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571.
by glandium 4y ago
Free solo was great, but also a nerve wracking thing to watch. Is The Alpinist as gut wrenching?
572.
by glandium 4y ago
I actually wonder if Steve Jobs will be remembered hundreds of years in the future. I have less doubts about Newton and Einstein, but Jobs... in the grand scheme of things, his contributions seem trivial. Not to diminish what they mean to u
573.
by glandium 4y ago
It wouldn't be the first time the US gets involved in Bolivia. I happen to recently have stumbled upon a short document on Wikileaks that sported "Bolivia", "cocaine coup", "CIA", and I shit you not, &quot
574.
by glandium 4y ago
> In Indian film, an utterly ordinary character in "office job" physical condition will catch bullets, run faster than a full speed train, etc. No pressure to explain the seeming contradiction with ordinary reality. The film co
575.
by glandium 4y ago
This makes me wonder (I'm not following chess): have there been attempts at competitions with some degree of computer assistance? Say, something like each player can choose to get assistance once in a given game, etc.
576.
by glandium 4y ago
I feel like even if the conditions existed, humans would be preventing them from happening. Or is it what you were implying?
577.
by glandium 4y ago
I don't know why you say that in past tense. They still do.
578.
by glandium 4y ago
It's certainly true that "keep the change" was quite common, and well, you can't do that with digital money.
579.
by glandium 4y ago
BTW, as a 44 year old French that has never seen frogs on a restaurant menu, and never had any, I wonder how common eating frogs is nowadays. Escargots seem much more common, to cite something else we're known for.
580.
by glandium 4y ago
TIL /usr/ucb is no more! https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/preparing-for-the-upco... . I wonder if the same thing happened to /usr/xpg4. (I haven't touched Solaris in more than 10 year
581.
by glandium 4y ago
Do you call them RAM, though?
582.
by glandium 4y ago
Never encountered it in neither France nor Japan, outside of US entertainment.
583.
by glandium 4y ago
Are the stages of grief even well known outside the US?
584.
by glandium 4y ago
For people serious about their tea, measuring 70, 80 or 90 Celsius is vital.
585.
by glandium 4y ago
(2018)
586.
by glandium 4y ago
I don't know how old your story is, but one thing that I can see factoring in is that before recently-ish, it would have been hard to say "it's an interesting question, but I don't know. How about we figure it out?"
587.
by glandium 4y ago
So.... it's a ligature!
588.
by glandium 4y ago
While we're here about greek trivia: both omicron and omega are a sort of O. Can't figure what kind? Hint: O-micron, O-mega.
589.
by glandium 4y ago
What your story tells me is that your teacher didn't know and didn't want to admit it.
590.
by glandium 4y ago
On the opposite end of the spectrum, I live in Japan, and Youtube has shown me ads for very local stuff in some remote parts of the US.
591.
by glandium 4y ago
And the more relevant error message was buried in the scrollback, IIRC.
592.
by glandium 4y ago
Actually, you can rename the executable, place the new executable, run the new one and make it remove the old one.
593.
by glandium 4y ago
The difficulty of the exercise is that a same sentence with は can even vary in nuance depending on context...
594.
by glandium 4y ago
Not sure it's a pure scam, but it sure is very performative. But then, when you see the number of businesses proudly showing "ISO9001" on their buildings...
595.
by glandium 4y ago
As someone who lives in a not exactly big but also not quite small city that I wouldn't quite call inaka but my wife does, I've never seen this logo, and not much about SDGs around here, but boy is it all over the media. I remembe
596.
by glandium 4y ago
Not a native in either English or Japanese, but fluent in both, and I feel that skipping particles in Japanese doesn't alter the flow of speech (because Japanese doesn't really have consecutive consonants), while it does in Englis
597.
by glandium 4y ago
What's interesting to me is that I'm not a native, I don't know the exact rules for these things, and yet, the first one somehow sounds wrong to me.
598.
by glandium 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the book?
599.
by glandium 4y ago
But in French, we skip 1900 in most 19xx years. I wonder when we'll start doing it for the 20xx years.
600.
by glandium 4y ago
Not to mention unexpected pronounciations like colonel, squirrel, buoy...

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