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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Perse wasn't that consultant, but rather a special position as a consultant in French literature was created for him. That Perse abandoned poetry after the publication of Anabase , because he felt it would conflict with his career as
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Saint-John Perse famously wrote little poetry as a diplomat. Except for his stint in China, his diplomatic career involved an intentional turning away from poetry. What allowed him to return to poetry, in exile in the USA, was a Library of
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
You can look up most of the names mentioned and see that they had day jobs in academia or jounalism.
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Hardware is doubly hard when you are as international as AirBnB. Wifi has to conform to local regs with regard to channels and tx power. I wouldn't be surprised if there were varying local regs for CO detectors, too.
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Obviously, her appeal is wider now than mere "preteen". For example, Taylor Swift has also become, inter alia , an LGBT icon, and that has been the context of most Mastodon mentions of her I have seen. Since HN and Mastodon have
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
I would if the arrival of ChatGPT has sort of taken the wind out of Marginalia's sails as a human-directed search engine. It seems likely that the future of answering one's questions using the internet, is an LLM giving a straight
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There has been nearly a century of scholarship now about how there may never have been a Homer, and therefore he couldn’t have had students. Even if there was a Homer and he had students, that immediate generation after Homer may still have
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> Kadare describes the areas between Arnavutluk and the capital of the empire Still fantasy. The tense system of Bulgarian[0] and Macedonian is one of the most complex within the Slavic family, and contact with Turkish, if anything, only
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Jews from the Middle East, too, are often seen as Westerners of a sort, because European colonialism treated e.g. Algerian and Iraqi Jews as intermediate between Europeans and other local populations. They were accorded privileges and often
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Please don't post one-line jokes on HN. The longstanding culture of this venue finds that inappropriate.
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In my experience in academia, it isn’t a myth at all. So much brilliant scholarship in my own field has been produced by people who are infamously ornery and prickly, and who don’t fit in with the departments they are at purely due to socia
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> the most impoverished people in Sweden: the Romanian Romani They might not necessarily be from Romania. At least from my experience next door in Finland, it has been very common for the media to write about “beggars from Romania”, but
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Snorri Sturulson definitely used the word viking if, as most scholars hold, he was the author of Egil’s Saga. That text is replete with the term, and it isn’t used in a derogatory sense at all. It is an activity performed by the character
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Trained linguist here, with a great deal of time spent in the Western Balkans, proficiency in Albanian, BCMS, and Aromanian, and familiarity with the specialist literature on the diachrony and sociolinguistics of the region. The only Kadade
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> I'm fine picking things up, just tell me when they arrive at the sorting center. I have lived in a couple of places (in Europe) where I often had to go to the sorting center to retrieve parcels, due to some customs-related issue o
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For centuries, Russian bureaucrats were expected – completely officially and under the law – to earn their living by extracting money from members of the local population directly, instead of through taxation going into a state budget. This
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> In the non-fiction category I'll recommend anything by Bill Bryson. Please no. Bryson’s The Mother Tongue is one of the worst pop-sci books on linguistics ever published, with a factual error or urban myth on nearly every page.
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Wouldn't this require authors to use semantic tags instead of visual-presentation ones? That is, a tag that specifies that what follows is code instead of just \texttt{}, a tag specifying that what follows is e.g. the title of a book i
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He uses the term “root terminal”, he writes “Start a root terminal (or a normal one and then ‘sudo su’)”, and he says he only has a single user. One will naturally assume the worst, and in spite of repeatedly posting here he hasn’t exactly
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A quick look at the Wikipedia article for the corporation says that Google pays the corporation: "In 2006, the Mozilla Corporation generated $66.8 million in revenue and $19.8 million in expenses, with 85% of that revenue coming from G
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Why are you using root terminals in the first place? This has always been considered poor security practice. Consequently, your workflow is a very peculiar one, and while you personally might feel inconvenience, I don’t think that this frus
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Mozilla consists of a non-profit foundation and a for-profit corporation. It is the corporation which develops the browser, and Google pays the corporation.
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No, people don't backlash against just "excessive modding". I have witnessed on several subs a belief that mods should never be able to lock a post of a question that comes up several times a week. The thinking goes, for exam
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A lot of these migrations were done primarily because populations were being squeezed by neighbors. For so many of the migrations we have historical records documenting that group X had to move westward because group Y was encroaching on th
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On some of the niche travel-related subs like r/bikepacking, it’s actually quite common to run into one’s fellow redditors in real life on some popular route around the world. You definitely know the high-value posts are coming from re
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In-vitro fertilization involves treatment of embryos that is regarded as illicit by some groups that are staunchly pro-natalist. The Roman Catholic Church is the biggest example, e.g. [0], but similar positions are held also by some other C
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Amusingly, within just a few hours of our exchange, Hyperion popped up in another comment thread[0], where my view on the sequels was reiterated by several other people. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38424008
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That the Age of Migrations was driven by cycles of good climate and bad, is an idea that goes back decades, well before our current anxiety about the anthropogenic effects on climate. Even that name, Age of Migrations, goes back decades in
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As I see it, post quality declined massively starting from when the smartphone became the device most users were browsing from. No matter how proficient people claim to be with a phone keyboard, it is a medium that discourages longform text
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What's wrong with a Kobo reader? Kobo is friendly to modding, so you can install e.g. the open-source interface KOReader and never use the company's own interface. Even if you use Kobo's software, initial setup can be done wi

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