taejo

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by taejo 5y ago
I think mere mortals has pretty much the same implication as Normalsterbliche. The tone is jokey but not grandiose.
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by taejo 5y ago
I guess spideymans meant caching the bookmarked site rather than the URL.
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by taejo 5y ago
or Hide Fixed Elements for a one-click solution
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by taejo 5y ago
The Internet Archive has a collection of those shareware samplers, maybe yours is there? https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive
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by taejo 5y ago
Or, depending on local attitudes and media, any amount of dysfunction can have an immediate effect on availability, as people stockpile in response to fears of disruptions that never materialize at all :(
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by taejo 5y ago
I guess this is the paper you're talking about: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
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by taejo 5y ago
The title is misleading: this is the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Office for Protection of the Constitution. Each of Germany's 16 states has its own intelligence service; the term "German Office for Protection of the Constitutio
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by taejo 5y ago
Why should California pay for you to inspect a building in Florida? If the federal government or Florida wants to hire you as a consultant then they can pay.
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by taejo 5y ago
That's one option: you combine protected, de-identified information with unprotected (e.g. non-health) information to re-identify the protected information. But also, something like Facebook allows you to target a person who lives in $
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by taejo 5y ago
And mover has a fourth, now that I think about it.
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by taejo 5y ago
In my accent, lover, hover and clover have three different vowels in the first syllable. Plover rhymes with lover for me. Does it rhyme with clover for you?
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by taejo 5y ago
The "present" meaning survives in German in Mitgift (dowry, a gift given with the bride)
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by taejo 5y ago
I think I probably wouldn't get into it. It's difficult to be convincing without a fair bit of background, and it's hard to convey that much information to someone who doesn't agree with you. I think I would come acros
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by taejo 5y ago
I don't think Mars After Midnight is going to be "like" Obra Dinn. Pope's said himself he wants to work on something much smaller in scope, and given the whimsy of what he has so far I don't see it growing into some
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by taejo 5y ago
> Still not sure how to send an email that consists of a single dot on its own line though. A line starting with a period is escaped by adding an extra period; the receiving side removes the first character of a line if it is a period.
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by taejo 5y ago
Thanks for reaching out and for coming back to reply. I personally find this unconvincing: lexicographers aren't fluent in the kitchen (nor in the factory, or the farm, or any other particular area where language is used) but they ar
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by taejo 5y ago
I'm no slavicist but the "bed" etymology seems unlikely to me compared to a loan from Latin pastillus = loaf or one of its descendants like English, French and German pastille and Italian pastiglia all referring to (som
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by taejo 5y ago
> The one that impresses me is the dialkos, also from the 6th century BC, which was nominally the world's first commercial freight railway, if you stretch the terminology a bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diol
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by taejo 5y ago
Don't most countries grant citizenship to children born on their territory who aren't eligible for any other citizenship? I've heard of cases where the children had a hard time proving that to be the case (the embassy of th
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by taejo 5y ago
I don't know any Old English but whenever I hear the first one (I'm a bit of a bardcore fan) I wonder if "hé is cumende for thé" is accurate or a bit of artistic license. I would have expected a sentence structure more l
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by taejo 5y ago
I guess "beak" ("bek" in Dutch)
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by taejo 5y ago
Agreed. Of the OOP languages I use, only C++ by default, and I think this is one of the few defaults in C++ that is correct. In Java terms, every method should be `final` except those that are explicitly intended as customization points.
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by taejo 5y ago
I know next to nothing about competitive cycling (I'm a commuter and occasional touring cyclist) but would it be accurate to say it's a strategy game for something like 180 km interspersed with 20 km total of racing?
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by taejo 5y ago
When using a knife, saw, axe, etc. or other cutting implement always make sure the blade is moving away from all parts of your body.
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by taejo 5y ago
The rules are made up and the points don't matter.
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by taejo 6y ago
In Germany, the first letter a child gets is one that gets sent automatically, assigning them a tax number. A letter from the President is much nicer. However, German parents can apply for the President to be the honorary godfather of their
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by taejo 6y ago
1 and 3 to some extent. Japanese makes hardly any attempt at 2.
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by taejo 6y ago
> I don't understand how anyone's trying to argue that there are languages that don't have obvious logical top/bottom boundaries (or right/left for vertical scripts) for basing font metrics on. I don't argue
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by taejo 6y ago
> Doesn't that nice layout suggest there is some sort of 'cap height' value at play which then allows those vertical lines to work together so well? The em size? The thing the article is suggesting is worse than cap heig
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by taejo 6y ago
It wouldn't be completely unprecedented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...

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