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by narag 4y ago
...very little spelling irregularity, like Spanish. As a native speaker I wouldn't say very little, but none. Anyway, I'll better be catious and ask if you know any. Not saying that Spanish is an easy language to learn, some par
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by narag 4y ago
I get that there are tons of implications around contract law and child labor here, but there really needs to be an escape hatch if a parent agrees to whatever activity is being done. While it's happening, it can be done using the pa
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by narag 4y ago
I doubt there's some kind of NZT that would be useful for chess. Some ancient masters had a complicated relation with alcohol, specially Blackburne. Adversaries knew and invited him believing it would make him blunder, but it seems Bla
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by narag 4y ago
Having a set of days that pretends to be a quarter month but rapidly falls out of sync is worse than having no quarter month at all. So you want to reform the week, the only time cycle that hasn't been altered in millennia to sync it
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by narag 4y ago
But in a way that doesn't work right. It works great for the purpose that it was used: counting groups of days when regular humans didn't have the luxury of more precise calendars. The part that doesn't "work right&quo
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by narag 4y ago
FWIW, I wasn't trying to explain why it isn't funny, but why I don't find it funny. YMMV. Nobody needs to know all those annoying details, but once you know, the joke doesn't work so well, at least it didn't for m
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by narag 4y ago
Augustus' first name was Octavius... now August is the eighth month, full circle.
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by narag 4y ago
Honestly I didn't find it funny, maybe because it ignores the reasons of the inconsistencies, that by the way are perfectly understandable looking at space. Months are related to Moon's orbit, weeks to its phases. Months have othe
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by narag 4y ago
Sorry if it's dated. I had this at college (a long long time ago): https://www.amazon.com/File-Structures-2nd-Michael-Folk/dp/0... It was very good, describing b-trees and its variants.
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by narag 4y ago
Old news for me. A few months ago, four or five messages a day during a month and then it stopped. It was always the same template written in several languages, English, French, Spanish, with clear signs they were trying to fool the filters
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by narag 4y ago
Don't forget the companies that provide the means to eavesdrop everybody.
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by narag 4y ago
Maybe programming is just a special case where you always think through typing? For me, yes. It's a question of speed. I type much faster than I can handwrite. For a complex unit of code, it's better for me to dump it as fast as
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by narag 4y ago
Then I would use that as a convincing point ;) Either way, good luck!
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by narag 4y ago
So many people are advising to leave her choose her OS. I'm tempted to join them, even if I'm considering to ditch Windows at home myself. But there are a couple of thoughts I'd like to share. Does she maintain her current la
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by narag 4y ago
Nothing we did truly changed their path and they can complain about us destabilizing their new democracy 70 years ago but they control their destinies... If they lost their democracy, they don't control their destinies. All the execu
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by narag 4y ago
It seems that life vests for toddlers are all the rage now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32746130
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by narag 4y ago
During conscription, the sergeant corrected someone that talked about kills and told him it's casualties . "Sure, that's an euphemism, isn't it?" Well no, a kill is one enemy less. A wounded is better: the one that
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by narag 4y ago
So no The Diamond Age anytime soon? That was a really fun read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
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by narag 4y ago
Frankly, it didn't seem so good for the general public either. It's very slow and confusing. The emperors' plot is actually more entertaining. Totally unconnected with the books' premise (empire crumbling under the weigh
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by narag 4y ago
Prelude was Asimov himself making a prequel, there was another one and some sequels to the original trilogy. Also the books are connected with the robot series. There are some differences in tone. But there are some coherent ideas. Religi
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by narag 4y ago
Since there were no dark skin in depictions that are chronologicallly later, the two trilogies we already watched, it means that some terrible genocidal racial cleansing happened in between.
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by narag 4y ago
Not faithful? More like it presents exactly the opposite ideas. Why choose Foundation if you hate every concept that the books stand for?
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by narag 4y ago
I agree. The first two episodes of The Rings of Power are unbearably boring. But let's wait. Anyway, IMDb ratings are getting totally unreliable to me. I wasted hours of my life that won't come back, watching some show called T
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by narag 4y ago
It seems you have the names and cities reversed.
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I find the fact that he doesn't say specially elephantic.
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by narag 4y ago
At school, they used to say that two don't fight if one doesn't want to. Except that was a lie. Bullies didn't get the memo, while teachers and parents were happy to repeat the lie, wash their hands and blame the victims.
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by narag 4y ago
Not just the sounds, but all the inconsistencies... Coming from Spanish and our irregular verbs, memorizing the inconsistencies is a piece of cake. The sounds though...
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by narag 4y ago
And something even worse: sometimes it seems that lower rated players are consistently stronger , so if you fall below some threshold, you get stuck there. On the other hand, if you can get above it, you suddenly win and win...
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by narag 4y ago
I remember a story (possibly anecdotal) about an inventor who shows a roman emperor a working steam engine and he basically pays him off and sends him into retirement. That's a short story by William Golding: https://en.wi
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by narag 4y ago
Lichess doesn't use ELO rating but a different rating system. That explains some odditites I've observed, like different strength with the same rating at different hours of the day or different days.

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