Zickzack

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by Zickzack 1y ago
> I wonder if the original German is equally ambiguous... The translation is good and authentic. Those who can read Low German[1] can compare the slightly different versions here[2]. In their comments[3 (German)], the brothers Grimm stat
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by Zickzack 3y ago
> It showed an area totaling just 20 square kilometers, a tiny place. The map was divided into 400 individual grid squares, outlined in light blue — a single square kilometer each. He means 20 kms squared, as opposed to 20 square kilomet
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by Zickzack 3y ago
I shall raise my glass to this fine gentleman.
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by Zickzack 3y ago
Flavius Josephus writes in the History of the Jewish War against the Romans - an important source for the Roman army - that the first cohort of every legion was twice the size of other cohorts, because it included the veterans, i.e. those w
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by Zickzack 3y ago
Let us assume there were no reasonable explanation for the origin of life. Yet, "there is no reasonable explanation of life, hence god exists" would still be a non sequitur. You have to brush up your Logic, and it is not meant as
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by Zickzack 3y ago
> Personally I find it very sad that the agnostic approach of Pascal did not prevail. Let the programmer decide what they think fits the situation best and let the compiler deal with the technicalities. This, and I also miss range types.
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by Zickzack 3y ago
> 1-based indexing causes you to have to throw in a bunch of +/-1 compensation factors to prevent you from double-counting or scaling past an edge. Way back then, I started with Algol 68, moved on to Turbo Pascal, and finally Fortra
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by Zickzack 3y ago
Silibinin [1] is an antidote to death cap. As far as I know, silibinin has reduced the mortality from 2/3 to 1/3. If the damage done to the liver is already too big, then silibinin does not work and there are two options left: liv
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by Zickzack 3y ago
>[] I'd say 90%+ Poles say "królowa" (literally queen). I thought "królowa" is reserved for Mary, Queen of Poles.
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by Zickzack 3y ago
> William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world’s leading expert in silent killing This reads like a sentence straight from a bad 70s action movie. Who had decided he was the world's leading exp
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by Zickzack 4y ago
Lactic acid fermentation [1] is the secret to many sausages. In the case of Mettwurst [2], made of raw meat, it is essential. Aged steak, hanged pheasants [3 - with a discussion of bacteria] - even today, the list should be long. [1] https
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by Zickzack 4y ago
> Arguing continuity of national borders over centuries in the Balkans is a fools game anyway. Hear, hear. Yet, the knowledge of the so called historical regions will get you far in Eastern and Southern Europe. The maps of voting behavio
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by Zickzack 4y ago
When I read this: > But everything ALGOL-68 did, PL/I did earlier and better. I just wanted to write "Not so". As much as I appreciate the OP in general, his knowledge of Algol 68 is limited. Algol 68 was more than the int
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by Zickzack 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Conference That is exactly what you write. It was agreed on that Poland was moved to the west, and that any claims to reimbursements would have to be addressed to the Soviet Union.
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by Zickzack 4y ago
Is the "Learning Algol 68 Genie 3.0" guide [1] of some help? [1] https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/en.download.learning-algol-6...
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by Zickzack 4y ago
> Something that doesn't return a value shouldn't be called a "function", that's just a C-ism. Something that does not seem to return a value returns in fact a value of the type void which is empty. The idea come
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by Zickzack 4y ago
As always, the off topic invitation cannot be passed. The two-level grammar of Algol 68 gave the semantics of Algol 68 in a denotational language, the second level. As such, it is not more complicated as other languages with defined semant
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by Zickzack 4y ago
> https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating... phat = 1.0*pos/n There is something disturbing about that line. While my wish to believe the article was strong, it makes me want to check the
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by Zickzack 4y ago
UN resolution 678 granted the liberation of Kuwait. That has been achieved in February 1991. It did not grant the invasion of Iraq as it has happened in 2003.
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by Zickzack 4y ago
The Polish "wihajster" is a similar case. It comes from German "Wie heißt er? [What's his/its name?]" and refers to a nameless thing. https://de.pons.com/%C3%BCbersetzung/polnisch-deutsch&#
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by Zickzack 5y ago
The article refers only to the Politeia (republic). And most commentators do the same. It is pretty likely that they do so because they know little Plato. Popper, however, knew more than that. While the totalitarian tendencies in the Polite
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by Zickzack 5y ago
During Nazi rule, there were many books written which the authors later found to be embarassing. The common explanation was said to be: "I did not write that. They have forced me. And I did not mean it that way."
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by Zickzack 5y ago
Amundsen lost his life trying to help Umberto Nobile and Nobile's crew.
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by Zickzack 5y ago
The Ukraine offers the Orlyk constitution from 1710. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
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by Zickzack 5y ago
The author tries to derive a dilemma for utilitarism: > If you don’t accept ethical intuition as a source of justified belief, then you have no reason for thinking that enjoyment is better than suffering, that satisfying desires is bette
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by Zickzack 5y ago
As so many others have said, this article is dangerous for your health. Firstly, how can mushroms harm you? 1. The most common case - rotten mushrooms. Mushrooms live in interesting places. If your mushroom has begun to rot and you did not
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by Zickzack 5y ago
I generally agree with the sentiments in the article. However, when it comes to the following, I beg to differ: > I always find it funny when people go to a place like Romania and then go out of their way to eat what is labeled as tradit
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by Zickzack 5y ago
If you can read German, then search for the term Putativnotwehr - or Erlaubnistatbestandsirrtum which looks so much more German. It refers to an understandable, but wrong belief to be in a situation that justifies self defense. It is a vali
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by Zickzack 5y ago
The rule of thumb I know is that you need about twice the amount of long pepper compared to black pepper. Check, if this works for you. There is another thing which I like to do: bite off a little bit of long pepper, leave it in your mouth,
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by Zickzack 5y ago
> Collins was largely powerless to help if something went wrong. If that did happen, he would have been faced with the choice of abandoning his crewmates to die on the moon and fly back to Earth himself. He would have died in orbit then,

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