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Online tutoring platforms like iTalki have tutors from all over the place. Including in countries with vastly different cost of life. For spanish for example you can get an hour of one-to-one tutoring with a pro teacher for less than $10. L
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I don't know the numbers but I would assume there is more literature in French and Spanish by now, and more diverse. To learn a language effectively it's important to be able to immerse yourself in it. Youtube with auto transcript
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> Satellites view half the globe at once. But you know that just as well as I do. They don't, because of perspective. Even satellites in Geosynchronous orbits don't see half the globe. They are above the equator but they can n
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And distance. A satellite in polar orbit at 850km above the surface will only see a small part of the globe at once, even with a wide lens.
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Some words are really used throughout, definitely not limited to any particular origin or age. Every french person will understand expressions like "Ch'uis vénère" (I'm furious, from "énervé"), "Fumer de l
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Teenagers may learn some of these words without realizing it's verlan. For example a strange/weird object can be "chelou", it means bizarre or surprising now, it has lost the semantics of the original "louche",
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Another short one "ouf", as in "C'est ouf !" Used by everyone.
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"Qui est-ce ?" is correct. "Quoi est-ce ?" is not. "Quand est-ce" and "Où est-ce" work. "Comment est-ce ?" doesn't really work by itself but could work with something after it, like &qu
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> [killer app] an app that other platforms can't have, and that people love. Thinking about art. VR has spatial painting and animation, things completely impossible on non-VR platforms. And, this is where many people fail to grasp w
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Normal members of the family aren't shielded from doing involuntary work.
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What he's saying is that 100% of those pigs that died due to the epidemic would also have died within a year anyway. The title is crafted in such a way that you picture a whole, static population of pigs and a quarter is removed from t
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I would suggest you keep identification papers on your person when you wander about in a foreign country.
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Winnograd Schema Challenges would be a step further for these text captchas. They are asking you to identify an ambiguous pronoun in a statement. Examples: - The man couldn't lift his son because he was so weak. Who was weak? - The fir
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> simple... they call me first. This… seems a bit naive to think your parents will call you first every single time they want to do something special with their computer. It makes me think of parents that assume their teenagers aren&#x27
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I don't mind local names for local destinations, but for international destinations it seems risky. Someone may never have previously encountered the word used for their own home town. It's compounded by the fact that some airport
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> Spain's CIAIAC released their final report in Spanish only I've noticed that when flying from Spain the displays list the towns using their Spanish names, for example "Londres" instead of London, "Burdeos"
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I think it's assuming you have no idea of the time and one of the clocks may be very wrong, like several hours off. So you'd have two clocks close to each other and one far off.
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Firefox probably supported profiles before Chrome even existed. It always saved my life back in the days when you reinstalled the OS and you could just backup/copy over the entire directory of the profile. Personally I edit the Firefox
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"Basic" might be another example. edit: from Wikipedia's list of languages I found the following: "Action!", "Basic", "BLISS", "Cool", "Hack", "Pure", "SMALL&qu
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> Once you can process high-definition video there is little need for further performance in mass-market processors. In the grand scheme of things high-definition video is an extremely low bar for consuming and archiving content. It&#x27
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> there is no measure of the quality of players This is interesting in itself. 10 years ago it would have been very hard to write a program beating a human at a game where we don't know what makes a player better than another.
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I don't think it's a coincidence per se, the languages diverged a long time ago and drifted away both in pronunciation and meaning. My point is that false friends are blurring the border between the two languages in your brain, th
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How so? There is already a button to get the flight attendant to come over without having to move yourself, and you are going to talk aloud all the same. In fact with video calling you may disrupt a larger number of people since the flight
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I've had my knees touching the front seat for as long as I can remember, it was already this way in the 90's. Maybe it's airline dependent.
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It just has to detect them.
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It would also have less false positives. I sometimes close my eyes and just listen to the audio, for TV documentaries for ex. and there are also radio programs.
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Whay's the point of video calling someone in the same room a few meters away?
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It still is. My personnal websites are on shared hosting at OVH. I get all the analytics I need from Urchin, free of charge, no client side js.
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Maybe that's a good mnemotechnic device at first, but it adds an indirection on top of a translation, which I think would be a bad habit to get from the start. I would argue that it's better to forget about the connexion the two w

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