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by taejo 6y ago
> The old bloggers all just moved on. Or at least the vast majority of them did. Did they? Or do they just make up a decreasing fraction of blogs? I've got 95 blogs in my feed reader. My guess is that I've been subscribed to mo
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by taejo 6y ago
It's correct, but since it's from last week it's hardly prophetic.
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by taejo 6y ago
I'm curious what reader you use. I almost never have to do the searching you describe, I just paste the main URL into my reader app (The Old Reader, https://theoldreader.com ) and let it find the feed.
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by taejo 6y ago
Many airports nowadays seem to be deliberately hostile to sleepy travellers, most commonly by having armrests between all seats so you can't lie down across several, but sometimes even by having staff come around and wake up sleeping t
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by taejo 6y ago
In the very rare case that I want to use the menu on a page I'm reading (rather than an app I'm interacting with) I just refresh the page.
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by taejo 6y ago
The article refers to capital, 3. (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subd
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by taejo 6y ago
You do "break the state of the whole freaking system". Once you've read the output, you're done. You have to set up your initial state again and run the computation from scratch.
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by taejo 6y ago
Correct. That's the crucial difference to Worms; similarities include destructible terrain, similar (large) choice of weapons and importance of ninja rope to move around.
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by taejo 6y ago
Dominion would indeed work with webcam, because everyone only shuffles their own cards, but you can only play with the cards that everyone has (if one player has an expansion and the others don't, you can't use it). If all of your
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by taejo 6y ago
Signal desktop is not a video-chat application (at least on macOS, it's asynchronous messaging only)
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by taejo 6y ago
If the functions are restricted to polynomials with non-negative integer coefficients, you only need 2 inputs regardless of degree. Proof left as an exercise to the reader.
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by taejo 6y ago
Or maybe I just haven't seen that particular sketch (I am younger than you, but I'm also not American). Since you chose not to explain your reference, for bystanders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bputeFGXEjA
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by taejo 6y ago
A cubit is the distance from a (standardized) man's elbow to his middle fingertip, from Latin "cubitum" = "elbow". Perhaps a more convenient reference than the foot when measuring things that aren't on the grou
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by taejo 7y ago
The standard simplified Chinese version is 国, like in Japanese; 囯 is a non-standardized historical variant. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9B%AF
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by taejo 7y ago
The EU allows flights from the EU, EEA and the UK, but no others, so Germany-UK happens to be allowed but there are no flights from any non-European country to Germany.
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by taejo 7y ago
It still is officially capitalized to SS under normal circumstances; capital ẞ is an allowed alternative: "Bei Schreibung mit Großbuchstaben schreibt man SS. Daneben ist auch die Verwendung des Großbuchstabens ẞ möglich." (Deutsch
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by taejo 7y ago
Probably you were just adding a reference and didn't miss the first one, but for anyone who did, it's "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8
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by taejo 7y ago
Could it be that they're including the rest of China in local? Are peering arrangements between HK and the rest of China such that this would make sense?
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by taejo 7y ago
German, a European language that has been more or less standardized for several centuries, with a Latin-based alphabet, added a new letter (ẞ) to its alphabet in 2017. As long as that continues to happen, Unicode will have to add new charac
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by taejo 7y ago
Just FYI, Afghanis are units of currency; citizens of Afghanistan are Afghans.
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by taejo 7y ago
We have the history of searched terms, but do we have the search results from that time?
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by taejo 7y ago
They are not high but in many countries they do increase with time: e.g. in Germany the maintenance fee is 70 EUR in the third and fourth years, increasing year by year to 1940 EUR in the 20th year (and 4520 EUR in the 26th year in the case
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by taejo 7y ago
Do people use std::list? I can't think of a time when I've needed a non-intrusive linked list (either vector is better or I need an intrusive list).
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by taejo 7y ago
I believe that this usage is archaic in British business English rather than an innovation! However, it was conserved in business English in India and some other countries, and perhaps the increased interaction between Americans and Indians
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by taejo 7y ago
This press release is basically meaningless to me, and I consider myself somewhat informed of the general area. It does not say what the Unitary Patent is (and also uses "Unitary Patent" to refer to a treaty or agreement about
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by taejo 7y ago
Aren't hubris and arrogance more or less synonyms? With hubris being perhaps more specifically arrogance about one's abilities
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by taejo 7y ago
Radio Yerevan was asked: "Is it correct that Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev won a luxury car at the All-Union Championship in Moscow?" Radio Yerevan answered: "In principle, yes. But first of all it was not Grigori Grigorievi
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by taejo 7y ago
Don't organizations have a civil obligation towards their members to follow their own rules, though?
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by taejo 7y ago
I learned a good foundation of how SAT solvers work in this course: http://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/rg1/teaching/aut... Lecture notes are there; exercises are available in the linked earlier insta
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by taejo 7y ago
Given that "Mandelbrot" is German for "almond bread", the translation approach would also be possible... except that almonds don't seem to have been known in China in the classical period.

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