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I've struggled through 2 or 3 Marquez books in Spanish (I'm far from fluent), and have read all of them in English. Gregory Rabassa was an excellent translator and ,from my unexper…

What is your preferred method of searching the internet? (not asking with snark, but genuine interest in what people find delivers better results)

I'm at this point 15 years removed, but Prof Kernighan was one of the most accessible professors and taught the most popular CS survey course (333). I have at least a half a dozen …

What would it mean for an AI to beat the best humans in a 5K race? Obviously robots can do that, is there some definition of "humanoid AI robot" which exists for such a task?

That's a new term for me, but after researching it, it makes sense. What are your preferred sources of comprehensible input. After a few months on Duolingo I still find TV shows to…

Interesting, I am a Super Duolingo subscriber but I don't think that's one of the features. Anywhere I'm inputting a sentence I think I get the keyboard option, maybe I'm misrememb…

Not only Amazon, but the rise of ebooks in general. While there are still a lot of holdouts, I think every voracious reader in my family has switched at least some of their reading…

Beer info is out of date as well. Beer up to 5% can be sold at grocery stores with no day/time restrictions - which covers quite a lot of beer. High gravity beer (>5%) can be purch…

They do have a strong hold, but they absolutely do not hold every seat. Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County districts are great examples.

To be fair, there are many fewer deaths by wild dog/bear attack while pumping gas in NJ: https://www.cc.com/video/fz0xoa/the-daily-show-with-jon-stew...

Lots of great AWK tutorials in here that are more in depth, but I'll share another. I always go back to Brian Kernighan's personal help file: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/a…

I've always wanted to understand how a game like this actually runs, but always struggled with navigating through a project. I'm adept at reading and understanding code, but strugg…

Maybe not quite what you're talking about, but https://www.nationstates.net/ is almost like Model UN the game. Played a bit with friends back in the day, but missing some of the me…

Perhaps it was just the time in my life that I played it, but the most immersive experience I had playing a game was a text based MUD called Achaea. I've tried to recapture that ex…

Why is that weird? Attorneys in this are working on behalf of the US Government. If they feel like settling gets the best deal for the government, then they do that.

I've eaten/drank parts of co-workers lunches unwittingly thinking they were part of the community food/beverage selection. I never got reprimanded, but I did have to sheepishly exp…

Anecdotally it's a bit of an interesting statistic for me where after a particularly active day (or a day as a tourist) it's interesting to see how many steps were registered. I'm …

I'm glad the website you linked credited that "myth" correctly. I was surprised when I moved to the Netherlands that no one had ever heard of this child with his finger in the dyke…

Ha, oops, my wording was bad...I meant I had it on my phone...not my app and I just searched the app store. I'll change my link. EDIT: No way to edit old posts, but the link I post…

Oh Hi ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.presto.ohh... ) is an app I have that has these puzzles. Simple rules and can get surprisingly difficult.

That's exactly what happens to me. When I was living in Honolulu and traveling to the East Coast a lot, I would be a night owl on the east coast and then would have the wonderful e…

I once received advice on smalltalk that's been interestingly useful. The advice was to ask questions could be answered with a number. Like "How long have you lived in New York?" o…

I've occasionally gotten to a lounge access tier, but I've never used it. What's the benefit? I typically don't want to get to the airport earlier than I have to, and once you're a…

I think they're suggesting that someone snooping the encrypted traffic coming from the ASA couldn't leverage this vulnerability for easier decryption. (i.e. this is an active, not …