kentosi

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by kentosi 15d ago
Australian native speaker here. Only the first "the" is a schwa for me. Must be tied to how we both pronounce the first "a" in apple differently.
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by kentosi 15d ago
How interesting. I too played extensively for hours on end. I was strictly a Terran players, having been inspired by Slayers_Boxer and others at that time. I made "friends" online across my country and maybe 1 or 2 others, but the
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by kentosi 26d ago
I know this is going to come off as jaded and dismissive, but when I saw the WSJ article my reaction was an eye-roll. The guy is 27 years old. He was poached by OpenAI, then poached by Anthorpic and now wants to retire early with the millio
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by kentosi 1mo ago
Oh wow I remember trying cuppaccino about .... 15 years ago maybe? Fun times, though I never built anything serious.
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by kentosi 2y ago
I haven't yet had the luxury to experiment with the latest version of Java, but this is one of the reasons why I wish Java introduced named parameters the say way kotlin and scala do. Eg: data class Make(makeId: String, name: Strin
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by kentosi 3y ago
Even after 10 years, SourceTree is still my goto when I need UI click-and-drag.
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by kentosi 3y ago
I don't think that this is associated with Atlassian (the JIRA company) in any way. Or at least I can't find any association on this github page.
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by kentosi 3y ago
Hey thanks for sharing your experience with their customer service. This alone is dissuading me from purchasing the tablet. I wonder if there's a chance of compensating for this terrible service by getting good contents insurance with
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by kentosi 3y ago
Nice concept. How does it add to Anki? Ie - just the word in isolation? Or within a sentence? If the latter, how is this sentence generated?
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by kentosi 3y ago
Sorry for the naive question, but if you're changing all your bindings to vim, then why use emacs at all? Is there any extra functional difference?
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by kentosi 3y ago
https://archive.ph/2023.04.10-210939/https://slate.com/techn...
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Twitter merged into a new entity called X Corp(slate.com)
31 points by kentosi 3y ago|3 comments
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by kentosi 4y ago
I find it so fascinating that these plants developed carnivorous characteristics across totally separate lineages, geographies and timelines. I also read somewhere that plants have gone in and out of carnivory (through the process of millio
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by kentosi 4y ago
Slightly misleading title. They're closing 8 of their stores across NYC, SF, etc, and this is after they just opened a few more across the US.
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by kentosi 4y ago
Dear Youtube: Please please please have an option to filter out "shorts" on the web version. None of the normal controls exist: playback speed, jump to position, etc. The desktop web interface is a terrible place for these.
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by kentosi 4y ago
New York here. Been just over 2 weeks since getting laid off. I'm getting calls from recruiters and have interviews lined up, but it's been tough.
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by kentosi 4y ago
Scrolling down shows that it's not available that widely yet. Damn. https://myforestfoods.com/mybacon
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by kentosi 4y ago
Depends on the stage of your career. Back in the early 2000s when I was fresh out of university I did the Sun Certified Java Developer course. It made me stand out of the vast number of other graduates looking to get into the industry. I la
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by kentosi 5y ago
As an English speaker who learnt Portugal Portuguese (PT-PT), which has its own "r" pronunciations, imagine my surprise and confusion when I heard Brazilian Portuguese (BR-PT) for the first time :-)
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by kentosi 5y ago
> *E Ink monitors' refresh speed is not as high as conventional monitors', So what is the refresh rate then? I can't seem to find it in the Specs section.
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by kentosi 5y ago
True, but banning it would mean a drop in engagement with the platform, which would in turn hurt YouTube/Instagram's profits. That's my guess.
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by kentosi 5y ago
The parent's comment wan't implying that luck was everything, but to point out that luck is also an important factor. > There are three ingredients in great work: natural ability, practice, and effort. And luck, Paul. Don'
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by kentosi 5y ago
Sorry but I'm really not clued up on reading S1s. How does one find out when they intend on hitting the market?
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by kentosi 6y ago
A while back while learning a foreign language I stumbled across https://www.wattpad.com/ Note that I've only used it for reading and not for tracking my reads, finding recommendations, etc.
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by kentosi 6y ago
If you're referring to Google's old motto "Don't be evil", then FYI that got dropped years ago: https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
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by kentosi 6y ago
I'm so happy that we finally have multiline text blocks in Java: String query = """ SELECT "EMP_ID", "LAST_NAME" FROM "EMPLOYEE_TB" WHERE "CITY" =
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by kentosi 6y ago
A cheaper alternative would have been to put a towel over your hands so that you can't look down at the keys.
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by kentosi 6y ago
So as much as I'd love to try the HHKB, my main issue is that I use IntelliJ in my dayjob. It looks like out of the Ctrl, Alt and Command/Win keys I'll have to pick 2. Are there any HHKB users here willing to share their tips
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by kentosi 6y ago
> It has a typo and doesn't sound natural. What's the typo and why doesn't it sound natural? If it's about the "porque" then please keep this in mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUYzlYg_
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by kentosi 6y ago
Not sure if this is directly answering your question, but UBI doesn't mean that everyone spends money the same way. One person might put that money towards their kids' education, another towards household groceries, and another to

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