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by biztos 5y ago
> if you have the time and skills to do so. Or the cash? Are there companies that will convert your favorite car to electric, or is that just too much of a liability minefield in the USA?
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by biztos 5y ago
Anyone interested in both Wittgenstein and film should see Derek Jarman's "Wittgenstein" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein_(film) I don't know enough to comment on its biographical accur
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by biztos 5y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I'm not sure Picasso would have. IIRC he expressed the opinion that his mastery of traditional painting was a burden and had to be unlearned before he could make his best work.
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by biztos 5y ago
> at its centre -- in its essence This desire is precisely what leads Faust to become so frustrated with the limits of human knowledge that he makes an ill-advised bet with (more or less) the Devil, trading an option on his immortal soul
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by biztos 5y ago
I used UltraEdit a million years ago and I think it’s just a matter of familiarity. I remember being unable to go back to BBEdit when I switched back to Mac from Windows, I was so tuned in to UE’s power features. When I tried Sublime 2 I w
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by biztos 5y ago
I speak German and Hungarian, and I'm trying to learn Thai but between lockdown and my age it's going very slowly. I'm properly fluent in German but I learned it when I was a teenager and studied German literature at univers
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by biztos 5y ago
Interesting, I think Wikipedia is saying it's a distinct language that shares a lot of words etc with English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language And I admit I have no idea where the line is between a
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by biztos 5y ago
Sorry, I should have emphasized really. Compared to the other languages I know, the difference between "school English" and "English on the street" is larger. But of course the other two (German and Hungarian) could b
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by biztos 5y ago
If you mean in English, I would say look to the poorer corners of blighty, or deep enough into Australia, and you may find what you need. Or, if you're in Los Angeles and white, ride the bus from Santa Monica to DTLA on any given week
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by biztos 5y ago
Not a synonym but a similar trick: "outro." (From "intro" in case it's not obvious.)
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by biztos 5y ago
Maybe we can productionalize it.
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by biztos 5y ago
If you can do that in a British accent, no matter how bad it is, you will immediately be pundit material in the USA. And also more attractive!
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by biztos 5y ago
I'm a native English speaker who's lived in other countries a lot and speaks three languages, now trying to learn a fourth. The weirdness of "English" is something I think about often. For starters, you have to live in
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by biztos 5y ago
Some things I find by searching for very specific things, like say YouTubers in Thailand or (lately) modular synthesis which led me to Andrew Huang[0]. Other stuff I get pointed to by friends, eg Mark Rober for his anti theft videos which
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by biztos 5y ago
The car guy (Daniel Mac) is awesome but the answers make me feel like I don't understand how money works. So many people doing things I would not have thought pay as well as software work, and they're all driving McLarens with doo
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by biztos 5y ago
I also really like today's YouTube and I even pay for it. For me the trick is that I now use it almost exclusively to watch original content made for YouTube. And there's a ton of that stuff, from DIY garage geekouts to langua
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by biztos 5y ago
I do hope the LaTeX folks remember to always spell Yahoo! with an “!” !
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by biztos 5y ago
The laptop? Or the DAW?
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by biztos 5y ago
> Just read some vintage issues of Byte I still have the AI issue of Byte[0] and there still aren’t any robots that can draw for shit. /s [0]: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-04
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by biztos 5y ago
> the blaster seems more effective And you have to, er, attack the rebels with an army of highly variable talent and training, which contains maybe one or two actual Jedi Ninjas, so maybe it's better if everyone just uses blasters
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by biztos 5y ago
I would speculate that Amazon doesn’t care about the occasional $200 mistake, and is perfectly happy to refund it should they notice. What they don’t want is companies that are spending say $2-4 million per month to be able to put in a hard
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by biztos 5y ago
It is illegal for anyone working for an American company to bribe anyone in any country anywhere. Work for a big enough company and you will be told that at least once a year in “training.” Observe big American companies doing business all
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by biztos 5y ago
I guess in the US they get a paper card with a CDC logo on it and a stamp for each injection, which will be trivially easy to fake for those who want post-vaxx privileges without actually getting the jab. Saw one on Insta today. I’m in fav
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by biztos 5y ago
I think real-time lookup in a corpus would be enough if it's implemented well. I'm a non-native speaker (reasonably fluent) in two non-English languages, and when I'm writing, if anything strikes me as sounding "off&quot
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by biztos 6y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected. Guess it’s chipless to be cheaper?
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by biztos 6y ago
My first “real” job was dishwasher with extra kitchen duties as time allowed, and bussing if it got too busy for the waitresses to keep up. The chef was a hard-ass but had the work ethic to back it up. It was actually a pretty high status
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by biztos 6y ago
Friends in Budapest tell me it’s getting better, but they recently opened up outdoor drinking venues for the first time since November and everything was packed, no distancing and no masks, so I hope it doesn’t backfire. Interestingly, Hung
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by biztos 6y ago
Doesn’t this just become a mini-UBI for food budgets? That could be pretty interesting.
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by biztos 6y ago
Would that not equally apply to video game console makers who also make video games? Which is all of them, right?
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by biztos 6y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting take. I agree Polin seems to undervalue (or just not understand?) what a publisher brings to the table, but I did get the impression he is trying to do this as an offshoot of his vlogging business more t

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