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He is probably alluding to the Khazar hypothesis, according to which at least part of the Eastern European (and thus Ashkenazi in general) Jews have Khazar ascendancy. The scale is very much subject to discussion, but genetic evidences[0]
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Представить has the same meaning & construction in Russian, and I don't see why it would have been introduced through German.
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> My favorite demonstration of this is the verb "vorstellen" What makes you think this is an example of an infuence of German over Czech, rather than a common verb construction mechanism across indo-european languages? Russian
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3y ago
Asymptote[0] is excellent IME. [0] https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/
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Are they? Airbus has its hands in quite a few major military programs (Eurofighter, A-400M, Tigre, Super-Puma, ...), as well as in spatial programs, especially satellite intelligence.
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3y ago
> With an LGPL asset now you have to let customers be able to edit that addon and rebuild your game > so now your game code is also under the LGPL and you have to publish your game code. AFAIK, that's only true of the GPL, not th
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> larger engines burn hotter and use less fuel I thought it was mostly due to the much higher bypass-ratio than burning temp?
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I agree; my point is simply that C++ is still OK-ish w.r.t. productivity, and Lisp is OK when it comes down to performances.
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> Go's one language innovation Structural typing is already more than 25 y.o., and was already used e.g. in OCaml and Scala.
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I'm sorry, but I didn't catch it; how exactly do you `go get` private github repos?
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> I don't know if that matters enough to make them a novel invention, though. That's called structural typing, which is at least as old as OCaml, i.e. 25+ y.o.
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> What are things that are hard to do in Go business applications that other languages do better? Streams, meta-programming, enums, ‶modern″ switches, generators, portable types in CGo, streamlined error handling, safer concurrency primi
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> it combines the performance of Lisp with the productivity of C++ Is that supposed to be a jab? Because IME SBCL Lisp is in the same ballpark as Go (albeit offering a fully interactive development environment), and C++ is far from being
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> But why would you disable ssh-based git authentication? Ask the Go developers. AFAIK the only package manager where I have to change my global git configuration to make it work. Even the venerable CPAN and tlmgr behave better. https:&
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> There's no straightfoward, standard way to read an html document on another platform. What do you think of the epub format?
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> I have Windows Update completely blocked and disabled via Group Policy, which means my system settings never get reset under the guise of "updates" every month unlike most people's setups That sound unhinged... “so I we
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BMW's is pretty good as well.
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> why do many entirely digital web typefaces have ink traps? Add it to the many things that made it from the necessary to the aesthetic.
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> It’s hard to build one that lasts 30-50 years Like the U-2, the SR-71, or the F-117?
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> that irradiates its environment. What is the issue, as long as the containment containers are properly designed?
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Then please pinpoint some problematic ones, so that not every reader has to delve into pages to continue the discussion.
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By themselves, the F150 and the Ram sell over 1.5 millions units per year. I can not believe that yearly, ~0.7% of the US adult population needs a truck.
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> Is that obvious? The best-selling cars in the US are (and from afar) the F150 and the Dodge RAM, so empirically it seems correct.
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> but there is a lack of ability to add dependencies using git URLs. There is absolutely no lack of that in cargo; this is literally the first sentence in the relevant section in the doc ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo&#
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The Forex is equally extremely efficient at vaporising life savings, still you wouldn't say that's the fault of the dollar/euro/yen/yuan/dinar/...
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> Valgrind exists You may be right on an infinite frictionless plane, but unfortunately that does not work in real life, cf. e.g. https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2019/07/why-rust-for-safe-sy... > Memory
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Technically, people wishing to use crypto as a bank account would care as much about the exchanges as a ‶normal″ bank customer should care about regulation enforcement on some random bookmaker; both run on [insert currency], but that's
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So what justified closing their account instead?
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You're right; I meant TUIs, not CLIs.
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> but I see no value in this over just copying and pasting the terminal output Animated tutorial-like ‶videos″ of CLI that are much smaller than gifs/mp4s. I can't share them because they're not openn-source, but I made qu
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