marky1991

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by marky1991 2y ago
"I have now downgraded my expectations, learning is indeed optional." So I ask you a question and you then don't answer it but instead just reply with sarcasm? I don't think this is a polite way to have a conversation, s
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by marky1991 2y ago
What do you expect me to "learn" in this context? I'm a native English speaker, there's nothing to learn here as far as I can see. No one has reported it to be a common phrase in any known dialect and the strongest defen
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by marky1991 2y ago
"fix one's gaze on" is not the construction used in the article.
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by marky1991 2y ago
"I have seen this construction before" is not a very high bar for communicating well.
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by marky1991 2y ago
The Collins example is not the same thing; you're fixing your gaze, not fixing the object itself. Again, the grammar just isn't the same.
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by marky1991 2y ago
"("Fixing breakfast," etc)." Yes, this makes sense, you can fix ('make', off the top of my head, only used in this sense for cooking really) breakfast, but surely the author doesn't mean the woman was mate
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by marky1991 2y ago
Yes, exactly: 'Fixed ON', the eyes are "fixed", it's completely different grammar.
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by marky1991 2y ago
I legitimately would have to guess what they meant. The obvious reading to me is that she is magically repairing it by looking at it, though I would know that's not what they meant, which leaves brute force guessing. You can say that s
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by marky1991 2y ago
Why should the percentage change over time? Given that it's a percentage it already accounts for inflation, so I see no reason to ever change the default.
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by marky1991 2y ago
I don't think so, 'deformation' can also just mean any arbitrary change of shape, and in a physics/engineering context, that's usually all it means. From websters: 1. alteration of form or shape also : the p
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by marky1991 2y ago
I was always taught that 15% is the standard and that's all I give.
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by marky1991 2y ago
From the wikipedia article: "As an example of where the paradox did not occur, large improvements in farming productivity (including the Third Agricultural Revolution) led to lower food prices but did not result in increased demand fo
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by marky1991 2y ago
Why should it be centralized at the os level? Https certificate trust is basically the last thing I think about when I choose an os. (And for certain OSes I use, I actively don't trust its authors/owners)
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by marky1991 2y ago
Aren't you just doing the same thing, just in reverse? Ie you don't know any facts about individual cases, yet assume there is no problem. (If that's not your position, in what sense is gp "totally wrong"?)
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by marky1991 2y ago
It does make me wonder, what's the oldest word in Spanish that's taken from English? Off the top of my head, whiskey is the oldest, but I'm sure there's probably something much older
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by marky1991 2y ago
From the rae, https://dle.rae.es/peso : (From) latin, pensum. Piece, from https://www.etymonline.com/word/piece#etymonline_v_14956 c. 1200, pece, "fixed amount, measure, portion;" c. 1300, &qu
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by marky1991 2y ago
I don't get it. If you explicitly acknowledge that"free software" is ambiguous, how does clarifying it by adding (free as in beer/speech) make things more confusing, instead of less? The whole point is that the phrase &q
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by marky1991 2y ago
I don't understand, I don't see the connection between these phrases and PR. If they didn't call it "free software" (which then, it seems to me, forces you to distinguish between the two senses of free), what would
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by marky1991 2y ago
Are you complaining because the phrase "free as in beer" is too clear? I don't understand your position at all.
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by marky1991 2y ago
"It's also why houses typically don't have attics anymore." That's really strange to me, every house I've ever lived in (5 houses since 1991 , all in the southeast, all new construction) has had an attic and I
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by marky1991 2y ago
I think the udp example is a counterexample personally. "Hmm udp, so ...unreliable and...hmm...but high throughput?...hm, good to build stuff on top of?" I have no idea what that is supposed to mean, yet I know exactly what udp is
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by marky1991 2y ago
I don't understand why he jumps straight from 'one test per process' to 'one test per thread' as the alternative. I'm not actually clear what he means by 'test' to be honest, but I assume he means &#x
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by marky1991 2y ago
"From my perspective everyone who interprets various religious text does so differently" The existence of denominations and confessions/creeds really shows that this isn't true generally. (There may be more than one inte
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by marky1991 2y ago
I honestly got the same impression as the other guy, so if there was something else there intended, I don't think it was clear.
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by marky1991 2y ago
What would be the alternative in this hypothetical be? I'm not clear what the argument here really is.
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by marky1991 2y ago
Oh , I guess if the vaccine worked poorly or unpredictably like the flu vaccine. Still, I personally think facemasks at a poultry farm are impractical. But I don't really know, I've never worked at one and have never met anyone th
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by marky1991 2y ago
If they had a vaccine why would they need facemasks? I hated going to the grocery store in a facemask, much less working a 12h shift at a poultry farm. That sounds awful to me.
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by marky1991 2y ago
4th of July was about what I expected, but "sexy 4th of July" just looked like random colors basically. (I didn't have any expectations going in, other than I expected at least some hues of red, white, and blue) With this kin
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by marky1991 2y ago
It was mostly a snarky response to an ill-justified argument, don't take it too seriously. Sorry about that. I would personally never want to live on less than an acre, but it's none of my business what other people choose of cour
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by marky1991 2y ago
Definitely, there should never be more than one house per acre really.

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