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by retrac 3y ago
> relationship with the Government I'm probably a bit of an oddball but I still do everything by paper. I print out forms, fill them out by hand, and mail them. It's how I do my taxes. It's how I renewed my public healt
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by retrac 3y ago
> Latin substrate in the territory of modern France was so strong that it gradually took over the Germanic ruling class over centuries Good place to point out that those Germanic speakers had a major impact on French, and to this day it
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by retrac 3y ago
> which mechanically injected and ejected the Duo like a VHS tape Or a Macintosh floppy disk.
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by retrac 3y ago
No, you're not alone. Approaching Mandarin I expected tones to be some sort of big hurdle. They're not. They're largely obvious. It's a part of the vowel, basically. Linguistically speaking, there's very little
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by retrac 3y ago
Don't forget D-1 [1], which was a hybrid monstrosity. In the 1980s, it wasn't really yet feasible to handle digital video in a meaningful way. No true colour framebuffers at 720x480 pixels and no way to move that many bits in and
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by retrac 3y ago
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages: https://www.cambridge.org/ca/universitypress/subjects/langua... (available elsewhere for less...) also has a good chapter on Old Persian. The
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by retrac 3y ago
Yes, at higher speeds (like towards the end of that recording once the link is fully established) dial-up modems sound like white noise. There's an interesting reason for that. A digital modulation that is going fast enough, if it is
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by retrac 3y ago
In North America, about four to five thousand years ago, people seem to have had squash. Squash probably originates down south, somewhere between Mexico and the Andes. They had an ancestor to sunflower, too, originating from North America
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by retrac 3y ago
Counterintuitive fact: in the UK, rationing improved nutrition. Infant and child mortality in particular declined - milk consumption among the very young increased, while everyone decreased consumption of fats, refined sugars and meat, mos
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by retrac 3y ago
That's known as a "shibboleth", after a story in the Bible about the Ephraimites who pronounced the Hebrew "sh" as "s" and so were identified by (and slain for) saying "sibboleth" rather than &qu
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by retrac 3y ago
> I don’t feel a lot of guilt, and neither do they I can tell you haven't tried to date such guys. They may not feel enough guilt to keep them from engaging in casual sex, but many of them absolutely feel guilt. Indeed, sometime
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by retrac 3y ago
Specifically, there is no statute of limitations for indictable criminal offences, the equivalent of a felony. Minor offences have a limit of one year. Civil matters have a limit in many provinces, too.
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by retrac 3y ago
There are examples at a smaller scale. Nutrient pollution (nitrogen, phosphorous fertilizer in water) can build up for quite a while in a lake with no apparent effect. For reasons not well understood, sometimes after quite a long time (ma
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by retrac 3y ago
Before later revisions of Bluetooth with ultra-low-power modes, a mouse using Bluetooth was considerably more power-hungry than dedicated radio interfaces -- short battery life.
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by retrac 3y ago
At least here in Canada, Instagram is used by millennials, and TikTok is Gen Z.
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by retrac 3y ago
> I know it's been popular a long time That alone may explain part of it. BBEdit was on the Macs I used in school back in the 1990s; the keybindings haven't changed since. It carries forward as an institution in the Mac world,
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by retrac 3y ago
Rabelais toys with this idea. In some sense it is necessary theologically that Satan (and his followers) exist if a dialectical approach is taken. That view goes back thousands of years, to before Christianity, with the eternal struggle
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by retrac 3y ago
I would point out that the attending surgeon, the anaesthesiologist, and the hospital all bill the patient separately here for a surgery, in Ontario, Canada. (Most people will never see these bills and it's covered by the public insur
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by retrac 3y ago
Such incidents happen every day in all kinds of products, for far more mundane reasons than anything malicious. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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by retrac 3y ago
> precise torque levels that are critical for safety and reliability This is why the thing is networked. Easier, more reliable, to pull that data (and then verify it was complied with) automatically from the network. In the most precis
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by retrac 3y ago
Microwave RF that is somewhat directional behaves a lot like laser light. If you were to step into the beam carried by a waveguide for something like a powerful TV transmitter, it will cook you through like a death ray out of science fictio
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by retrac 3y ago
It's been argued that most, maybe all, of human cognition is based on a sort of folk-physics mental model with objects. We throw ideas into the ring to be chewed on and distilled and maybe brought in to practice or thrown out as usele
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by retrac 3y ago
It's effectively a closed cycle, just using the atmosphere as a buffer.
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by retrac 3y ago
As for why type-obsessed languages use terms like this, I guess we can blame math, as the article briefly mentions. Something is homomorphic ("same form") if there is a map ("relationship, point-to-point equivalence") w
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by retrac 3y ago
I still adhere to the classic definition of AI. AI is anything a machine can do which we would otherwise consider to require "intelligence" in a human to perform the task. Optical character recognition, speech recognition, game p
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by retrac 3y ago
Where did you read that? Mars is generally described as the opposite, the most human-friendly place in the system besides Earth. It has a 24 hr 37 m hour day, 38% Earth gravity, a pressurized atmosphere that human skin could probably be br
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by retrac 3y ago
If you have trained a person to draw, or paint, and they're really good at it, and if they have general knowledge of pop culture, you could ask them to draw the Simpsons, or Mario and Luigi, and they could. It is not literally copying
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by retrac 3y ago
I recently stumbled across a speech from 1855 by an American physician [1], and I suppose proto-electrical-engineer, talking about the telegraph. In it, he makes a direct analogy between the telegraph and the animal nervous system. (Peopl
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by retrac 3y ago
Imagine a length of fibre that transmits 90% of the light put in. Take the output, and pass it through another equal length. At the output of the second fibre length, we have 90% of 90%.
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by retrac 3y ago
As another user said, it's not oriented towards a beginner. You would want some, maybe most, of the background in NAND 2 Tetris first. Chapter 16 about that mentioned processor for example, and it just throws you in the deep end with

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