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by lou1306 5y ago
Darn, the parentheses originally contained a mailbox emoji but I forgot HN does not support them.
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They're not the same as the classic US mailbox (). In the US you can use such a mailbox to send mail as well. In Europe you typically have private letterboxes for incoming mail and big, public post boxes for sending.
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I will quote something another historian, Alessandro Barbero (who is getting quite popular in Italy), often likes to point out when asked about similar "unanswered questions". For any historian, even just determining what happen
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Not to mention, more historically accurate. Gibbon's work is, of course, a milestone in historical research, but his thesis in a nutshell was "Rome fell because of the spread of Christianity and a general loss of morality". T
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Wow, the hand-drawn sketches they use on that landing page look MUCH better than the Corporate Memphis tripe they're selling, which is quickly becoming ClipArt 2.0 to these weary eyes of mine.
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Somewhat related: John Oliver recently did a segment [0] on plastics and how we recycle it (spoiler: mostly we can't). It seems regulations are sorely needed: differentiating domestic plastic waste will not get us very far. Still, rese
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Indeed, it's more like "tohn" (is there any common English word with that sound?)
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Not the original commenter, but I'll try to explain because something similar happens in Italy as well It's not a "wrong" pronunciation, but it's clearly influenced by how Spanish/Italian stresses individual le
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For better or for worse, he puts a high, high premium on gameplay. He already gave non-enthusiastic reviews of many games that many consider "classics" (such as most Sierra adventures, or Myst, just to name a few examples). It&#
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Teletext is still alive and kicking in Italy as well (Televideo). It has a website [0] and even an RSS feed [1], which is a great source of no-frills news. [0] https://www.televideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/index.jsp
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Furthermore, books were much harder to read back in Ambrose's time. I think I would have a hard time dealing with handwriting on parchment without reading out loud.
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The first iPhone didn't have a front camera nor 3G, which were common features at the time. Not saying it wasn't groundbreaking (it was), but "better in every aspect" is a bit of a stretch.
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It does look impressive! Does anyone know if Zig exposes some APIs to extract/manipulate/analyze the AST of the C program? It might be a nice alternative to LLVM, which I find a little overwhelming.
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Data residency absolutely makes a difference, and I find it stunning that people don't see it. Ok, so you decide to store your nation's sensitive data in another country, $nation. If things get awry, there is a (pretty remote) ris
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Just to be pedantic, ScummVM is a re-implementation of the original SCUMM, which totally was an instance of this approach. There is a (crazy long) Youtube video [1] where they take a peek at the SCUMM code for the first Monkey Island, and
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The author mentions the Codd-OLAP conflict of interest, lamenting that despite what happened "Codd is still regarded as the father of the relational database". But this remark sounds like a non sequitur to me. No matter the scand
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Also, monitors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_%28synchronization%29?...
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From what I have seen, the broken outgoing links mentioned in other comments point to the Perseus digital library [1], which I would suggest as a first stop for your classical literature needs. [1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu&#x
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> Imagine if no country could call whisky, well, whisky, and each country had to invent their own name for it. Well that's actually what happens, more or less: we do have Scotch whisky, Irish whiskey, and bourbon, and you cannot mak
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Since we're talking about CPU coolers, I hope my comment is not OT: what's with the recent popularity of tower coolers? They seem to pop up a lot in PC build discussions, lately. Am I in some echo chamber? Do they provide any obvi
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People love using Tether to purchare BTC (and other cryptovalues). > over two-thirds of all Bitcoin — $10 billion worth of it — that was bought in the previous 24 hours, was being purchased with Tethers. [0] Thus, it is not unreasonabl
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Aren't "Karens" subject to oppression by the patriarchy, though?
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We similarly ditched Risk, or actually, its Italian variant RisiKo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RisiKo !). This variant gives differentiated goals for each player (e.g., "conquer 3 continents", or "defe
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WSL is a Windows component, so I'd say "yes"? Parallels, instead, is 3rd party software.
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Dub-oriented translations are also designed to "look natural" when coupled with the actor's lip movements. To make matters worse, sometimes shows are re-dubbed [0], but may retain the subtitles that were accurate to the previ
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> Why should competent AI practitioners care as well? AI took decades to recover from its first boom-bust cycle. No matter how competent you were back then, getting hired or funded to run your AI business/academic project/whate
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This answer is true, but also a bit depressing. It's like saying "we know this would be the right way, but we prefer the old ways. So we'll just keep shooting ourself in the foot with our C-looking code, with its for loops an
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I think that most (sensible) people do not fear that Masons are devil worshippers, but rather that malicious people can hijack these groups to advance their political agenda. If you think this is far-fetched, you should keep in mind that on
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There is a very similar one wandering around the internet, e.g., here: https://twitter.com/boagworld/status/971328648048447490?s=20
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> The idea is to have something that locally, if you look only at the surrounding nodes, always looks like a neat n-dimensional grid. But the global topology can be totally whacky. That sounds similar to the mathematical definition of a

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