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It was a needlessly snarky way to word it, but they are right. The issue is the verb 'scale/s' rather than 'advance/s'

After getting a lot of requests on Reddit for guidance on how to learn a language, I decided to make a proper guide for people. The first few chapters are available on my website. …

Curious to know how you think it's possible that Chinese people are able to speak with each other if you think writing their language phonetically would render it incomprehensible.…

I'm a bit confused about your reasons for signing up, but it looks real to me. It could be with all the buzz around AI it really did see a large surge in interest. I'd be intereste…

This idea was the foundation for the Quantum Country book [0], which was essentially an experiment in combining reading with spaced repetition learning to let you do just that: und…

Also reminds me of the Reddit thread [0] where someone accidentally used write access credentials that were on an onboarding document and wiped the production database. GitLab guy …

Hard agree. People post links to websites with technical descriptions and little basic info all the time, and this is the first time I'm seeing a thread of people complaining about…

I disagree for three reasons: 1. While Russia warned against NATO expansion, it wasn't (and still isn't) in their power to do anything to stop it. Its actions have resulted in the …

I distinctly remember terming my searches as questions. I was young and this was back pre Google so I was using Ask Jeeves. Naturally if you're asking someone something you would p…

If you're not aware, Wikipedia itself has an article on unusual Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles Some of them can be quite... weird.

Though I agree with you it's annoying, you gotta hate the game not the player. It's Google's fault for valuing things like this in its search results. All the author is doing is tr…

Mirror here: https://web.archive.org/web/20211207151048/https://www.nytim...

You're employing a red herring - the internment of Japanese Americans is not relevant to a security and vetting procedure. Whatever justification they used shouldn't change your as…

Nobody called for racial discrimination. Vetting needs to be done based on potential risks posed by connections (possible or confirmed) to a hostile foreign power that is both an a…

Completely uninformed here, but shouldn't "UTMS" be "UMTS", or am I missing something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS

Eyeballing the data line they provide makes me think most people struggle to date photographs. What surprised me is the magnitude of the effect in photos that were clearly taken af…

I have a similar issue! When I learned Russian I installed the Russian keyboard layout on my computer. Because my keys (obviously) didn't match, I had to type by feel using a small…

The English words "respire" and "spirit" have the same root, too.

> Any person worth reading in STEM fields already knows English, and I don't know why anyone would want to read Wikipedia in any language other than English That's not the goal of …

A similar thing - the best explanation I've seen about how cars' differential steering works comes from 1937. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI

The thing I find interesting about these is that, normally, when you hear something ungrammatical, you get an instant feeling of non-correctness. For example if I were to say "The …

For those who are there to learn, do you think they would also pass up the opportunity to both learn and improve their grade?