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by culebron21 9mo ago
Not surprising, sadly. In 2022, a friend who did trekking, asked how to view files with national parks borders on a map. I recommended installing QGIS desktop (geospatial viewer/editor of files/database tables). He replied: "
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by culebron21 9mo ago
Somehow at some point lifetimes started clicking for me. I think the key was when I understood that in a function, not everything needs the same lifetime. e.g. struct MyRef<'a> { item: &'a i64 } struct MyType {
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by culebron21 9mo ago
Some commenters suggest it's not the moderation. I think it is the key problem, and the alternative communities were the accumulated effect. Bad questions and tough answer competition is part of it, but moderation was more important, I
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by culebron21 9mo ago
Russia sold some military equipment, but also, I recall in 2008-10 Venezuela got a loan from Russia (IIRC after acknoledging Abkhasia & Ossetia states), ...but spent it on American helicopters, not Russian. (A friend of mine worked in h
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by culebron21 9mo ago
Germany did send troops. Correct me if I'm wrong. (edit: I was wrong. Italy, UK, Spain, Poland, Turkey among others.) Anyway, the point is that there was some sort of coalition.
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by culebron21 9mo ago
The previous time, 23 years ago, there was a broad campaign beforehand, and Bush assembled a serious international coalition before going for Iraq. This time, it's just some PR statements before the press.
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by culebron21 10mo ago
Interesting. We had a lot of grammar parsing of Russian since the 2nd grade of school. Especially we analyzed parts of speech and constituents. For the latter, we'd underline words in sentences in different ways. It's so widesprea
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by culebron21 10mo ago
Yes. Although, Romance languages have more verb tenses, generally they're easier. BTW, I only learned that Russan's past tense is the same compound past, by learning Italian. Also, Old Russian dropped participles, but re-borrowed
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by culebron21 10mo ago
Usually it takes some time to get used to borrow checker and lifetimes. After that, you stop noticing them.
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by culebron21 10mo ago
I couldn't figure out the main points, besides the "between Rust & Go" slogan. I've worked both with Rust and Go, and I like Rust more, but there are several pain points: * macro abuse. E.g. bitshift storing like in
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by culebron21 10mo ago
I was a web developer until 9 years ago. It was Django & jQuery, but React came with factories of abstract factories, and I happily quit for geospatial development and analysis. Earlier it was geodata imports from OSM or private sources
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by culebron21 10mo ago
Ok, it may work if you're in the language ambient, IDK. The situation of most learners is different: we live in our countries, there are very few if any speakers of target language, or they're too busy.
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by culebron21 10mo ago
The only case for me, when subtitles helped, was watching British TV series, first without subtitles, then with them, and improving listening. But only after all the grammatical heavy lifting.
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by culebron21 10mo ago
These passive approaches don't work at all. I tried this with Portuguese, French (which I don't consider learnt at all), and German as well. Before I took a good teacher's classes, I had been listening German radio for 2 year
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by culebron21 10mo ago
I had a teacher of German with whom we learned the rules and drilled just articulating sentences, and in that half year my progress was enormous. Then me and he got busy, he didn't teach anymore. And I see you indeed can learn and impr
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by culebron21 10mo ago
The Italian textbook was actually written by a Russian, Yulia Dobrovoskaya, in 1960s (with refrences to Rodari, Togliatti, and partigiani). But I guess she learnt from the native speakers and the literate culture. (After learning Spanish an
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by culebron21 10mo ago
Read this from HN in 2011, was interesting. But I take Feynman's conclusions with the grain of salt, and most comments here are near conspiracy theories. Here's why. Education in the older epoch that his informers mention, was muc
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by culebron21 10mo ago
I learned 5 foreign languages different ways, and the one I'm most proficient in, Italian, I learned the hardest way, doing grammar excercises, where for every of 31 paragraphs of the manual (each paragraph containing 2-3 grammatical p
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by culebron21 10mo ago
If I remember Windows 95/98/XP correctly, these icons were in menus only if there was the same icon on the panel. This would let you see there's a shorter way to do the action. Right now icons indeed just add clutter. They al
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by culebron21 10mo ago
At first glance, it looks like Rust's channels with a polymorphic type -- when you receive from a channel, you do match and write branches for each variant of the type. But I wonder if this can be a better abstraction than async. (And
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by culebron21 10mo ago
As a foreigner I hadn't known Monty Python when I started learning the language and reading the docs, and I haven't noticed any of those. I guess they came across as just noise.
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by culebron21 10mo ago
Well, every expat I know, including me, had this problem and spent days working around. And the sanctions were very poorly designed, because the drones landing in Ukraine still have fresh American and German parts. I'm not saying they
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by culebron21 10mo ago
The most affected were not those inside, but the emigrants. MasterCard and Visa blocked Russian banks, and the emigrees couldn't pay with their savings anymore. Some people got shadow banned by banks, their accounts closed, or money t
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by culebron21 10mo ago
Law enforcement in Russia works differently than in the US, especially in politically charged fields. An exapmel: in the US, one man was charged of breaking construction codes because he was doing chemical experiments in the basement of his
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by culebron21 10mo ago
Wikipedia says it's moved to Hungary in 2015.
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by culebron21 10mo ago
There's a big difference -- when EU/US bans Russians from using Roblox and other things and seeing other culture, (or someone bans Russians or Iranians by IP), it's rightful and thoughtful decision to protect democracy. When
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by culebron21 10mo ago
As someone from exUSSR, I'm shocked with the figures. We've given birth in Russia and in Kazakhstan, in both cases I paid nothing at all. Just taxi to the birth house (that's how the birth clinics are called), and my wife dis
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by culebron21 11mo ago
Yes, I tried Polars both in Python and Rust. In Python it's more verbose, as the other commenter points out. In Rust it's very painful.
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by culebron21 11mo ago
This was underwhelming. I work with Python and Pandas, and I can show examples of much clumsier workflows I run into. The most often, you get dataframe[(dataframe.column1 == something) & ~dataframe.column2.isna()] constucts, which show
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by culebron21 11mo ago
upvoted to compensate the mob that came about and downvoted those who replied to me.

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