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by nescioquid 3y ago
In Latin, sometimes numbers have synonyms, like 18 (two from twenty or eight and ten). In my mind, the Roman system was very obvious. Then I learned to read a little French, and had genuine curiosity about the reasoning behind this soixante
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by nescioquid 3y ago
The thing that interests me in your comment is why would you try for thirty years to "get into" something? Or do you mean you don't much care for his music, but no rush in jumping to conclusions... Do you care for Berg or Web
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by nescioquid 3y ago
One of the major sections on the front page is call "How to Spend It".
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by nescioquid 3y ago
De rigueur: [2011] https://www.theonion.com/congress-forgets-how-to-pass-a-law-... [2011] https://www.theonion.com/twitter-messages-show-congressmen-d...
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by nescioquid 3y ago
It was the first example I thought of, as well. I don't really mean this as an accusation, but I suspect these death-bed demands are simply a pose. Not that they are essentially insincere, but rather a final gesture of conscientiousnes
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Thanks, now I'll be thinking about Brawndo for the rest of the day. "Why do you keep saying that?" "Cause they pay me every time I do!"
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by nescioquid 3y ago
How is the name pronounced? >> Lide...is recorded almost exclusively in sources from the southwest of England. In the late 13th century... The Great Vowel Shift happened later than this, so perhaps it was something like LEED-AH? >&
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by nescioquid 3y ago
For me, the biggest difference between print and ebooks are: - I just won't carry around some door-stopper printed books, so I am less likely to read them in printed editions. - So much of what I want to read isn't in print anymor
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I saw a rant from someone in the FSF about project names that give you no idea what the software is for or does. This adds another layer to the complaint. There's probably a social aspect in which the name itself functions as a sort of
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by nescioquid 3y ago
> Multiple applications sharing a database [regret] The industry has known this to be a stereotypically bad idea for generations now. It lead to things like the enterprise sevice bus, service-oriented architectures, and finally "m
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by nescioquid 3y ago
You can be down-voted and still provide a useful comment (as you have). Death will be a guest for whom you must play host. You contrarians cannot cry foul for you are already dead. As a host, all that is left for your consideration is how t
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Firstly, HN has no responsibility for the well-being of said poster or his* parents. If his thought pattern was not disorganized and he posted this pique query to HN on a WTF-basis, then fine. Caveat emptor. Secondly, optimism and fact are
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I never know whether to respond or just let people have their say. The poster said nothing of also seeking help from a qualified source, so a reasonable presumption is that this was an issue of pique emotional duress leading to posting to H
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by nescioquid 3y ago
The interesting thing to me is that the timbre controls seem to have been intended to modify the instrument while it is sounding. An organist can do this by pulling stops, and is similar to setting patches on a Moog, but generally, you play
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by nescioquid 3y ago
The landing page says the app was built by working closely with "hyperpolyglots" which are described as "people who speak 15+ languages". For these purposes, what does "speaking" a language actually mean. Fluen
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by nescioquid 3y ago
The name "Atlas Obscura" puzzles me since it looks like they intended "atlas of obscure things", but the only way I can see to read these two words together in a grammatically valid way yields the command "hide, atl
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by nescioquid 3y ago
If you're ever going to get the point where you recognize tactics (or anything, for that matter) on the board, how the pieces move must already be internalized and not require any thought. People even especially practice visualizing kn
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by nescioquid 3y ago
My chief recollection of the Clojure mailing list was countless explanations of what a stack trace is to countless people who had never worked with Java and who had no interest in learning about Java. That was also around the time people ha
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I recommend never providing unsolicited Latin advice unless the phrase has been tattooed in flesh or used as the name of a legal entity (e.g. "Atlas Obscura").
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by nescioquid 3y ago
In The Prince, Machiavelli describes the use of settlers to exert indirect control over an area. One benefit of this approach is that the values and attitudes of the settlers will spread to or exert influence over the locals. At the very le
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by nescioquid 3y ago
The first time I heard the old-money put-down about someone who had "bought their own furniture" my American newer-is-better head spun (and I'm not much of a "consumer" by American standards). Not only are we socia
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by nescioquid 3y ago
You remind me a little of Stendhal and the mayflies towards the end of The Red and the Black: “In the same way, death, life and eternity, are very simple things for anyone who has organs sufficiently vast to conceive them. An ephemeral fly
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by nescioquid 3y ago
There are people in technical leadership making decisions who are not capable of performing the most rudimentary of programming tasks like committing code. This is a problem when the decision-maker doesn't act on advice from staff or i
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by nescioquid 3y ago
You weren't trying to pin anyone down, but from the respondent's point of view, any response they endorse pins them down because it opens them up to being wrong and responsible (this depends on the culture at the company and the i
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by nescioquid 3y ago
This is also what it looks like when someone is avoiding being pinned down / responsible for a judgment or decision. What was requested was personal "expert" judgment, what was received was the unendorsed output of a tool whi
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Captured Greece has a habit of seizing its wild captors, I've read.
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by nescioquid 3y ago
> ...but why do you get to determine what is “utter nonsense”? With respect, I've always found the "why do you get to decide" retort unfair. First, it actually isn't a counter-argument: it's an appeal to shame. S
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by nescioquid 3y ago
When you say a performing musician is a genius, it is a little mystifying since, as Bach wrote, "there's nothing to it -- just press the right key at the right time". All of my teachers felt that the true skill of musicianshi
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by nescioquid 3y ago
One suggestion for reducing the burden on your users would be to start making predictions about what vocabulary your user already knows, just based on what's known about word frequency and a short quiz pulled from the text. I copied in
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Preconditions and postconditions around procedures. I thought that it was an innovation from Eiffel, though wikipedia lists Ada as an influence, so maybe it did originate there!

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