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by retrac 9mo ago
I've done similar loose experiments using a 19th century French novel I have read (L'Agonie by Jean Lombard), and which is quite obscure. There is no English translation of the novel published. Using Gemini Notebooks I've fo
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by retrac 9mo ago
Since I'm the person who wrote that I can explain what I meant. I have never had to deal with a giant cat stalking me and being unable to hear it. I do routinely have to deal with intercom systems which I cannot hear, though. The worl
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by retrac 9mo ago
> x86_64 v4 UNIX port What compiler are you using?
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by retrac 9mo ago
I'm learning ASL. That led me to learn about Deaf culture in North America. The stories that the Deaf have told each other, and have passed down. A world where everyone is deaf is one of the first stories you'll learn about; I&
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by retrac 9mo ago
Sensory disabilities like deafness and blindness are disabling because the world is not oriented to people with sensory disabilities. I am reminded that the Deaf have their own mythology. American Sign Language is distinct; it's not E
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by retrac 9mo ago
You're cheating with your world knowledge to guide the parsing. eat man lion. lion man eat. man eat lion. eat lion man. Who is eating who? When formed according to English grammar it doesn't leave any ambiguity even if the phr
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by retrac 10mo ago
The GBP/USD currency pair is still known just as "the cable". Aside from all its other uses: the telegraph gave a way to synchronize clocks. And accurate time is accurate measurement of distance. > [...] The latest determ
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by retrac 10mo ago
Perhaps a mixing issue on your end? Multi-channel audio has the dialog track separated. So you can increase the volume of the dialog if you want. Unfortunately I think there is variability in hardware (and software players) in how to dow
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by retrac 10mo ago
> a rare case of rabies in a dog within the City of Chicago. This is the first rabies-positive dog identified in Cook County since before 1964 Rabies is quite rare in dogs in the USA. And breakthrough rabies in a previously vaccinated a
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by retrac 10mo ago
It's unfortunately true in southern Ontario, too. Indigenous people make up about 3% of Ontario's population, and they make up 20% of the population in provincial jails. The large disparity is also seen in Toronto, but since ind
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by retrac 10mo ago
Well, since you've opened Pandora's box: the highest rate of homicide (by perpetrator) among major ethnic groups in Canada is indigenous. (Also as victims: the child who died in Toronto was indigenous.) There's definitely so
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by retrac 10mo ago
We do have a fair amount of gun homicide here in Canada; well above the average in many European countries and about 1/3rd the rate in the United States. But historically this was mostly crimes of passion, and organized crime. Someon
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by retrac 10mo ago
> Would be interesting to see what Tolkien would think of modern urbanism movements. Feels very aligned with his values. Still much too dense. There was a movement, broadly contemporary with Tolkien, that somewhat reflect his views on th
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by retrac 10mo ago
Exposing large amounts of skin to the sun has other health risks when it is freezing outside. :) Vitamin D deficiency is very common in Canada particularly during winter. The government recommends that everyone intentionally seek out vitam
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by retrac 10mo ago
I won't try to defend Chomsky. (Not really a big fan even before this.) But if the mere mention of him is sus to you then I advise you to not study either linguistics or computer science because it's Chomsky normal forms and Ch
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by retrac 10mo ago
The leaked US National Security Strategy docs outline a plan to break up the EU: > However, a longer, unpublished draft of the document was circulated prior to the official, public strategy. It reportedly goes into more detail about the
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by retrac 10mo ago
In the phonetic alphabet it's /e:/ vs. /ei/ and /o:/ vs. /ou/. If you're an English speaker, you can be forgiven for a very stereotypical trait of the English accent. English speakers have
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by retrac 10mo ago
The old official system arguably makes more sense from a Japanese perspective. If you look at the kana, the Japanese syllabic writing system, they have this ordering: ka ki ku ke ko, sa shi su se so, ta chi tsu te to, etc. If you fol
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by retrac 10mo ago
Ah! Perhaps it's only words like to counsel (counseled) or to libel (libeled); up in Canada here people usually write counselled or libelled.
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by retrac 10mo ago
It's not a line that's crossed. It's just the standard in Canada. In Britain, aeroplanes are made of aluminium and they have tyres . The Ministry of Defence sends them out on manoeuvres in theatres of combat, whe
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by retrac 10mo ago
In my experience used games were often traded or passed around as bare cartridges. And that's how I got most of my games.
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by retrac 10mo ago
I've written a little bit before about KeyKOS/GNOSIS, which is the capability operating system used by Tymshare to host their timesharing language services on IBM mainframes, in the 70s and 80s. From a comment 3 years ago I'
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by retrac 10mo ago
They aren't the only ones. Quite a few nuclear sources have been lost. The Soviet Union used radiodecay thermoelectric generators with breathtaking liberalness. Radio relay links, lighthouses, nav beacons, remote weather sensors. Ap
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by retrac 10mo ago
Not for the data path; the 68000 operates on 32 bit values 16 bits at a time, both through its external 16 bit bus and internal 16 bit ALU. Most 32 bit operations take more cycles. But yes, it has a 32 bit programming model.
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by retrac 10mo ago
Rust has two parents; it got its looks from C, but much of its character was inherited from its other, less commonly mentioned parent -- ML. Rust has a variation of the Hindley-Milner type system, quite similar to ML (or Haskell). Rust&#x
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by retrac 10mo ago
San Serriffe is woke liberal nonsense cooked up by The Guardian.
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by retrac 10mo ago
It applies to most private residential and small-scale business electric use. Rationale would be getting quite political, as you might imagine. But I suppose there are several justifications that are given. One is to offset the cost to th
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by retrac 10mo ago
Consumer price of the energy. Doesn't include connection fees, but those are a minority of the cost. Includes special energy taxes. But not sales tax. For a real example, I'm on flat rate and if I use 1000 kWh my monthly bill w
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by retrac 10mo ago
Here in Ontario, residentially we pay about 0.09 USD per kWh at night and 0.18 USD with demand peak pricing on weekday afternoons. Or if you have flat rate it's about 0.13 USD per kWh. This is considered very expensive by Canadian st
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by retrac 10mo ago
It's akin to a compiler unrolling a loop. Uses more RAM (area) but fewer cycles to execute. Hardware synthesis uses many of the same techniques as compilers use to optimize code. It's a common pitfall for those learning hardware

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