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by tasogare 6y ago
I doesn’t matter yet since macOS 11 is the latest version. Edit: I kept that tab open for too long...
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by tasogare 6y ago
Yes, but again you’ll see there is pattern here: *rxiv are still kinda geek oriented, in addition to being for preprints. Twitter is indeed more accessible to people in other fields like humanities, but that’s another silo that has even big
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by tasogare 6y ago
Microsoft made it worse, at least UI-wise, after buying it. The other website I hate by I’m registered on because of coworkers is ResearchGate. Spam, gamified portal, with only value being allowing non computer savvy people to build a publ
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by tasogare 6y ago
> Public transport in Paris is wonderful Only someone who never lived in Paris more than two days could ever write this sentence. Paris’ subway is one of the worst in the world (often on strike, technical problems, stink piss, expensive,
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by tasogare 6y ago
No, I’m asserting that the first meaning people will associate with that kanji is far away from the "cute" example the internet loves to speak about since it have mainly very negative connotations (adultery is a crime in Japan). D
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by tasogare 6y ago
> The biggest thing I've felt since moving here: whether or not you can speak and interact in Japanese makes a world of difference. Seriously. Literally right for almost every country: France without knowing French, US without Engli
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by tasogare 6y ago
I know, I have a master degree in Japanese and I work with dictionaries daily. The thing is 姦 is first and foremost associate with sex, in particular bad kind of sex. It’s obvious from the compounds listed by Weblio: adultery 姦通, rape 強姦, i
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by tasogare 6y ago
It means rape.
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by tasogare 6y ago
Do you really think that being baptized (often at young age) transform people into drones that all think and speak whatever the Pope says?
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by tasogare 6y ago
Yep, my PRM is an iOS Notes folder called People, with a note for some people I want to remember facts about. In particular what some like so I can use the list to make gifts. There is also a "debts" notes. I’ve been using this sy
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by tasogare 6y ago
He asked that in the "aren’t you all living in the streets of Japan with so few money?" in a humble-bragging tone that is quite common here when speaking of wages in an international context. And my reply is clear: yes it’s more t
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by tasogare 6y ago
> Is that enough to have an acceptable lifestyle? I’m always baffled by this kind of comments. The world isn’t made of SV engineers making 300K$/year, living in appartment with 5K appartment and buying 40$ sandwiches. Sure, most pla
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by tasogare 6y ago
Most phone apps made little sense on desktop. And for a lot of them there are more compelling native or web offer. Finally for games, editors usually forbids running them on PC via emulators since it’s easier to cheat than on mobile.
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by tasogare 6y ago
Nobody was going to develop for UWP anyway since (1) the community with knowledge of XAML and the app model was telling to fuck off with Windows Phone being shutted down (I was part of that community), despite its success in Europe, (2) Mic
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by tasogare 6y ago
The idea that English (in this case Spanish and Mandarin as well) will kill all other languages is debious and forget a very important fact: through most of history and in a lot of places bilingualism is the norm. Current examples are some
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by tasogare 6y ago
> The web is a kind of meta-OS with a very minimal and simple API You may have missed the last 20 years of Web evolution, because the Web is now a very messy and hard to implement platform. Even Microsoft gave up on implementing a browse
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by tasogare 6y ago
Kind of already exists on iOS thanks to accessibility tools (with more languages supported, like Chinese): after enabling it a "Speak" button appears when selecting text. Good idea anyway and nice to have executed it.
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by tasogare 6y ago
> In 2018, I graduated from EPITA, a french engineering “Grande École” Epita is not a "grande école". This term is used for public engineering schools such as Polytechnique (X), Centrale, les Mines, etc. which have very very se
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by tasogare 6y ago
While the demographics stealing the sign might not totally overlap with those willing to pay to it, the village should consider opening a souvenir shop.
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by tasogare 6y ago
There is homeless and homeless. In my country (France) some are in the street as a lifestyle choice, or are only pretending being in need to leech on charity. Those people generally refuse food and take offense if you offer some. On the oth
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by tasogare 6y ago
> Nobody has a "thing," it's all branding I don't agree. In my lab, where everyone is a researcher or research student and most people have tech skill and are building software, it's clear everyone has a "th
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by tasogare 6y ago
A lot of the syntax of new features and features themselves are very close or identical to C#, which is a good thing in my book. It’s nice to see the language evolving in a more typed direction while still being super fast to start a projec
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by tasogare 6y ago
That’s an interesting method I didn’t think of, however I understand why the officials would be wary of it: in a way its similar to selling the source code instead of the finished product. The French military complex while less powerful tha
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by tasogare 6y ago
Taiwan is already a sovereign and independent state, it does not need to "declare independence" from anyone. Nukes are very powerful and strategic, it’s easy to understand why nobody wants to sell to anybody else.
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by tasogare 6y ago
HTML was never the problem. It is simple enough to be taught to non technical people. The issue is styling it, making it looks beautiful. And this is where the truth appears: HTML was not designed for building magazin-like pages but hyperte
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by tasogare 6y ago
This is why the recent weapon deal finalized by the current POTUS was so important. A lot of people there are disappointed by the result of the US presidential elections, since the probable soon-to-be president have a very ambiguous stance
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by tasogare 6y ago
I live with a chronic condition that is slowing my metabolism and I don't think that metaphor is really apt. If it were an energy budget I could cram it in a few hours, or doing only a few things and feel well all the day. This is not
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by tasogare 6y ago
This is also allegedly the programming style of C# used by StackOverflow to squizz performances.
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by tasogare 6y ago
I did a little class like this with a fluent API in C# to generate regex in a project that requires big ones. It make working with regex super easy and super maintainable.
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by tasogare 6y ago
Yes, for grammar results are probably more contrasted, I can’t tell for sure since most papers I read are about vocabulary. Personal experience however tells me that explicit teaching is a good way to know what’s going on, which is very val

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