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   by abrowne 6y ago

   What's a "real" cyclist? Someone who rides for sport in full kit and trains for races? Someone who commutes to work and runs errands in street clothes, even in bad weather, maybe because they don't have another option? A
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   by abrowne 6y ago

   Thanks for catching my typo. Fixed now. I guess the grass is always greener? And I come from a humanities background, so the information-organizing and communication uses of computer interest me the most. I can see someone from a more math-
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   by abrowne 6y ago

   “Ordinateur” is so much better than “computer”! As Wiktionary puts it > From Latin ordinator (“one who orders”), from ōrdinō (“to order, to organize”). > In its application to computing, it was coined by the professor of philol
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   by abrowne 6y ago

   As some of the skeptics in the article say, we can't be sure there's no link, but there doesn't need to be a link to explain having similar sauces in the two regions. If you have fish, salt, sun and a lack of refrigeration, y
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   by abrowne 6y ago

   Not that I know of, except by trying to find mistakes like this: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=47635 > Google translates the Japanese word "migaku 磨く" (to polish, to brush) to the French word &
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   by abrowne 6y ago

   I agree DeepL is often as good or better. (I will sometimes try both and compare. Usually I prefer about half from each, but both are fine on their own.) But DeepL doesn't support nearly as as many languages. Google Translate supports,
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   by abrowne 6y ago

   Now that you mention your iMac, I think it was also a 32 MB iMac (2nd gen, blueberry) that I first tried …
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   by abrowne 6y ago

   I agree, 10.4 seemed "complete" (besides lacking Time Machine, which I didn't know I wanted until it was added).
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   by abrowne 6y ago

   I installed the Mac OS X public beta on my family's eMac. The computer had 64 MB of RAM while the requirements listed 128 MB IIRC. But I wanted UNIX! It was so unresponsive, I had to learn to use the terminal.
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    Or even more clearly, "Boeing 737 NG and 737 Classic", since it wasn't obvious to me that they're all 737 variants.
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    It would be less a deterrence for someone from Taiwan, with linguistic, cultural and maybe family connections to China than it would be for someone with no connection to the Sinosphere. And it's not like they're getting locked int
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    The ability to carry 22 AIM-9X Sidewinder and AMRAAM medium range air-to-air missiles. Source: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a30705691... More: > The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, on the ot
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    Another post on the homepage now: "Element wins deal to supply half a million licences for German education system". I was going to point out that it's a pretty generic name being used by other groups, but when I read that li
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    I pass a couple bald eagle nests commuting by bike along the river in Minneapolis. I'm always surprised when I see the eagles flapping their wings, since most of the time they are soaring.
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    The T2 in the current MacBooks is an ARM chip, so it's possible, they just aren't using it to run the main OS.
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    I always wonder why the people who cover webcams don't think about the mic. Isn't that almost worse? It could grab speech even if you aren't right in front of the camera.
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    Chinese CPU maker Zhaoxin is adding discrete GPUs to its lineup(liliputing.com)

    3 points by abrowne 6y ago|0 comments
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    The author of Pathway of the Birds ¹ thinks it was possible. 1: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/pathway-of-the-birds-the-vo...
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    The great book Pathway of the Birds , about Polynesian voyaging, navigation and settlement, mentions the possibility of travel to the South American mainline. I don't remember the details, but the winds and currents support travel eas
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    Fits what I see too, with "married" often replaced with unmarried partnership, so definitely not a purely religious thing.
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    I even got the snap yesterday morning already!
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    "[T]the letters patent are held by the Queen's Printer [… T]he Queen's Printer is now Cambridge University Press […] Cambridge University Press permits the reproduction of at most 500 verses for 'liturgical and non-comme
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    There are Intel Macs in the pipeline because the switch is not instant, and they want to sell at least some Macs for the next 6–18 months.
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    Thanks for that link. I couldn't find anything searching her name plus "Silicon Graphics", "SGI" or "IRIX".
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    > The icons were Susan Kate originals done in vectors before SVG was a thing. Susan Ka r e?
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    And now there's increased interest in wanting to change that culture.
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    > Having the front be single wheeled leads to the a lot of instability because turns change your center of gravity. Cue Mr Bean and a Reliant Robin: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mr+bean+reliant+robin&iax=videos&i..
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    Typo, should read It isn't focused .
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
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    by abrowne 6y ago

    I recently read and recommend A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy Popkin. It it's focused on this, but talks about it in the context of the Revolution, which makes all the switching sides make a lot mor