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The legit gacha experience

Happy new year from New York!

I've recently watched a video [1] that mentions how pre-rendered graphics dominated the 90s-early 2000s and were replaced by real-time rendering. You'll probably like it too! [1] T…

FWIW I had a professor that defined "robotics" in the same way (we even had a quite philosophical debate on whether automatic doors are robots). I ended up liking Norvig and Russel…

Then definitely what 3Blue1Brown's video on eigenvalues and eigenvectors. [1] That's when I clicked to me! His entire series on Linear Algebra is incredibly well produced. [1] http…

While that's true, one of the reasons why Spain mandates Castellano in the federal level is a legacy of Franco's push to annihilate the other languages spoken in the country. In a …

And with good audio chat

Curse was becoming more popular than TS at the time, but Discord offered a better quality of audio and stable connection. That's why my group of friends migrated to Discord around …

Great, now go back to study before Duolingo kidnaps your family

"-y" is a quite common diminutive suffix in English nowadays. As a fun fact, Americans find hilarious/cute how Brazilians pronounce English words ending in consonants (e.g. WhatsAp…

I would assume so, since a foreign attorney wouldn't be able to help with US immigration law.

Unfortunately, that's all the Biden administration could get written into law. The Big Pharma lobby is too strong and definitely battled to keep this list as small as possible.

like the healthcare industry in the US

Hmm, concatenation and alternation are exactly what I thought of when reading the work "composition" (I probably had functional programming in mind). I'm curious. What came to your…

I believe that's the O-1 visa, not the H-1B.

Follow up question: how do you find freelancing opportunities?

It's called garnishment [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnishment

> Note the court does not say foreign actors don't have First Amendment rights. Is there a precedence on foreign actors (either inside or outside the US) having First Amendment rig…

Sure, but education (and healthcare) costs grew much faster than the inflation. "The average annual cost of tuition at a public 4-year college is 40 times higher than tuition in 19…

I had a similar experience, except Mechanical Engineering being my weakest area. Computer Science felt like a children's game compared to fluid dynamics...

> I saw my mom gradually become a Sandy Hook "truther" as she fell deep down Facebook rabbitholes. It was bad. Although she eventually came around (...) Mind sharing how she came a…

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