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> According to GOST technical standards, Russian language uses the semicolon to denote time: Is it correct that Russian officially uses a semicolon (;) to separate time elements, o…

It's accessible for me in the US. But if it's not available where you are, try here: https://archive.is/qjCGK

Not sure if it's what you meant, but archive.is and archive.org are unrelated.

Yes, the diagrams help. The issue is that you aren't using standard English terminology. Typically, a "loaf" is the whole piece of bread as baked, although it's still called a loaf…

Maybe I'm just slow this morning, but I had trouble figuring out what this story was about. The actual title on the linked article is "Historic co-determination helps monasteries n…

Assuming you are planning to continue participating anyway, you should just respond. Presuming it's a good response, with a bit of luck someone will vouch for it and make it visibl…

Is there any reason to trust Pangram's tool over Carlyle's reputation? I don't know whether this was AI generated or not, but an online tool claiming it's AI generated doesn't sway…

https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/

I agree that it sends the wrong symbol, but actually Daniel is great. He cares tremendously about doing work that is actually real-world useful. I've co-written a few papers with h…

You keep saying that you "can't read the article" rather than that you choose not to. Are you philosophically opposed to clicking the archive link in this thread: https://archive.p…

Here's a starting point if you are intrigued: https://www.jessamyn.com/barth/colby.html The page above that has more info and other stories: https://www.jessamyn.com/barth/

The judge's full decision (which is quite readable) is here: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cr...

I found it ironic that in an article by a brilliant linguist (and I mean that genuinely) about how fluidity of language can fool us into perceiving logic that isn't there that I wa…

You probably know the details better than I do (and perhaps there's a later twist I'm unaware of) but in 2022 Cocker denied that it was Stratou: Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s This Cult…

It's trickier than that. Modern processors are speculative, which means that they guess at the result for a comparison and keep going along one side of a branch as far as they can …

> Unfortunately although we cut the search space to 2/3 of what it was for binary search at each step (1/3 vs 1/2), we do 3/2 as many comparisons at each step (one comparison 50% o…

Full article: American military bases and other equipment in the Persian Gulf region suffered extensive damage from Iranian strikes that is far worse than publicly acknowledged and…

Most of what you are saying is correct, but I feel the need to respond to your far too many repeated assertions that "People do not eat tart cherries directly": Except for when the…

Unfortunately that's not the way it works. If it's [flagged] [dead] because of user flagging, some users can vouch for it to revive it. But if it's merely [flagged] (with associate…

Almost, but not quite. Only 49.8% of votes for President were for Trump: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/president A more accurate claim might be "More people voted for T…

I think the standard is that the parenthesized date shows the last update, not the original. Is this not correct?

https://archive.is/JOlEv

> I always figured the algorithm was much simpler, it would just use the same branch as last execution — should work fairly well. Sure, that would work significantly better than no…