Cordiali

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by Cordiali 22d ago
Meanwhile historians are out there, regarding things from 500 years ago as modern.
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by Cordiali 1mo ago
It's just the natural evolution of AI into a crab.
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by Cordiali 3mo ago
Most of the games I play are resource management or base/city building games. I haven't bothered checking if a game works in the last few years, I just fork over my money at this point. I think the closest to a AAA game was Anno 1
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by Cordiali 5mo ago
I'm guessing they're thinking of the word 'money'.
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by Cordiali 6mo ago
Let's have a moment of silence for the hair follicles of future archaeologists.
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by Cordiali 6mo ago
I've never even connected the 'X' to the Greek letter chi. I just kinda accepted it as one of many groovy web 2.0 misspellings in search of a domain and trademark.
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by Cordiali 6mo ago
The accounting of it all would be far from trivial.
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by Cordiali 7mo ago
You might be interested to read about whistled languages, which is pretty close to that idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language
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by Cordiali 7mo ago
I know Norwegian also has two different written standards, found an example that demonstrates it: >English: I will not tell anyone the secret. >Bokmål: Jeg skal ikke fortelle hemmeligheten til noen. >Nynorsk: Eg skal ikkje fortelja
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by Cordiali 7mo ago
I'd assume you can get USB floppy drives for 3½" disks pretty cheaply. I think I might've even seen that in my BIOS settings as an option.
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by Cordiali 8mo ago
Perhaps it's always been burning, since the world's been turning?
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by Cordiali 8mo ago
I vaguely remember something like that happened during the Egyptian revolution/Tahrir Square protests.
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by Cordiali 9mo ago
I noticed a similar thing for Python 3 questions, closed as a duplicate of a Python 2 response. Why they weren't collated and treated as a living document is beyond me.
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by Cordiali 9mo ago
You can also put the lambda function inside the let function, which is handy. Also, almost everyone should be using tables instead of ranges. The references are missing a few features, but it makes formulas a brazillion times more readable.
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by Cordiali 9mo ago
> He had special glasses with a special lens to read. Bifocals, I'm guessing.
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by Cordiali 10mo ago
Not sure about love, but I like it at least, it's useful to me. But it's like a frozen TV dinner, not something worth bringing up.
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by Cordiali 10mo ago
People in the past couldn't get a diagnosis, so they had to settle for cirrhosis.
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by Cordiali 10mo ago
Jam jars were way more common. As a kid, I might've seen one Vegemite jar for every twenty or so jam jars.
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by Cordiali 1y ago
Whenever I read some of these design articles, I usually see this same glaring issue. Without any distinction, they'll present together a grab bag of objective facts, best practices, and simple conventions. There's nothing objecti
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by Cordiali 1y ago
That's what the European sequential method is. We have that in Australia, odd numbers are on the left, even on the right. ...Although sometimes it's the opposite, from before it was standardised.
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by Cordiali 1y ago
I'd think passive recognition of a fair few states would be a pretty low bar for relatively educated, English-speaking people. It's a pretty low bar, just placing a region with its country. People also regularly just assume that l
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by Cordiali 1y ago
I was gonna mention that, but I felt I was waffling on a bit, so I deleted it! We've got the same thing with GST, basically like VAT or sales tax. So that'll appear on the invoice from AliExpress or Steam or wherever. Businesses h
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by Cordiali 1y ago
>Normally tariffs are collected by the receiving country when a package arrives. For good reason too, the sender engaged the carrier. The receiver has no business relationship with the carrier, so they don't have an opportunity to p
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by Cordiali 1y ago
You can check if there's agreement between different techniques. Tooth enamel would be a pretty trustworthy source of information, for example. It just depends on what level of confidence you want in the results. I'm personally co
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by Cordiali 1y ago
Well... I'm not sure which bog body it was, there were a few! It might've been the 'Haraldskær Woman', I found an article [1] about her which roughly matches my recollections, and is from around the same time I would&#x2
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by Cordiali 1y ago
Regarding the second one, variations of that, to help or protect strangers/travellers, seems to have been relatively common across a variety of historical cultures. Tangentially, it also reminds me of a woman's grave that was foun
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by Cordiali 1y ago
I just looked it up, and he was born the year after Mendeleev, who'd go on to design/arrange the periodic table of elements. I'm guessing they had traditional assaying techniques, just with less accuracy than a contemporary c
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by Cordiali 1y ago
The article is about reducing pollution, so in this context, they're doing a good thing.
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by Cordiali 1y ago
If you happen to be there and like this sort of thing, the lace museum in Calais is definitely worth a visit: Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode https://www.cite-dentelle.fr/en/ It's been about fifteen years since
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by Cordiali 1y ago
Sure, I don't like creeks like in your last example. But I absolutely prefer paragraphs, where the final line would be considered 'too short'. It also makes an appreciable impact for me, in how easy a text is to read. Which i

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