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Yes. As someone who at one time spoke fluent Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, I can confirm that "spomenik" can be (and sometimes is!) translated as "memorial". Indeed, the root of the wo…

With modern genomic science, we can pinpoint almost the exact time and place Covid-19 jumped from an animal host (likely pangolins intermediate host from bat reservoir) to humans. …

Exactly. The attacker would have to try a word-based attack to benefit from the ~7 hour time-to-crack. So I disagree with the article's advice: "Don't use words in passwords. Ever.…

Cryptography can solve social problems, but the problems need to be approached from a social perspective, not a computer science perspective. There's a hint of this type of approac…

Don't know if you're familiar with the Dragonbox apps (original for algebra and Dragonbox Elements for geometry). Those are incredible learning experiences that would not be possib…

> You're also most likely going to pay per word, so if you can figure out a good way to not send them sentences you've already had translated you can save some money The typical pr…

> Fiver and maybe Upwork If you're going that route of finding a translator for each language yourself, I strongly suggest a translator community like proz.com, translatorscafe.com…

I'm glad that you're integrating grammar into Chatterbug, even if it's implicit. I do believe that learning a foreign language's grammar implicitly (via immersion) is an inefficien…

@schacon Interesting post. I agree that language-learning is more of a marathon than a sprint. As someone who speaks several languages[1], it was interesting to read about your per…

> The API has _zero_ provision for streaming MP3. Did you look into Media Source Extensions[0,1]? Fetching and playing the various audio formats is a bit outside the purview of Web…

When did you last use sanic? It's far from limited, and advancing quickly. However, it's a microframework, so it's true that you'll not get a full Django-like experience (and Meteo…

> I do exactly this, AM(A)A. Thanks! Do you do this kind of work as a contractor, presumably? Do you also typically write documentation for the projects you're working on (inside f…

I'm with you. This is the second time I'm reading about this niche and would love to find out more info about getting into the field. I used to work as a scientific/medical transla…

It's behind a flag now, but they're eliminating it, so it will not be released.

> 1200 people is a fairly huge study, 1200 people is a huge, convincing study for a well-executed prospective, interventional study, like a clinical trial. This is a cross-sectiona…

I'm afraid that's not it, but rather (probably for the reasons I outlined above), people who crossed the race line made up fake ancestry to explain their "different" appearance wit…

I've been doing a lot of self-study online, and two things jump to mind: 1) There should be many more interactive exercises during and after instruction, and not just multiple choi…

Yep, both of my "Native American" family branches turned out to be in fact African American. You should look into your ancestry, you may be able to track it down. Just be sure to d…

I am a (mostly) white American with some African-American ancestry, including several freed slaves. You're absolutely correct that freed slaves were always at risk of being re-ensl…

Others have noted Feynman, Ramanujan. Walter Pitts is another one, who had a very rough childhood with poor, working class parents.

I agree with many of your criticisms (and have other ones for Solidity as well), but the lack of floating point is absolutely a feature, not a bug. There's no reason for floating p…