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by narag 3y ago
So I'll add another fading oddity from my own hometown in the south of Spain. We use ustedes (short of very archaic "vuestras mercedes" BTW) instead of vosotros . That would seem not so odd, being ustedes the plural form
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by narag 3y ago
But I really hope Villeneuve has the guts to hold true to Herbert's overall message about "heroes" In the first part, Paul has a vision in the tent, after Harkonnens' attack. He is horrified by a yihad extending thro
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by narag 3y ago
I don't think I'm a "slow thinker" but I definitely don't like rushing arguments or struggling with fast-talking sophists. What do I do? I shut up and listen. When the other person says something wrong, I shake my h
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by narag 3y ago
I didn't apply any patch and I swear I used that configuration for years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by narag 3y ago
At elementary school in Spain, we were taught pnemonics PeTaCa and BoDeGa to remember the difference between consonants categories. I don't remember the names: fricatives? occlusives? Something like that.
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by narag 3y ago
Somehow related: I used to run both 3.11 and 95 over the same DOS 5 (?) installation. It's a less known fact that, although Windows 95 ran in protected mode, it was started as a DOS real-mode program before switching modes and, when it
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by narag 3y ago
Coroutines are fun, but in real code please consider using actual threads. Modern processors have many cores, but coroutines will (often) only use a single core. Threads and coroutines have different purposes. Coroutines are more about lo
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by narag 3y ago
It was supposed to fall on its side; but as I understand it, it fell on the wrong side. My point stands (unlike the probe, heh). If it call roll, a different shape could have helped. Whatever they build also has to fit in the launch cowl
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by narag 3y ago
Still, the japanese mission had that problem. If the surface is guaranteed to be flat, low centre of gravity could be enough, but knowing there could be rocks or other kind of irregularities, I'd consider a fail safe shape.
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by narag 3y ago
The thing that voters revolt against is political collusion: parties of supposedly opposite ideologies agree to support some terrible policies, leaving the affected citizens no other option except the fringe candidate with colourful rethori
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by narag 3y ago
The money quote: so many remember the ship because it made sense, as a follow-up of the real LEM. I was thinking about it yesterday, waiting for news about the IM probe. Why do they make the landers tall? Wouldn't it be better somethin
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by narag 3y ago
Stereotypically Black people apparently enjoy watermelons, deep fried chicken and grape soda. Check, check, check. Yum! TIL that I could pass for black in America. OK, maybe not. Unfortunately grape soda is almost impossible to find in Ma
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by narag 3y ago
Spoiler alert: January's pylon is from Cadiz in Spain Thank you for bringing me back. I wish I'd be there now for the Carnival. Those towers are a nice landmark. The photo is great, but it lacks perspective of how they connect C
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by narag 3y ago
That happened in The Mentalist TV series. Patrick Jane's archenemy, Red John, needed an identity. It wasn't planned beforehand, so they chose one of the insignificant characters from the first chapters.
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by narag 3y ago
I've just re-read Foundation original trilogy to wash the bad taste that the first (and for me last) season of the TV series left on my mouth. I was surprised to find so much foreshadow in the second and third books for the key twist
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by narag 3y ago
Qui prodest is the question you must ask when you hear the usual points against, mostly security. It's not that every person that dislike extensions or repeat the same arguments is paid by "them" , but it's a little s
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by narag 3y ago
you can't slide the top of the window off the screen You can use "move" in the system menu. Once activated, the arrow keys in the keyboard will move the window outside the desktop window, not sure if you can do it using the
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by narag 3y ago
Microsoft are still happy to charge you £220 for a Windows 11 Pro licence... You can buy Windows 10 Pro OEM licenses for less than 20€ online. I did just that for a familiar three months ago. The installation was validated and associated
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by narag 3y ago
The living ship and the blue woman are so powerful and so different. There from the first episode.
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by narag 3y ago
Maybe you're misunderstanding what I said. Otherwise it would be ridiculous. If I buy a screw made in the USA, no EU authority can know what's the software used in the machine tool. They can control physical properties, packaging,
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by narag 3y ago
I didn't say it's a solution.
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by narag 3y ago
I mean the software is never used inside the EU. The final product is built outside and later imported, so you don't know what software was used. An example: EU is approving very restrictive legislation about pesticides for use inside
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by narag 3y ago
Outsourcing any function that needs software outside the EU.
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by narag 3y ago
Catholic Church has no problem with Big Bang or the common estimations on Earth's age. I studied in a religious school in the 70's and we learnt about dinosaurs. We were taught that the "days" in Genesis were metaphors.
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by narag 3y ago
Do you accept the bet to be paid in person? :) You all are focusing on labeling the time to humans in Mars. But how about the time to completely discard that life exists now in Mars? How much time would it take to design, build and send a m
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by narag 3y ago
All these objections are very reasonable, providing you accept some premises. One of them is the scale of current ships stays the same. But that isn't some fact of nature, it's just a political/economical circumstance that co
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by narag 3y ago
Elon's fixation on Mars or bust is kind of irrational and monomaniacal. I'm more of a Moon fan really, but I wouldn't bet against him reaching Mars in the next twenty years or so. The man is persistent.
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by narag 3y ago
I guess we have different notions of what the horizon is. For me is "in my lifetime". To put it in context: I watched the first Moon landing on TV as a child, so I'm used to wait.
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by narag 3y ago
With manned missions on the horizon, are there any plans to settle the question for good? Once humans are living there for weeks (months?) it would be very hard to enforce a no-contamination policy.
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by narag 3y ago
It's not easy to find single events or dates that define a change of historical period, that don't happen overnight and uniformly globally. The arts were indeed more advanced. But 1492 has a number of interesting events. It's

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