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by xhevahir 3y ago
>Anything a textbook manufacturer wants to do other than be a set of dead tree leaves is a non-starter. Why?
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While I don't defend American adventuring in that region, I think you're overestimating the stability of 1960's Cambodia. This article goes into it: https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/ojpcr/ojpcr_1
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When I was studying German twenty or so years ago I got good results from reading lots and lots of children's books, starting with the really basic stuff--like books meant for kindergarteners--and working my way up to books by Erich Kä
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by xhevahir 4y ago
Looks like it's Scala.js.
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There already is a term, "lookism."
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Sounds interesting. Several years ago I got into reading about these "culturally-bound" mental disorders. The most amusing of them was Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_pregnancy_sy
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also requires shifting away from the progressive agenda that has made so many cities unliveable: from bans on energy sources such natural gas and a refusal to crack down on crime to the usually miserable state of urban public education. I
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RightWingGPT(nytimes.com)
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There's a book, The Greeks and the Irrational, that suggests the idea of a soul or self separate from the body was a shamanistic idea that came to Greece via Scythian or Thracian influence. Empedocles seems to have been the first Greek
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I didn't grow up in Chicago but in my experience visiting relatives in the southwest suburbs the thin-crust pizza I ate there (usually Aurelio's) was pretty distinct from other kinds I've eaten in the Great Lakes states. The
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Yeah, I think most literary authors in North America string together teaching gigs along with grants and fellowships. I'm more interested to see what happens to authors like James Patterson, who doesn't even write his books, but i
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So you're saying this thing doesn't teach theory. Fine. But I don't think it claims to do so.
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Being American, I've been put off by the French (or maybe just Gallimard's?) way of doing things, which is to put the author's name in very bold print on the front, and on the back a short passage from the book which may or m
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by xhevahir 4y ago
I think this atomization, as well as a lot of other things that are distinctive about the West, came about at least partly through Christianity. For example, consider the "unprecedented inner loneliness" that Weber found in Calvin
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No one said it's a death knell. I'm saying that the documentation has sucked for a long time, and that I'm not hopeful enough of its improvement that I would be willing to do the considerable work to overcome the shoddiness o
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I've tried Nix/Nixos a few times over the past years and at some point decided that the documentation was bad enough that any further tinkering would be a waste of my time. So, when it was announced that a group of users would be
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I think there have been more recent fads. (If fad is the word for it.) There was the story about Walmart stocking up on Pop-Tarts during hurricane season that was in the news fifteen or twenty years ago.
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Most language fail to gain traction for reasons that don't have anything to do with the design of the language itself--even "petty" ones, such as the tactlessness of the people in charge. I don't want to use a technology
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The Slavic countries have similar folk beliefs about drafts: https://www.slavorum.org/promaja-the-uncatchable-balkan-seri... https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/328478-why-russians-afraid-dr...
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The community gives me pause. Nim's BDFL seems to have a habit of driving away prominent users of the language. Programmers who had contributed to the compiler have made their own hostile fork, and two of the three people who have writ
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ptpython does a pretty good job of handling pasted code, in my experience.
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I feel like Amazon used to be a good place for discovering new books and that they decided at some point it was more profitable to steer customers toward sponsored (if that's the word for it) items. Nowadays I look at Librarything for
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by xhevahir 4y ago
This isn't a new phenomenon, and, as the author mentions, is not peculiar to the UK. When I was a 13-year-old in 1992 an eccentric science teacher would remind my class nearly every week that ours was the first American generation that
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by xhevahir 4y ago
> But, therapy isn't a panacea. It doesn't always work - regardless of how much we try to act like it will cure cancer if you just have a positive attitude. Therapy is not about urging a person to be relentlessly cheerful, for
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by xhevahir 4y ago
Seems like "A Breakdown of Stripe's Pricing" would be a clearer title.
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In addition to predecessor it could also mean "archetypal." Goethe believed he had seen the Urpflanze , or plant-archetype, while traveling in Italy.
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I remember hearing somebody suggest bouncing things to audio (and other destructive operations, presumably) as a way of avoiding the analysis-paralysis that more flexible formats like MIDI can induce.
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I'm no authority on Russian literature but I've never agreed with this criticism of Dostoevsky. His writing is of a different kind, one that has its own logic. This article does a good job of explaining it I think: https:/&#
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Ubik is the only PKD novel I've read and man did I struggle to finish it. Once in a while a passage caught my interest and then I would realize that I was reading was basically a summary of some myth from Gnostic scripture. A real slog
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I don't think this is credible. (And in some places it's semi-crazy.) Just off the top of my head, the population that has the most DNA in common with Neanderthals is not Basques but Tuscans. This article summarizes a much more pl

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