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by tuukkah 6y ago
Yes, programming languages and programming are very limited when compared to natural languages and the range of typical verbal communication. The fact that at least some older adults do internalise new languages and become undistinguishable
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by tuukkah 6y ago
Can you give a concrete example of something that can only be learned as a child? Also, feral children may not be a relevant example as they have not undergone the full childhood development and in that sense they have a development disabil
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by tuukkah 6y ago
What a counterproductive saying, contradicted by modern scientific results on learning and the brain.
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by tuukkah 6y ago
> The 2000 version allowed writing "--04-05" to mean "April 5"[23] but the 2004 version does not allow omitting the year when a month is present.
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by tuukkah 6y ago
District heating is used year round to get warm water.
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Shell UX Changes: The Research(blogs.gnome.org)
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by tuukkah 6y ago
> During WWII, a number of stock markets had “permanent breaks” with the market closing and never restarting again. That happened in [--] Finland when they were taken over by the Soviet Union. Only Finland was never taken over by the S
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by tuukkah 6y ago
The title calls for a Wikidata query: https://w.wiki/xhh
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by tuukkah 6y ago
To clarify, GraphiQL and GraphQL Playground are already available as Electron apps, but they lack the CLI option.
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by tuukkah 6y ago
And outside Czechia, Mapy.cz is based on OSM.
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by tuukkah 6y ago
I didn't know either but it seems to be common (>25% of world population): "It is estimated that half of the world is functionally bilingual, and the majority of those bilinguals are 'native speakers' of their two la
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by tuukkah 6y ago
As knowing a foreign language is the norm outside anglosphere, I'd expect most people to understand bilingualism as simultaneous bilingualism: "Simultaneous bilingualism is a form of bilingualism that takes place when a child bec
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by tuukkah 6y ago
> Unfortunately I think that the [user] research is confidential at the moment. Why can't Mozilla's user research be open?
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by tuukkah 6y ago
And it's not just the number of installs but also multitasking of multiple browser engines exhausting RAM on typically 16GB laptops.
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by tuukkah 6y ago
"154,000 residents evacuated from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors." https://en
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by tuukkah 6y ago
My point exactly: they don't mention any of this. I would very much like to hear how it takes half an hour to make a phone call, send a text ("We have an exceptional situation here although we believe it's nothing significant
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by tuukkah 6y ago
No, it's because a nuclear reactor has a small but real risk for a Chernobyl or Fukushima like event. We are not good at managing risks of this impact size: it's a slippery slope if small disturbances are not taken seriously. It&#
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by tuukkah 6y ago
I was talking about notifying the authorities . The plant started emergency procedures but somehow informing the authorities wasn't part of it at first. Nuclear power is allowed to operate only because of official oversight and it sho
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by tuukkah 6y ago
"In emergency preparedness actions at a nuclear power plant, the worst end result is always prepared for until proven otherwise." Yet they don't mention why they didn't notify the local and national authorities immedia
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by tuukkah 6y ago
1667 free page loads per day is significantly more restricted than the earlier infinite free loads (of non-Mapbox content). Also, they can change the pricing at any time and some uses might suddenly become unfeasible essentially pulling the
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by tuukkah 6y ago
The quotes are directly from Mapbox. "Usage of v2 is billed by Map Load to the Mapbox account owner. The license terms make no distinction between data sources." https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/i
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by tuukkah 6y ago
No need to discuss what is open source as there are agreeing definitions by multiple parties (OSI, FSF, Debian etc.). How is it more productive to use terms like a "permissive" and a "restrictive" license for which there
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by tuukkah 6y ago
I'm really sorry to hear it didn't work out the way Mapbox would have needed. However, pull requests to the core are not the only way to contribute to an open source project: think of all the map data you needed (by OSM contributo
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by tuukkah 6y ago
Please stop the open-washing: v1 was available under the BSD open source license, v2 is not. You are making a fool of your company by acting as if open source is not important.
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by tuukkah 6y ago
There are many companies making money with open source. Mapbox used to make money by providing APIs - apparently it didn't work out.
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by tuukkah 6y ago
What is this talk about "permissive" licenses? It was open source, it's not open source any more. The Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd EDIT: The title has now changed but it was "Mapbox
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by tuukkah 6y ago
So C cannot answer the false dichotomy of A or B? Not all closed source software is pay-per-use, but this one is. And can you point me to an open source license that requires pay per use? This move to closed source stops the free use that w
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by tuukkah 6y ago
procedural-gl-js is very cool tech! It's unfortunate it doesn't work globally, above 60 degrees north (yet?).
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by tuukkah 6y ago
Closed source nonetheless.
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by tuukkah 6y ago
"Pay $5 per 1,000 page loads" closed source.

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