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by vacri 9y ago
Thanks for the info. I've been learning now for about a year, and text is definitely my weak spot. I see handwritten chinese and it frequently looks nothing like the nice, crisp computer fonts (which are hard enough just by themselves)
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by vacri 9y ago
In the examples in the article, do you find the second example for 的 legible (figure 5)? Or either of the characters in figure 7 - without being primed, would you know what characters they were meant to be? I once worked with a paediatric n
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by vacri 9y ago
The power of agglutinative languages. Here is an apparently valid German word that takes one minute to say: https://youtu.be/Brt6F4cGFCY
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by vacri 9y ago
> the other can carry 1000 but you are flying blind. This is a bad analogy, because 'flying blind' in a plane means you can't use it effectively. Being able to see out of a plane isn't a 'bonus'; it can&#x2
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by vacri 9y ago
> [citation needed] - vacri, 6 hours ago.
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by vacri 9y ago
Lucky I didn't say that, eh? A scooter can transport cargo. A truck can transport cargo effectively .
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by vacri 9y ago
https://www.nginx.com/products/buy-nginx-plus/ I'm getting $2500 for a single license at the lowest level of support. They don't specify USD, so possibly I'm getting AUD because of my location, but
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by vacri 9y ago
I would have thought that effective load balancing would be feature #1 of a load balancer...
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by vacri 9y ago
> the system forced you to reconsider how you said it until you got down to the bare essence of what you were trying to convey ... and stripping away context and nuance, and ultimately providing such a paucity that people these days ha
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by vacri 9y ago
Because he's wanting the source to implement it server-side, for everyone. No-one would give a rat's arse if he was designing it for his own consumption and leaving the source alone.
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by vacri 9y ago
No, just a brainfart. I was thinking of something else. Sorry.
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by vacri 9y ago
HN preserves linebreaks. It's the paragraph formatting that gets in the way of poetry like the above.
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by vacri 9y ago
Turn your phone to landscape orientation? :)
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by vacri 9y ago
You complain of 'ugly', but your 'beautified' version is harder to read, and I have normal vision and am using a big screen. It's a typical example of "designing for me", not "designing for everyone&q
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by vacri 9y ago
Speak of the devil - I've just had to create a new SQS queue just now (first time in months), and there's an option to make it FIFO.
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by vacri 9y ago
Not just the heat, but also the sulphuric acid rain and the 90atm of pressure. I do find it odd though, that this curious planet with heaps of activity is so often 'passed over' by space nerds. Curiously, the earliest out-of-lab d
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by vacri 9y ago
I haven't used kinesis myself, I've just heard that it's "SQS with the FIFO issue fixed", and wondered if it might also be suitable for you. Judging from the other comments, it wouldn't be a silver bullet, thou
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by vacri 9y ago
> In Britain people have been sent to jail for tweeting or posting facebook statuses. In your link: - the nameless chip shop employee doesn't even get named, let alone do we hear of any punishment given. Instead, we just get a cou
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by vacri 9y ago
I did turn off suggestions when I got my win10 PC last year. Went through a couple of articles online, hit a variety of settings... and I still get ads on that box. It's only my gaming machine, so I just gave up on blocking them.
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by vacri 9y ago
Windows also has a monopoly on enterprise and government PCs. There aren't too many 100k-employee organisations out there whose desktop SOE is non-Windows.
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by vacri 9y ago
SQS is probably carrying design baggage from when it was introduced in 2004. I've never used it, but would Kinesis be better for what you want to do?
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by vacri 9y ago
Apart from gold, which was only really useful in the advanced economy of Europe (a hammer made of gold isn't very good), what was the mineral wealth extracted from South America in this period? What minerals could be easily used to sup
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by vacri 9y ago
You're hand-waving away both ease of extraction and also the minerals that were worthwhile in the industrial and pre-industrial ages. North America had plenty of iron and coal, and it was easy to get them around, and also easy to extra
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by vacri 9y ago
Godwin's Law doesn't state that as soon as the Nazis are mentioned, that the quality of the conversation is zero. There is a difference when drawing a comparison about something entirely unrelated, but when you're talking abo
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by vacri 9y ago
> is just as important to it's success. Yes, but this is why I said the things I mentioned were 'pretty major additions', not 'the only reasons'. The Louisiana Purchase is routinely ignored in things like this,
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by vacri 9y ago
Given the significance of the items I mentioned, if the book does cover it in sufficient detail, the review should have at least hinted at it.
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by vacri 9y ago
No mention of an incredibly wealthy continent, both in mineral and agricultural terms (and a temperate climate), that was largely seized by killing the people who owned it and taking their stuff. No mention of the Louisiana Purchase. withou
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by vacri 9y ago
It's really unusual for cities to shrink, let alone drastically, so rapping people on the knuckles for not planning what happens when half your population leaves is a bit disingenuous.
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by vacri 9y ago
When you take out the great plains, the desert scrublands, and the alaskan wilderness, that 3.5% grows.
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by vacri 9y ago
Is a feature that's only been around for a couple of years really a suitable answer for a "back when" anecdote?

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