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"Estimating it from the taxes paid to the state, I would say 0€." (Yes, that’s not the kind of expected answer)
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That could be fixed simply with a browsing extension that automatically appends ?variant=zh_TW to every wikipedia URL (possibly checking the the subdomain). I do that manually when I want to force the character set. Implementation left to t
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One thing I discovered and really liked during my stay in CR is soup. Contrary to potages or soups of my country they often contain meat, and ingredients with various textures. I liked it so much I bought a book on the topic: Polevky by Ale
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Thank you very much for your reply and for the source link. This is indeed different from my previous understanding, which was based mostly on English/French CC explanations website. I'm surprised but pleased by the clause concern
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Microsoft is throwing everything on Azure these days, I won’t be surpised if a significant proportion of these services are discontinued in the next years.
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I already read this page. It does not address my question. My interrogation is around the fact that mixing several dictionaries in the same page is considered a derivate product or not. Intuitively it is, so I don’t understand how this does
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I’m surprised the g0v version include translations in foreign languages (and other Chinese languages). Doesn’t the ND clause of CC forbid it? (Edit: this is not a rethorical question. I worked with this dictionary before and if it is indeed
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This is a return of the 19 century « vespasiennes » (public pissoirs) that were removed partly because they were detourned by men for other purposes. By that time homosexuality was frowned upon. The new version take less space but also offe
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I really want this. I'm a hardcore windows guy(23+ years), but I have to run a linux vm for some programs I have that wont run under WSL. I hate linux. It sucks so much. Even just using it not that often with my programs reminds me why
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I don’t get the downvotes, there is some truth here. I even skimmed a doctoral thesis supposed to be in the field of linguistics where the author declared her work was also made as an activist. Too many papers made by too many "academi
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It has terrible naming too: a lot of services are acronyms, it makes them difficult to understand for outsiders. Microsoft who is traditionally bad at naming too is surprisingly good at it for its Azure services. App Services, DocumentDB (C
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The whole post looks like written by a Japanese-American trying to fuse nationalist ideas (some superiority of Japan over the Western world) with neo-marxist theory ("oppressed" machines). For example "The Western concept of
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French here too but playing Pokemon Go in English. After a while I can recognize most names but I still think the French names are funnier. The translation team did a real good job. Also, a lot a English names are straight coming from Japan
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So they sell the version on the store but not on their website? The real problem is here. Maybe selling it on their primary download source instead of a free download could generating more profit. People that really want it for free could c
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Thanks for the details, that’s more complex than I thought it was.
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> In any case, since we’re absolutely powerless, we’ve had to change the Store listing… No, you could also pull your software out of the store. The numbers show it doesn’t really matter and Microsoft need more apps than you need their st
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I can’t figure why companies and foundations waste money and designers time to make new ugly logos when their current one are totally ok and well recognized. This is even more ridiculous since Mozilla recently changed its logo for black and
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No and no. I’m no unity expert but I think it is based on Mono, an open source implementation of the CLR and the C# compiler. So it doesn’t "steal" the syntax, it use a compiler made for the language. To put it simply, Mono was (c
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That’s a big problem with the standard in my opinion: standardization of new characters require submit a font for them but this font do not need to be open. So you have standardized characters that cannot be displayed without someone else i
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It seems that each time a discrimination is in favor of women, there is no debate about it. It’s a strong hint that the self-named gender equality movement is not what it pretends it is.
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Well, you are speaking about an OS that isn’t publicly released. I’m speaking about programming capabilities of iPhone et al. as they are right now and have been in the last 10 years.
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Besides the Swift playground nothing is really close to real programming. Even worse, it relies on expensive+ external hardware of questionable utility (the "smart" devices) that repetitively shown how insecure they are. And Alexa
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Of course, but having the technical possibility to create something on the machine make this minority exists in the first place. Now take the same demographic with a locked down class of devices and the basic programming crowd fall to 0%.
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The Metro panel is still crap in comparison to the old one: the density of information is really low and its poor layout make it hard to use it.
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No they aren’t. The code is open source anyway so if the dependency is important enough for your project, fork it. Or pay for support.
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The electoral rules are the rules. If you contest the result of an election that hadn’t irregularities, you put yourself in the anti-democratic camp. I’m not an US citizen but I start feeling worried about the democracy in general as more a
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> If the emperor dies today, how do you update all software to understand the name of the new year? I understood the question but it is pointless: how can you expect software to be magically patched if no update mecanism is in place? Som
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From centuries ago emperors could decrete new eras, and in the last centuries it was rationalized as one emperor reign = one era. So when the new emperor will be enthroned, he will take its emperor name that also will become the era new era
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Cleaning the data, choosing the right ML algorithm, selecting the features, tuning the parameters, etc. ML also involves a lot of human time thinking to the problem.
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I second this. Also the F# implementation was multiplatform from the beginning and VS Code tooling is available on Mac and Linux. I code mainly in C# but I as F# for its REPL for some data manipulation tasks.
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