jmopp

13 ms·

121.
by jmopp 4y ago
A quick Google search seems to indicate that there are 1.9 billion Muslims in the world. It makes sense to assume they know enough Arabic to recgonise at the very least common religious set-phrases like the Bismillah or the Shahada. In my b
122.
by jmopp 4y ago
> it is up to me to mentor and guide these developers That right there is what makes you a senior. Make sure your work, your performance, and your track-record in levelling up your coworkers is well-documented, and use that to justify yo
123.
by jmopp 4y ago
The other side may have had a point if Nigel Farage didn't immediately backpedal on the "Let's give 350m a month to the NHS instead of the EU" talking point after the referendum.
124.
by jmopp 4y ago
Behind your thinking is a lot of heuristics built up from decades of experience, along with the ability to use logic in addition to the information you've picked up. ChatGPT still sucks with anything requiring logical inference.
125.
by jmopp 4y ago
I don't trust that the wireless solution would be equivalent, though this may be because I've been burned too many times living in concrete houses that block cellphone signal rather effectively.
126.
by jmopp 4y ago
Sickle-cell trait is found in sub-Saharan Africans from tropical regions. It is rare in South Africa, most of which is malaria-free and thus has no benefit to the mutation. > But you're supposed to believe that the same genetic vari
127.
by jmopp 4y ago
Neanderthals only died out around 40 000 years ago. If Neanderthals had survived today, they would likely not be considered a separate species - but merely the descendants of an earlier Out of Africa migration.
128.
by jmopp 4y ago
There was a post a few days ago about Roman Egypt that mentioned how there are so many papyri that are just sitting there and not enough trained Egyptologists to read, translate, and contextualise them. There is clear value in training Egyp
129.
by jmopp 4y ago
Currently paying around €90 for ~250KWh per month. That is about 4 times what I used to pay in South Africa 5 years ago.
130.
by jmopp 4y ago
The Netherlands is about as sunny as Seattle, and it's possible to break even after a few years with a decent-sized solar array on your roof.
131.
by jmopp 4y ago
Many countries in Africa have English or French as their official languages. In South Africa, the number of native English speakers has increased at a faster rate than would be expected given the country's ethnic breakdown. We're
132.
by jmopp 4y ago
Magnus Carlsen talks a lot about the physical stamina you need to play chess, a purely mental game. Niels Bohr was famously a passionate footballer, who played at club level in Denmark.
133.
by jmopp 4y ago
While Italic type is a European thing, it is a very useful thing that does have some parallels in other scripts (Consider Rashi script for Hebrew, or how Japanese uses Katakana in a similar way). No need to get all 'anti-woke' abo
134.
by jmopp 4y ago
You do want that basis of classical mechanics, because one of the things it teaches you is how to observe a phenomenon and think about the interactions taking place, building up that intuition you're lacking. Physics requires more than
135.
by jmopp 4y ago
If people are getting banned for saying 'men are not women' I would not expect Colin Wright to be able to tweet it and get over 3000 likes. A single reported tweet does not lead to a suspension.
136.
by jmopp 4y ago
People didn't get banned for saying men are not women, they got banned for harassing people and inciting violence. That's how Libs of TikTok avoids the banhammer, by going as close as she can to the line without crossing it.
137.
by jmopp 4y ago
What converted me to vim was understanding that the commands are composable. For instance: the d key is used to delete, and de deletes to the end of word. But it doesn't end there. Typing t followed by a character goes to the next inst
138.
by jmopp 4y ago
At the same time that Europe was conquering America, the Mughals were conquering India. But the Arabic script did not supplant Devanagari in India. Had the Islamic empires adopted the printing press as strongly as the Europeans did, one cou
139.
by jmopp 4y ago
Sex work has been around forever, as has hookup culture. There just happen to be now better alternatives than putting the female party in a Magdalene laundry until she gives birth.
140.
by jmopp 4y ago
Sunday is still considered the first day in Christianity. Jesus rising on the first day led to Christians celebrating the resurrection on Sunday and it eventually eclipsing the Saturday Sabbath. Also much of Latin America and Southern Afric
141.
by jmopp 4y ago
My modus operandi is to observe everything going on around me and slowly acquire an encyclopedic knowledge of my environment. That's the one thing I'm really good at, and how I market myself is by telling stories about how I'
142.
by jmopp 4y ago
Specific to the Netherlands, there was a scandal where the government was discriminating against minorities with regards to child benefits - unlawfully demanding the return of benefits and putting thousands in debt as a result. The governme
143.
by jmopp 4y ago
One thing that has come out of the pandemic is people became a lot more diligent about washing hands and keeping away if they are visibly sick lest it be covid - not to mention everywhere being less crowded in general. While it isn't e
144.
by jmopp 4y ago
Around the turn of the century there were many tinkerers all across the world working on the problem of powered flight. Each person's success would be recorded in the local newspaper, and they were generally unaware of each other'
145.
by jmopp 4y ago
It would not really count as native speakers, because Talmud scholars didn't learn the language from birth, and would only use it for certain purposes rather than general communication. It's similar to Latin in the Middle Ages: Ev
146.
by jmopp 4y ago
In the Netherlands, you can get a job offer and the company will sponsor a highly-skilled migrant visa, which lasts for five years and can be renewed. In addition, the government offers a tax break of 30% for skilled workers from outside th
147.
by jmopp 4y ago
I've forgotten most of the algorithm stuff I learned at university that I haven't used in my job. I know how dynamic programming works and I can recognise such a problem, but don't ask me to implement it in an hour. I know ho
148.
by jmopp 4y ago
In my opinion they're both symptoms of the same thing: a tendency to categorise in very black-and-white terms a world which is far more complex.
149.
by jmopp 4y ago
Relabelling won't really be avoided as the US measurements are slightly different to the Imperial measurements. A US pint is about 95ml less than an Imperial pint
150.
by jmopp 4y ago
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Sure, we breathe it out and it's necessary for plant life. But we are currently at levels beyond what we've had in the last 14 million years. I don't think people have realised yet we're

More ›