic Major System – A technique used to aid in memorizing numbers(en.wikipedia.org)
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Humans are bad at figuring out the popularity of hats [0]. Couple this with the nasty trick of manufacturing the popularity of certain opinions [1] and I wager that it is pretty trivial to get most people to believe in anything and especi
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I heard an argument once that made me try a 3 month experiment in my Japanese studies. The argument's core is summarized here: "It's easier to learn something after you've already been introduced to it." What is m
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>If you're scared that you'll die because your doctor thinks you're cis, tell them you're trans. I'm more scared that my doctor will know I'm trans but not give me proper treatment as a result of being sca
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This is patently untrue in some domains that could be life-impacting, particularly in healthcare/medicine where differences in gender matters for treatment. If a trans-man is given medicine in doses as a man, and not a woman, they have
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by Nadya 7y ago
There is quite a bit of evidence to suggest that actually [0]. [0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.201400...
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>I do not believe that stating an opinion or taking a position on a matter, regardless of the reason, is a hollow and meaningless gestures. Opinions and positions are opinions and positions. This runs under the very, very, very large a
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It matters for the same reason first impressions matter. It's a lot harder to succeed in a relationship with someone if you start off on the wrong foot. I know many others, and myself, who won't be playing Fallout:76 or No Man&#x2
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But this is also fine! It's also unexplored territory. In the words of Mr. Miyamoto: "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." Releasing it when it is ready rather than releasing it to release i

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