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Comment #48632723
I find it hard to believe that you wouldn't lose any time you gain in loading/unloading to transit time inconsistency when you have to rely on wind. This is not even to mention the…
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Comment #48479922
The best textbooks I used in uni were either free or extremely cheap (Linear Algebra done right comes to mind, it was 30-40$, and at least the most recent edition is completely fre…
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Comment #48323805
I really don't understand taking the author's silly hyperspecific examples of unique humans in his life as berating the reader for not knowing exactly those same people. I read it …
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Comment #47975962
I find slovio to be jarring. It's like someone took vaguely slavic words and slammed Esperanto-inspired grammar onto them. Something like Interslavic at least has noun/verb morphol…
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Comment #46891348
I'm not sure about all of the ones they host, but for the crossword app you need to subscribe for full access.
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Comment #46580260
I remember slop, sloppa, etc. were frequently used terms on /ck/ (the cooking board) long before any nouns and adjectives were prepended to them. it is unfortunate that most 4chan …
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Comment #46449559
An appropriate oil (canola/peanut) and having everything that's going to go in the pan prepped before you even get the heat going are the main things to minimize smoke, but if you'…
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Comment #45831194
Yeah it's really jarring to be reading a text in not-english that seems somewhat normal and then to trip over some extremely American reference that makes it obvious it was auto tr…
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Comment #45494942
I don't share your doubts. Even people not directly exposed to the bubble may be indirectly exposed by way of funds they've invested in or retirement accounts, or even just by havi…
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Comment #45474406
I think a feature like this sees best use in short lived programs (where startup time is a disproportionate percentage of total run time) and programs where really fast startup is …
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Comment #45387937
Getting any kind of information from a chess engine would be sufficient to gain an edge for a good player. Even something as simple as a nudge that there is a high value move in a …
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Comment #44446136
>The changing conditions are self-imposed They are right now sure, but the scenario as quoted in the previous post could just as easily have risen from China's side as a response t…
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Comment #43898702
it is opt in until they manage to convince some government to allow them to be the contracted provider of "humanness verification" that is then made a prerequisite to access servic…
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Comment #41522971
NIFs have the downside of potentially bringing down the VM don't they? It's definitely true that the glue code can be a pain and may involve warping the foreign code into having a …
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Comment #41262741
Think of it more like "why is it important to have Spanish as an option for captions in an area that knows it has a large audience of L1 Spanish speakers?". English/ is pretty much…
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Comment #38847981
Location: US (EST) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Kotlin, Python, docker, Typescript, Javascript Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11hiU4zrcpO7…
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Comment #32399087
I can confirm I've encountered this as well. In our case it was with shopify. There are some product_* tables that cannot be turned off without turning off product entirely and the…
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Comment #20290478
> So much so, in the process of modernising Turkish, about 90 years ago, whatever little concept of gender Turkish had was completely stripped from the language, leaving only 'it' …
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Comment #20045929
Another frustrating thing with google search is when it translates (or attempts to translate) queries for you and then fails to show you any results in the language of what you typ…
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Comment #19704567
I think the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow near VDNKh would fit that better. I'm very biased as I've been dozens of times due to it being free to students and conveniently locate…
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Comment #17443643
Except now STEM courses are weighted as of 2017 in all GA university system schools: Effective fall 2017, when calculating the HOPE and Zell Miller Scholarship postsecondary Grade …
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Comment #17196884
/j/ is the IPA for the English consonant "y" sound, /y/ is a vowel.