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by dghughes 3y ago
Yeah dialects throw a monkey wrench into it I think some bh can be V or W. Maybe concentrating on a specific dialect may help with learning. Maybe that was my problem if I though it was W and then V and then W again.
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by dghughes 3y ago
I tried to learn it and basically it helps if you at least know the sounds of H letters/consonants which throw off English speakers. mh or bh = V, ch = sloppy och "loch" (means lake) rhymes with Bach, dh and gh = guttural G,
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by dghughes 3y ago
I think the spine is far more complex than the average person is aware of. From what I have read it has some basic reaction/thinking capabilities which may be beyond what can be made by humans.
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by dghughes 3y ago
One trick used to be the UBB trident logo (embossed into the cable) always faced upward when plugged into a USB port on a computer. Sideways ports may be a crap shoot I'm not sure if their orientation is standardized. And I'm not
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by dghughes 3y ago
Yeah it's a blast goes well with Isaac Asimov's The Last Question. Andy Weir also wrote The Martian.
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by dghughes 3y ago
Sounds like The Egg by Andy Weir http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
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by dghughes 3y ago
>the only requirement was something that anti-gravitated: something like “negative energy” A bit more than that. Didn't it also require the energy equivalent to the output of a small star?
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by dghughes 3y ago
I think they may mean because star patterns are not fixed so it never existed in that form at that time. Constellations as imagined by humans change surprisingly quickly but to humans and our short lifespan they seem to be forever.
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by dghughes 3y ago
Plus the wars they had to name a few: Balkan, WWI, Spanish Civil War, WWII. Add to that a few dozen other smaller wars. Quite a mess and quite impressive to overcome in such a short time and not hate each other.
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by dghughes 3y ago
>Bad journalism. That seems harsh. Couldn't it just be a fun general discussion of how light in nature among animals is observed?
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by dghughes 3y ago
My grandmother practically a vegetarian, worked on a farm, up at 4am each day to bake bread, had 10 children. Walked everywhere and never sat around not in any way fat. She developed type II diabetes. My Dad was overweight but active. Later
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by dghughes 3y ago
My cat is crazy accurate for time down to the minute. I can be sitting reading, on the web, or watching a movie all of which are random and not repeated at any specific time. Yet at 9pm exactly any time of the year she sits by the stool and
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by dghughes 3y ago
Not sure what a network in medical context is but here in Canada there is the option of medical assistance in dying (MAID). Dad considered it but as a Catholic and just as a choice by anyone it was even more terrifying than just a natural d
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by dghughes 3y ago
Sure if you take it out of context. >Morphine just that tiny pill caused terrible constipation (opioids are terrible)
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by dghughes 3y ago
Hypocritical of Zuck now show news after having a major snit fit when here in Canada he was asked to support news organizations he chose not to and just block news.
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by dghughes 3y ago
My Dad had IPF a lung disease and struggled near the end mainly due to isolation at home. My Mom and myself were there but he missed his social outings like fishing and bargain hunting. Even struggling with his oxygen generator he fished st
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by dghughes 3y ago
> Can you hear the difference Do you think it matters if I play the song on my $10 cheapo earbuds or on $60,000 Sennheiser HE-1 Summit headphones?
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by dghughes 3y ago
It was and then wasn't back and forth. I think I'll just wait for the book to come out..
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by dghughes 3y ago
What a crazy week for old things discovered this statue at Göbekli Tepe and the 400,000 year-old notched lumber beams in Zambia. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66846772
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by dghughes 3y ago
I know a Tamil guy we often discussed things and would end up on culture, language, ethnicity. He would say to me and I'm paraphrasing obviously, "Look at my nose it is flat but your nose isn't you look like the people from t
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by dghughes 3y ago
> I know incredibly smart people (engineers and other fields) who are It's the stereotypical professor super smart in one specific area but everything else is a mess. Doctors can be like that too just ask an hospital IT person what
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by dghughes 3y ago
How is wealth quantified? $19.95, $1K, $10K, $100K, $1M, $10M, $100M, $1B??? To a homeless person I'm pretty sure anyone not homeless appears to have wealth.
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by dghughes 3y ago
Then again my Dad who died of a lung disease said the government agency (Coast Guard) he worked for turned a blind eye to what he and his co-workers had to do. Dad would tell me even as the late 1990s his job was to take a powder, wet it, f
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by dghughes 3y ago
My geographic fun fact is my tiny Canadian province of Prince Edward Island (PEI) is the only Canadian province that doesn't border another country (but there is one territory that also doesn't border any country). From British Co
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by dghughes 3y ago
I'd go with Wormavator has more punch to it.
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by dghughes 3y ago
I had a Dodge truck with a similar problem but it was never resolved. If I went to an ATM or convenience store on a muggy day when I left my truck transmission stuck in 1st gear. It was obviously the short time stopped and start up again bu
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by dghughes 3y ago
I'm surprised it's not the "World Motorcycle Museum" seeing how the USA likes to do that.
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by dghughes 3y ago
> because it’s basically a white people disease White and mostly male. My local university or more precisely certain students wanted to drop CF as a cause to support due to those factors. Pretty disgusting and it was quickly dismissed fo
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by dghughes 3y ago
>Precise Find for Indoors.Comes with Ultra-wideband (UWB) ... I was playing with the UWB on my Samsung S23 my cat was beside me. As I enabled it she jerked her head towards my phone. I know UWB is far beyond a cat's hearing range bu
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by dghughes 3y ago
I'd be curious if you're all over 6' tall. I never had any luck on OKCupid.

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