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by dghf 9y ago
We were taught that, for the first person, 'shall' indicates the simple future while 'will' indicates determination: 'I will continue using "whom", regardless of what others may say.' For the second
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by dghf 9y ago
> I'm also an autodidact and my understanding is that radically agnostic epistemology (such as you suggest) is not very useful. Oh, absolutely. I was merely suggesting that there is a difference between a lack of doubt for all prac
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by dghf 9y ago
I have a layman's and not very well informed knowledge of philosophy, so at the risk of being savagely and justifiably owned: even in the example you give, doesn't one have to make the assumption that one's rules of reasoning
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by dghf 9y ago
> I know I am not about certain ideas and philosophies Can you give some examples?
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by dghf 9y ago
> cat contract.txt | grep -i "indemnify" | wc I hate to be that guy, but you have a Useless Use of Cat[0] there. [0] http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html#cat
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by dghf 9y ago
> I don' get it, so the alt right speaker on the video was actually for Democrats ? The Sweden Democrats are a right-wing, anti-immigration party whose spokespeople have over the years said some questionable things on the subjects o
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by dghf 9y ago
> What works for one writer won't work for another. And he specifically mentions Barry Lopez and Margaret Atwood as writers to whom certain of the rules don't apply. But not everyone can describe the weather or location like th
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by dghf 9y ago
Chimeras rather than hybrids, surely?
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by dghf 9y ago
Yes, much of the A74(M)/M74 corridor looks and feels more like the Highlands than the Lowlands.
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by dghf 9y ago
I'm assuming that the Artorius in question is Lucius Artorius Castus [0], who was prefect (third-in-command) of the Legio VI Victrix, based in York for most of the second and some of the third centuries. He was first proposed as a prot
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by dghf 9y ago
There was some overlap, e.g. William Kidd and possibly Edward Teach (Blackbeard).
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by dghf 9y ago
To be honest, most of my knowledge of Church Latin comes from things like the Agnus Dei sung by the choir during an otherwise English-language Mass.
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by dghf 9y ago
The mention of the Catholic Church's use of Latin made we wonder: if you're going to resurrect Latin as an international language, which pronunciation are you going to use -- the reconstructed classical pronunciation of Cicero et
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by dghf 9y ago
It's been a while since I've had to open a train door by leaning out of the window. All the trains I take have buttons to open the doors.
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by dghf 9y ago
In the tomb of Ti at Saqqara, in a mural depicting a battle, there is a hieroglyph comprising a stylised phallus entering an even more stylised vulva. It is an insult that one warrior is hurling at his enemy. Apparently it is usually trans
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by dghf 9y ago
> Hong Kong is not China under the two systems policy Isn't the full name of that policy "one country, two systems"?
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by dghf 9y ago
This bit confused me: > China bans all activists' commemorations and highly regulates online discussion of the incident, including censoring criticism. But it is marked annually by activists elsewhere in the world, particularly in
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by dghf 9y ago
> You're just mapping a finite list of input configurations to a finite number of outputs. Any Turing complete system will be able to emulate it just by enumerating all of the possibilities. I don't follow. How does that bear o
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by dghf 9y ago
There are 16 possible dyadic operators for two-valued logic (two inputs, each with one of two possible values, mapping to a result with two possible values = 2^(2^2)). If you have either NAND or NOR as a primitive, you can construct the oth
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by dghf 9y ago
> Because it represents (and behaves) as unknown and not as absent. It can represent both. For example, in a table of biographical data, a NULL value for DateOfDeath could represent N/A for someone still living, unknown for a dead p
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by dghf 9y ago
In the UK (except Scotland, which no longer has them), a coroner must be either a doctor or a lawyer: so here, too, we have coroners with no medical training. But the office may have different responsibilities: here, their main function i
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by dghf 9y ago
It could be a reference (possibly an unconscious one) to the fact that British maps of the world traditionally coloured territories of the British Empire in pink or red.
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by dghf 9y ago
How many stories? If you had three or so words per story, that would give you about seven stories, which fits the notion of 7 +/- 2 "chunks" of information.
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by dghf 9y ago
> Why don't languages give tail calls their own syntax rather than making it an optimization? Clojure does exactly that: (defn gcd [x y] (if (zero? y) x (recur y (quot x y))) You can also recur with TC
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by dghf 9y ago
> there are far more than 256^3 viewable colors This is trivially true: the gamut of sRGB does not cover all possible colours. See this diagram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB#/media/File:Cie_Chart_wit.
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by dghf 9y ago
But the whole point of 'set hidden' is that the current buffer is hidden (rather than unloaded/closed) when you switch to a different one, so there's no prospect of losing unsaved changes -- unless you :qa! without check
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by dghf 9y ago
If you're going to use buffers (which you should), make sure to set hidden otherwise you'll get an error message when you try to swap to a different buffers when you have unsaved changes in your current buffer,
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by dghf 9y ago
I can't find the Society section. Could you provide a link? ETA: thanks to Brakenshire above for the directions. I'm seeing the same three stories, and I'm not sure what's left wing about reporting on: - a campaigner for
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by dghf 9y ago
No, we'd write it the first way, even if the quotation ended with punctuation not appropriate to the sentence as a whole: e.g. > Bill asked "Do you prefer American style?" even though the sentence, taken as a whole, is a s
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by dghf 9y ago
A couple of things that page doesn't get quite right: > Mr., Mrs., and Ms. all take periods in American English. In British English, the periods are omitted. Common British practice omits full stops after any abbreviation (not jus

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