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631.
by Tor3 3y ago
I'm not sure about that particular dialect, if it's case or not, but it's a fact that some dialects do keep the dative (though it's been disappearing somewhat recently). In addition to certain country-wide expressions w
632.
by Tor3 3y ago
Yep. Living near the sea means access. In three weeks you could go all the way from Bergen to Lofoten by sail. As soon as you set foot on land.. no access. Before roads and tunnels. Even recently.. the book "Three in Norway, by two of
633.
by Tor3 3y ago
Nitpicking I know - but "reverse numerals" weren't a Danishism at all. That's all from Old Norse. Also remember that the vast majority of spoken Norwegian wasn't affected by Danish at all, and that included the &qu
634.
by Tor3 3y ago
In addition to what vidarh said - it's not comparable to Mandarin vs Cantonese, as those are spoken languages. Nynorsk is one way of writing (and reading) Norwegian, it is not a spoken form (nor is Bokmål). Some dialects are kind of cl
635.
by Tor3 3y ago
The "official" way of pronouncing numbers was indeed changed for that reason (NB: That was back when there were still phone central operators and you were supposed to tell them the number) However - the "old" way ("
636.
by Tor3 3y ago
Ah, I didn't check for the small-memory versions as I'm only interested in the 8GB ones.
637.
by Tor3 3y ago
Where I looked they're in stock and can, according to the site, be delivered in a week or so.
638.
by Tor3 3y ago
There are a number of special trains which are only passing now and then, so yes. Sometimes they're just painted in a special way, but at other times they're different physically, with maybe extra facilities (I went a couple of ti
639.
by Tor3 3y ago
I don't really get that. The 6800 begat the 6809, and that was the connection to the 6800. When Motorola made the 68000 they decided to begin with a clean slate, there's really nothing in connection with the 6800 except the number
640.
by Tor3 3y ago
That's shocking.. in Oslo? I'm out in the sticks in Norway and I've had 1Gb/1Gb for years. And it actually provides 1Gb too.
641.
by Tor3 3y ago
Many years ago I used to have an 8-digit ATM pin, but sometimes later this was enforced to be limited to 4 digits. Go figure.
642.
by Tor3 3y ago
There's one thing I at least haven't had any problems with. I have a middle name. I never use it. I always order my flight tickets without the middle name. However, my passport includes the middle name. I've never had a probl
643.
by Tor3 3y ago
Wife (Japanese) couldn't enter her name into a web form for a Japanese hotel (had to go directly to the hotel because of some booking.com problems at the time). It had to do with half-width vs full-width, but we couldn't figure it
644.
by Tor3 3y ago
Another one is where they have a limit on how short a name can be. I even remember a discussion on the Linux kernel mailing list about that. Linus himself wouldn't accept names shorter than (IIRC) three letters. But I was in high scho
645.
by Tor3 3y ago
I had to use four floppy drives on a project I did - the UCSD editor had to be set up to swap parts of itself to those extra floppy disks, or there was not enough room for the code. I don't remember all the details anymore, but it was
646.
by Tor3 3y ago
That's probably true in the US. Not around here, in a semi-populated region of Europe. It's far shorter to somewhere to charge than it is to a gas station. There used to be lots of them, but they started to disappear even before
647.
by Tor3 3y ago
That was not my point at all, the point was that, unlike what was implied in what I commented on, usage of A/C and appliances don't matter for ICE cars, which is not at all true. Energy use is just as for EV cars and has to be tak
648.
by Tor3 3y ago
But my point was that A/C and all electric appliances also affect fuel consumption of ICE cars, and if, for any reason, you're low on fuel you have to take that as much into consideration as with an EV car (except that it's
649.
by Tor3 3y ago
"I know a lot of vi people use vi “because it is always there”, but is that really a good reason?" Well.. it is always there. If I were on my own machine all the time.. but there are many machines. As an Emacs user (for decades
650.
by Tor3 3y ago
When my ICE car is getting low on fuel, which happens quite often because the tank isn't that big and I tend to avoid filling up when the prices are high (they vary a lot here), I also have to micromanage the A/C and anything el
651.
by Tor3 3y ago
No, never been to SF, I have no idea how people drive there or what the conditions are. Except that they're very different from where I drive (except when I'm in the town centre) - roads without sidewalks, mostly no signal lights,
652.
by Tor3 3y ago
There's nothing so far indicating that they have, at this point. Though I doubt predictive algorithms would work - there are all kinds of situations, all slightly different, and lots of them about understanding what someone else might
653.
by Tor3 3y ago
Waymo hasn't tried driving outside its comfort zone, so I'll argue that it's not demonstrated.
654.
by Tor3 3y ago
[other drivers] But they do - where I live. It's very rare to see people not doing that, so much so that everyone really notices. Edit: And the point is really that strictly just following rules (i.e. just drive if you're in the
655.
by Tor3 3y ago
I purchased a license for the shareware XV, for gif/png/tiff/jpg etc, by John Bradley. Over the years I've added a few patches. I still use it more than any other tool for looking at my photos. I also paid for Mup (for w
656.
by Tor3 3y ago
Where I drive daily I constantly have to make decisions which no self-driving car system I know about can possibly do. They don't foresee upcoming gridlocks caused by you driving completely legally but blocking (again, legally) a car f
657.
by Tor3 3y ago
No, active noise cancelling isn't about masking noise with sound, active noise cancelling takes the original noise and mixes it back 180 degrees out of phase. The net result is zero noise, when done perfectly. In practice it's alm
658.
by Tor3 3y ago
Unix/Linux or not didn't matter for Y2K, the problems were in software elsewhere and that was as major in Unix/Linux as anywhere else (the systems I was fixing at the time were based on both Unix and Linux). (When I was way y
659.
by Tor3 3y ago
Agreed. In my case, I and the rest of a team spent a year analyzing and finding problem areas, fixed them, ran factory acceptance tests, and finally travelled to a major customer and on-site tested the fixes (this was, at that time, pretty
660.
by Tor3 3y ago
Agreed. Even back when I had my own single office I got interrupts all the time. And I need flow when programming. Every interrupt cleared the cache and I had to spend time building it up again. I used to work from another time zone for a f

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