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by dron57 5y ago
How do Europeans contrast themselves from other countries/cultures/languages in Europe? Wouldn't it be similar?
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by dron57 5y ago
Borscht is Ukrainian, not Russian!
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by dron57 5y ago
Chinese has gendered pronouns in written form. The characters for he and she are written differently, but they are both pronounced the same way - tā. I assume that in some older form of Chinese the sounds must have been different, but they
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by dron57 5y ago
3) buy cookbooks While cookbooks are great they're not easily searchable. If only I could ingest every recipe from every cookbook I bought into a personal database. Hey that'd be a neat app idea!
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by dron57 5y ago
The fix for this is detailed in this thread: https://bitbucket.org/heldercorreia/speedcrunch/issues/716/v... And the .dmg file that has the retina fix is here: https://github.com/gagarcr
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by dron57 5y ago
> When you talk about creativity, SF is at the forfront a giant nation of 300M people, 2 orders of magnitude larger population and market size. That naturally support more creativity and innovation. If we're talking about the Bay Ar
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by dron57 5y ago
I've been using the Pixel 4a 5G for about 6 months with MicroG and Lineage. Works really well. Other than Whatsapp and Google Maps I don't miss anything, but those apps have alternatives too.
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by dron57 5y ago
It's a very apt comparison to large multinationals, but this one had hundreds of millions of "employees". So you can imagine how little people cared about their jobs.
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by dron57 5y ago
> The educational resources available to anyone today obliterates what we had in the 80's. Do you mean the materials available online? There's definitely lots of great material online, but there doesn't seem to be any evid
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by dron57 5y ago
Your example of looking at a problem from more than one angle made me think of the problem of finding the Hubble constant that describes the rate of expansion of the universe. There are two recent methods which have different estimates for
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by dron57 6y ago
That's cool, but Mish is an activation function while SGD and AdamW are optimizers. Apples and oranges.
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by dron57 6y ago
I did EE in Canada and numerical methods were definitely taught in 2nd year of undergrad. Why wouldn't it be?
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by dron57 6y ago
It's trivial to disable any telemetry considering it's open source: https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-report
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by dron57 6y ago
Really fascinating seeing which regions of the world correspond to their closest capitals and which don't. Europe and Africa seem pretty close to what they are on the real world map whereas large countries such as America, Russia and C
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by dron57 7y ago
Funny coming from Honda. My parents own a 2017 (I think) Civic and the only way to adjust volume is by tapping +/- on the touchscreen. It's the most unusable volume adjustment I've ever experienced. It was completely unusable
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by dron57 7y ago
In his article he defends all of the choices he made for the COTI calculation. 100% of the premium is used because most people in 1980 paid for the whole thing themselves. I guess it raises the question that the institution of employer spon
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by dron57 7y ago
That's a huge, huge advantage. Even doctors and lawyers can only serve a small number of clients. While software can be reused and enable large deployments. These margins make all the difference.
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by dron57 7y ago
I read over the lists of Russian-Polish and Russian-Ukrainian and most of the so called false friends are only false friends because one of the languages may have more than one meaning for the word. The other meaning is still similar enough
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by dron57 7y ago
Because of the lower frequency that would result from the much larger mass collision of the supermassive black holes. Ideally we would have much longer travel distances for the gravity wave detection experiment. They work by building a gian
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by dron57 8y ago
I have my workstation setup to plug in a single USB-C port that charges my laptop and drives my monitor, headphones, keyboard, mouse and a USB-A hub. To me USB-C is a god send. I don't understand why people have such negative reactions
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by dron57 8y ago
It's an inspiring story about jobs in middle America. But can places like Kentucky really compete with outsourcing hubs like India or Eastern Europe? I think it comes down to access to education. Coastal US businesses would be happy to
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by dron57 9y ago
Alberta pays about the same. This is still a long shot from the US and is a major factor why we're always gonna be stuck with a brain drain to the US.