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by retrac 3y ago
I would say that Turkish is just "normal". Very typical. Often used alongside Japanese or Cree in linguistics textbooks as an example of how a "typical" language works. Fully regular affixes (what you call modular co
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by retrac 3y ago
Roughly is the operative word there. It's a ballpark figure, like within an order or magnitude. It's hard to quantify in the first place. We can think of a language like a digital modulation, with the set of sounds being a symbo
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by retrac 3y ago
This is just speculation but, a shift in software engineering philosophy. The software of early probes was viewed, as a fixed part of the flight avionics and command sequencer. It was programmed well in advance to allow physical manufactu
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by retrac 3y ago
I wouldn't say you must agree with a statement like "the purpose of life is to foster beauty" but it is the life philosophy for quite a lot of people. That is to say, beauty, or creating the possibility of beauty, is the gre
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by retrac 3y ago
Heat storage has an aspect that was counterintuitive to me, but follows from basic geometry. It benefits greatly from large scale, since the ratio of the volume to surface area [1] decreases the larger you make a container. Accordingly, i
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by retrac 3y ago
Yes, and plenty of people quit the mines in company towns, and went to work in the big city. Considerable practical buyer or worker choice may exist, in an emerging monopolistic situation. Monopoly concerns aren't always the evil vil
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by retrac 3y ago
> If others want to compete they should offer something as compelling Perhaps they cannot? Monopolies can apply to the purchase of labour, too. Indeed, the lack of viable competition, would be circumstantial evidence, to support the ar
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by retrac 3y ago
The SDS Sigma 7 was one of the first computers sold commercially with the hardware to support memory virtualization and user/supervisor modes. It got some early time-sharing use. SDS later got bought by Xerox, and carried the busines
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by retrac 3y ago
For what it's worth, it's a suggestion for LyX [1], not TeX. Lyx uses TeX/LaTeX, but you don't need to know TeX to use Lyx, anymore than you need to know how to use Microsoft Word with the control codes visible, to use
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by retrac 3y ago
I read the comment as -- we shouldn't hand control of valuable open source projects over to probable operatives of government security services. (Indeed, as many have mentioned, US intelligence might be behind this.) Do you disagree w
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by retrac 3y ago
> Does super-resolution add real information to the image? Can it be used for real world analytical applications? [...] The answers to these questions are resounding YES I have no idea whether it might be useful for real-world analytical
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by retrac 3y ago
Your logic is strange. With robbery, the primary crime is the violence (or para-violent threat), and not the theft. This is easy to demonstrate: the punishment for breaking into someone's home in many jurisdictions is essentially the
433.
by retrac 3y ago
In theory. Reception of FM works much like AM except you need an FM detector before turning the signal into audio. A circuit a little more fancy, than a diode (or rusty razor blade and wire) used in AM. But not that much more fancy. The
434.
by retrac 3y ago
It's a book. Paper bark or parchment. . The Aztecs didn't have full writing in the sense of a system to represent a spoken language. Aztec codices are more to the calendar and graphic end of things. (But I could be wrong, since s
435.
by retrac 3y ago
> for those too young to remember or not part of the phreaking crowd Always important to remember that the telecom revolution was underway in 1890, let alone 1990. I still think the telephone system trumps the Internet in terms of revol
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by retrac 3y ago
It's maybe oddly phrased, but in much of Europe, the state did assume power over marriage from the church at some point. Sometimes very dramatically, such as during the French Revolution, when priests were banned from marrying people
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by retrac 3y ago
Slow-cooking to bring out a complex, deep, yet mild flavour is a crucial technique in general. I'm too impatient for it most of the time, but I discovered it while trying to be economical. Like with leftover stew, safe to eat but may
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by retrac 3y ago
> The first concert in the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s 1940 series ‘boldly devoted its entire second part, which was broadcast, to extracts from Wagner's operas’. In response to a letter of complaint, the Bristol Evening Post’s music c
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by retrac 3y ago
It's somewhat language-specific, I think. With languages like Python or Lisp or Haskell or indeed Javascript, it's an interesting question what "using a debugger" means. They do have debuggers, but In a safe language
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by retrac 3y ago
The Apple II also had a 1 bit ADC. The cassette audio input is a level/threshold detector and with the right software is able to measure the frequency of pure tones.
441.
by retrac 3y ago
I did something similar on a Raspberry Pi using the GPIO pins one afternoon when bored. I made a 4-bit R2R DAC [1] using typical 5% tolerance resistors and fed it directly into a small speaker. I shrunk a 16 bit audio file down to 4 bits
442.
by retrac 3y ago
Rounding transcendentals correctly has unknown time and space complexity. [1] Sort of brushes up against the halting problem. With limited precision, the upper limit becomes calculable but it's rather large - packages that offer corr
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by retrac 3y ago
I think there is actually a good argument that an AI model is transformative, and that training a model is therefore not infringing of the copyright. (An analogy: if you rolled dice to select words randomly from the Lord of the Rings and r
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by retrac 3y ago
There's an alternate universe, almost identical to our own, where BSD 4.4 was released slightly earlier, its legal status was not ambiguous, it got ported to the 386 in '90, Linus never bothered to write Linux, and every machine f
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by retrac 3y ago
Unfortunately for your hypothesis, the etymology of the Norse or Icelandic suffix "-vik" in Reykjavik is known. It means "bay", originally through a sense of a twist or turn, like a turning in along the coast. It is re
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by retrac 3y ago
Many who study Japanese, probably prefer the current official system. It more closely reflects Japanese kana spellings. There are multiple ways of writing syllables like "ji" in Japanese and that's why there are multiple w
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by retrac 3y ago
In the historical sense, a primary source comes from the time period under study. A secondary source is later, and interprets, or records, later impressions/recollections of the period in question. So for example, a newspaper article
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by retrac 3y ago
> They at least don’t require candidates to get dressed up or to worry about controlling their facial expressions [...] Expecting candidates to remain in Professional Mode while experiencing what might be extreme disappointment is unkind
449.
by retrac 3y ago
Most people who speak Swahili speak it as a second language. This process - when the majority of speakers of a language are non-native - tends to simplify a language. For example, Swahili has a much simpler set of sounds than most other
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by retrac 3y ago
Perhaps they licensed it. AP lets you do that pretty easily. Literally the whole point of AP - sell news articles for reprinting. Or perhaps they committed some copyright infringement 15 years ago.

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