thematrixturtle

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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Here are the Chinese characters for concave and convex: 凹凸 Care to take a stab at the difference between these and emoji?
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
The Communists came pretty close to dumping characters in favor of Latin script (pinyin). And this actually happened in Vietnam, although we have the French to thank/blame for that.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Got a pointer? Chinese typewriters exist, but they are (were) complicated, expensive machines and take a long time to learn to operate.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Other key success factors for the East India Company included warfare, slavery, and legally enforced monopolies. The EIC was only wound down after their misrule incited a full-fledged rebellion that killed 6,000 British people (which cause
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
I've been playing Simutrans on and off for most of those of years, and while I agree the gameplay is challenging, the Achilles heel to drawing in new players is really the UI. It's ugly and confusing as hell, requires tons of faf
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
I'm sure that's what ought to happen, but you're not considering the bureaucrat's point of view here. If fraud happens on their watch, and there was a process that could have prevented it, it's their ass on the l
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
> SpaceX killing everyone on their first attempt is a tragedy and they quickly move on I think you're confusing Virgin Galactic with SpaceX here.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Because those are all closely tied to the specific programming language, editor, complier etc that you use, which will change repeatedly over your career.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
I would expect any halfway decent hire with real React and SQLite experience to be able to pick up survival level Vue and PG within those 90 days though? At the end of the day JS is JS and SQL is SQL, particularly if you're a dev and
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
The memo is from 2011, so that hardly matters?
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
It is quite difficult to end up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt by eating too much fast food or watching too much porn.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Why not just ban all gambling ads? Many European countries do this.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Steak houses charging separately for sides has always been a thing.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Eyeballing the results, DALL-E is clearly the winner particularly with the weirder requests, although it (on purpose) won't generate real people. Stable Diffusion is still pretty good and less censored, while Midjourney is often poor
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
The paper of record in Finland is the Helsingin Sanomat (hs.fi). The Helsinki Times is an unrelated minor English-only operation.
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The Official GIF Collection of the Finnish Tax Administration(giphy.com)
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
But they weren't? You can't just discount Reels having worse content.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Japan (including Tokyo) legalized short-term rentals (minpaku) in 2018. However, there are reasonably toothy licensing requirements and you're capped at 180 days per year.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Reliable stats are hard to come by, but Delhi, Johannesburg, JFK all have bad reputations. For a long time Kuala Lumpur had a gang working with the X-ray guys to tag juicy targets, but they were busted a while back. Problem is, cling wrap
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
We don't consider it a "flaw" in soccer when one player passes the ball to another so they can score, and F1 blurs the line because there are both teams and individual standings. In singles badminton, though, it's suppo
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
It's funny that air con is seen as a wasteful luxury, but nobody blinks at a heating bill, even though the average household spends 4x more on heating. The negative externalities are interesting though: using air con inside makes your
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Left your cloud2butt extension on by any chance?
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Doesn't striking pretty much by default mean "not holding up their side of the deal"? Or are you saying that because the deal exists, they can never strike?
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Yeah, this looks and plays positivity premium compared to the green-on-black Apple II+ we had in school.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
I presume they were also punning off "high water mark".
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Masayoshi Son is 3rd-generation Korean-Japanese. For all practical purposes he's Japanese, and he naturalized in 1990.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Musk/SpaceX have been working on Mars for literally decades at this point, and are very cognizant of the incredible difficulties involved. Here's a primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_program
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Huh? SpaceX's Starship is designed to go to Mars.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
This applies to most all major Japanese companies. There have been two notable cases of non-Japanese execs rising to CEO, Carlos Ghosn of Nissan and Michael Woodford of Olympus, and both ended up as cautionary tales of what happens when yo
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Agreed. One thing grammar books also ignore is that spoken Japanese skips lots of particles: nobody ever says を in casual speech, and が, は, に are often disposable. Okaasan mise itte pan katta , not *okaasan GA mise NI itte pan WO katta&

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