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721.
by Tor3 3y ago
The change from 1.1 to 2.0 completely missed the Norman invasion which introduced Norman French as the new language in town. Everything which happened later was heavily influenced by that.
722.
by Tor3 3y ago
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=52018 - it was used more than a century before the Portuguese arrived.
723.
by Tor3 3y ago
On the contrary I feel the evidence is pretty much conclusive. arigatō comes from arigataku (an adverbial form), through a well-known "u-sound" change, as also explained on the page. Influence from Portuguese was not needed for
724.
by Tor3 3y ago
Correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora And BBC has something about Brazil in particular: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42859249 (Interestingly, as so many came to
725.
by Tor3 3y ago
"Pan" is just bread, all kinds (source: Japanese wife, and I lived in Japan for a while - I did grocery shopping daily)
726.
by Tor3 3y ago
My whole extended family is on Line. It does it all really, and no ads or intrusion. It has only one single drawback - one device only (or one, plus a Windows PC, which is not an option for me).
727.
by Tor3 3y ago
Slowing down a service or server isn't fixed by getting faster client hardware!
728.
by Tor3 3y ago
Yes, though the high quality cotton used in Japan can be quite expensive (we had a lot of cotton from old futons at our home, we had to throw a lot away to make room. That stuff was very expensive when those futons were (hand-)made). The th
729.
by Tor3 3y ago
Imagine how much manual work this used to be, back in the Edo period where the garment was invented. I wouldn't change a thing, except the stuffing - it's a winter garment, so I would stuff it with wool instead of cotton, though t
730.
by Tor3 3y ago
The best one reaches 1:1 when approaching -35C, which means that they're as efficient as resistive heaters. So you save nothing in electricity costs, and if all your days are that cold then the $3000 you invested in the heat pump is wa
731.
by Tor3 3y ago
There are power outages in Norway too - though there are typically years between incidents, and years and years between incidents lasting a day instead of hours (with the exception of certain avalanche-prone areas where this happens much mo
732.
by Tor3 3y ago
But they are used in commercial kitchens. I joined a cooking course arranged by a well-known restaurant where I live, and to my surprise the kitchen we used used induction. Very easy to operate, and you could easily set the heating exactl
733.
by Tor3 3y ago
Heat pumps for homes aren't expensive to operate. They are cheaper to "operate" than resistance heaters. I doubt they're a nightmare to fix - I have actually had to get mine "fixed" once. It was still fairly ne
734.
by Tor3 3y ago
Colder climate is exactly where you want to use heat pumps. The numbers for Norway in 2022 ( https://www.novap.no/om-varmepumper ) is 58% of Norwegian homes (houses) have a heat pump installed, 34% in service industries, 8% i
735.
by Tor3 3y ago
I basically stopped drinking much of anything alcoholic many decades ago, for no particular reason. No interest, I presume. In general a healthy lifestyle as well, so my reduced memory function seems to be purely an age issue, not that I fe
736.
by Tor3 3y ago
Technically that could be, but in practice there's a huge difference. In addition to several private phones I also have a work phone, and that number isn't set private. On that one I receive scam calls, ads, phishing, questionnai
737.
by Tor3 3y ago
Not particularly interested in immortality, but I sure could do with some restoration of my memory.. which used to be nearly photographic but is now more like now here, now gone with the wind.
738.
by Tor3 3y ago
None of my phone numbers are public. I don't know about where you live, but where I live it's perfectly possible to keep your phone number private. The only ones who are able to look up my phone number are public services like 911
739.
by Tor3 3y ago
Isn't the point of the Alice/Bob thing that none of them know the state of the particles before one of them actually check - and at that point they know the state of the other particle. But Alice can't set the state of her
740.
by Tor3 3y ago
Yes, and that's why just HTML (without js unwished-for enforcement) is great.
741.
by Tor3 3y ago
"Taxed to death" - where does that come from? How? I'm relatively high taxed, compared to many, I pay a bit more than 40%. But what I'm left with is disposable money, except for car and house insurance (reasonably price
742.
by Tor3 3y ago
If there weren't many jobs then why on earth is it so difficult for tech companies to get tech workers? Well, that's a rhetorical question of course, because the truth is that there's plenty of work and tech people can pick
743.
by Tor3 3y ago
Why would some special mode be needed? I use ctrl+ to get a font size I like, then I set my browser window to a size where the text reflows to what I like. HTML is made to make it easy for the reader. And equally easy on mobile (phone, tabl
744.
by Tor3 3y ago
That video just got more and more interesting throughout! I own a few PVC whistles and I know how to make them, but this guy showed much more. And yes, demonstrated how the material doesn't matter for the actual sound.
745.
by Tor3 3y ago
There's always some discussions about this, but the general consensus is that there's no really audible part travelling through the material. It's a bit cumbersome, but try covering a flute in wool or some other material, and
746.
by Tor3 3y ago
Try punching random holes - and see if it creates a musical scale as we know it (go for a pentatonic scale). It's very unlikely that the placement and sizes (placement also affect sizes) of the holes will create that scale, even if you
747.
by Tor3 3y ago
That's one part of the article I don't particularly like - what's a "spiritual being"? I consider myself fully human, but there's nothing in my psyche which I would consider "spiritual" - what does i
748.
by Tor3 3y ago
Because the size and the position of the holes create a scale which can be used for playing music. Via links shown in an earlier comment it's explained that it is a diatonic scale, but the point is really that if the holes had differen
749.
by Tor3 3y ago
To me music is not spiritual (whatever that means - I'll have to copy analog31's comment: " I think I'm an intelligent person, but I also don't think I'm spiritual in any way that I'm aware of. And I can
750.
by Tor3 3y ago
For a flute it'll make minimal difference if it's plastic or clay or bone. You can find endless discussions on this on flute- and whistle forums, but it all boils down to the fact that the sound is produced by a standing wave of a

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