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by wrp 4y ago
I have it installed and it's nice, but not better enough to make me leave familiar old nano or mcedit. Maybe it will gradually replace nano as new users choose it.
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by wrp 4y ago
There was no prepackaged system to follow. It was a pretty large academy, with I think close to 100 teachers. Teachers were grouped by the sections they taught. One group of teachers would be assigned test creation and grading for the class
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by wrp 4y ago
I taught at an academy where evaluators were different from the teachers and were anonymous. The system worked very well. It was originally implemented to get away from students trying to bribe teachers for grades, but it also made evaluati
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by wrp 4y ago
It would be ageist to say any old guy must be past it, but not ageist to say its a relevant consideration. I knew a few professors who were outstanding figures at their peak, but who continued teaching into their 80s. It was obvious to ever
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by wrp 4y ago
This may sound really shallow to people who haven't worked in Japanese society, but Japan really doesn't handle surprises well. Look at the slow responses to "unexpected" natural disasters. On the other hand, you tell th
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by wrp 4y ago
I have read a lot about the history of science in Britain. Even before the creation of the Royal Society, people doing science generally all knew each other and communicated extensively, so I think there was a high degree of accountability.
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by wrp 4y ago
The tone of this article is weird. On the one hand is the usual emphasis on "bad" Putin, but on the other hand it shows Putin interacting publicly with critics and the elected body as you would want to see in an open society. I&#x
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by wrp 4y ago
Thanks. Those studies are interesting, although after reading What Does Stropping Do? I feel like I still don't have a clear answer on whether it does any good to strop before shaving. The photo evidence seems really ambiguous.
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by wrp 4y ago
What we need is before and after microscopy to see just what effect stropping has. It seems like an obvious idea to me, but I haven't found any.
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by wrp 4y ago
This study should be considered along with that from metallurgist John Verhoeven, who thought the main cause of chipping is corrosion. ( https://knifesteelnerds.com/2021/01/11/what-causes-razor-bla... ) What bo
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by wrp 4y ago
Has anyone released a map showing the declared borders?
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by wrp 4y ago
> How Putin evaluates different outcomes for Russia is likely to be very different than that from a western context. Few people aside from area experts are aware that Saddam Hussein thought that he won Gulf War 1. In his world, when a ru
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by wrp 4y ago
I've been using Jitsi Meet regularly for about a year. It's usually fine, but on some days I experience disconnections every several minutes.
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by wrp 4y ago
The article and comments so far miss what I believe is the main point of the annexation. Changing the legal status of that region vis-à-vis the Russian state expands Putin's executive powers in the conduct of the war.
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by wrp 4y ago
Showing up/down votes as on Stack Overflow could be informative, so long as comments remain visible regardless. The HN mechanism of disappearing downvoted comments has always seemed rather childish to me.
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by wrp 4y ago
Baud didn't invent those numbers I quoted. I could have cited a different book, but this was at hand. I'm well aware of Baud's writings and his military career. I do have issues with his intellectual honesty, but I think he i
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by wrp 4y ago
Dispassionate technical analysis is where I'm trying to turn the focus, getting away from the reliance on emotional and ad hominem rhetoric in these threads.
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by wrp 4y ago
Politics in eastern Ukraine was messy even before the breakup of the USSR, and nobody was an objective observer, so take everything with a grain of salt. 20 January 1991: Crimea 93.6% to join Russia 16 March 2014: Crimea 96.77% for independ
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by wrp 4y ago
There is actually a technical component to the Bucha story, as there seems to be controversy over the satellite imagery. On April 4, the NYT published a satellite photo of Bucha dated March 11.[1] However, a Russian OSINT group claims the p
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by wrp 4y ago
Even the Security Council has limited usefulness in a confrontation like this, because decisions are so politicized. The case of Bucha is a great example. When reports of atrocities first came out, it was Russia who requested the UN to laun
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by wrp 4y ago
While the explanation is relevant to this recent election, it doesn't apply to the earlier referendums which have all been denounced as illegitimate by Kyiv and the West. The first (but not only) referendums for independence from Kyiv
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by wrp 4y ago
> ...do we really need to keep him "alive" as an actor? Does any movie really need $BigStar when $NewTalent could act just as well?
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by wrp 4y ago
Epics often used archaizing language to give the impression of antiquity and elevate the tone. Using slang alongside that would be contradictory, so I would expect it to not happen much. As for swear words, I wouldn't be surprised to s
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by wrp 4y ago
With my microwave, toaster, and desktop PC, I opened up the appliance and put a piece of electrical tape over the beeper to dampen the sound.
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by wrp 4y ago
Completely disagree with her thesis. I've studied Beowulf quite a bit, and I've never thought of it as a horror story. Beowulf just doesn't fit the horror genre. > ...horror leaves readers or viewers with...a sense that,
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by wrp 4y ago
I was thinking of: Hobbits and the Hard Right: How Fantasy Inspires Italy’s Potential New Leader ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32933425 )
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by wrp 4y ago
Want I want to know is, are we going to start seeing hobbits and elves in government office?
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by wrp 4y ago
For me, the quality of Disney movies has been in a downward trend ever since Walt Disney himself died, but if you look at the whole of the Disney catalog, you'll see that they always produced a lot of films that are best forgotten.
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by wrp 4y ago
I have been mugged, in dangerous places, as a young adult. I think that being armed in those situations would have greatly increased my chances of being more seriously harmed. Those experiences taught me to be more aware of potentially dang
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by wrp 4y ago
Similar here. Still have occasional nightmares about missed requirements 40 years on.

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