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by aix1 3y ago
To support your theory, I am an extreme introvert managing a fully distributed team. Yet I choose to regularly come to the office for a bit of in-person interaction (mainly social since my direct co-workers aren't based here). I shoul
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by aix1 3y ago
Wow, that was unnecessary. But sadly supports GP's conclusion rather than refute it. :(
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by aix1 3y ago
Relevant: https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/
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by aix1 3y ago
When you say "Money is one of the most important elements in a relationship", do you mean financial stability in the broad sense, or something else?
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by aix1 3y ago
Digging into this a little deeper, even "irrevocable" isn't as clear-cut as one might expect. > An “irrevocable” license, on the other hand, cannot be terminated, although there is some divergence in authority regarding wh
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by aix1 3y ago
What does it mean for a perpetual licence to be revocable? To my layman's ear the two terms sound almost contradictory.
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by aix1 3y ago
I really don't understand how any method without regular conversational practice can hope to get a learner to B2-level proficiency. (As measured by a standardised test.)
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by aix1 3y ago
> It's how much the user feels they learned. > Gamification makes you feel you earned "something". And that's the whole point. The distinction between "learned" in the first paragraph and "earned&quo
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by aix1 3y ago
Thanks for recommending Language Transfer. I browsed the site a bit (I'm on mobile, at an airport) but can't quite figure out in what way it's different to other methods. If you could say a few words about your experience usi
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by aix1 3y ago
> doing three lessons of Duolingo a day for a week will put you somewhere in the 60 - 80 minute region [...] That means it will take you 9.2 years to become proficient in your chosen language. This makes several assumptions, namely: 1. T
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by aix1 3y ago
Wow, things... have changed. Thanks for sharing.
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by aix1 3y ago
Hm, that's an interesting fraud vector. Presumably it applies to pretty much any retailer though? And doesn't apply to items with tamper-proof factory seals that are hard to counterfeit.
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by aix1 3y ago
Would you be willing to say a few words about the nature of your use cases?
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by aix1 3y ago
> In Germany, beer is a mass noun. Did you mean "Maß" noun? :) P.S. for non-German-speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%9F
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by aix1 3y ago
Duden gives "zwei Bier" as an example: ►Bier [bi:ɐ̯], das; -[e]s, -e: alkoholisches Getränk, das aus (meist aus Gerste hergestelltem) Malz und Hopfen hergestellt wird: Bier vom Fass; ein [Glas] helles, dunkles Bier trinken; in- un
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by aix1 3y ago
It's interesting how, having given a good answer to the last question in the penultimate paragraph, it then goes off the rails with It's worth noting that the exact dates of death for individuals who died in either war could vary
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by aix1 3y ago
No, I haven't noticed this in the media I read. Perhaps you could share some examples of what you mean?
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by aix1 3y ago
Here is an illustration and explanation: https://web.mnstate.edu/houtsli/tesl551/Writing/images/glyph... The whole page: https://web.mnstate.edu/houtsli/tesl551/Writing/pag
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by aix1 3y ago
He is key to defining the culture (secrecy etc). There is a huge culture difference between Brain and DM and, with Demis at the helm, I'm concerned that it'll be Brain moving towards DM culture, not vice versa.
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by aix1 3y ago
Demis remains at the helm though, doesn't he?
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by aix1 3y ago
A lot of folks here seem to be jumping to the conclusion that this means that DeepMind is losing its independence. Other than the addition of the word "Google" - which could simply be a rebranding exercise - I am yet to see any ev
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by aix1 3y ago
> What’s amazing to me is that they didn’t just use a phone call or video chat. I don't know anything about these specific conversations, but one obvious difference between phone/video and chat is that the former has to synchro
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by aix1 4y ago
> they take their rubbish to the tip in a bin No, no, no. The bin lorry takes it. :)
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by aix1 4y ago
It's a niche hobby for sure, but I think a slightly better metric to look at is the number of 3D printers sold. This seems to be about 2 million units per year.
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by aix1 4y ago
> you're buying all the future bugfixes, security mitigations, server maintenance, future integration work... There's also middle ground that used to be very common: pay a fixed fee and get a perpetual licence + free updates fo
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by aix1 4y ago
I don't know about other companies, but at Google the titles are as follows: Level - SWE ladder - Eng Manager ladder L8 - Principal software engineer - Director L9 - Distinguished software engineer - Senior director
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by aix1 4y ago
This is a straw man argument. Nowhere did I say anything about anyone being called an engineer.
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by aix1 4y ago
> This isn’t ‘engineering’ The English words "engineering" and "engineer (v)" have multiple meanings, including the following: engineering [n] 3: calculated manipulation or direction (as of behavior) &
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by aix1 4y ago
Could we change the title to "Up (documentary film series)" to avoid confusion with the Pixar film?
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by aix1 4y ago
I looked through the list and only one of the patents is granted outside China (and, at a glance, appears to be novel): https://patents.google.com/patent/CN113246473A/en P.S. I have no idea what patent practices a

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