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by idoubtit 8y ago
André Finot, the spokesperson of Notre-Dame de Paris, announced soon after the fire was known that the roof's wood frame was doomed. This frame was in two parts: one side from oak beams of the 13th century, the other half from the 19th
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by idoubtit 8y ago
No, Calvin and Hobbes is not Great Literature. After reading the other comments, I know how out of tone I am, but I do want to respect the meanings of the words. Over the past centuries, "Literature" evolved from "written wor
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Journalists often have at least two objectives: conveying information and attracting an audience (which might be directly related to selling ads). Providing a deep historical context does help with the quality of information, but it won&#x2
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China has twice the rate of fatalities per vehicle of Argentina, which has twice that of the USA, which is four times worth than Switzerland. It means the cars sold in Switzerland are much better than in America and everywhere else? Modern
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I don't like putting words into someone else' mouth. As I'm not a lawyer, my guess is as good as yours, but I do hope that any good lawyer would say: I need more data to make up my mind. There is no obvious answer to the ac
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Trekking shoes have a device to absorbs the shocks, which is usually a gaz or gel layer inside the sole. Unfortunately, this cannot absorb much, since a thick sole would reduce the stability of the foot. By the way, always walking with shoc
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My first test on a monotype font targets similar characters, especially at small sizes: 0O 1l ~- }) … There is no tilde in Lucida's snapshot, but I would rate the font very low on the readability of the other characters. The other para
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Johann Sebastian Bach most probably never said these words. Of course, there is no absolute recording of the death of Bach, so no certitude. The witnesses were few, and the Cantor was not very famous at this time, so there was no reason for
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Wong Kar-Wai grew and made his main films in Hong-Kong, which was not part of China (AKA People's Republic of China). I believe most of his actors spoke Cantonese, not Mandarin. Since these languages are mutually unintelligible, it&#x2
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by idoubtit 8y ago
In what sense are these theories a "basis" to NLP? Did they have any influence? Do they bring any practical contributions? I suspect a slight similarity between popular domains (Wittgenstein and NLP) was contrived into an article
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by idoubtit 8y ago
> [...] the US is still probably the best place one could possibly live inclusive of all factors. There is a reason we're a net importer of people rather than a net exporter. The first sentence is a highly subjective opinion, and th
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by idoubtit 8y ago
I've just visited this site, and I was lost after 5 seconds. To my eyes, the design of the front page is awful. Firstly, I read the title and the sub-header sentence. I understood that the site had generic guide on concepts designing w
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by idoubtit 8y ago
In this case, I don't care much if the blog is pretty or not and who wrote it, even if Tree Style Tabs is my main reason for using Firefox. The problem is that Firefox is relying on an external source as the main explanation of their n
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by idoubtit 8y ago
The new API browser.menus.overrideContext is announced with documentation links pointing to blogs, including a personal blog page with unrelated Japanese texts and anime pictures. The official documentation (MDN) has no reference to the new
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by idoubtit 8y ago
* Google stands up for privacy^W, user control, and open standards like HTTP2 * They back it up with high quality technical products like Chromium * They built Go, a language I love I could have written the same with Microsoft/VSCode&#
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by idoubtit 8y ago
> don't blindly apply settings from this list. Unfortunately, there is no real documentation of the various about:config parameters. So one has to trust doubtful sources on what settings would be useful, or spend many hours reading
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by idoubtit 8y ago
I remember a large survey across the French prisons, about 10 years ago. The number one wish of prisoners was to be granted more showers during summer. Context: overcrowded prisons (prisons for light sentences have 142% rate, so 2 or 3 peop
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Please note the modern Assyrian language is not directly related to the old Assyrian language that was used on the tablets at the time of Ashurbanipal. Modern Assyrian derives from the Aramean, which became the vernacular language in most o
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by idoubtit 8y ago
With uBlock, I added a local rule that forbids access to fonts.googleapis.com from this site. Now it is much more readable with fallback fonts. It is part of the sad state of the web that I often have to hack fonts and CSS of websites just
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by idoubtit 8y ago
George Orwell certainly was a successful writer (in the sense that he became famous and sold many books), but not a world-builder. 1984 is a rip-off from Zamyatin's novel, "We". Ironically, Orwell wrote before WWII that Aldou
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by idoubtit 8y ago
I don't understand the purpose of this. I hope it's an elaborate joke, but it is surprisingly unprofessional. A few years ago I spent some time in their dev mailing list and proposed a patch. I doubt I'd still do this in this
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Most of our emotions are predictable reactions to external actions or events. Fortunately, modern literature hasn't completely forgotten this. The article is not very consistent, because it also states that «in medieval or classical te
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I'd recommend starting and stopping with the ones written while Goscinny was still alive. I've read a few of the post-Goscinny books, and I found their emptiness creepy, and almost never funny. Though for the most recent books,
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by idoubtit 8y ago
I've read the first of the list (#10), and I'm skeptical this "top web technique" has ever been used in the wild. The blog post starts with a few obvious errors. OPcache is parts of PHP since [PHP 5.5]( http://
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Aung San Suu Kyii's contempt for human rights is nothing new. I referenced this behavior in 2013 in fr.wikipedia : « How can Aung San Suu Kyi – a Nobel Peace Prize winner – fail to condemn anti-Muslim violence? », The Daily Telegraph,‎
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by idoubtit 8y ago
I suppose it was a random example, but it's unfortunately a very bad one if it's about the USA, like most posts here presuppose. The infant mortality in the USA certainly did not decline on every recent year[^1]. And the bad news
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by idoubtit 8y ago
> This seems to be on par with psychology and medicine. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis This Wikipedia article does not state that around 40 % of the experiments in psychology and medicine are
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by idoubtit 8y ago
In order to unify the country, the French Republic fought against every language. Alsatian was forbidden in schools, but it was the same for anything outside French. Of course, if Alsatian had been allowed or supported, more people would sp
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Alas, occitan is a dead language. Of course, a few old people still use their local dialect, but how many parents mainly speak in occitan to their children? How many people learn it out of school? Who grows speaking occitan with friends and
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From where I stand, there is nothing ground-breaking in this announcement. Many sites older than the Pharaoh dynasties (circa 3100 BC) are known in Lower and Upper Egypt (and in many places from Middle East and Iran to Turkey). According to

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