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by clw8 9y ago
UV actually had a Rust based OS class four years ago! The language was at something like 0.7 so I'm really excited to have this course with up-to-date Rust.
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by clw8 9y ago
I somehow missed that part of the article, but that's not true. Tea is cha in Korean and Japanese, and that pronunciation post-dates Old Chinese. (which is why Min Nan is different, as it preserves numerous features from Old Chinese)
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by clw8 9y ago
The Japanese envoys came directly to Xi'an, then capitol of China, and also part of the Silk Road, so they still use the "land" word.
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by clw8 9y ago
The Min Nan "t" is an unaspirated consonant (meaning if you hold your hand in front of your mouth when you pronounce it, you shouldn't feel the puff of air), like the t in Spanish. English speakers routinely interpret these s
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by clw8 9y ago
It's always fun to think about how the cute little family traditions you grew up with might have originally just been the quirk of an ancestor from 200 years ago.
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by clw8 9y ago
I'm from Iowa. Pretty much every city with at least 50k people has gang activity. There are parts of Podunk, Iowa that you simply do not drive through, unless you're buying crack.
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by clw8 9y ago
That article deserves its own thread. TIL instead of using red lights Roman brothels just carved a dick in the ground to point the way.
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by clw8 9y ago
A few k for a five year visa is actually a really fucking good deal. I assume that means no need for border runs?
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by clw8 9y ago
You seem to be quite knowledgeable about board games, so I'm curious if Stranger Things has led to an uptick in popularity of D&D and the D&D influenced ones you mentioned. Luckily I live in a big city so I was able to find a n
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by clw8 9y ago
Are time-consuming custom fixes still commonly required in other (not camera reliant) Android apps too? I haven't really done any Android development since I had a Galaxy phone four years ago because this problem really turned me off t
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by clw8 9y ago
Not OP but in the Midwest big companies like John Deere start their engineers in the $60k range (at least when I interned there). The cost of living is just that much cheaper. My studio apartment while in college in Iowa City was $500 a mon
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by clw8 9y ago
Germany also has such a big safety net that the only homeless people literally just don't want to change their street lifestyle. It's a trade off. Living in Chicago, which has a large homeless population, I think Germany is doing
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by clw8 9y ago
As other people in the thread have pointed out, "Creators" is not the right term. I visited the site once awhile back and not only is it just a livestreaming service, but it seems like 90% of the users are high school kids, so it&
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by clw8 9y ago
After my first few hours using desktop Quantum I thought for sure I was switching away from Chrome. But then videos stopped playing (audio would play and the video would just be black) and didn't work again until restarting the browser
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by clw8 9y ago
I went to a "Public Ivy" about ten years ago and at the time both CE and CS students started with C, CE students sticking with it and CS students moving on to Java. Is this still true for the average public school? Learning C and
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by clw8 9y ago
I googled the Japanese name of the company and there are Yahoo Q&A threads about if it's awkward etc. so it is very real.
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by clw8 9y ago
I wonder what percentage of Michellin starred chefs are supertasters? I have to follow recipes to a T because I can't really taste if it needs more something, I just follow the recipe and if it doesn't taste good I look for anothe
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by clw8 9y ago
Living in Chicago, I can say that at least the people I've talked to, and the feeling on r/chicago, is that people are really excited about it. Chicago isn't afraid to build big. There are already a few massive sites in forme
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by clw8 9y ago
Great post!! Wish there was a save feature, I just saved this to a text file.
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by clw8 9y ago
You are the exception though. The statistical fact is that most people are like notyourwork, myself included. I'm absolutely horrible at this. I buy a huge bag of potatoes because even if I waste half the bag (although usually I'm
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by clw8 9y ago
Funny timing, I almost got hit yesterday (at a speed that could have been fatal) by a driver who most likely was either checking notifications or actively texting, while I was biking right on the UC campus. Immediately jerked my handlebar t
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by clw8 9y ago
Until I hear that Xcode for iPad Pro is in the works I'll be holding onto my first gen Air. Otherwise there's no point spending a grand when my $200 touchscreen convertible Chromebook does all the tablety things I need and runs Li
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by clw8 9y ago
Not correct, the frequency of multiples of 12 in human counting is thought to be because of the lunar cycle and that each human hand has 12 phalanges -- aka finger bones -- in the fingers excluding the thumb. See how the Chinese count to te
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by clw8 9y ago
You keep talking about how this is a uniquely American concept but I get the feeling that your only basis for comparison is Europe? Because just to take one example, Chinese parents complain even louder than American parents about anything
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by clw8 9y ago
By the definition of invasive species, eliminating them from areas where they were not native and are now harming the ecosystem doesn't require making them extinct.
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by clw8 10y ago
Burning wasn't necessary. Most texts that weren't copied continuously were simply lost. Our oldest sources for written Chinese are on dinosaur bones -- but the script already had characters that clearly show they also wrote with p
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by clw8 10y ago
Indeed. I've spent many a Sunday at university libraries reading about history and this was interesting and largely new to me. That people with some expertise thinks it's a duh article makes me happy that I didn't just read a
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by clw8 10y ago
Source on that? IE spread from the Dnieper River area to Western Europe and Western China in a rather short amount of time. Clearly there was a lot of migration from the Urheimat.
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by clw8 10y ago
TBF the north/south rail coverage discrepancy already existed a hundred years ago when you could get from the Loop to Evanston with one transfer at Uptown Station. Though perhaps the same mentality applied but towards the Irish.
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by clw8 10y ago
Matlab and Simulink are core tools in automotive engineering.

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