sirdavidof

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   by sirdavidof 5y ago

   It’s very subjective, but I feel this too. It’s like in adding ML, search has sacrificed precision. For example, adding ‘-‘ no longer seems to work for excluding terms. Yesterday I searched for “digital agency” and then “digital agency -mar
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   by sirdavidof 5y ago

   It seems like a certain type of mind would be great at this. I wonder what else being good at cryptic crosswords correlates with.
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   by sirdavidof 5y ago

   How unique is this to Britain? Do other countries have similar hedge density?
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   by sirdavidof 5y ago

   It's often underappreciated how _hard_ it can be to tell why you want something. I've spent weeks thinking as rationally as I could about a decision, and with years of hindsight realised it was based mainly on what others wanted.
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   by sirdavidof 17y ago

   Yes, but French is arguably fading much more quickly. It's easy to overlook where the words lingua franca originally came from.
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   by sirdavidof 17y ago

   It's hard to be objective about these things as someone who only speaks one language natively (like me), but I suspect that English does have more advantages as an international language than simply being the tongue of the world's biggest e