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by elros 2y ago
Initially when I moved to Germany I thought it was a bit of a hassle to have to go to the post office for PostIdent; now I actually miss the elegance and privacy of that system in other countries.
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by elros 2y ago
Also copying from my iPhone and pasting into my Mac is so practical it feels like straight up science fiction
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by elros 2y ago
Learning things for fun and not just for profit. Physical development, learning a new sport. Spiritual development, meditating, observing. Engaging in arts, creating, exploring. Helping the less fortunate, volunteering, teaching. Traveling,
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by elros 3y ago
I was about to ask whether supporting Egyptian is in the roadmap, then read the comments and I'm happy to discover that's already Egyptian :-)
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by elros 3y ago
I’ve been learning Chinese for a few years. I’d recommend taking the time to learn the radicals as well, as it will help you get the feeling for what the character might mean, to the point that eventually through context and the radicals us
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by elros 3y ago
Location: EU Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript / Node / React and the whole associated stack like GraphQL, NoSQL databases, AWS etc Email: adelgado1313@gmail.com Résumé/CV: https:&#
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by elros 3y ago
I read that as "How My Chicken" and honestly as much as I'm sure the process for children is interesting, I'd be lying if I said I don't find it more fascinating to get chicken to have absolute pitch instead :-)
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by elros 3y ago
So what is it that they mean, in your opinion?
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by elros 3y ago
You mean a red thlag?
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by elros 4y ago
Sure, but if you had 2 different 2 month olds you may notice how they differ
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by elros 4y ago
Good point. That would actually follow a similar formation process as the most commonly used term for this, which is "minarchy".
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by elros 4y ago
I believe you meant to spell "hypocrisy", but actually "hypocracy" is such a wonderful neologism because it does seem that, wherever we are, we're governed by hypocrites.
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by elros 4y ago
People who understand a topic will simplify it for you. Even if it’s a complicated topic, they’ll be able to have a clear conceptual breakdown of its parts and their interactions. Whenever someone tries to sell themselves as an expert throu
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by elros 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy San Salvador is the capital, like saying Moscow to refer to Russia.
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by elros 4y ago
I think the problem isn't about intrinsic complexity, but simply that the tools we have to manage the abstractions we need to do complex backend work are better understood and further developed than the tools and abstractions we have t
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by elros 4y ago
Hahaha, he's your problem now!! Just kidding, I hope everything goes well for him and I've really enjoyed following his work and reading his blog throughout the years.
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by elros 4y ago
Location: Brazil / Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Mainly TypeScript and React nowadays but I've worked with stuff likeAndroid, Angular, AWS, Backbone, C#, CoffeeScript, Cordova/PhoneGap,
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by elros 4y ago
I just read it as "lib-reoffice" cause it's impossible not to if you've done manual package management in the past :-D
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by elros 4y ago
Bad, bad server. No donut for you!
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by elros 5y ago
No idea about ø but æ is used (very rarely, to be fair) in French. Famously, it's used in the name Lætitia. We enjoy having characters that are important but comparatively rare, such as ù, which has a key of its own in the French keybo
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by elros 5y ago
Both recordings of the "tell" word exhibit aspiration. I guess it is perhaps more noticeable to me because I'm quite well-versed in phonetics. A common way of illustrating aspiration is: hold a sheet of paper in front of your
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by elros 5y ago
> (imagine someone saying "Dive" instead of "Dave") So, an Australian? :D
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by elros 5y ago
I think the comparison made by the author is unfortunate because of their lack of context of Russian transliteration. I speak Chinese and have some Russian language understanding so I feel I can give a better explanation: Imagine you had no
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by elros 5y ago
For last Friday, we would probably use either "sexta-feira passada" (past Friday), which is more 'portable' among dialects, or "sexta-feira agora" qualified with a verb in past tense, or a time phrase. "se
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by elros 5y ago
In my dialect of Brazilian Portuguese (Carioca) one would seldom hear "a outra sexta-feira" in an unqualified statement. One would indeed say simply "sexta-feira" for Friday, and optionally "sexta-feira agora"
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by elros 5y ago
> In Greek, for instance, we say "yia sou" ("γειά σου"), for "hello". It means, basically, "have health". (...) I don't get the "have you eaten" greeting and I'm very very curio
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by elros 5y ago
Bald has been there couple of years ago, that's when I first heard about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_eA_c_Yts
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by elros 5y ago
"toque" means touch, but in this context, it means a ring. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toque#Portuguese
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by elros 6y ago
As someone who went from Delphi to C# to TypeScript that’s also how I see things
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by elros 6y ago
I’ve been using Macs full time for almost a decade now. I never use Launchpad, but Mission Control is the main way I switch between applications. I find it convenient that it’s bound (not sure if by default) to the “four fingers towards the

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