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by entropy_ 12y ago
I agree with you on all of the points you listed. However, while all Arabs can understand the formal Arabic perfectly, many struggle to write it or express themselves in it, and that is not just a case of identity crisis. I consider myself
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by entropy_ 12y ago
You're right, I actually didn't notice that at first. It is weird that Ramsey made a mistake like that, I happen to know the guy(we met when he used to live here) and he does speak Arabic pretty well. He's not like someone wi
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by entropy_ 12y ago
As a native Arabic speaker, I think you're incredibly wrong about Arabic ever becoming a dominant language world-wide. There are several reasons for this. First, Arabic itself is an incredibly fragmented language. Almost every country
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by entropy_ 12y ago
You don't need to force push at all. You could just apply the changes to your PR in a different branch(completely local, rewrite history as much as you want, etc, etc) and then submit a second PR with that.
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by entropy_ 12y ago
I tried it with both ocrad and tesseract modes, and indeed, the ocrad mode produces garbage, the tessaract mode produces a really good result but takes a longer time doing it(mainly the time it takes to upload the entire thing and get the r
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by entropy_ 12y ago
Well, when it comes to Arabic, the short vowels should be written out as accents of sorts. However, they are quite often missing in actual written text. However, even as a native Arabic speaker I will struggle with text written like that
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by entropy_ 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. There's nothing more painful than watching Dawkins vs <some random theologian> and thinking the whole time that they are both talking completely past each other. I don't remember which debate it w
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by entropy_ 13y ago
That won't actually compile. Having decompiled java binaries before, the decompiler will sometimes generate things like that. I think it happens when there's a jump instruction it doesn't know what to do with.
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by entropy_ 13y ago
I've gotten pretty good at doing the reverse operation(given an RGB value, guess the color) because I'm red-green colorblind and that's how I figure out what color something is :)
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by entropy_ 13y ago
That's a terribly first-world-centric view to take. I live in Lebanon, definitely a country that does not qualify as "developed" by any standards and people here are in group (b). Your options here for watching movies are (a)
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by entropy_ 13y ago
Similar thing happened with my when I was ~14, except it was the family desktop -- laptops were way too expensive for us back then -- and they had a lock on a power switch that led up to the computer. Learned to pick locks and got extensive
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by entropy_ 13y ago
Slapping someone in the face is definitely a violent act, in most cases though, it won't cause any lasting or permanent injury and definitely not death(unless you are the hulk or something).
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by entropy_ 13y ago
The solution to that where I live(Lebanon), is that banks have 40hr weeks but instead of 8x5 they are 7x5 + 1*5. That is, they work 8am=>3pm on weekdays and 8am=>1pm on Saturdays. It's definitely less than ideal but at least if y
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by entropy_ 13y ago
From my experience crossing the Syrian border many many times, it's resolved with (at most) a 20$ bill(or the equivalent in Syrian pounds). Same goes for traffic violations or pretty much anything that deals with the police or customs
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by entropy_ 13y ago
That's pretty much what you get when colonist powers(France and Britain at the time) divide up the area between themselves without any regard for local sectarian differences[1]. The same pattern also played out in Africa. In Lebanon as
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by entropy_ 13y ago
Not just during the war. It's been on-going ever since. I usually tell foreigners that our prime export is young engineers. It is very rare for young and talented programmers to stay here. If they have the means to leave for the states
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by entropy_ 13y ago
That depends on who your opponent is. Against inexperienced players, projecting confidence can sometimes make them miss the fact that you made a mistake. However, against strong experienced players they will almost always notice and take ad
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by entropy_ 13y ago
No, they couldn't. sshd usually runs as root* so it can create shells for in user that's logging in. Therefore, only root could kill the daemon. Also, as mentioned by the sibling post, its configuration files are usually(if not yo
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by entropy_ 13y ago
If servers accepted a hash of a password instead of the actual password then the hash becomes the password. Ie, possession of the hash is equivalent to possession of the password since it can be used to authenticate. Therefore, this is no d
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by entropy_ 13y ago
I highly doubt it. The behaviour has nothing to do with bad drivers, it's mostly because of lack of enforcement. The only thing you can get a fine for is speeding, and even then most speed traps are easy to spot. Otherwise, just do whatever
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by entropy_ 13y ago
I've grown up in Lebanon -- a third world country still recovering from a 15 year civil war(1975-1990). Traffic lights and rules are merely suggestions to people around here. If something is physically possible, like a car being able to fit
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by entropy_ 13y ago
Given those options I always go for Google Checkout, actually. Paypal doesn't support my country(Lebanon), so that's out of the question. And I try to minimize the number of places that have my CC information. Checkout already has it from m
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by entropy_ 13y ago
This is ridiculous, there's a correct way to handle this and it's called git submodules. Instead of using go get for non-trivial long-term projects you should just be adding the dependency as a submodule in your git repo and including the f
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by entropy_ 13y ago
I had honestly never heard about this before, what does the U.S. pay to countries that have bases in them? Any references? I'm honestly curious
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by entropy_ 13y ago
At that point, you'll have this: http://xkcd.com/810/
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by entropy_ 13y ago
Yes, I could've done that, but my code from C-large-1 already use sqrt() on the bounds of the range and I never thought to change that. Since I was generating the roots instead of the full numbers it seemed natural to iterate over those. If
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by entropy_ 13y ago
My experience with GCJ has been that raw execution speed almost never matters as long as you have the right algorithm. In the case of the OP, for example a trivial optimization(the kind you do without even thinking in these competitions)
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by entropy_ 13y ago
I've been taking part in GCG since ~2008 now. I have only once encountered a problem where my solution in python was too slow but an equivalent one in C would've been fast enough. Though just barely(my python solution ran in ~10min, the C o
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by entropy_ 13y ago
I also solved in python, however, my code to pre-generate all "fair and square" numbers in the range 1->10^100 only took 6s to run. Didn't even need optimization. I simply constructed the numbers outright, ie, there was no iteration in
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by entropy_ 13y ago
You make a good point

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