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by taejo 12y ago
Linguists are language analysts whereas programming language people are language creators ; perhaps this explains why the later create more wordplay?
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by taejo 12y ago
True, but note that if you do an actually simulation, waves act fundamentally differently in spaces of odd and even dimension.
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by taejo 12y ago
Every English speakers understands "Dogs bites mans", but every English speaker also agrees that it's incorrect.
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by taejo 12y ago
> Though the relevant question is whether universal computation can be built on the back of an instruction which plays chess rather than one of the more typical bases for a OISC. Well you can have two instructions: SUBLEQ and CHESS. Then
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by taejo 12y ago
Yes, seriously (at least that's what I heard people at Google calling it). How many different ways could you pronounce "gwit"? (If you really don't get it, it's like "quit" but with a voiced consonant at t
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by taejo 12y ago
It's anti-bot. It doesn't prevent bots targeting that page, but those don't exist.
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by taejo 12y ago
Nitrogen's point is that most (all?) browsers decompress the image in memory.
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by taejo 12y ago
If the jury should know, then either the defense or prosecution should introduce it into evidence.
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by taejo 12y ago
>[1] Having grown up in North America where it is common to refer to mathematics as the singular "math", it is still weird to type "maths" even after having picked up the habit a few years ago. Maths is also singular,
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by taejo 12y ago
BTW, egal doesn't mean equal in German (though it's borrowed from French égal, which does). It means "irrelevant", "all the same", "unimportant".
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by taejo 12y ago
The "Google Translate" app has supported offline translation for "pinned" languages for a while now.
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by taejo 12y ago
A residence permit in a Schengen country only allows you to live in that country (although you can visit the rest for 90 days out of every 180).
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by taejo 12y ago
Yes. Many programs rely on W&X (I believe the JVM is a prominent example)
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by taejo 12y ago
When I had a phone that held a week's charge, the "low battery" notification meant I had a day's worth of charge left, so I never let that run out. Now, if something breaks my habit (travelling during the night, most oft
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by taejo 12y ago
At one time, the "irregular" verbs were regular: English (or rather Proto-Germanic, the common ancestor language of English, German, Swedish, etc.) had two classes of regular verbs, strong and weak, and newly invented verbs could
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by taejo 12y ago
You're right, strong verbs never get -ed at the end.
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by taejo 12y ago
> I can't believe that none of the functional ninjas thought to add time travel as a benefit. Most remiss... Ahem: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tardis
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by taejo 12y ago
Elizabeth II is the queen of 16 countries. Carl XVI Gustav is king of one.
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by taejo 12y ago
Driving while tired can well surpass tipsy. http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/about-this-sho...
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by taejo 12y ago
GNU Units (available in Homebrew) is much more complete than the OS X version.
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by taejo 12y ago
Registering the trademark doesn't make it cheaper to fight, it makes it easier to win.
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by taejo 12y ago
Citizen, we are ever vigilant, and never stop investigating.
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by taejo 12y ago
There's an escaping bug: at https://archive.org/details/movies I see "Arts & Music", etc. The download links for movies (and I guess other files) should set their disposition to download rather t
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by taejo 12y ago
I can touch-type on a QWERTY keyboard. For the Latin alphabet, I want a QWERTY layout even when I'm typing French or German; even when the keyboard is physically labelled AZERTY or QWERTZ. I type Korean on a 2-Set Hangul layout, but ha
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by taejo 12y ago
It took me a moment to work this out too, but they meant that the police don't ask for your passwords when they arrest you for an unrelated charge; the DMV doesn't ask you for them when you get a drivers license (do US DMVs do tha
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by taejo 12y ago
> it takes a 1-meter pendulum 1 second to swing from side to side, no matter how high you raise it If I remember correctly, this is true if sin x = x ; IOW, "how high you raise it" is exactly what takes you away from this ap
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by taejo 12y ago
> There are two major schools of thought about how one should interpret literature, and I prefer the one that suggests the context in which something was written should be taken into consideration (the other school, which happens to domi
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by taejo 12y ago
We might want different interfaces for different devices, but it's still preferable to have a uniform API across these devices at the level of display server.
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by taejo 12y ago
> In these days, however, no one will deny that most enterprises fail. That means that a large amount of human labor, which might have been devoted to producing something that could be enjoyed, was expended on producing machines which, w
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by taejo 12y ago
Women generally get lots of low-effort messages, so they start to ignore most of them; men then generally realise that the probability of their messages getting read is low, so it's not worthwhile to put a lot of effort into them, but

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