englishrookie

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by englishrookie 4y ago
Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.)
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by englishrookie 4y ago
Based on just a few exchanges in Dutch (I'm a native speaker), I'd say it's pretty good. The conversation sounds pretty natural (albeit shallow). Maybe the quality differs per language?
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by englishrookie 4y ago
From the article: "PEN America defines a school book ban as any action taken against a book based on its content and as a result of parent or community challenges, administrative decisions, or in response to direct or threatened action
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by englishrookie 4y ago
Maybe this is another case of the bees foraging near an M&M's factory? https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/pollution-ecology/bee-blu...
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by englishrookie 4y ago
Maybe Regolith [1] is something for you. It's an Ubuntu derivative that combines i3 and Gnome. It has sane defaults, a nice app launcher, and everything 'just works': audio, bluetooth, wifi. I have been using Regolith for hal
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by englishrookie 4y ago
We need a quick fix. I'm based in the Netherlands, two thirds of which is threatened by a sea level rise within the next hundred years. If that sounds far away to you: my grandmother died at age 99. There's a very reasonable chanc
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by englishrookie 4y ago
How would you call a person belonging to the Mittelstand in German? In another Germanic language, Dutch, you would say "middenstander" (or plural"middenstanders"), derived from "middenstand".
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by englishrookie 4y ago
The original article uses the plural too, Mittelstands, but it sounds really weird in German since it's more of mass noun (it's as if you referred to various pots of sugar as 'the sugars'). I believe the correct word wou
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by englishrookie 5y ago
The eye makeup 'kohl' is in no way related to the German word for cabbage. Apparently it's an Arabic word ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kohl ). Funnily enough, Kohle (with a schwa at the end) in German
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by englishrookie 5y ago
You might want to reconsider Moodle as an option. There's a new version (4.0) coming up early 2022 with a major UI overhaul. It looks like a big improvement, with the UX design at least ten times better than the current version (thoug
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by englishrookie 5y ago
One of the neat things about GFA Basic was its built in support for graphics. It was almost trivially easy to plot graphs of your math homework equations. Or to plot fractals (very slowly).
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by englishrookie 5y ago
Yep, we purchased one in 1988 which died on us after about a week. But the replacement we got under the warranty lasted until 2005 or so (see my other post here), when the disk drive gave out. I flunked my 9th grade in high school because o
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by englishrookie 5y ago
I had the exact same use case for my parents' camp site in France. In 1997, I had programmed a camp site management software for the Atari 1040 ST in GFA Basic. It was used for booking reservations, registering new guests, and printin
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by englishrookie 5y ago
This is so true! I was waiting in the checkout line in the supermarket, and people all around me were discussing how the ancient Greek armies were composed entirely of male Greek citizens. Popular lore can be so wrong! ;-)
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by englishrookie 5y ago
Ah, I thought it was me, for whom English is a foreign language. I can't parse this sentence either.
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by englishrookie 6y ago
Wow, where was this? What library was that? I was 12 at the time and had to take turns on my friend's BBC Micro (his parents' really). Of course, he was at the computer for 75% of the time, because "I know how to operate it&q
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by englishrookie 6y ago
Is that a thing in the US, taking a day off on your birthday? To the best of my knowledge, nobody does that in Europe - certainly not in the Netherlands.
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by englishrookie 6y ago
I'm not so sure. All major religions survived the Copernican Turn.
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by englishrookie 6y ago
In Civilization 5, Steve Jobs was a "Great Merchant". This sparked some debate too, at the time. The game also had "Great Scientist", "Great Artist", "Great Engineer", and "Great Prophet". G
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by englishrookie 6y ago
The only trouble I ever had with my Atari ST mouse, which I used for about 10 years, was that the axles got dusty. Well, dusty is an understatement. It was a mechanical mouse, with two axles and a ball with a plastic coating of some kind. A
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by englishrookie 7y ago
I personally don't hold that opinion, but this could still be construed as racist.
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by englishrookie 7y ago
Yes! We Dutch are the bestest in English!
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by englishrookie 7y ago
Exactly which Germanic kingdoms do you mean? The Frisians did not convert until after 754 AD (when they killed Saint Boniface - Bonifatius - after he managed to upset them, probably doing stuff like cutting down their holy oak). The Frisian
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by englishrookie 7y ago
I'm an old php dev, still doing server side development exclusively, and these are genuine questions: 1. What tooling is there available? Do you mean something along the lines of vim or IntelliJ? 2. How do these techniques make the use
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by englishrookie 8y ago
About the 'white' part: the Roman empire apparently did not categorize people based on something as superficial as their skin color: "physiognomy did not function as a criterion of social status in the Roman system of stratif
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by englishrookie 8y ago
The article suggests this is happening without not just the students' consent, but even without their knowledge: "He and Lenhart also say schools should disclose that they’re using systems that could slurp in students’ posts, sinc
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Schools Are Mining Students' Social Media Posts for Signs of Trouble(wired.com)
1 points by englishrookie 8y ago|1 comments
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by englishrookie 8y ago
Any lessons learned that you want to share? As the owner of a very small consultancy shop I know it's very hard to extract generalized advice from your own failures, but still...
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by englishrookie 8y ago
I agree that Netflix has a very limited offering. You won't find any of the classics in there when it comes to movies. You can't really use it as a movie library, in other words. Spotify actually does have a very large number of s
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by englishrookie 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the GDPR is enforced at the national level, by national data protection agencies. The one in the Netherlands is severely understaffed and no match for the lawyers of the likes of Google and Facebook.

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