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by jfk13 5y ago
There's even a School of the Air photo, about half-way through the article (although the article text itself is about America).
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by jfk13 5y ago
Suppose you're blind and use a screen reader. How does German sound when pronounced by an English text-to-speech engine, or vice versa? Which should be used to read out that "single text field" that contains a mix of language
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by jfk13 5y ago
> In Sweden we have only two kinds: hard and soft. I'm not sure where you get this idea. Even a basic supermarket like ICA knows more than that: https://www.ica.se/icas-egna-varor/produkter/icas-potatis&#x2
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by jfk13 5y ago
The Brothers Karamazov is one of the few books I've started but abandoned without finishing. Perhaps it was related to the particular translation I had (I don't remember details of it now), but it just wasn't working for me
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by jfk13 5y ago
> It's common to see groins[0] installed on many UK beaches In the UK, we prefer to call them groynes. A groin is something quite different...
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by jfk13 5y ago
So, have you sued them yet? (Isn't that the American Way?)
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by jfk13 5y ago
> Quite frankly: I want 17 year olds to use Tinder... How about 16 yr olds? 15? 13? 10? 7? Should we draw a line for "dipping their toe anonymously in adult activities" somewhere, or should that line simply not exist? Do you be
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by jfk13 5y ago
That would be Pegon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegon_script . However, both Javanese and Sundanese also have their own distinct writing systems that are not based on Arabic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by jfk13 5y ago
> (I also seem to remember a Tamil user who said that there might be a section of Unicode called "Tamil", but it's missing a tonne of characters they would like to use, so Unicode still has some way to go I guess) Tamil Un
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by jfk13 5y ago
Some years ago while living & working in South Asia, I tried this with a letter to my family back in England, writing the address in Devanagari script. (Another time, also tried it with Urdu.) The UK post office managed to decipher and
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by jfk13 5y ago
I'm waiting for a post with the headline: "Is Betteridge's law of headlines always reliable?"
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by jfk13 5y ago
And if they find one, how confident are they at ordering in Telugu or Urdu? "We will attempt to place orders in any country and location!" Yeah, right. Never mind team members in South Asia.... I'm in the south-east of Englan
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by jfk13 5y ago
Sometimes plans don't work out (and/or circumstances change), and changing them is the sensible thing to do. (I don't know details of this specific case, and whether/why the plans and decisions made sense at any given ti
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by jfk13 5y ago
> "their many benefits" I'm trying to think what "many benefits" those might be... can you clarify?
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by jfk13 5y ago
I notice that Engineering and Math/CS are still heavily male-dominated, though. So are these departments particularly hostile to women, or are women less interested in pursuing these subjects? If so -- in either case, actually -- why m
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by jfk13 5y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28878874 , which (currently, at least) has more extensive discussion.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Why would they pay people to leave? They could arbitrarily kick them out for violation some obscure T&Cs, or for no stated reason at all...
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by jfk13 5y ago
> Only when a match is detected in the local database, FF sends the full hash of the URL to Google to double check Even that's not quite what it says, as I understand things. When a partial-hash match is detected, FF asks Google for
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by jfk13 5y ago
> So basically, it does send your URLs to Google No, it downloads hashes from Google, and checks the URL locally against those. See https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-...
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by jfk13 5y ago
I don't believe the claim was at all accurate; see the other responses about how Safe Browsing works.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Does she earn much? If her income is low enough, she may be exempt from filing. https://www.hrblock.com/tax-center/income/other-income/how-m... (Note that I am not a tax professional and you should not rely o
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by jfk13 5y ago
Must be Comic Sans, surely.
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by jfk13 5y ago
And February 2021 only had 27 days, apparently... hmm.
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by jfk13 5y ago
...which is a quite distinctive font that has shipped with Mac systems for years, so someone typeface-conscious is very likely to recognise it on sight.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Ah, you young whippersnappers with your labs and networks and CDs... my high school just got one Commodore PET, that was "the school computer" in my day. Fortunately, I got on well with the math teacher who had charge of it, and h
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by jfk13 5y ago
To be fair, the README does make it more general: > This is a game to teach you the basics of using a POSIX (Linux, BSD, UNIX) terminal.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Yes, I expected a toggle in the keyboard settings, but I can't seem to find one on Monterey. (What exactly is it labeled, and where located? Maybe I'm just being blind...) The dead-keys like Opt-E for acute only work with a small
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by jfk13 5y ago
Sounds like it does just what it says. If you don't want to unfollow everything, why would you install an "Unfollow Everything" extension...?
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by jfk13 5y ago
I'm not seeing that behavior; my letter/number keys simply repeat. But I'm sure I've seen it before. I guess there may be an option somewhere to enable/disable it, but offhand I can't seem to find it. Or maybe
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by jfk13 5y ago
I think the fact that you feel working with python requires adhering to a specific 12-step programme may go some way to explaining why I've never gotten comfortable with it.

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