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You can get cheap wired earphone splitters and share what you're listening to on long bus rides or flights. I miss that. Maybe one wants something between needing to be on and conv…

Having a detailed and auditable report of how money is being used is really helpful for creating the understanding you are talking about. That is what accounting is for and why it …

Lean 4 is uses constructive logic. If a closed world assumption requires that a statement that is true is also known to be true, and that any statement that is not known to be true…

Those are both valid reasons to use both languages. The "only" (whether true or not) is what the argument hinges on. It is roughly the same as saying that the only advantage of X i…

It is interesting how accommodations can reveal dysfunctions in educational practice. In my courses, requests for accommodations generally change the course design for all students…

I want to be happy with proton but their poor linux support across all their products makes it difficult.

It seems like the central claim of the study is that there is an increased use of center embeddings in legal texts in comparison to non-legal texts and casuals peach. I'm seeing a …

I got turned off of F# because it seemed like knowing C# libraries and tooling was assumed if one wanted to do anything non-trivial, kind of like some of the functional JVM languag…

It is called evidentiality. It doesn't have any direct relationship to time, as one would expect with a tense. Southern Quechua has a reported event evidential affix as well. A fri…

It definitely seems misleading to talk about coca leaf use as cocaine use, given the common expectation for what that means. People reading the newspaper probably don't know all th…

I suppose the better term would be synecdoche, since the similarity in pronunciation isn't coincidental, like "The sun rose in the morning." and "Look at the pretty rose petals." b…

There is no reason why one has to enjoy a haskell-like syntax over Bourne shell syntax but I think you're wrong about the tool. The author states that "It should have no abstractio…

As far as I could tell, they weren't denied use of the code, just a bunch of other services that are not covered by the GPLv2.

Maybe it is "including linguistics" but most of the world's languages don't have the data available to train on. So I think one major question for NLP is exactly the question you p…

Toasters have been around for a long time. So has Javascript. I suppose that I can buy a modern toaster or an antique toaster. Still, they both seem unremarkably like toasters to m…

I was kind of curious about what the equipment is supposed to look like. There aren't a ton of details at this site but one can see some diagrams. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/ne…

I feel like the art scene is where the artists go to get a drink, meet one another, and then go back to their places to collaborate. It seems like a lot of the most accessible venu…

That is a hard question because there are so many ways that one can understand regex. I learned how to read and use them using Unix tools like sed, but I think that my path to star…

I use protonvpn because I pay for protonmail. It is frustrating because I feel like I need to pay another VPN provider to get decent service. The client is ridiculously unstable an…

What are some of those options?

The code talkers didn't just talk in Navajo but utilized a code system based on Navajo [1]. There were also code talkers who spoke other Native American languages. 1. https://www.c…

Right, these are exactly the types of claims we try to debunk in Linguistics 101. It is a horribly misleading article. If one wants to see if something about a language is difficul…

I work with a man in the Ecuadorian Amazon who is a member of an ethnic group that reached a low of possibly only 400 individuals before a cultural change that made them more open …

It is well known that due to his economic interest in enslavement of native people he did not attempt a great deal of conversion. It is discussed in La Caida de Cristóbal Colón, fo…