baobrain

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by baobrain 6y ago
I always find the claim that dialects in China vary so much that people cannot understand each other very western-centric. As a native speaker, there are shockingly few dialects that are completely incomprehensible. Someone from Shanghai
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by baobrain 6y ago
China's national debt is definitely not 300% - checking Wikipedia it says only 48.4%. If you add ALL their debt: household, corporate, and national...then it's 317%. Please be careful citing these figures.
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by baobrain 6y ago
I'd take a look at this post from a few years ago about why SwayWM does not support nvidia gpus using proprietary drivers (nouveau works). https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
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by baobrain 6y ago
It asks you during setup if you'd like to disable it.
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by baobrain 7y ago
It's highly unlikely that those ambulances are related to the virus. There are 0 confirmed cases in Northern Ireland, and if it was a suspected case the government and media would be all over it to find people who were potentially inf
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by baobrain 7y ago
It's dismaying in the comment section to see people who are seemingly unaware of the Dickey Amendment straight up defending it. The Dickey Amendment banned the CDC from funding any research that may be used to advocate or promote gun c
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by baobrain 7y ago
He went way beyond "Chinese sympathy", accusing Google of treason and claiming they're infiltrated by the Chinese. https://www.axios.com/peter-thiel-says-fbi-cia-should-probe-...
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by baobrain 7y ago
This is a chrome flag you can toggle: omnibox-drive-suggestions Alternatively, use Firefox.
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by baobrain 7y ago
$, like someone else has said, but I also would guess that many of the engineers do not have a clear idea of the overarching functionality of the application. I'm sure internal communication about the product is extremely positive, wit
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by baobrain 7y ago
In response to your linked PDF, there are a multitude of problems that wikipedia lists about the reporting of the incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident#Skepti...
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by baobrain 7y ago
(For those unfamiliar, aspirin was discovered this way)
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by baobrain 7y ago
I think it's inaccurate to claim that there are people who aren't enamored with unions simply because people don't like unions. Take police unions for example. It is well documented that many unions are fervently against pol
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by baobrain 7y ago
Throwing it in [outline.com]( https://outline.com ) has been the easiest for me so far
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by baobrain 8y ago
> Are you developing apps on it? That's a pretty niche use-case. A niche but extremely important use case, isn't it? Without app developers the platform is dead.
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by baobrain 8y ago
Is wanting to connect to your Macbook to charge your phone an obtuse use case? At the very least apple should have shipped with a USB-C to lightning cable, not USB-A.
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by baobrain 8y ago
Keeping the lightning port is what really jumped out at me. Now some iPads are going to have USB C and others are going to have lightning, all under the same umbrella product of the iPad. What is even worse (!) is that the iPhones and iPad
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by baobrain 8y ago
One of the complaints I've had is simply that Slack limits the viewable/searchable chat history without paying
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by baobrain 8y ago
According to haveibeenpwned.com, they've seen "correcthorsebatterystaple" 114 times
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by baobrain 8y ago
> No that's not what the other languages are doing. Is this a claim that people do not indent in other languages and leave it to the dev environment? Yes, those languages don't rely on indentation but people do still manually i
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by baobrain 8y ago
> Then I found out that -white space is important-. I hear this a lot and I think it's a misunderstood statement. Python does not care if you do not have a space in assignments or arithmetic or between commas or parentheses. What
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by baobrain 8y ago
I find some take-home assignments to be completely reasonable and preferable to whiteboard interviews. For example, Klaviyo in Boston (no relation, I just interviewed with them at one point) has a take-home assignment listed here [0]. It i
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by baobrain 8y ago
Someone posted this in the comments: > Utter nonsense. John DeFrancis debunked your interpretation of this drawing back in 1989. This is not a letter at all. It was a prop in a parlor game played by Yukaghari girls: one girl would sketch
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by baobrain 8y ago
I think they might mean the shifter to change from park/drive/reverse/neutral
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by baobrain 8y ago
Maybe it's a nice ease of access feature to turn the screen back on after it's turned off in the dark on the flight
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by baobrain 8y ago
> I still think it's insane that the bean counters and value engineers let them include a microphone that wasn't needed. Having worked on hardware products, the features planned sometimes (even often!) change after the hardwa
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by baobrain 8y ago
I'm not familiar with the specifics of setting up an office, but from just a talent perspective, Boston has the benefit of having a large concentration of universities: Harvard, MIT, Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern, UMa
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by baobrain 8y ago
The Chinese name is "必应”，which means "will reply"
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by baobrain 8y ago
From experience, this is simply not true. My version of wechat is registered with a US phone number, installed from the google play store on a google phone, not sponsored, and while I can't put money into wechat pay my friend can stil
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by baobrain 8y ago
Often times the websites are completely broken under reader mode: images are in the wrong locations, image captions are treated as article text, article text doesn't appear on websites that have awful scrolling behaviour. I completely
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by baobrain 8y ago
> Other languages occupy still other places on the linguistic axis of “busyness,” from prolix to laconic, and it’s surprising what a language can do without. In Mandarin Chinese, a way of saying “The father said ‘Come here!’” is “Fùqīn s

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