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by sandbach 2y ago
Robert Bringhurst¹ prefers the en dash in the context of setting off phrases: "The em dash is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many editorial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces
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by sandbach 2y ago
If you wait until you're fluent in Spanish to get started with Japanese, you'll be waiting a long time. I recommend learning them concurrently. It'll be easier than you might think!
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by sandbach 2y ago
'Polynyms', surely. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarism_(linguistics)
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by sandbach 2y ago
I think you're right, but what company's business model doesn't produce a conflict between the user's well-being and the company's finances?
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by sandbach 2y ago
The keyword AS would then have to be obligatory, to avoid ambiguity.
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by sandbach 2y ago
I'm curious, how do you avoid friction between inserting text and editing? Surely moving your hand to the mouse, arrow keys, or Ctrl key for an Emacs keybinding takes longer than pressing "i"? I'll grant that Esc is furt
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by sandbach 2y ago
Another detail you didn't mention: knopp or knoppe is a Low German (northern German) variant of Standard German Knopf . That's where the pf -- pp alternation arises.
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by sandbach 2y ago
There's this great post by Steve Losh: https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/
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by sandbach 2y ago
Don't do that! If you're always using the same preamble, you should turn it into a .sty file. Then the preamble of new documents is just \usepackage{myessay}
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by sandbach 2y ago
Apologies for pedantry: in ðat case you should have used Þ U+00DE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN, as it begins a sentence.
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by sandbach 2y ago
Similar situation here. My company uses Skype for all in-house video calls, in large part because none of our clients uses it. So far, I haven't had any problems with it. The same cannot be said for Teams.
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by sandbach 2y ago
At Tianfu Airport in Chengdu, there are large screens with cameras attached that recognize your face and tell you which gate to go to. Convenient but scary, like many things in China.
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by sandbach 2y ago
As sibling comments seem to have missed the point: laws mandating helmets reduce the general rates of cycling, as people without helmets don't cycle at all. Cycling is so good for your health that the risks associated with not cycling
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by sandbach 2y ago
It's true that Chinese words don't inflect, but not all the grammatical categories you list are missing. There are aspect markers like 了 and 正在, and nouns are definite or indefinite even if they're not marked as such by artic
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by sandbach 2y ago
It's worth noting that the benefits of Nix shell you mention can be enjoyed from the comfort of another distro with the Nix package manager.
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by sandbach 2y ago
Anyone interested in a statistical approach to the history of the industrial revolution should read The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 by Eric Hobsbawm. It's the first in an excellently written series on the history of the 18th
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by sandbach 2y ago
> What did they do in 950AD? An example from around then or a bit before, arising from the spread of Buddhism in China. The name of Vairocana Buddha, whose name in Sanskrit is वैरोचन and means 'solar', is given in Chinese in tw
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by sandbach 2y ago
A classic example of this is Hindi and Urdu -- the two languages are largely mutually intelligible when spoken, which is the main criterion for being the same language, but are written with different scripts and of course used in separate a
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by sandbach 2y ago
That sort of thing is all configurable. It's easy to tell Doom Emacs to use Slime instead.
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by sandbach 2y ago
Anyone interested in formants and speech synthesis should have a look at Praat[0], a marvellous piece of free software that can do all kinds of speech analysis, synthesis, and manipulation. https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat&#
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by sandbach 2y ago
While this is obviously very much a minority concern, there are trans men who have periods and might be put off by the name of this app.
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by sandbach 2y ago
I don't know where the German definitions are coming from, but they shouldn't all be lowercased -- all nouns in German start with a capital letter, so "verständis", rather than "Verständis", is actually a mista
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by sandbach 3y ago
The documentation of the LaTeX package booktabs[0] is a great resource for anyone interested in beautiful table design. [0] http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/bookta...
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by sandbach 3y ago
Unfortunately, the latter can also happen. I have used a TV in China that plays a thirty-second ad on startup almost every time, with no option to turn it off.