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Yes. One would want to avoid false positives for the accurate evaluation of one's vocabulary.

There are some who propound a more nuanced approach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35704698

And for us power-users, please implement the hiding of all the bars (tab bar, location bar etc), so we can save some screen real estate on our tiny laptop screens, when using the b…

Off-topic but very important: The widespread misuse of the word 'dependency' is very very icky, linguistically speaking. This word originally meant: 'in a state of being dependent'…

A friend, tried to apply for a heavy goods vehicles driver visa; but he couldn't find a simple how-to, unfortunately. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58670792

Apart from the humanitarian catastrophe, does anyone else feel vexed, at the enormous resources and man-hours lost because of the bombing campaigns in conflicts? One could argue, t…

It is a reminder that a civilization not only needs to flourish from within, but be able to protect itself from without.

I have a family member with just one name, officially. We usually don't use surnames in our community. He has had problems registering his bike in India, with his name.

And in chapter 2: >Now if, for such a purpose, we regard 1/1,000,000 (or one millionth) as a small quantity, then 1/1,000,000 of 1/1,000,000, that is 1/1,000,000,000,000 (or one bi…

In chapter 2: > Let us think of x as a quantity that can grow by a small amount so as to become x+dx, where dx is the small increment added by growth. The square of this is x2+2x⋅d…

This is what I do in Firefox: In the current page press Ctrl+k, type the search phrase, press Alt+Enter, to open the search page in a new tab.

It will put strong pressure to align the law with implementation. If the implementation treads into injustice, it (the law) is explicitly designed to be against those who can shrug…

For me it is Lojban. But I haven't gotten around to learning it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Prodigal_Son for those wondering.

Could you please explain what is "isotopic composition" and "isotopic profile"? Or give some links to read up on?

Are there other programs that offer this same function?

Why do registrars charge more per year if I try to register a domain for more than one year?

I'm glad someone's using 'libre'; glad that i can easily refer to liberated open-source software without ambiguity.

I've been searching for this game on and off for years and could never find it! I've always been searching it as DOT or D.O.T. !!

There is a movie dialogue where a man from the future tells his friend in the past:"I want you to remember this word, okay? It's kind of like a code word: Yahoo. Can you remember t…