mikorym

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by mikorym 7y ago
> Familiarity breeds contempt. This is actually encoded into a common expression in Nothern Sotho. In the infinitive go tlwaela the meaning is to get use to or to grow accustomed to something. But when you say O a ntlwaela, as in: &q
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by mikorym 7y ago
What happens when you log into a VPN and then SSH elsewhere; that should work, right?
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> There is little, if any, serious disagreement as to what the appropriate equations or their solutions are. The objective of technical mathematical theory is to make accurate predictions and to project results that are useful to aeronau
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think that is a fair observation, but there is nothing stopping us (well, maybe there are things stopping us) from organising bigger countries into smaller autonomous regions. I think larger countries do not scale well socially to having
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by mikorym 7y ago
I know the point here is not to call out FB in useless arguments, but one thing I think is maybe fair to contribute is that FB groups [1] and pages have come to be the really useful parts of the ecosystem (notwithstanding Whatsapp). This al
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think it takes a very conscious effort for a society to get to that stage. In some countries, you see individual greed being pushed to crazy extremes. Notwithstanding dictatorships, some politicians are willingly and wittingly sacrificing
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by mikorym 7y ago
What do you mean by that?
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by mikorym 7y ago
Is relativity used in building an atom bomb? Isn't it more quantum physics?
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by mikorym 7y ago
>> "No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years." > The GPS project was started by the U.S. Department of
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by mikorym 7y ago
How many variables are there? If there are enough variables then you could do an old fashioned PCA on different categories of subjects and see if your PCA clusters according to your category grouping. A "sensory map" does sound li
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by mikorym 7y ago
I have long had a suspicion that the Afrikaans use of two negative words is due to the French influence. I might be completely wrong, but the ne ... pas construction is the only one in any language that influenced Southern Africa that com
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by mikorym 7y ago
My initial reaction to the article was that it doesn't sound like the cash injection has much to do with the corona virus. Isn't the reaction to the virus somewhat overblown? > adding the total liquidity in the banking system w
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by mikorym 7y ago
I still need to watch the original Solaris! It's funny how random things like that can obfuscate your impressions in so many things in life. I feel like this about a lot of computer science and mathematics: If you are not the author of
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by mikorym 7y ago
FYI this is about monoliths vs. micro services , not micro kernels .
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I think that a lot of the "understanding" part of these kind of films are quirks to do with constraints that the filmmakers had. I would contrast this with Annihilation , which was confusing because it's not properly thought
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by mikorym 7y ago
Without any insensitivity towards ADHD, another thing that I think contributes to a heightened sense of internal monologue and constant self-excruciation is the expectations and stresses of society. I have found that in Southern Africa, if
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by mikorym 7y ago
I am always tempted to say too that "vim can be faster than IDE x"... But I guess that is a bit more subjective.
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by mikorym 7y ago
IMO the main contribution of RStudio is not RStudio itself (the IDE) but their general support of the R language. I think that this dynamic scene where R is still an evolving language is the true value. I don't actually use RStudio its
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by mikorym 7y ago
I agree with your statement, but maybe it's more accurate to say its speculation/hype about future return on investment. I think the real question (for me at least) is whether that return on investment is in share price increase (
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That's 507 km, which is starting to become an acceptable range in countries where you tend to travel longer distances.
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Sorry, yes, I mean the ring of integers.
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by mikorym 7y ago
The set of natural numbers should have zero, otherwise it's not a ring. However, from the perspective of Peano's axioms, it doesn't matter as far as I am concerned what the symbols are called, as long as you have a successor
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by mikorym 7y ago
I'm glad to see this point being made fairly often. I see the "base reality" debate in a similar situation. Base reality could be the same thing as a religion, where the "god" is the system operator [1]. That way, y
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by mikorym 7y ago
> [English is] not this way because of some essential superiority of the language This is an important point to me and something often misunderstood, even (and especially) by mother tongue Northern Sotho speakers. Perceived superiority i
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by mikorym 7y ago
What is the furthest that the modified verb can be from the original verb? In Northern Sotho it gets pretty far: nyaka = want nyakišiša = investigate
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by mikorym 7y ago
We had quite a fun time in the office joking about this and eventually we found that the more you think about what she said, the more it actually makes "sense" and for a few minutes after that you've confused yourself so much
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by mikorym 7y ago
Some people do this. I've heard of school teachers teaching science in Sotho or Zulu that explain scientific terms in the local language. A car for example (though this is standard) is "sefatanaga" which literally refers to i
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by mikorym 7y ago
I can't blame anyone for procrastinating if they don't like what they are doing. I procrastinate a lot more if I am not satisfied with what I am supposed to be doing.
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by mikorym 7y ago
English is deficient in context, absolutely. But the advantages of English is in a "modern" society, whatever that may be. There are deficiencies in these languages even that are not just about vocabulary. Things like "I have
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by mikorym 7y ago
This is true of the whole Sotho-Tswana branch of languages. They mention it for Tswana, albeit briefly. It is also one of the reasons why English is taking over (and in less serious cases, borrowed from). English is fully developed for soci

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