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"In 2023, it became the first metro system in the world to operate entirely on electric power." That is very confusing. Most of the article seems to be about metro systems (a.k.a. …

I remember in the summer of 89 having to wait several hours in Uzhhorod for exactly this reason. I don't remember if they kicked us of the train or if we wanted to use the opportun…

Just go and look into the nearest septic tank, I bet it's gonna be a similar experience.

First, I never liked Gnome, I remember trying it few times years ago, and quickly returning back to fvwm2 every time. On the other hand, I never understood why window managers put …

Olympics are a great point of national pride for the organizing country. I don't understand why these days we still let each Olympics be organized by a single country. It could ver…

I believe you've got it backwards. The theory of relativity would be wrong if GPS did not work, the theory of electromagnetism would be wrong if radio did not work, etc. The only t…

Anybody tried to train a LLM, or seen a LLM that instead of providing "authoritative" answers to queries, would lead a user to a discovery through a series of questions and hints? …

A bit different take on the situation: https://jacobin.com/2024/05/georgia-ngos-eu-membership-democ...

Writing novels and analyzing novels are completely orthogonal skills. I bet there are many great authors who would completely suck at explaining other authors' works (or even their…

Another phrase I truly despise is "all but". First, it seems to mean exactly the opposite to what it actually means. Second, why even?

> What if the standardized tests aren't administered by the teacher? That seems like it would be an easy solution to get around the cheating problem. In order for the test scores t…

Years ago I used one of the first pis as a music/podcast player in my car. The problem was that there was no proper shutdown process, you turn of the car, and the power cuts off, s…

I think I'll have some yellow ones.

Look at 'netrw" plugin, which has been bundled as one of the default plugins with vim for years now.

Yeah, and what in the world is a "temporary email"?

Ha, emacs is an "extensible text editor", while vim is a "powerful text editor"!

A mandatory nitpick: you cannot do conditional probability without multivariate distributions, but you are right, you do not need linear algebra for a basic introduction. Even cont…

> so much like high school physics will not teach thinking but simply knowing how to apply the right formula at the right time... Unfortunately, that seems to apply to a lot of hig…

Chain rule is a bad example. If you cannot remember the chain rule, you do not understand the theory at all. And if you do understand what a derivative is, the chain rule is trivia…

> And these people upload the content that we all enjoy watching. Maybe you should speak only for yourself. It is possible that most people uploading to youtube do it because of th…

I really do not understand what the complain about IBM is about. Are they saying that if you request a source code from IBM, they will stop developing Red Hat and there will be no …

Can someone familiar with OCaml comment on this: > The reason for this is that the language prominently features garbage collection, a feature which deletes code not in use by the …

> ... which is the industry term for hydrogen that naturally occurs in the layers of the Earth’s crust underground in northeastern France. That is an awfully specific term. What do…

Therefore, Hamburg is not a city in Europe.

> There is no world in which it would be better for anyone to be able to claim they are selling an iPhone with iPhone branding and everything over it while selling an old Alcatel f…