ninalanyon

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by ninalanyon 5d ago
> evidence that handwriting in cursive is better than handwriting normally? Perhaps I'm too old for this conversation but surely cursive is writing normally?
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by ninalanyon 5d ago
> pretend that plea deals are coercion That's exactly what they are.
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by ninalanyon 5d ago
The contrast is so low it's unreadable. Saved me from wasting time reading it, I'll go and waste my time elsewhere :-)
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by ninalanyon 7d ago
In my opinion it is necessity and immersion that drive language learning best. If you don't actually need it it's hard to be disciplined enough to put the work in when there so many other calls on your time. For me immersion is th
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by ninalanyon 8d ago
The picture showing a thumb typing makes it clear that anyone with long fingernails is going to find it difficult to use.
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by ninalanyon 9d ago
> My local town gives you two free visits to the garbage transfer station per year. Where I live in Norway the recycling station is open three days a week and I can take stuff there free as often as I like up to 2 000 kg of stuff per yea
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by ninalanyon 9d ago
I think a lot of us outside the US will go further and simply never visit the US ever again. That certainly applies to me despite having spent quite a lot of time in the US and having ex-colleagues who I regard as friends there.
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by ninalanyon 9d ago
I don't think the movement is "buy local" it's more "buy from people we trust".
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by ninalanyon 10d ago
They are there to make you slow down.
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by ninalanyon 10d ago
> Amazon should somehow be known as the company that sells crap then, I thought they already did. That's certainly my impression of them.
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by ninalanyon 10d ago
> Turns out it is galvanized, not stainless. So the seller committed a fraud. Did you get your money back?
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by ninalanyon 10d ago
Don't you look at the unit price? Price per kg or litre.
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by ninalanyon 10d ago
> The trick to making a good deal is a willingness to walk away. Not just the willingness but the ability to live without if the salesman doesn't cave in. If you need the car (or other goods) now you might not have that luxury.
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by ninalanyon 10d ago
No idea if they are still as good but Samsonite used to be astonishingly good luggage and good value too. I still have two suitcases from nearly forty years ago. They are very scuffed but still intact and unbroken having survived very har
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by ninalanyon 11d ago
I wonder if using pounds exclusively stems from a time when the word ton was potentially ambiguous. In both British Imperial and US Customary one ton means 20 hundredweight (20 cwt) but the hundredweight differs between the two countries,
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by ninalanyon 11d ago
When those in power regard the people as the enemy their natural allies are other governments with similar attitudes. So you don't need to wait until another government gains access, you offer it instead. https://en.wikiped
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by ninalanyon 12d ago
> a refreshingly forward looking idea What? "a rigorous defense, in which the student explains the topic to their examiners until they are satisfied." is exactly how PhDs were awarded for hundreds of years. Even my BSc in Appli
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by ninalanyon 12d ago
Charles Stross' Accelerando < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando > Had AI agents running businesses for the principal character Manfred Macx over twenty years ago. The first part of the book sounded pre
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by ninalanyon 13d ago
So you can't use the app to control the kettle if your internet connection is down. Why doesn't it just run a simple server?
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by ninalanyon 13d ago
One of the great things about StreetComplete is that it works perfectly offline.
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by ninalanyon 15d ago
If these tools are as clever as they seem then why not just tell them to rewrite the code in a more review friendly style? I only dabble in the use of LLMs to generate code for hobby programming (I'm retired from software development)
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by ninalanyon 15d ago
You can get soft bread in Norway that is much like the stuff that is ubiquitous in the UK but it is marketed for making toast. Most of the rest is much more interesting, and I'm sure better for you.
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by ninalanyon 15d ago
> i wonder what the point of presenting these inventions as your own are Because if you independently invented it then it is your own. The value to the student is not necessarily that the idea is novel to everyone else but that is nove
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by ninalanyon 16d ago
If it's a rare enough event you can just rent a car.
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by ninalanyon 18d ago
When do you get to see these terms? The discussion seems to imply that they are seen only after purchase (I haven't read the article). If that is so they are void and unenforceable in most jurisdictions as you cannot agree to something
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by ninalanyon 19d ago
Hours spent working haven't noticeably declined for people in Northern Europe for fifty years. I worked 40 hours a week in the UK in 1978, the usual working week in Norway now is 37.5 hours. I very much doubt that most people are grea
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by ninalanyon 20d ago
Dead mans handle devices (driver vigilance units) were introduced on UK trains in the 1960s They also certainly exist on Norwegian locomotives, I've seen them on YouTube videos. They bring the train to a stop.
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by ninalanyon 21d ago
Were there no dead man's handles on those trains? Or do they have them and the drivers fall asleep frequently and most were caught in time but these two fell asleep at the latest possible moment?
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by ninalanyon 22d ago
Why is everything quietly done now?
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by ninalanyon 25d ago
"Clinically tested Dyson CameraJet™ is clinically proven to be more effective in improving gum health by removing and preventing plaque buildup.² Vs a manual tooth brush. " So they didn't dare compare it against a 20 EUR Brau

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